Updates
Offer extended to RB Jontel Evans
Offer extended to LB Tariq Edwards
Offer extended to DT Tyson Chandler
Offer extended to S Jim Noel
Offer extended to DE James Gayle
Offer extended to DE Bernardo Nunez
Austen Bujnoch commits to Cincinnati
New Star Rankings

2009 Football Scholarship Offers:
Bold = Commit

QB
No Offers (Bible normally waits until camp to offer QBs)

RB
**** Desmond Scott (Hillside HS) Durham, NC 5-9/179 Rutgers
*** Greg Pratt (Naples HS) Naples, FL 5-9/165/4.40
*** Rolandan Finch (St. Xavier HS) Louisville, KY 5-10/200/4.50
* Jontel Evans (Bethel HS) Hampton, VA 5-11/190/4.60

FB
* Marcus Green (Scotch Plains-Fanwood HS) Scotch Plains, NJ 6-2/220/4.65

WR
**** Justin Brown (Concord HS) Wilmington, DE 6-3.5/210/4.48
**** Jheranie Boyd (Ashbrook HS) Gastonia, NC 6-3/185/4.45
**** Stephon Gilmore (South Pointe HS) Rock Hill, SC 6-0.5/176/4.50
*** Quan Rucker (West Iredell HS) Statesville, NC 6-0/185/4.45
*** Kinsman Thomas (Marlboro County HS) Bennettsville, SC 6-3/210/4.59
*** Laroy Reynolds (Maury HS) Norfolk, VA
*** Quintin Payton (T L Hanna HS) Anderson, SC 6-4/190

TE
**** Arthur Fontaine (Dartmouth HS) North Dartmouth, MA 6-5/235/4.93
*** Paul Carrezola (Neshaminy HS) Langhorne, PA 6-4/248/4.80 Rutgers

OT
***** Xavier Nixon (Jack Britt) Fayetteville, NC 6-6/285
*** Kyle Koehne (Cathedral HS) Indianapolis, IN 6-6/300/5.30
*** Travis Bond (Bertie HS) Windsor, NC 6-6/330
*** Brooks Michel (Carmel HS) Carmel, IN 6-7/280
*** Austen Bujnoch (Elder HS) Cincinnati, OH 6-5/250 Cincinnati
*** Colin Rodkey (Gateway SHS) Monroeville, PA 6-4.5/266/5.53

OG
**** Quinton Washington (Timberland HS) Saint Stephen, SC 6-4/322
*** Ryan Spiker (Tri-Valley HS) Dresden, OH 6-4.5/295
*** Will Jackson (Farragut HS) Knoxville, TN 6-4/280/5.10

C
No Offers

DT
*** Eric McDaniel (Calhoun HS) Calhoun, GA 6-1.5/297/5.00
*** Brian Slay (Stone Bridge HS) Ashburn, VA 6-3/275
*** Adam Replogle (Centerville HS) Centerville, OH 6-2.5/250
*** Frankie Davis (East Ridge HS) Clermont, FL 6-3/270
*** Josh Elizondo (Naples HS) Naples, FL 6-2/280
*** Deion Roberson (Tucker HS) Tucker, GA 6-2/275
*** Tyson Chandler (North Plainfield HS) North Plainfield, NJ 6-6/315

DE
**** Duane Chisolm (Beaufort HS) Beaufort, SC 6-2/250
*** Julius Forte (Boca Ciega HS) Gulfport, FL 6-2/221/4.66
*** Izaan Cross (Flowery Branch HS) Flowery Branch, GA 6-4/250
*** Ricky Dowdy (High Point Central HS) High Point, NC 6-3/225
*** Justin Foxx (Victory Christian Center Sch.) Charlotte, NC
*** Sylvester Crawford (Victory Christian Center Sch.) Charlotte, NC 6-5/215
*** Jason Ankrah (Quince Orchard HS) Gaithersburg, MD 6-4/240/4.79
*** Clinton Simpkins (Chancellor HS) Fredericksburg, VA 6-3/215/4.60
*** Demi Thompson (Lake Mary HS) Lake Mary, FL 6-1/240/4.80
*** Bernardo Nunez (Hoboken HS) Hoboken, NJ 6-2/220/4.70
* Brian Jordan (Great Bridge HS) Chesapeake, VA 6-4/207
* James Gayle (Bethel HS) Hampton, VA 6-5/225

