no need to sweat. We're only looking to sign about 11 this year. We've got nine months to sign 11 players.

Rivals is showing we've offered 87. And 28 of those are four- and five-star recruits.

4/13/2012 9:15:41 AM

^where are you getting the 11 # from....I think we are looking to sign well above 11.

I remember thinking last years class was a small/needs based class, and everyone saying this years was deeper in NC, and our other recruiting areas. I would guess at the end of the day we sign up the full 25.

4/13/2012 10:38:04 AM

I don't know, but might the 11 be based on who's projected to leave after this season and the 85 schollie limit?

4/13/2012 10:49:11 AM

my bad, I thought it was 11. It's gonna be more like 16-18.

^ Yes, we'll have 15 seniors leaving, and Amerson could turn pro.

4/13/2012 11:09:06 AM

Looks like we have 14-15 full scholarships available right now, with normal attrition, flexibility in walk ons/schollys, etc. I will guess we will take a full 25 man class.

4/13/2012 12:04:39 PM

I'm actually thankful under TOB we'll field a solid team each year without me not having to give a single fuck about this thread or recruiting in general.

4/13/2012 12:11:26 PM

4/16/2012 12:30:43 AM

great post boobs.

4/16/2012 9:27:49 AM

yes crickets... one ray of hope in a sea of darkness though is TOB said they've had twice the number of recruits visiting this spring and he said he's never seen that, so... yea.

4/16/2012 10:52:09 AM

I hear that we aren't going to sign any recruits, and just disband the football team.

4/16/2012 11:04:08 AM

This page is full of hearty laughs

4/16/2012 1:06:48 PM

I gyrated on the floor, chuckling audibly

4/16/2012 1:11:45 PM

GOTFCA

4/16/2012 1:27:52 PM

^That actually made me chuckle, ironically.

4/16/2012 1:37:50 PM

TOB said he's decided not to recruit for 2013 due to Mayan prophecy

4/19/2012 7:59:00 PM

I've heard that TOB has set a goal for the program to beat UNC without recruiting a single player that Rivals has even evaluated.

4/19/2012 9:09:35 PM

lol

4/19/2012 9:12:18 PM

^^^, ^^ LOL

I actually think we're going to do better this year, i just have a feeling

4/20/2012 1:35:52 AM

so i mean, i don't follow football recruiting at all anymore... but honest question: what the fuck are we doing?

4/20/2012 1:41:19 AM

At this time last year, we had two commits according to Scout.com. The majority of our commits come out of kids we see at camp.

http://recruiting.scout.com/a.z?s=73&p=9&c=8&toinid=657&yr=2012

4/20/2012 8:19:33 AM

I tell you what. when we get our first commit we should all go party our nutz off!

and post dance/celebrating/happy-kid gifs

4/20/2012 9:03:36 AM

interesting article, we all know it goes on but it just details it

http://inthebleachers.net/2009-articles/february/nobody-runs-a-43-on-the-inflation-of-high-school-40-times.html

4/20/2012 10:18:28 AM

it's funny because we all know a guy who swears he ran a 4.5 in high school.

It's a total joke.

Look if you didn't play D1 football or track chances are less than 1% you broke 4.6 in high school.

One of my best friends was fast. Really quick. Not a track star, but one of the fastest kids in every basketball game. He could barely break 5.0 in the 40.

Everytime someone tells me they ran a 4.5 I just laugh and vehemently disagree. They get mad but I mean come on it's just ridiculous.

4/20/2012 1:06:11 PM

^

Trying too hard.

4/20/2012 1:18:40 PM

Not sure what you mean. Everyone knows 40 times are completely fabricated.

4/20/2012 2:10:09 PM

My best time was 4.91. However, I was like a 6th string wide receiver. If it came down to it, the coaches would play one of our DE's at receiver before me.

4/20/2012 2:37:43 PM

my dad played football and track...ran 4.6 40...white boy too

4/20/2012 2:58:31 PM

^college football

[Edited on April 20, 2012 at 3:43 PM. Reason : asdf]

4/20/2012 3:43:31 PM

^ We had you clocked at 5.92 at Haymount.

4/20/2012 4:35:52 PM

Am i reading this right? We missed out on a 3* DE from Wilson, NC who committed to OSU??!?!

What the hell just happened? Why would he go to OSU? What's he going to play, 6th string?

4/23/2012 3:02:46 PM

^^lol

4/23/2012 3:09:59 PM

^^ yea, from what i have read we were all over him. As a rising junior we were his favorite, he visited a bunch of times, but once these big football schools get involved... "game over maaan, game over."

4/23/2012 3:27:53 PM

Everett withers learned a thing or two from black santa.

4/23/2012 4:22:00 PM

Reading the awesome scout "Recruits at the Game" article today and it looks like we had 12 recruits there. (3 of which are 2014 kids)

I really hope that is only a list of the top kids, because if not, 9 potential guys for next year seems depressing.

4/23/2012 5:33:18 PM

Because only kids at the spring game get offered scholarships.

4/23/2012 5:37:43 PM

^wtf does that even mean?

Attendance at a spring game has no bearing on overall excitement for a football program/potential recruiting buzz?

Check Alabama, or Georgia, or VT, or Clemson, or hell...even UNC. I am sure they all have 20-50 kids at their spring game.

You can offer whomever the fuck you want to offer, but if you can't even get them to come in for a free saturday of football, visit, food, free shit, it doesn't look good.

4/23/2012 5:43:10 PM

Well for one, it's not free, unless they are all taking official visits.

And for two, I don't really care. TOB knows what he's doing. I'll just sit back and enjoy the eight wins.

4/23/2012 6:16:50 PM

^ and ^^ yeah the recommended donation was at least $1 to the Kay Yow foundation

4/23/2012 7:26:52 PM

summers pwnt, stay home?

4/24/2012 9:59:30 AM

Well what I meant was that it's not a free trip for recruits. They have to pay for it out of pocket.

Plus the weather forecast was pretty shitty.

4/24/2012 11:01:12 AM

what i meant is it was a free "day"

Hell, we should have more than 9 wake county student athletes at the game. 9 is embarassing, its not worth arguing with you, my original point still stands.

4/24/2012 1:07:41 PM

i vote we disband the football program until we can get more recruits at the spring game

4/24/2012 1:13:56 PM

seconded

4/24/2012 1:23:38 PM

i have forwarded this request to yow's office. i expect a response by the end of the day.

4/24/2012 1:32:49 PM

so is there any truth to the rumor that summers won't be attending unc this fall?

4/24/2012 1:58:12 PM

pack pride truth

4/24/2012 2:03:08 PM

finally

welcome Cole Blankenship http://rivals.yahoo.com/maryland/football/recruiting/player-Cole-Blankenship-128990

[Edited on April 24, 2012 at 2:07 PM. Reason : link]

4/24/2012 2:06:22 PM

^^it actually started on IC

4/24/2012 2:08:38 PM

the program changer we have been waiting for

4/24/2012 2:08:47 PM

looks like every ACC school was recruiting him

4/24/2012 2:09:25 PM