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Re: Football Recruiting
« Reply #30 on: December 19, 2018, 10:30:40 AM »
a LB, 2 DBs and a long snapper?
-0- OL?
-0- DL?
LB has really good speed and looks and at 6-2 can get weight up to play LB.
Looks like the class of a pretty paltry group.  ( don't recall every signing a long snapper?)


He may be a half scholly or a walk-on. You can get creative in FCS.

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Re: Football Recruiting
« Reply #31 on: December 19, 2018, 10:30:51 AM »
Thrift ended up at WVU.

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« Reply #32 on: December 19, 2018, 10:46:55 AM »
a LB, 2 DBs and a long snapper?
-0- OL?
-0- DL?
LB has really good speed and looks and at 6-2 can get weight up to play LB.
Looks like the class of a pretty paltry group.  ( don't recall every signing a long snapper?)


He may be a half scholly or a walk-on. You can get creative in FCS.
Yes, I get the scholarship thing at FCS, and yes, we did just lose a very good long snapper:
Youngstown State senior long snapper Steven Wethli was named a second-team All-American for his performance during the 2018 season, STATS FCS announced on Tuesday.

Wethli is the first Penguin long snapper to earn All-America honors in school history. He earned first-team All-MVFC honors in 2018 as well, becoming the first YSU long snapper to be a first-team all-conference selection. He was a two-time All-MVFC honoree, earning honorable-mention honors in 2017

But on early recruiting day you list a LS?  C'mon man, aren't we serious about this any more?  A LS?!?!?!?  NO OL, NO DL, just a LB, 2 safeties and a LS?  C'mon Man!
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Re: Football Recruiting
« Reply #33 on: December 19, 2018, 10:54:34 AM »
a LB, 2 DBs and a long snapper?
-0- OL?
-0- DL?
LB has really good speed and looks and at 6-2 can get weight up to play LB.
Looks like the class of a pretty paltry group.  ( don't recall every signing a long snapper?)


He may be a half scholly or a walk-on. You can get creative in FCS.
Yes, I get the scholarship thing at FCS, and yes, we did just lose a very good long snapper:
Youngstown State senior long snapper Steven Wethli was named a second-team All-American for his performance during the 2018 season, STATS FCS announced on Tuesday.

Wethli is the first Penguin long snapper to earn All-America honors in school history. He earned first-team All-MVFC honors in 2018 as well, becoming the first YSU long snapper to be a first-team all-conference selection. He was a two-time All-MVFC honoree, earning honorable-mention honors in 2017

But on early recruiting day you list a LS?  C'mon man, aren't we serious about this any more?  A LS?!?!?!?  NO OL, NO DL, just a LB, 2 safeties and a LS?  C'mon Man!


It's not even 11am on early signing day. Relax lol.

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Re: Football Recruiting
« Reply #34 on: December 19, 2018, 11:27:14 AM »
a LB, 2 DBs and a long snapper?
-0- OL?
-0- DL?
LB has really good speed and looks and at 6-2 can get weight up to play LB.
Looks like the class of a pretty paltry group.  ( don't recall every signing a long snapper?)
Mark Waid made it official, but I have it on good authority that he is a lousy blocker & tackler!


He may be a half scholly or a walk-on. You can get creative in FCS.
Yes, I get the scholarship thing at FCS, and yes, we did just lose a very good long snapper:
Youngstown State senior long snapper Steven Wethli was named a second-team All-American for his performance during the 2018 season, STATS FCS announced on Tuesday.

Wethli is the first Penguin long snapper to earn All-America honors in school history. He earned first-team All-MVFC honors in 2018 as well, becoming the first YSU long snapper to be a first-team all-conference selection. He was a two-time All-MVFC honoree, earning honorable-mention honors in 2017

But on early recruiting day you list a LS?  C'mon man, aren't we serious about this any more?  A LS?!?!?!?  NO OL, NO DL, just a LB, 2 safeties and a LS?  C'mon Man!