MLB
**** Glenn Carson (Southern Regional HS) Manahawkin, NJ 6-3/220/4.60
**** Hawatha Bell (David W Butler HS) Matthews, NC 6-0/225
*** Corico Hawkins (Baldwin HS) Milledgeville, GA 6-0/220
*** Ryan Cheek (Lancaster HS) Lancaster, OH 6-0.5/232/4.51

SLB
**** Jerrod Askew (Oscar F. Smith HS) Chesapeake, VA 6-0/215
*** Luke Kuechly (St. Xavier HS) Cincinnati, OH 6-3/205
*** Tariq Edwards (Marlboro County HS) Bennettsville, SC 6-3/217/4.75

WLB
**** Jamil Merrell (Paul M. Hodgson Vocational Tec) Newark, DE 6-4/210/4.60
*** Nigel Mitchell-Thornton (Stephenson HS) Stone Mountain, GA 6-2/210
* Hans Rice (Eufaula HS) Eufaula, AL 6-3/195/4.5

S
**** Prince Kent (Norcross HS) Norcross, GA 6-2/193/4.62
*** E.J. Banks (Montour HS) Mc Kees Rocks, PA 6.0/175/4.50
*** D.J. Swearinger (Greenwood HS) Greenwood, SC 6-0/190
*** David Sims (Calhoun County HS) Saint Matthews, SC 6-0/208
*** Everett Proctor (Jack Britt) Fayetteville, NC 6-2/200
*** Jim Noel (Everett HS) Everett, MA 6-4/180/4.48


CB
**** Travis Hawkins (Quince Orchard HS) Gaithersburg, MD 5-11/185/4.42
**** Terry Shankle (South Stanly HS) Norwood, NC 6-0/180
**** Jamal Reid (Lafayette HS) Mayo, FL 6-0/175/4.45
*** Zach Greene (Leesville Road HS) Raleigh, NC 5-10/170
* Rashard Smith (Dublin HS) Dublin, GA 5-10/175


K,P
No Offers


------------------------------------------STATISTICS------------------------------------------


Scholarships Count
16 Available for 2009
-3 2009 Commits (Dowdy, Cheek, Slay)
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13 Scholarships Remaining

Recruiting Breakdown
OFFENSE
QB - 0
Backfield - 0
Receivers - 0
Linemen - 0
Total Offense - 0

DEFENSE
Linemen - 2
Linebackers - 1
Secondary - 0
Total Defense - 3

Geographical Diversity
North Carolina - 1
Ohio - 1
Virginia - 1

Star Count (highest of the two sites)
5* - 0
4* - 0
3* - 3
2* - 0
1* - 0
Average Stars - 3.0

6/19/2008 8:20:17 AM

S Jim Noel commits to BC

6/19/2008 11:01:36 PM

We are one of as many as five favorites for DE Izaan Cross

6/20/2008 8:12:32 AM

camps start today right? anybody over at UT or involved in the camps have any inside info about players?

6/20/2008 10:12:45 AM

umm, they were walking somewhere maybe fountain? for breakfast around 7:30 this morning. They looked really surprised to see me driving a golf cart on the road. Sorry I know that doesn't help

[Edited on June 20, 2008 at 10:28 AM. Reason : .]

6/20/2008 10:23:50 AM

um... daniel evans is much tinier in person?

6/20/2008 10:25:12 AM

I saw toney baker this morning. he was walking with flip flops and talking on his phone. that is all.

6/20/2008 11:28:52 AM

pics, inside scoop?

6/20/2008 11:45:52 AM

^^ as long as he is healthy

6/20/2008 11:48:35 AM

If recruits had trackers on them like airplanes it would be so much easier to figure out where to send our crack team of investigative wolf web reporters to get the scoop on them.

6/20/2008 1:43:06 PM

lets hope this week is half as exciting as last years

6/20/2008 2:13:15 PM

Ohio QB Aaron Mershman will be camping at State. He has received one offer so far from Western Michigan.

Pro-style quarterback
Bowling Green (OH) Bowling Green
Ht: 6-foot-2
Wt: 190 lbs
Forty: 4.7 secs
Bench max: 265 pounds
Vertical: 30 inches
Shuttle: 4.5 secs
GPA: 3.87
ACT: 26

Schools Interested
N.C. State
Michigan
Akron
Ball State
Bowling Green
Central Michigan
Eastern Michigan
Miami-OH
Western Michigan

6/21/2008 11:00:39 AM

The 2010 WR from Southern Durham, Anthony Creecy, received an offer from ECU recently.

