Updates
Jarrell Harrison to Missouri
Donald Coleman Commits!
Jamil Merrell to Rutgers
Antwon Higgs to Purdue
Kadeem Custis to Temple


2009 Football Scholarship Offers:
Bold = Commit

QB
*** Everett Proctor (Jack Britt) Fayetteville, NC 6-2/200

RB
*** James Washington (Boone HS) Orlando, FL 6-0/180/4.40
*** Morgan Alexander (Cartersville HS) Cartersville, GA 5-10.5/160/4.47
*** Greg Pratt (Naples HS) Naples, FL 5-9/165/4.40
*** Rolandan Finch (St. Xavier HS) Louisville, KY 5-10/200/4.50
*** Travis Small (Cheraw HS) Cheraw, SC 5-10.5/184/4.50
** William Pratcher (Cedar Grove HS) Ellenwood, GA 5-10/180

FB
No offers

WR
*** Quintin Payton (T L Hanna HS) Anderson, SC 6-4/190
*** Bryan Underwood (Cleveland Heights HS) University Hts, OH 5-8.5/162/4.62
**** Justin Brown (Concord HS) Wilmington, DE 6-3.5/210/4.48
**** Larry Raper (Shelby HS) Shelby, NC 5-10/153/4.24
*** Kinsman Thomas (Marlboro County HS) Bennettsville, SC 6-3/210/4.59
*** Carvin Powell (Great Bridge HS) Chesapeake, VA 6-2.5/198/4.50
**** Jheranie Boyd (Ashbrook HS) Gastonia, NC 6-3/185/4.45 UNC

TE
** Anthony Talbert (Winton Woods HS) Cincinnati, OH 6-4/225
*** Asa Watson (Rock Hill HS) Rock Hill, SC 6-4/200

OT
***** Xavier Nixon (Jack Britt) Fayetteville, NC 6-6/285
***** Marcus Hall (Glenville HS) Cleveland, OH 6-5/293/5.35
**** Travis Bond (Bertie HS) Windsor, NC 6-6/330
*** Andrew Tiller (Nassau) Garden City, NY 6-6/320/5.00
*** Duran Christophe (Woodstock HS) Woodstock, GA 6-5.5/257/5.59
*** Kadeem Custis (St. John Neumann HS) Philadelphia, PA 6-5/270/5.00 Temple

OG
**** Denzelle Good (Gaffney Senior HS) Gaffney, SC 6-4/295
**** Quinton Washington (Timberland HS) Saint Stephen, SC 6-4/322
* Gus Handler (Barrington HS) Barrington, IL 6-3/265

C
No Offers

DT
*** Brian Slay (Stone Bridge HS) Ashburn, VA 6-3/275
*** Tyson Chandler (North Plainfield HS) North Plainfield, NJ 6-6/315
*** Nathan Mageo (New Mexico Military) Roswell, NM 6-4/280/4.96
*** Frankie Davis (East Ridge HS) Clermont, FL 6-3/270
*** Deion Roberson (Tucker HS) Tucker, GA 6-2/275
*** Raynard Randolph (Gwynn Park HS) Brandywine, MD 6-3/295
*** Akeem Spence (Ft. Walton Beach HS) Fort Walton Beach, FL 6-1/290
* Conor O'Neal (Newsome HS) Lithia, FL 6-3/300
**** Edwin Herbert (CC of San Francisco) San Francisco, CA 6-3.5/295 Florida

DE
*** Ricky Dowdy (High Point Central HS) High Point, NC 6-3/225
*** Sylvester Crawford (Victory Christian Center Sch.) Charlotte, NC 6-5/215
** Darryl Cato-Bishop (Lawrence Academy) Groton, MA 6-4/230
** A.J. Ferguson (South Brunswick HS) Southport, NC 6-3/250/4.80
**** Jason Ankrah (Quince Orchard HS) Gaithersburg, MD 6-4/240/4.79
*** Julius Forte (Boca Ciega HS) Gulfport, FL 6-2/221/4.66
*** Izaan Cross (Flowery Branch HS) Flowery Branch, GA 6-4/250
*** Clinton Simpkins (Chancellor HS) Fredericksburg, VA 6-3/215/4.60
*** Bernardo Nunez (Hoboken HS) Hoboken, NJ 6-2/220/4.70
** Brian Jordan (Great Bridge HS) Chesapeake, VA 6-4/207
** Luke Sager (Niceville Senior HS) Niceville, FL 6-4/240
** Josh Jackson (Gainesville HS) Gainesville, GA 6-1/242/5.00
**** Duane Chisolm (Beaufort HS) Beaufort, SC 6-2/250 South Carolina

