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Post by FUBeAR on Dec 17, 2018 10:15:50 GMT -5
Commits (17 ‘known’ to FUBeAR)... for those who care about such things... 3 - 3 Stars 2 - 2 Stars 18 reported FBS offers for 12 of the 17 Commits  = Signed (updated as of 12/19/18 10:19 AM) = 17 - Joel Girtman - DB, 5-11/191, Westlake HS, College Park, GA - 2 Star; offers from Wofford, APSU, ETSU, FAU, Morgan St., Tennessee St. - Pedro Rodriguez - TE, 6-2/225, Lake Mary HS, Lake Mary, FL - offers from FAMU, UTM - John Thomas - OL, 6-3/300, Hillgrove HS, Marietta, GA - 3 Star; offers from AF, APSU, Colorado St., ECU, EKU, Elon, Illinois St., SEMO, SIU - Dylan Fromm - QB, 6-0/204, Warner Robins HS, Warner Robins, GA - 3 Star; offers from UTC, Penn, South Alabama, SEMO - Justin Bray - WR/TE, 6-4/210, St. George’s Independent School, Collierville, TN - 2 Star; offers from GaSou, GaSt, Princeton, UTM - Lance Wise - DB, 5-8/183, Hillgrove HS, Marietta, GA - offers from AF, Army, Columbia, Kent St. - Kendall Bohler - DB, 5-11/170, Ocoee HS, Ocoee, FL - offers from FAMU, Jacksonville, Stetson - Aidan Higgins - OL, 6-1/285, Mountain View HS, Lawrenceville, GA - numerous D2/NAIA offers; older brother was 4-year Starter at Center for Elon (2015-2018); oldest brother played OL at Tulane & TTU - Luke Szabados - LB, 6-2/230, Moeller HS, Cincinnati, OH - offers from JMU, Eastern Mich., Duquesne, Holy Cross - Richie Coffey - WR, 5-10/170, Baldwin HS, Jacksonville, FL - offers from UMass, Alcorn St., Charleston Southern, FAMU, Idaho, New Hampshire, The Citadel - Zach Hopkins - LB, 6-1/215, James Clemens HS, Madison, AL - offers from Jacksonville St., Alabama St., GaSt, EKU, Furman - Fredrick Davis - RB, 5-10/196, Northside HS, Columbus, GA - offers from Army, Navy, Columbia, Dartmouth, Davidson, Jacksonville - Colton Dingmore - OL, 6-4/255, Mary Persons HS, Forsyth, GA - offer from TTU - Brandon Marshall - RB, 5-9/184, Raines HS, Jacksonville, FL - 3 Star; offers from NDSU, Charlotte, NC A&T, Charleston Southern
- Gavin Hughes - LB, 6-3/210, Coosa HS, Rome, GA - Very early Commit; offer from Liberty - Zach Lassiter - QB/LS, 6-1/193, Bleckley County HS, Cochran, GA - Very early Commit as a Long Snapper; offer from GaSou - Pat Rogers - DL, 6-2/290, Wayne County HS, Jesup, GA - * ADDED* - Former Commit to The Citadel |
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Post by FUBeAR on Dec 18, 2018 9:05:01 GMT -5
Bump - 2 adds to list
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Post by FUBeAR on Dec 19, 2018 7:58:51 GMT -5
Bump for updated signings
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Post by MUfan on Dec 19, 2018 9:12:12 GMT -5
Hopefully we'll get tired of hearing Rick Cameron say "Fromm is Dealing(Dylan) today!"
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Post by MUfan on Dec 19, 2018 11:19:54 GMT -5
How did they get Szabados out of Ohio ?
Seems so odd. Not complaining just curious.
