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Yeah, the RB situation is sounding pretty bad. I hope someone can step up in the fall.

jollything wrote:Kendall Williams juco Rb just committed.

Played HS at North Little Rock Oroville, CA.

Butte CC won California Community College Athletic Association title last year. Williams looks like he took advantage of an injury to Butte's starting tailback last year (couple games Robert Frazier). Didn't start the 2013 season as the starter but still had plenty of carries. Has some receptions as well.

nm

Sage&Silver wrote:Is this the 2nd RB transfer since spring practice?

Third. Dami Ayoola (Illinois) and Adonis Smith (UNLV).

jollything wrote:Kendall Williams juco Rb just committed.

This is a good pick up and it addresses the need. KW has 4.4 speed with good size and decent hands.

Check out Kendall Williams' Kendall Williams Highlights on @Hudl http://www.hudl.com/athlete/512249/highlights/69408375# #hudl

Think the coaches will still pursue a high school running back? Also, anyone have any inclination about whether the staff will offer some of the other local recruits, like Taylor Powell?

http://www.maxpreps.com/news/49SkU5D1R0 ... -salle.htm

Think Mckenzie's high school transfer has any effect on his recruitment?

TuiTouchdown wrote:http://www.maxpreps.com/news/49SkU5D1R0 ... -salle.htm

Think Mckenzie's high school transfer has any effect on his recruitment?

I really don't follow HS sports, but this is a very important recent chance in CA HS sports:

The most important is that the transfer cannot be "athletically motivated."

TuiTouchdown wrote:http://www.maxpreps.com/news/49SkU5D1R0 ... -salle.htm

Think Mckenzie's high school transfer has any effect on his recruitment?

No.

Daniel Berk @DSBerk
CB Samuel Morrison has committed to the #ArizonaWildcats. 3-star recruit w/offers from Wazzu, Boston College, Duke and others.

Great pick up. Two good ones in two days.

Nice! #OnToTheNextOne

Speaking of MattyD, here's an interview with him and Daniel Berk: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S0oIyWxxNXE

prh wrote:I didn't want to believe Chief when he warned about the RB situation but can't avoid it now. It helps to hear him talk about all the ways we'll use Davonte though (in the other thread).

I have a good percentage of Cherokee in me and I try to send smoke signals toward y'all when I can. Sometimes it's not widely accepted but usually with time the pill becomes a little easier to swallow with the honey and sage mix.

all i want is to find one of the 3 backs that can just start and give us a good 15 carries for 60 yards in a game, plus any other carries given to neal/other rbs/qb.

Merkin wrote:

TuiTouchdown wrote:http://www.maxpreps.com/news/49SkU5D1R0 ... -salle.htm

Think Mckenzie's high school transfer has any effect on his recruitment?

I really don't follow HS sports, but this is a very important recent chance in CA HS sports:

The most important is that the transfer cannot be "athletically motivated."

It might be easier to prove this, but there is a local kid, who is a Stanford type prospect, who sat out his junior year despite his family moving to a nicer neighborhood.

Problem is that his new high school is pretty good in their own right (though not a DLS level school) and most of the talk is that DLS wouldn't let him take visits during the school year, so he can pick a school to play football at, which would be classified as a athletically motivated. Of course, his dad is pretty powerful in the sports world, so that might help.

MrBug708 wrote:

Merkin wrote:

TuiTouchdown wrote:http://www.maxpreps.com/news/49SkU5D1R0 ... -salle.htm

Think Mckenzie's high school transfer has any effect on his recruitment?

I really don't follow HS sports, but this is a very important recent chance in CA HS sports:

The most important is that the transfer cannot be "athletically motivated."

It might be easier to prove this, but there is a local kid, who is a Stanford type prospect, who sat out his junior year despite his family moving to a nicer neighborhood.

Problem is that his new high school is pretty good in their own right (though not a DLS level school) and most of the talk is that DLS wouldn't let him take visits during the school year, so he can pick a school to play football at, which would be classified as a athletically motivated. Of course, his dad is pretty powerful in the sports world, so that might help.