MLB
*** Ryan Cheek (Lancaster HS) Lancaster, OH 6-0.5/232/4.51
** Julian Burnett (Westside HS) Macon, GA 5-9.5/222/4.66 Georgia Tech
**** Hawatha Bell (David W Butler HS) Matthews, NC 6-0/225 UNC

SLB
*** Luke Kuechly (St. Xavier HS) Cincinnati, OH 6-3/205
*** Antwon Higgs (Pompano Beach HS Institute) Pompano Beach, FL 6-2/243/4.94 Purdue
*** LeRon Furr (Carver HS) Columbus, GA 6-3/213 Oklahoma State

WLB
*** Robert Nelson (Stone Mountain HS) Stone Mountain, GA 6-0/205
**** Jamil Merrell (Paul M. Hodgson Vocational Tec) Newark, DE 6-4/210/4.60 Rutgers

S
*** Hans Rice (Eufaula HS) Eufaula, AL 6-3/195/4.5
*** Brandan Bishop (Boca Raton HS) Boca Raton, FL 6-1/197/4.66 thanks bro
** Donald Coleman (The Hun School) Princeton, NJ 6-0/207/4.46
** Boogie McCray (Lake Taylor HS) Norfolk, VA 6-2/210
**** David Batts (El Camino) Torrance, CA 6-2/200/4.50 Nevada
**** Jonathan Meeks (Hargrave Military Academy) Chatham, VA 6-2/185 Clemson
* Jarrell Harrison (CC of San Francisco) San Francisco, CA 6-2/210/4.55 Missouri

CB
**** Jarvis Byrd (Pahokee HS) Pahokee, FL 5-10/170/4.65
*** Dean Haynes (Northwest Whitfield County HS) Tunnel Hill, GA 6-0/200
** Rashard Smith (Dublin HS) Dublin, GA 5-10/175
*** Dale Peterman (Ursuline HS) Youngstown, OH 5-11/176/4.67
*** Jairus Jones (Wharton HS) Tampa, FL 6-1/205/4.60
** Keith Reaser (Miami Killian HS) Miami, FL 5-10/-/4.44
**** Terry Shankle (South Stanly HS) Norwood, NC 6-0/180 UNC
**** Travis Hawkins (Quince Orchard HS) Gaithersburg, MD 5-11/185/4.42 Maryland

K,P
** Chris Ward (Starrs Mill HS) Fayetteville, GA 6-1/170


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Scholarships Count
16 Available for 2009
-22 2009 Commits
-2 Rejoining Team (Sam Jones and John Ware if he requalifies)
+3 Class of 2008 who didn't qualify (Palmer, Everett, Mangram)
+6 Transfer or Left Team (Jaradat, Locust, Golder, Burke, T. Barnes, Linney)
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1 Scholarships Remaining

Recruiting Breakdown
OFFENSE
QB - 1
Backfield - 2
Receivers - 3
Linemen - 1
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Total Offense - 7

DEFENSE
Linemen - 7
Linebackers - 1
Secondary - 6
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Total Defense - 14

SPECIAL TEAMS
Kickers - 1

Geographical Diversity
Alabama - 1
Florida - 3
Georgia - 4
Massachusetts - 1
New Jersey - 2
New Mexico - 1
North Carolina - 4
South Carolina - 2
Ohio - 3
Virginia - 1

Star Count (highest of the two sites)
5* - 0
4* - 2
3* - 14
2* - 6
1* - 0
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Average Stars - 2.82

[Edited on December 19, 2008 at 7:33 PM. Reason : .]

12/19/2008 7:32:27 PM

The thing with Jamil Merrell was that he wanted to go to a program where he could play with his brother, Jamal. We weren't willing to give up a scholarship to his brother just to get him. A lot of programs though were willing to do such. It's not a knock on his brother, he's a decent football player, but he's kind of a positionless player right now. Scout has him as the #137th best WR, while Rivals has him as the #30th best OLB, and he plays DB in high school.

12/19/2008 7:47:47 PM

Asa Watson just got upgraded on Scout from the #46 to the #14 TE.

12/19/2008 8:06:58 PM

^don't forget that TOB and staff were the first ones to notice ASA and give him attention. The pull to Maryland b/c of how they use their TE(although i believe we use them just as much) and b/c his father played there could be too much.