It's not even 11am on early signing day. Relax lol.
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Re: Football Recruiting
« Reply #35 on: December 19, 2018, 11:39:14 AM »
Another 2 from the ysu website:
Including the QB
Mark Waid

6-3 | 215 | Quarterback
Girard, Ohio
Girard High School

High School: Winner of the 2018 James A. Rhodes Award presented by the Touchdown Club of Columbus to the Ohio High School Football Player of the Year...finished fourth in Ohio history with 11,658 yards passing for his career...trailed only Maty Mauk (Kenton), Ben Mauk (Kenton) and Parker Carmichael (Wooster Triway) in career passing yardage...threw 117 touchdown passes in his career ranking ninth in state history...as a senior, was a first-team All-Ohio Division IV selection...named the Trumbull County Player of the Year... named the WKBN Big 22 Ohio Player of the Year...named the All American Conference Blue Tier Player of the Year...was a first-team Division IV Northeast Inland District selection...passed for 4,376 yards and 48 touchdowns completing 267-of-409 passes in 15 games...had eight 300-yard passing efforts...had four-or-more passing TDs seven times and had three in four other games...also rushed for 1,776 yards and 26 touchdowns...rushed for more than 100 yards on eight occasions...finished second in the country in total offense (6,152 yards) behind Landry Gilpin of Mission, Texas (6,656)...was 11th in passing yardage...in five playoff games, racked up 2,279 total offensive yards while accounting for 24 touchdowns...helped lead Girard to the Class 4A State Championship in 2018, the first state title game appearance in school history...Indians dropped a 42-14 contest in the state final to Cincinnati Wyoming to finish the season 13-2...in a come-from-behind 53-48 win over Licking Valley, put up 414 passing yards (31-of-45), 162 rushing yards and produced seven touchdowns... rushed for 337 yards and four touchdowns on 27 carries against Hubbard in the quarterfinals...as a junior, completed 214-of-343 passes for 3,506 yards and 37 touchdowns in 12 games...named the WKBN Big 22 Ohio Player of the Year...had a season-best six touchdown passes against Newton Falls...rushed for 1,129 yards on 153 carries and scored 19 touchdowns...had seven 100-yard rushing games...as a sophomore, completed 139-of-151 passes for 2,624 yards and 22 touchdowns in 10 games...rushed for 725 yards on 214 carries and scored 16 touchdowns...as a freshman, completed 95-of-190 passes for 1,152 yards and 10 touchdowns...rushed for 394 yards on 119 attempts and had four scores...threw a touchdown pass in each of his last 31 games...coach was Pat Pearson.

Jordan White

Jordan White

6-2 | 185 | Defensive Back
Havre de Grace, Md.
Havre de Grace High School

High School: Played free safety and wide receiver...named second-team Upper Chesapeake Bay Athletic Conference - Chesapeake Division...Warriors reached the MPSSAA Class 1A football semifinals in 2018...Havre de Grace finished with a 10-3 record...coach was Brian Eberhardt...also plays basketball.

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Re: Football Recruiting
« Reply #36 on: December 19, 2018, 12:03:00 PM »
Waid could be biggest signing in quite a while.
Thoughts?
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Re: Football Recruiting
« Reply #37 on: December 19, 2018, 12:12:12 PM »
Waid could be biggest signing in quite a while.
Thoughts?
Let us hope he is the QB for us (like Mayfield for the Browns).
Does anyone know if he has any IA offers? If not, why not (with his numbers)?

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Re: Football Recruiting
« Reply #38 on: December 19, 2018, 12:16:48 PM »
Class already "wreaks" of Bo. No meat and potatoes. We are now 3 & 4 deep in some areas and have nothing in others. Where are the JUCO's, they always sign early. Let's just look at our team:

Why a long-snapper, when we lose Vitas at Center?

At corner we lose Lee and Latham. I like them both, but we 8 (yes 8) underclassmen

At DB, no one graduates and we have 3 of 4 red-shirted (or played as a frosh).