6/21/2008 11:24:19 AM

Mershman has the deer-in-the-headlights look down.

Is it a rule that you can't smile for football profile pictures? (sam jones being the rare exception)

6/21/2008 2:20:25 PM

wtf is hansbrough doing with a football

6/21/2008 3:22:47 PM

Probably been discussed, but what premium players are camping with us this week? Nixon? Boyd? Anyone?

6/21/2008 8:48:37 PM

The picture on the front of packpride looks like Robert Crisp so I hope that's a good sign he's there

Edit: To answer ^'s question, I don't either Nixon or Boyd are camping with us. It may be because they already have scholarship offers and have seen the school.

[Edited on June 21, 2008 at 9:11 PM. Reason : .]

6/21/2008 8:51:47 PM

It seems to me that there have been a lot more early commits from this class than there were with others. Here's the rundown of DI commits from North Carolina kids up to this date (6/21).

2009 22
2008 10
2007 13
2006 9
2005 10
2004 7
2003 8
2002 4

Again, the earlier years were a little lacking in composite data, but the spike in commits is more than double of most years and will probably go up even more once all the camps have concluded. I hope this doesn't turn into a basketball type affair where 9th graders commit super early.

6/21/2008 8:56:45 PM

Here are the stats for Florida, a big recruiting pool

Florida
2009 41 +3 Soft Verbals
2008 36
2007 18
2006 9
2005 3
2004 6
2003 3
2002 3

Again, the further you go back, the less precise the data, but the numbers are still pretty staggering.

6/21/2008 9:05:20 PM

http://blogs.indystar.com/preps/archives/2008/06/carmel_lineman.html

Carmel lineman considering Minnesota, N.C. State

It's down to two schools for Carmel High School offensive tackle Brooks Michel: Minnesota and North Carolina State.

The 6-7, 285-pounder, a three-star recruit ranked 55th at his position among rising seniors by scout.com, visited both campuses the second week in June. After attending a camp at Iowa, the Michels drove to Minnesota and then flew from Minnesota to N.C. State for unofficial visits, spending about two days at each school.

So what did Michel like best about each program? The coaching staffs. N.C. State coach Tom O'Brien is entering his second season, as is Minnesota's Tim Brewster.

"I know at North Carolina State, the coaching staff can't get much better," Michel, 17, said. "And Minnesota, they're all great guys and they have great facilities and a brand new stadium going in, which is cool."

Michel said he will choose the place that makes him feel the most comfortable with the people he's going to be around for the next 4-5 years.

"I've got to feel comfortable with the coaches, and know they're going to be recruiting the kind of guys I'll be able to make friends with easily," he said.

Signing day isn't until Feb. 4, 2009, but Michel is hoping to make a decision before football season so he can focus on high school ball. The Greyhounds are the defending Class 5A state champs.

Michel was an Associated Press Class 5A All-State honorable mention selection last season.

6/21/2008 10:19:51 PM

It sounds like the only thing Minnesota has on us is a new stadium (assuming of course that our team has 'great guys' too) , but our stadium will hold more fans. It'd be nice to go ahead and lock down some big boys on the Oline.

[Edited on June 21, 2008 at 10:43 PM. Reason : sorry, great instead of good]

6/21/2008 10:43:12 PM

maybe our guys are only good, while theirs are great?

6/21/2008 11:11:18 PM

well then we have to pray that our coaching and good guys outweigh their stadium and great guys

6/21/2008 11:18:28 PM

where's the part of the article that says that he and morgan newton are a package deal?

6/22/2008 1:04:28 AM

how about the fact that its not cold as shit down here?

6/22/2008 1:13:52 AM

Minnesota's new TCF Bank Stadium. It's supposed to take architectural designs from Minnesota's original Memorial Stadium. Capacity will be 50,200, and can support future expansion to seat up to 80,000. It will have great views of downtown Minneapolis from most of the seats.






Discovery Channel breakdown of how it will be the most environmentally friendly stadium in the country.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zggKmRvqM0A

6/22/2008 2:12:32 PM

Demi Thompson commits to South Florida

6/22/2008 3:58:49 PM

Hopefully we'll get some good news towards the end of the day. The next camp session starts Tuesday.