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Post by FUBeAR on Dec 19, 2018 17:15:35 GMT -5
How did they get Szabados out of Ohio ? Seems so odd. Not complaining just curious. Promised him an additional vowel, maybe. Wofford has had excellent success over the years Recruiting OH & KY & Furman had success Recruiting the Cincy area. It’s fertile ground. Don’t know who recruited Mr. Szabados, but I love his size, Moeller has always been a hotbed of talent, and his vid looks solid as well. If he has enough range to play OLB, I could see him contributing early. |
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Post by FUBeAR on Dec 21, 2018 9:06:40 GMT -5
Mercer was one of the FCS leaders, #8 nationally, and #2 in the SoCon in number of early signees. I think that’s a good thing. From Hero Sports FCS: Early Signing Day Leaders By SchoolTHE EARLY LIST (11 P.M. ET UPDATE - DEC 19 - FINAL) This is a list of signees. Our real FCS recruiting rankings will be in Feb. during the standard signing day. Stay tuned! (NOTE: Only Mercer was listed in Hero Sports List. FUBeAR added the other SoCon Teams) FCS SCHOOL CONF. SIGNEES TOP RANKED GUYNorth Dakota State MVFC 25 LB Luke Weerts (3-star HS) UT Martin OVC 23 DB Rush Lansdell (3-star HS) Montana Big Sky 20 CB Corbin Walker (3-star HS) Morgan State MEAC 19 OL Allen Jones (2-star HS) Kennesaw St. Big South 19 OL Antwann Fann (3-star HS) Wofford SoCon 18
Monmouth Big South 18 TE Sean Fleming (8 D-I offers) Indiana State MVFC 17 QB Ethan Hoover (3-star HS) Mercer SoCon 17 OL John Thomas ( 3- star HS)Montana State Big Sky 16 WR Jaden Smith (3-star HS) South Dakota State MVFC 15 DT Jarod DePriest (3-star HS) The Citadel SoCon 14
Eastern Kentucky OVC 13 WR Matt Wilcox (3-star JUCO) Colgate Patriot 13 QB Drew Berggren (3-star HS) Tennessee Tech OVC 13 WR Justin Oden (3-star HS) Delaware CAA 13 TE Will Bowen (4 FBS offers) South Dakota MVFC 13 DL Jontrell Oliver (2-star HS) UC Davis Big Sky 11 QB Trent Thompkins (3-star HS) Illinois State MVFC 11 DB Dallas Culpepper (3-star HS) Bucknell Patriot 11 DB Justin Murray (2-star HS) Lehigh Patriot 11 LB Stephon Bland Elon CAA 11 DB Omar Rogers (3-star HS) Austin Peay OVC 11 RB Lelan Wilhoite (3-star HS) Samford SoCon 10
North Alabama Big South 10 RB Jaxton Carson (2-star JUCO) Furman SoCon 9
New Hampshire CAA 9 WR Griffin Helm (3-star HS) Portland State Big Sky 9 CB Davion Gaines (3-star HS) Southern Illinois MVFC 9 RB Romeir Elliott (2-star HS) James Madison CAA 8 RB C.J. Jackson (3-star HS) Eastern Washington Big Sky 8 DT Soli Paleso'o (3-star HS) McNeese Southland 7 LB Jake LeFleur (2-star HS) Cal Poly Big Sky 6 OL Payson Campisano (2-star HS) Central Arkansas Southland 6 DE D.J. Reed (2-star JUCO) ETSU SoCon 5
Northern Arizona Big Sky 5 QB Dawson McPeak (3-star HS) WCU SoCon 4
Maine CAA 4 WR Clark Barnes (No. 5 prospect Canada) Nicholls Southland 4 LB Derrick Munson (Arkansas transfer) VMI SoCon 3
Eastern Illinois OVC 3 DE/LB Grant Edwards (2-star HS) Southern Utah Big Sky 3 OL Walter Harris (2-star JUCO) Stephen F. Austin Southland 2 OL Caiden Walker (3-star HS) Campbell Big South 2 QB Brock Domann (JUCO) Chattanooga SoCon 1 |
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Post by FUBeAR on Dec 21, 2018 17:03:18 GMT -5
Bump for signing of Justin Bray
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Post by jackal on Dec 22, 2018 0:09:21 GMT -5
How did they get Szabados out of Ohio ? Seems so odd. Not complaining just curious. Promised him an additional vowel, maybe. Wofford has had excellent success over the years Recruiting OH & KY & Furman had success Recruiting the Cincy area. It’s fertile ground. Don’t know who recruited Mr. Szabados, but I love his size, Moeller has always been a hotbed of talent, and his vid looks solid as well. If he has enough range to play OLB, I could see him contributing early. Furman had an offensive line commit from the same high school in Ohio a couple of years ago. Good looking player. Of course, he never played and eventually quit the team, but still looked like a good player. |
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Post by FUBeAR on Dec 22, 2018 4:12:26 GMT -5
Promised him an additional vowel, maybe. Wofford has had excellent success over the years Recruiting OH & KY & Furman had success Recruiting the Cincy area. It’s fertile ground. Don’t know who recruited Mr. Szabados, but I love his size, Moeller has always been a hotbed of talent, and his vid looks solid as well. If he has enough range to play OLB, I could see him contributing early. Furman had an offensive line commit from the same high school in Ohio a couple of years ago. Good looking player. Of course, he never played and eventually quit the team, but still looked like a good player. To be more precise & correct Jackal’s lame attempt to besmirch, by association, an outstanding young prospect only because he signed with Mercer; that Furman Player was recruited by the prior staff for their Offense in 2015. Redshirted his Freshman year, as most OLmen do & was on Furman’s 2-deep OLine as a R-FR in 2016. So, “never played” is probably inaccurate & more accurately expressed as, “made the Offensive Line 2 deep while only a Freshman.” “ Fellow freshmen Chris Breedlove (left guard), Cody Wyatt (center), “Moeller Player“ (right guard) and Andy Godwin (right tackle) are listed in No. 2 positions along the offensive line depth chart.”