Bug...this is such a non story. It's a De La Salle coaching problem story which is no big deal. His recruitment won't change and has nothing to do with him personally as a recruit.

I don't think it's a big deal either. I think the most he'd look at is sitting out four games. This isn't a Broadus type move.

Where did you see it would be a big deal?

What is the scholarship count of QBs + RBs?

Darryl Morrison has committed to Arizona.

catinfl wrote:Darryl Morrison has committed to Arizona.

Sam?

Merkin wrote:What is the scholarship count of QBs + RBs?

QBs

Scroggins
Randall
Brewer
Solomon
Dawkins
McGee (if you still want to call him a QB, since he's really a WR now)

RBs

Jared Baker
Terris Jones-Grigsby
Pierre Cormier
Zach Green
Jonathan Haden
Nick Wilson

Adonis Smith could be added to scholarship, but at the moment I don't believe he is.

chiefzona wrote:

prh wrote:I didn't want to believe Chief when he warned about the RB situation but can't avoid it now. It helps to hear him talk about all the ways we'll use Davonte though (in the other thread).

I have a good percentage of Cherokee in me and I try to send smoke signals toward y'all when I can. Sometimes it's not widely accepted but usually with time the pill becomes a little easier to swallow with the honey and sage mix.

I grew fond of your smoke signals. Hence, I have migrated to this board

Switching gears for a moment. Chief - are you estimating Makenzie is 60/40 lean us? Based on no inside information and rudimentary Twitter research, I would almost be willing to bet the farm he is a 'Vol.

boat343 wrote:Switching gears for a moment. Chief - are you estimating Makenzie is 60/40 lean us? Based on no inside information and rudimentary Twitter research, I would almost be willing to bet the farm he is a 'Vol.

In honor of McKenzie's parent's anniversary, the Vols coaches sent him this picture:



Personally, I'd be totally creeped the fuck out.

Chicat wrote:

boat343 wrote:Switching gears for a moment. Chief - are you estimating Makenzie is 60/40 lean us? Based on no inside information and rudimentary Twitter research, I would almost be willing to bet the farm he is a 'Vol.

In honor of McKenzie's parent's anniversary, the Vols coaches sent him this picture:



Personally, I'd be totally creeped the fuck out.

But for a kid demands a lot of attention...

I'm still not too concerned about the RB situation. RichRod has a much higher standard for the skill positions than we're used to seeing here. Think back five years ago - the staff would have been plenty happy with what we've got right now. Whoever gets the starting nod in the backfield has some gigantic shoes to fill.

ASUHATER! wrote:here ya go! keep it going

ASUHATER!,

The first post in the thread is supposed to keep a running list of commits and get edited everytime it changes.

Here's HHM's current list:

Current Commits:

4* Keenan Walker #8 OT
3* Darick Holmes #63 WR
3* Jamie Nunley #26 TE ---- Will play WR.
3* Sammy Morrison NR CB
3* Ricky McCoy NR TE
3* Finton Connolly NR DT
3* Dami Ayoola JC RB
2* Alex Kosinski NR OL
NR Paul Magloire JC DB/SS
NR Kendall Williams JC RB


*This list will be updated every time there is a commit/decommit.

Merkin wrote:

TuiTouchdown wrote:http://www.maxpreps.com/news/49SkU5D1R0 ... -salle.htm

Think Mckenzie's high school transfer has any effect on his recruitment?

I really don't follow HS sports, but this is a very important recent chance in CA HS sports:

The most important is that the transfer cannot be "athletically motivated."

Also hearing they were going to MAKE him play offense and coaches started feeling he was becoming bigger than their storied program

Time to revive this thread. QB is still a need, looks like we're close with Tezino, and we now know why we've been picking up so many JC recruits. Anyone have any thought as to who will be next to verbal to the cats? Is there another realistic QB on the board we're high on who is also high on us?