At DE we do lose Williams, Reed Sims and Lauigene, but we do have seven (yes 7) returning, We had 12 DE's on the roster at one point. What the heck?

 At Free safety, we do lose Larkin, still have 2.

We have 12 LB's right now, losing Dellovade. Gee can we find 2 in the remaining 11 players?

I realize the game is changing, but when was the last time we recruited someone at center on the D? You cannot always blitz from the ends and teams with 2 backs just kill us.

We lose 3 guards and 2 tackles on the OL. This leaves 12. Of those 12, 6 of them will be seniors (with only 2 of those guys having ever seen a start).

We currently have 5 QB's returning. Mays will be the only senior. Seems like we must be dumping the remaining 3 of coach Shane's guys or our current staff simply cannot recruit this position?

Kudos to McCaster for adding some explosiveness to his game this year, but we need more and he was the starter. I know we are heavy on TB's in the roster, we should have been able to red-shirt Rushton and Smith.

WR's? We can lose half of what we have (17) and still have too many. Let's just see some play.
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Re: Football Recruiting
« Reply #39 on: December 19, 2018, 12:32:30 PM »
Waid could be biggest signing in quite a while.
Thoughts?
Let us hope he is the QB for us (like Mayfield for the Browns).
Does anyone know if he has any IA offers? If not, why not (with his numbers)?
He's 6-2 so he's no "Baker the Touchdown Maker"!  I see offers from Fordham where he committed and decommitted, Cornell, Dartmouth, Robert Morris.  I wonder if the early commit to Fordham made others shy away?  Also, with Fordham, Cornell and Dartmouth, looks the the kid is no dummy, which is always good!
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« Reply #40 on: December 19, 2018, 02:36:35 PM »
  Waid did not receive any 1A offers, let's be honest, had he, then YSU would not have gotten him. Not even low end MAC.  Let's hope they made a mistake and he becomes a star at the FCS level.  His two biggest offers were YSU and Fordham.

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« Reply #41 on: December 19, 2018, 03:37:54 PM »
a LB, 2 DBs and a long snapper?
-0- OL?
-0- DL?
LB has really good speed and looks and at 6-2 can get weight up to play LB.
Looks like the class of a pretty paltry group.  ( don't recall every signing a long snapper?)


He may be a half scholly or a walk-on. You can get creative in FCS.
Yes, I get the scholarship thing at FCS, and yes, we did just lose a very good long snapper:
Youngstown State senior long snapper Steven Wethli was named a second-team All-American for his performance during the 2018 season, STATS FCS announced on Tuesday.

Wethli is the first Penguin long snapper to earn All-America honors in school history. He earned first-team All-MVFC honors in 2018 as well, becoming the first YSU long snapper to be a first-team all-conference selection. He was a two-time All-MVFC honoree, earning honorable-mention honors in 2017

But on early recruiting day you list a LS?  C'mon man, aren't we serious about this any more?  A LS?!?!?!?  NO OL, NO DL, just a LB, 2 safeties and a LS?  C'mon Man!


It's not even 11am on early signing day. Relax lol.
Chief, you come across as very condescending and dismissive hear, which is not appreciated, so to keep things in prospective, this is what NDSU did today:

North Dakota State football coach Matt Entz announced the addition of 25 student-athletes to the Bison program including four recruited walk-ons Wednesday, Dec. 19, the first day of the three-day early signing period in Division I football.

The recruiting class includes a transfer quarterback from Iowa State and players from high schools in eight states including North Dakota (3), Minnesota (8), Wisconsin (4), Illinois (4), Iowa (2), Florida (1), Kansas (1) and Ohio (1).
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Re: Football Recruiting
« Reply #42 on: December 19, 2018, 10:29:15 PM »
Jordan Velez has committed. 6-4, 315 OG from ASA College.

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« Reply #43 on: December 20, 2018, 02:32:31 PM »
Dayln Brickner, WR from Beaver Falls, PA is signed.

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« Reply #44 on: December 20, 2018, 08:36:20 PM »
He's playing on a baseball scholly.