6/22/2008 5:00:19 PM

Scholarship extended to CB Josh Hunter

Cornerback
Charlotte (NC) Mallard Creek

Ht: 6-foot-2 (Event)
Wt: 172 lbs
Forty: 4.4 secs
Bench max: 220 pounds
Class: 2009 (High School)

http://footballrecruiting.rivals.com/viewprospect.asp?pr_key=79373
http://northcarolinastate.scout.com/a.z?s=178&p=8&c=1&nid=3808585

6/23/2008 8:20:33 AM

I love the colored bleachers on the new Minnesota stadium sketches. I wish we had those or at least had a section of the student body with t-shirts that made a logo (a la Penn State)

6/23/2008 9:30:15 AM

Well the reason why PSU is able to do that is b/c that little section of students is an organization, mainly made up of seniors, made to carry on the tradition of making out their big block S logo. They've been doing it for many years. I'm sure the SWPC could organize a way to make out our distinictive block S logo with the N and C in it.

6/23/2008 10:18:47 AM

^^^ Josh Hunter has a pretty nice offer list. He's a 3* prospect on Rivals and rated the #57 cornerback nationally. He'd be a nice pickup based on his measureables and offer list. I haven't checked out his highlight vid yet.

Schools Interested (known offers in italics)
Duke
East Carolina
Miami (Fl)
North Carolina State
South Carolina
Virginia Tech
Wake Forest
Clemson
Florida State
Virginia
West Virginia
Marshall


Generally I want to see us land prospects that are in the Top 50 at their position. We did a pretty good job about doing that last year, and the ones not ranked around the Top 50 at their position are still good athletes that fall into that sleeper category. Some just need some good coaching like Graham. Had he not had 4 different QBs and coaches in high school, then I think he could have easily been rated a lot higher. He has the elite speed that you look for in a WR.

2008 Recruiting Class (Scout/Rivals)
QB - Glennon - 5/3
WLB/OLB - Manning - 6/15
OT - Mattes - 11/21
S/ATH - Barnes - 14/33
MLB - Maddox - 17/27
MLB - Lucas - 23/20
TE - Carter - 26/NR (note: Carter was originally a 3* on Rivals but I think he dropped due to his injury which is BS nowadays with how far we've come along in orthopedic surgery. a lot of players can now return at or near completely full strength)
DT - Everett - 28/32
S - Mangram - 32/NR (man I really wish he would have been able to qualify )
SLB/ILB - Beasely - 36/NR (I don't know why Scout has him as an outside linebacker and Rivals has him as an inside linebacker)
CB - Palmer - 41/NR
OT - Wallace - 50/38
OG - Allen - 51/NR
S - Wolff - 80/NR
WR - Graham - 140/NR
CB - Grant - 150/NR
OG - Jaradat - NR/NR
RB/ATH - Wilson - NR/NR
CB - Cunningham - NR/NR
FB - Jackson - NR/NR (he's the ultimate definition of sleeper. dude is a beast when running with the football. Miami offered him as a LB, and many scouts say that had he played LB exclusively, then he could have been one of the top LBs in the state of Georgia. he's a very gifted athlete.)

DT - Linney - Scout doesn't rank prep schoolers/18 in Rivals prep school top 50
OT - Jones - ^/11 in Rivals prep school top 50
DT - Burgess - Scout doesn't rank JUCOs/69 in Rivals junior college top 100
DE - McKeen - Scout doesn't rank JUCOs/NR
DT - Locust - Scout doesn't rank JUCOs/NR
ATH - Johnson - Scout doesn't rank prep schoolers/43 in Rivals prep school top 50

note: Scout had Linney as the #85 ranked DT and Jones as the #61 ranked OT coming out of high school in 2007. McKeen was the #32 ranked DE coming out of high school in 2005.

[Edited on June 23, 2008 at 5:13 PM. Reason : ]

6/23/2008 5:12:25 PM

TE Arthur Fontaine is visiting today. He visited UGA last weekend and really liked it. We need a good TE like him and also because he was a former BC commit.

6/24/2008 10:18:28 AM

Reel em' in Tom!