Quit the Furman Team in spring of 2017 as new Coaching Staff installed a very different Offensive scheme, as did at least 1 other OLman, who transferred & was a full-time starter for a CAA Team in 2018. |
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Post by FUBeAR on Feb 10, 2019 20:17:27 GMT -5
Well...I (and all of the other Mercer Football Fans who read this board, but don't post...and the ones who should be reading this board and posting here) have been slack about posting anything about Mercer's Football Recruiting Class of 2019...since the Early Signing period...and I shouldn't have been. This class, in FUBeAR's opinion, is truly Mercer's Best Overall Recruiting Class since 2012 - the 1st of 2 classes recruited without Athletic Scholarships. Yeah, I'm biased toward those "Day1's" and that probably sounds stupid to a lot of "Recruiting Peeps" and to, well, most everybody...but if you think about it, the Bears brought in 108 (by my count) Players that year and if you include the size of their hearts and their leadership qualities along with their unbelievable (and unexpected) talent level, I'm sorry....but unless they shelve the Program and restart it again someday, no single Recruiting Class of 15-25 or so Players will ever top the one of 2012. Sorry for my digression...Now, Back to the Future...literally.... So, the December signees are already listed in this thread. Here are the 5 added in the February signing period... - Richard Benton Jr. - DL, 6-2/243, B.E.S.T Academy, Atlanta, Ga. - 3 Star; over 30 offers; 17 FBS, including 1 P5/ACC offer; rated as #1 SoCon Recruit by HeroSports (see next post) - Devin Folser - K, 6-2/170, Ola HS, McDonough, Ga. - Offers from Kennesaw & JaxSt; Kohl's Kicking ranks him 4.5 Stars & #52 in US. 12 Kickers that were ranked below him by Kohl's signed with FBS Teams (signed...NOT walk-ons or PWO's, signed). His school-record 51 yard FG in 2018 appears as if it would have been good from 70+ yards. It's still OVER the top of the uprights when it crosses past the crossbar!! - Chris Hill - DL, 6-2/260, Statesboro HS, Statesboro, Ga. - Offers from The Citadel, Savannah State, & Stetson - Yahsyn McKee - WR, 5-10/172, Stockbridge HS, Stockbridge, Ga. - Offers from Hawaii (yes, that Hawaii), ETSU, and Charleston Southern. Though not 'reported,' non-Mercer 'inside sources' tell me he was also offered and highly coveted by at least one Sun Belt Team (FBS G5), which shall remain nameless - Solomon Zubairu - DL, 6-1/240, Archer HS, Lawrenceville, Ga. - Offer from Stetson In addition to the really, really good things FUBeAR saw in the vids of many of the December signees, he was VERY impressed with Benton's, Folser's, and McKee's vids. Don't be surprised to see each of them contributing to Mercer's Football success in 2019. Hill and Zubairu both may be those "classic" 'under-the-radar' 'tweeners' (size-wise). Both play with 'motors' reminiscent of former Mercer DL Great, Tunde Ayinla; and appear to be ox-strong & agile. Hill even played LB @ 260...in HS! May take a redshirt year for them to 'find themselves' and grow into their roles...or they could also (pleasantly) surprise FUBeAR and contribute in 2019. BTW - The Recruiting "Experts" also think a lot of Mercer's Recruiting Class...see next post... |
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Post by FUBeAR on Feb 10, 2019 21:52:15 GMT -5