Also, Travis Bond went from **** #18 OT to *** #33 OT.

[Edited on December 19, 2008 at 8:15 PM. Reason : ...]

12/19/2008 8:14:49 PM

^ #16 OT actually
http://tinyurl.com/3ja4sv

12/19/2008 8:45:34 PM

oh, snap! he just google cached your ass!

12/19/2008 9:05:29 PM

Does anyone know who Raper named as his leader recently? I don't trust any of the school lists right now.

[Edited on December 19, 2008 at 9:07 PM. Reason : ]

12/19/2008 9:06:52 PM

raper? i hardly know her.

i have no information, i've just wanted to post that for awhile.

12/19/2008 9:30:28 PM

^^^oh well, i knew it was upper teens. fuck it, #16 then

12/19/2008 9:38:42 PM

it's not really a big deal. this is though. apparently Bitch Davis was a no show at a speaking engagement at the Shrine Bowl. Spurrier, Cutcliffe, Swinney, and TOB were to speak today.

http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=178&f=2515&t=3634422

Quote :

"Scheduled to speak to the two teams today was TOB, Butch, Bill Curry, Steve Spurrier, Dabo Sweeny, and Cuttcliffe (sp). The weather was to bad for Butch to make it. Cutt. got a jab in while he was talking by saying at least the other coaches from NC could find their way through the fog. IMHO, TOB gave the best talk today. He didn't recruit, he spoke about what's the right thing for young men to do, how to act, and what their work ethic should be. He didn't mention any of his personal accomplishments, nor his teams, nor did he mention State. Some of the other mixed in some recruiting into their talks. Having heard Butch at the past two Shrine bowls talk about Butch, I wasn't to sad that he didn't make it today. Spurrier found a way to mention that he won the Heisman, won a national championship, played in the pros, coached several all conference and all american QB's, etc. By the way, the OL from Gaffney (Goode I think) was huge. He appreaded to be the tallest guy on the SC team."

12/19/2008 9:42:27 PM

I may have missed it, but does anyone know the story of why Curtis Crouch was kicked off the team?

12/19/2008 11:55:59 PM

^lazy, didn't want to do what the coaches told him, just overall apathetic. Something about leading horses to water.....

12/19/2008 11:59:41 PM

all the youtube videos talk about how he is the fastest OL ever

12/20/2008 12:02:40 AM

^FWIW Andrew Wallace ran a sub 4.8 40 in HS.

12/20/2008 12:04:24 AM

Is this an OV weekend or has the dead period started?

12/20/2008 9:41:20 AM

Izaan Cross to Georgia Tech

12/21/2008 4:28:10 PM

It just occurred to me that TOB is as much of an eccentric as Amato was - just on the other end of the spectrum...

12/21/2008 4:46:51 PM

the "two offensive lineman in the house" thread on the pp premium board sounds good. did we get christophe and wentz?

[Edited on December 21, 2008 at 5:49 PM. Reason : .]

12/21/2008 5:48:48 PM

^two could be good and jones. i don't have premium, but i'm gonna look to see if I can find anything

12/21/2008 5:54:17 PM

anyone know who it is????!!!!!!????????!!!!!!!?????????

12/21/2008 6:13:55 PM

rumblings that Cristophe and Wentz committed this evening.

Nothing set in stone yet

12/21/2008 6:15:06 PM

Wentz was just upgraded to the number 11 center on scout

12/21/2008 6:24:25 PM

When I first saw Christophe and that we were recruiting him, I really thought he'd be a great piece for our o-line. I hope the rumblings will come to fruition. Wentz would be a good pickup as well.

12/21/2008 7:23:15 PM

seems to be that they did commit,

so that's awesome. redshirt 90% of this class and lets go.

12/21/2008 7:31:40 PM

Look how big that guy is. He's 6-foot-6 275 lbs, which is almost on par with Nixon who is 6-foot-6 285. He's got the frame to add more weight too.

12/21/2008 7:58:12 PM

Christophe is the guy on the left?

12/21/2008 8:06:35 PM

Yeah. Christophe had offers from Louisville, Indiana, UAB, UCF, Vanderbilt, Middle Tennessee State, ECU, and Tulane. Georgia and South Carolina were also recruiting him.

He's from Woodstock, GA. Wentz is from Marietta, GA. If the rumors are true that those two committed then we'd have 6 players from Georgia in this class. So how long before the media has an article saying TOB is ignoring the state of North Carolina and recruiting Georgia too much?