If I were the coaches I would tell him about the opportunity he'd have to play with Glennon who would love throwing to him. Also I would show him how former QB Marcus Stone was able to flourish as a TE in their offense and now has an opportunity to join the Chicago Bears. I'd also mention how we lack depth at TE, and how we'll be using some two TE sets in the future, so there is plenty of opportunity for him to see the field. Then take him on campus and have him meet a nice co-ed that has a sun dress on and has a cute Southern accent. Then tell him there are more of those just like her here and the girls here in NC have more opportunity throughout the year to be scantily clad than the girls up in Boston.

[Edited on June 24, 2008 at 10:36 AM. Reason : ]

6/24/2008 10:35:35 AM

i'm pretty sure he saw the co-eds at UGA too. no offense, but we have nothing on their concentration of hot ladies. but that's just one part of the puzzle. he'll choose us because TOB will have him believing in the resurrection of our program.

i'm ready to hear some good camp news. session II starts today.

6/24/2008 11:27:25 AM

^Agreed. Hopefully he'll have him drinking the same Kool Aid that most of us Pack fans are (myself included).

6/24/2008 12:20:10 PM

^^ agreed, not knocking our ladies, but I had the opportunity to be there during sorority rush or whatever when they were looking their best, I was sitting about halfway between the entrance to Sanford, and where the girls were coming out of the student center in sundresses, and when i looked back and forth between the two, I came a little.

6/24/2008 12:58:05 PM

Saw Fontaine is visiting Chapel Hill today too. Hmmm.

6/24/2008 5:47:39 PM

well... Devonte Holloman is transferring from independence.

pre-post edit: well i just read the rest of the article and apparently his mom and dad are separating I feel bad for thinking it was about the recruiting scandal.

6/25/2008 7:55:07 AM

Quote :

"I came a little"

6/25/2008 7:56:27 AM

this has probably been mentioned but we have offered Mike Bowman...yes, the younger brother of Adarius Bowman that was kicked out of UNC for failing multiple drug tests and who has been shunned by the NFL for his recent drug arrest.

Quote :

"One who continues gaining attention nearly every day is Ridgeland’s Mike Bowman, the younger brother of Adarius. The 6-foot-5, 212-pound receiver has steadily risen up the recruiting boards and is the nation’s 17th-rated player at his position according to Rivals.com. He has official offers from LSU, Arkansas, Ole Miss, Alabama, Kentucky, North Carolina State and Purdue and impressed Georgia coaches at a team camp two weeks ago."

6/25/2008 12:27:44 PM

OL John Prior gets a offer

Offensive tackle
Portsmouth (OH) Portsmouth

Ht: 6-foot-6
Wt: 283 lbs
Class: 2009 (High School)

http://footballrecruiting.rivals.com/viewprospect.asp?pr_key=82378
http://recruiting.scout.com/a.z?s=73&p=8&c=1&nid=3725485

6/25/2008 12:31:43 PM

it'll be interesting to see who gets the QB and punter offers after camp. hopefully we'll know soon.

6/26/2008 4:19:23 PM

Damonte Terry maybe a guy that we could pick up. He's from Terrell Manning's school in Laurinburg. I heard he was very impressive in camp and the coaches really liked him. He's a playmaker and could be put at either RB or S.

Terry has an offer from ECU right now and might get one from both UNC and State in the upcoming weeks after impressing at both schools camps. He also camped at USC (Gamecocks not Trojans). He will be visiting Maryland and VT sometime in the future.

You can see a highlight video on his Rivals page. He looks like he has a pretty good mix of vision, strength, speed, and size. He's not a guy like Toney Baker that can both run guys over and has great speed to boot. Terry though does react quickly, gets to the open part of the field quickly, can stop on a dime and change directions, and is adequate at shedding tacklers coming at him from the side.
http://ncstate.rivals.com/viewprospect.asp?pr_key=63953&sport=1

[Edited on June 26, 2008 at 5:43 PM. Reason : ]

6/26/2008 5:43:00 PM

Who do you think gets the offer at QB? Based on what I've read the first person I think will get it is Aaron Mershman. Don't really know who could get the offer after him.

6/26/2008 7:35:28 PM

john ryan.

6/26/2008 7:51:16 PM

sounds like mershman is the probable guy. proctor would have been a nice get but he's not a TOB-type QB. no complaints though. it seems like RED TOM knows what he's doing.

6/26/2008 8:33:24 PM

bump

6/26/2008 8:33:51 PM

bump

6/26/2008 8:34:28 PM

bump

6/26/2008 8:35:04 PM