247 Sports Composite 2019 FCS Recruiting Class Rankings - Top Ten & SoCon | Team | FCS Rank | SoCon Rank | Total #Listed Commits | # of 3-stars | Avg Rating | Points | | Portland State | 1 | - | 24 | 10 | 79.36 | 131.56 | | Harvard | 2 | - | 14 | 10 | 81.06 | 121.09 | | Yale | 3 | - | 15 | 9 | 80.18 | 115.75 | | Stephen F. Austin | 4 | - | 13 | 9 | 80.74 | 113.59 | Princeton
| 5 | - | 13 | 9 | 80.82 | 113.55 | | Central Arkansas | 6 | - | 16 | 5 | 78.44 | 99.46 | | Idaho | 7 | - | 15 | 4 | 78.60 | 97.31 | | Eastern Washington | 8 | - | 14 | 4 | 78.70 | 94.76 | | Mercer | 9 | 1 | 13 | 5 | 78.81 | 92.53 | UC Davis
| 10 | - | 10 | 6 | 80.29 | 90.42 | | Western Carolina | 20 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 81.42 | 65.38 | | Chattanooga | 38 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 78.88 | 34.93 | | Furman | 40 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 78.85 | 34.69 | | Wofford | 50 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 76.32 | 30.95 | | Samford | 69 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 79.48 | 18.90 | | East Tennessee State | 72 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 78.72 | 17.39 | | The Citadel | 73 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 78.71 | 17.36 | | VMI | n/a | 9 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Also...Southern Pigskin concurs with 247 Sports' ranking of Mercer as landing the Top SoCon Recruiting Class (but did a better job of assessing Furman's class )... 2019 SoCon Recruiting Class RankingsBy Southern Pigskin Staff SouthernPigskin.com Southern Pigskin's official ranking of the 2019 SoCon recruiting classes. 1. Mercer 2. Furman 3. Samford 4. Western Carolina 5. Chattanooga 6. Wofford 7. ETSU 8. The Citadel 9. VMI Hero Sports is releasing their National Rankings & "Final" Rankings tomorrow, but they already published a list of their Top SoCon Recruits (signed or committed as of 1/31). They seem to like Mercer's 'haul.' FCS RECRUITING: Southern Conference Rankings These FCS signees/commitments are locked in to the Southern Conference, and now we get to see which of them were the most coveted.| Rank | SoCon School | Pos. | Name | Hometown | Other D-I Options | | 1 | Mercer | DL | Richard Benton | Atlanta, GA | 17 FBS offers, 34 total offers | | 9 | Mercer | OL | John Thomas | Marietta, GA | 3 FBS, 10 total | | 17 | Mercer | QB | Dylan Fromm | Warner Robins, GA | South Alabama, Penn, SEMO, Chatt. | | 24* | Mercer | DB | Joel Girtman | Atlanta, GA | Wofford decommit, FAU, 4 total offers | | 26 | Mercer | RB | Brandon Marshall | Jacksonville, FL | Charlotte, NDSU, 7 offers | | 29 | Mercer | DB | Lance Wise | Powder Springs, GA | 3 FBS, 5 total | | 30 | Mercer | WR | Richie Coffey | Jacksonville, FL | Umass, 4 total offers |
* Listed as "25," but in row ahead of "24"...treating it as a typo, rather than getting a whole row 'wrong' 30 "Top Recruits" listed - # by school Mercer - 7 Furman - 6 Chattanooga - 4 Samford 4 WCU - 4 ETSU - 2 Wofford - 2 The Citadel - 1 VMI - 0 |
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Post by wcugrad95 on Feb 11, 2019 13:09:43 GMT -5
I think some of these have recently been "recalculated" - above shows WCU with 6 commits and we ended up with I think 20. 247 has Mercer as #1 and WCU as #2 in the SoCon, but again that is based on Mercer's 13 and WCU's 6 commits (which is way off). HERO appears to be updated, and they now have WCU as #1 in SoCon (#10 in FCS). They have Furman #16 and Mercer #17, but this is based on incoming Freshman only (transfers are excluded). m.herosports.com/fcs/football-2019-recruiting-top-50-fcs-teams-rankings-ajajHere is just the SoCon rankings: m.herosports.com/fcs/recruiting-2019-football-southern-conference-socon-ajajWCU ended with 3 of the top 6 and 5 of the top 24 signees (and 6 of the top 30). Mercer now only has 3 in the top 30 (#2,#19,and #23 respectfully). |