[Edited on December 21, 2008 at 8:22 PM. Reason : ]

12/21/2008 8:20:20 PM

i like how wentz needs to improve on his arm length while christophe has arm length as a plus
christophe needs to work on his aggressiveness while wentz has it as a plus
put them together, you have the ultimate o-lineman

also, jason ankrah committed to nebraska

12/21/2008 9:02:11 PM

Quote :

"i like how wentz needs to improve on his arm length "

wait.... what ?

12/21/2008 9:22:30 PM

i heard wentz was working on that

getting some cybernetic arms installed

nigga will be like brandan wright when hes done

12/21/2008 9:22:41 PM

wentz would have been a 5* prospect if not for his t-rex arms.

12/21/2008 9:51:33 PM

its official, wentz and christophe in the fold

12/21/2008 9:52:19 PM

Dude's pretty skinny for 265. Lots of muscle, not much fat. I like those kind of OLs. Pack on 20-30 pounds of muscle and you have a scary dude.

12/21/2008 10:35:34 PM

this has turned out to be a pretty solid TOB class. props to coach mccollum for tearing up GA again. if we ended up with asa watson, i'd be satisfied for the year.

12/22/2008 5:47:54 AM

Does anyone know what Beck is going to do after this season? I hope he enjoyed his time at State even though his playing career didn't turn out like he would have liked it to. I kind of wonder what he could have done if he had been able to play in a west coast offense, which would have suited him better. If he decides to move on then we would have 3 QBs (Wilson, Glennon, and Proctor) and we won't be one scholarship over the limit, as we project to right now if everyone qualifies.

12/22/2008 10:08:24 AM

we arent in a scholarship crunch. 3-4 of the guys will enroll early and you always have some attrition. I hope Beck stays. we need the QB depth.

12/22/2008 10:28:14 AM

I'm not worried about people enrolling early. We are still under the 25 per class limit so far. Prior to Wentz and Christophe hopping on board, there was only one projected scholarship remaining, meaning that we would now be one over the 85 limit. So someone either has to not qualify, or someone has to transfer or not get their scholarship renewed for the entire class to come in.

[Edited on December 22, 2008 at 10:54 AM. Reason : ]

12/22/2008 10:53:55 AM

my scout email is always so late.

12/23/2008 12:42:41 AM

I expect a few people to not be on scholarship/not with the team next year

12/23/2008 1:00:15 AM

Theres always attrition. I'm sure there will be 1-3 guys not make it in because of grades like there are every year. Also, im sure there will be someone that either drops out, gets kicked off, etc etc.

We'll be fine. Atleast we're not 10 over like UNC

12/23/2008 1:16:51 AM

speaking of UNC......looks like their QB Commit has the herp:

12/25/2008 4:34:28 AM

Quote :

"Does anyone know what Beck is going to do after this season? I hope he enjoyed his time at State even though his playing career didn't turn out like he would have liked it to. I kind of wonder what he could have done if he had been able to play in a west coast offense, which would have suited him better. If he decides to move on then we would have 3 QBs (Wilson, Glennon, and Proctor) and we won't be one scholarship over the limit, as we project to right now if everyone qualifies."

beck was engaged a couple weeks ago

12/25/2008 9:40:44 AM

Quote :

"Does anyone know what Beck is going to do after this season? I hope he enjoyed his time at State even though his playing career didn't turn out like he would have liked it to. I kind of wonder what he could have done if he had been able to play in a west coast offense, which would have suited him better. If he decides to move on then we would have 3 QBs (Wilson, Glennon, and Proctor) and we won't be one scholarship over the limit, as we project to right now if everyone qualifies."

beck was engaged a couple weeks ago

12/25/2008 9:40:44 AM

Quote :

"Only Clemson and BC are behind us"

To revisit my comments from pg 34. We now, on paper, have a better class than VT, Duke, Virgina, Clemson, Wake, and BC.

12/25/2008 2:35:23 PM

We had ALOT of depth needs this year, and we fixed all of them with solid, hard nosed, pissing salt and vinegar football players. Watching all of their films, i'm very excited. I don't care what the "experts" think

12/25/2008 2:44:34 PM

Gus Handler to Colorado

12/25/2008 5:20:10 PM

bump

12/25/2008 5:20:50 PM

bump

12/25/2008 5:21:55 PM

bump

12/25/2008 5:23:48 PM

bump

12/25/2008 5:24:36 PM