Haven't learned if its possible to embed tweets here from my cell phone but per twitter dechuan holiday is down to UCLA and USC. That really blows I thought we had shot at him with Devin holiday being a cat. That fantastic 4 recruiting class from San Diego really looking like a bust with the transfer of babiash, the retirement of cormier, and not getting devin's cousin. I got high hopes for alsadek though and hopefully Devin turns into a good one himself.

Horizon QB Dalton Sneed committed to UNLV.

Folesfor10K wrote:Haven't learned if its possible to embed tweets here from my cell phone but per twitter dechuan holiday is down to UCLA and USC. That really blows I thought we had shot at him with Devin holiday being a cat. That fantastic 4 recruiting class from San Diego really looking like a bust with the transfer of babiash, the retirement of cormier, and not getting devin's cousin. I got high hopes for alsadek though and hopefully Devin turns into a good one himself.

I think Babiash is really the only one we can call a bust. A medical retirement is disappointing, but we couldn't have known. Alsadek seems to be coming along nicely and might work his way into the rotation amongst a really experienced group. With Devin, it's still too early to tell.

Daniel Berk
@DSBerk
RB Orlando Bradford has committed to the #ArizonaWildcats. 3-star from Louisiana. Tennessee and Utah also offered.

Bradford is a stud. Great pickup.

jollything wrote:Daniel Berk
@DSBerk
RB Orlando Bradford has committed to the #ArizonaWildcats. 3-star from Louisiana. Tennessee and Utah also offered.

Meh....not impressed with what I've seen.

chiefzona wrote:
Meh....not impressed with what I've seen.

What do you see, Chief? Kid has a decent list of offers.

chiefzona wrote:

jollything wrote:Daniel Berk
@DSBerk
RB Orlando Bradford has committed to the #ArizonaWildcats. 3-star from Louisiana. Tennessee and Utah also offered.

Meh....not impressed with what I've seen.

Too big, fast, quick, agile, and powerful for you?

If he can help keep Shea Patterson committed I don't care if he plays special teams his whole career... Now for the sake of Orlando I hope he excels just saying he can help bring in a top 20 recruit.

Bradford is the best of the three backs in this class.

btfd16 wrote:If he can help keep Shea Patterson committed I don't care if he plays special teams his whole career... Now for the sake of Orlando I hope he excels just saying he can help bring in a top 20 recruit.

Watch his highlights. He is a beast with speed.

http://www.hudl.com/athlete/3141076/hig ... /122502375

Looks good to me. Maybe a bit slow with his cuts, but he knows how to turn on the burners and get to the next level.

TuiTouchdown wrote:Looks good to me. Maybe a bit slow with his cuts, but he knows how to turn on the burners and get to the next level.

FWIW, looks like Bradford ran track 2012. Ran 100m in 10.9 http://www.rodscalvarywebsite.com/conte ... CID=126943

Safety Anthony Mariscal is headed to Arizona

RR stockpiles mediocre RBs like, well like he stockpiles mediocre QBs.

Merkin wrote:RR stockpiles mediocre RBs like, well like he stockpiles mediocre QBs.

How do you know they are mediocre?

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Here's the blurb on Mariscal from the Bakersfield Californian when he was selected to the all-area team:

Anthony Mariscal * Liberty

RB/DB * 6-0, 185 * junior

One of the area's top junior recruits, Mariscal ran for 1,089 yards (7.4 average) and 11 touchdowns against a difficult schedule. When a shoulder injury sequestered him to defense only in the Patriots' D-I quarterfinal against Clovis, the Liberty's offense struggled while he returned an interception for a touchdown on defense.

Merkin wrote:RR stockpiles mediocre RBs like, well like he stockpiles mediocre QBs.

RR stockspiles all sorts of offensive talent - look at the WR's. Having lots of numbers in the offensive skill positions must be one of RR's happy places.

Wow, well I said a while back on the rivals board that if we can get signed loi's from walker, mckenzie, and tezino I'd b happy if there rest of the class was filled with unheralded okg's...looks like we're halfway there!

Barnett going to Bama makes things interesting again on the QB landscape in the west

Who's our next QB target?