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Post by FUBeAR on Feb 11, 2019 14:21:07 GMT -5
Welp...HeroSports seems to have changed their tune a bit when they laid out their "Final" Recruiting Rankings...Not quite as bullish on the NewBears as 247 & Southern Pigskin FCS RECRUITING: 2019 Top 50 Team Rankings & THE FCS TOP 10 CLASSESTop 10 and SoCon Teams in Top 50... FCS Rank | SoCon
Rank | Team | # in Class (Non- Top 10 Teams only) | Top 3Recruits
| # in Top 500 (Top 10 Teams) / Top 300
(Non-Top 10 Teams) | | 1 | - | Harvard |
| #3 DL Nate Leskovic, #40 QB Curt Casteel, #50 QB Charlie Dean | 17 | | 2 | - | Villanova |
| #23 DL Jack Stanton, #24 LB Josh Slay, #29 DB Jaaron Hayek | 13 | | 3 | - | Stephen F. Austin |
| #1 DL Carl Williams, #12 DB Myles Brooks, #134 OL Jaret Porterfield | 9 | | 4 | - | North Dakota State |
| #21 LB Luke Weerts, #79 DL Reed Ryan, #147 DB Cameron Smith | 8 | | 5 | - | Northern Iowa |
| #20 LB Cameron Baker, #49 QB Nate Martens, #69 QB Justin Fomby | 7 | | 6 | - | Yale |
| #6 RB Josh McKenzie, #63 DB Ben Montgomery, #196 OL Brandon Babcock | 12 | | 7 | - | Princeton |
| #36 DL Cole Aubrey, #55 WR Jojo Hawkins, #91 TE James Stagg | 12 | | 8 | - | James Madison |
| #22 LB Julio Ayamel, #47 LB Jalen Green, #62 RB C.J. Jackson | 9 | | 9 | - | Delaware |
| #33 WR Jourdan Townsend, #66 DB Daniel Walker, #73 DL Akie Nance
| 8 | | 10 | 1 | Western Carolina |
| #25 DL Christian Harris, #31 RB Syheam McQueen, #52 DB Neil Ilenrey
| 8 | | 16 | 2 | Furman | 16 | #51 OL Evan Jumper, #80 DL Jack Barton, #106 LB Joshua Agbenou
| 7 | | 17 | 3 | Mercer | 22 | #7 DL Richard Benton, #186 OL John Thomas, #230 DB Lance Wise
| 4 | | 23 | 4 | ETSU | 28 | #5 LB Deven Brantley, #110 WR Devontez Walker, #265 QB Tyler Riddell
| 6 | | 30 | 5 | Wofford | 21 | # 113 DL Eric Mizell, #237 WR Calvin Jackson, #242 WR John Harrington
| 3 | | 38 | 6 | Chattanooga | 18 | #153 OL Brock Bethea, #184 DB Kameron Brown, only 2 listed in Top 300
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Post by FUBeAR on Feb 11, 2019 14:35:59 GMT -5
I think some of these have recently been "recalculated" - above shows WCU with 6 commits and we ended up with I think 20. 247 has Mercer as #1 and WCU as #2 in the SoCon, but again that is based on Mercer's 13 and WCU's 6 commits (which is way off). HERO appears to be updated, and they now have WCU as #1 in SoCon (#10 in FCS). They have Furman #16 and Mercer #17, but this is based on incoming Freshman only (transfers are excluded). m.herosports.com/fcs/football-2019-recruiting-top-50-fcs-teams-rankings-ajajHere is just the SoCon rankings: m.herosports.com/fcs/recruiting-2019-football-southern-conference-socon-ajajWCU ended with 3 of the top 6 and 5 of the top 24 signees (and 6 of the top 30). Mercer now only has 3 in the top 30 (#2,#19,and #23 respectfully). Yeah - just updated 95...you are a level-headed, pragmatic guy...you buyin' that a kid from "Down East" NC...turns down 3 FBS P5 SEC/ACC offers from UNC, NC State, and South Carolina - all just about 2 hours from his Hometown (which is just about smackdab in the middle of those 3) to go to FCS/WCU on the far end of the state...more than 2x as far from his Hometown than any of the other 3 FBS offers? |
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