Written by Ryan Wright A July 13 decision date that was pushed back three days turned out to be a great thing for Louisville when Georgia quarterback Jawon Pass verbally committed to the Cardinals. The Carver High School star has tremendous upside listed at 6’5”, 220 pounds, with great speed, clocked a 4.5 forty-yard dash. Pass gained recruiting attention as […]
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Written by Charlie Beuttel Calvary Baptist Academy in Shreveport, Louisiana won back to back Division-III Louisiana State Championships in 2013 and 2014 and was in the midst of preparing to defend their state championships when a program shifting announcement was made. A run at a third straight title is insight however the task will happen without starting quarterback Shea Patterson […]
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Written by Ryan Wright When California high school coaches start planning their offensive schemes for the 2015 season one La Mirada player they must take into consideration is Micah Croom. Croom is a 6’3”, 195 pound, beast at safety that can knock a running back’s block off just as easy as swatting away a perfect pass that would normally fit […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Being a fan of football it is hard not to be impressed with Cartersville High School tight end Miller Forristall. He is an athlete in every sense of the word and the adjective natural can very easily be thrown his way when summing up his high school career to date. The Hurricanes had an exceptional season […]
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Written by Ryan Wright The LSU defense suffered another setback on Wednesday with the announcement that Travonte Valentine was transferring to Arizona Western C.C. Valentine was as prized as a recruit in the nation coming out of Champagnat Catholic High School. The 4-star recruit was in the neighborhood of 30 scholarship offers picking LSU over the likes of Alabama, Clemson, […]
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Written by Ryan Wright The sports world is full of descriptive terms to help convey, setup, or describe a game, a play, or even a player. When talking about Punahou High School punter/kicker Jet Toner, who has one of the coolest names in the 2016 recruiting class, many words come to the forefront like talented, laidback, and modest. When speaking […]
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Written by Ryan Wright On June 1, Tren’Davian Dickson broke a lot of hearts narrowing his expansive list of scholarship offers down to just six. For a month and a half Alabama, Baylor, Oklahoma State, Texas A&M, USC, and Texas toyed with the thought of what Dickson would mean to their 2016 recruiting class. On Tuesday Dickson decided to stay […]
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Written by Ryan Wright The 2015 football season should see a return of a great many positive things for the Arkansas Razorbacks on the football field. The team is stocked full of SEC quality returning talent and the two-deep is as talented as the 10-win 2010 team and the 11-win 2011 squad. If the ball bounces favorably for the Hogs, […]
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Written by Ryan Wright On Monday night a shockwave was sent across the state of Arkansas, an event in retrospect many should have seen coming. While on an unofficial visit to Boise State Little Rock Christian running back Damarea Crockett verbally committed to the Broncos leaving many high school and college football fans in Arkansas full of more questions than […]
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Written by Charlie Beuttel On July 13, quarterback Shea Patterson announced via his Twitter account that he was transferring from Calvary Baptist Academy in Shreveport, Louisiana and will be attending the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida. The 5-star pro style quarterback wrote the following on Twitter, “I want to thank my teachers, coaches, classmates and friends at Calvary for an […]
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Written by Charlie Beuttel Green Oaks High School in Shreveport, Louisiana has struggled to win games over the past two years. They have finished 3-7 in each of the past two seasons. In 2014, the Giants record could have been completely different as they suffered quite a few close losses. They lost four games by 10 points or less including […]
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Written by Ryan Wright The SEC Media Days kicked off on Monday in Hoover, Alabama starting a week full of sales pitches from each head football coach to the masses along with three players representing each squad reassuring how great their team will be in 2015. In a rare turn of events a SEC coach showed humility coupled with honesty […]
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Written by Ryan Wright A curious thing happened to the Arkansas Razorbacks on Monday night, a prized in-state national recruit slipped away when Little Rock Christian running back Damarea Crockett verbally committed to Boise State. Crockett, 5’11”, 205 pounds, is a rising star in the 2016 recruiting class after rushing for 1,250 yards with 19 touchdowns on 144 carries in […]
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Written by Ryan Wright News broke on Monday that 5-star offensive tackle Gregory Little had officially decommitted from Texas A&M. If the Aggies fan base did not have a reason to hate SEC West foe Alabama, a new rallying cry may have emerged. Little, 6’6”, 315 pounds, committed to Texas A&M before his junior season and had remained somewhat of […]
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Written by Ryan Wright The preseason Jim Thorpe Award watch list was released on Monday outlining the thought best of the best defensive backs in the nation. While no preseason watch list is perfect, one message has been sent to the rest of the Power 5 conferences in college football by the Pac-12 – your defensive backs are not better […]
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Written by Charlie Beuttel C.E. Byrd High School in Shreveport, Louisiana has won 24 football games in the past two years. Last year the Yellow Jackets finished the regular season 11-0 earning the No. 1 seed in the Louisiana 5A playoffs. Unfortunately Byrd’s run was halted as they were upset in the quarterfinals by West Monroe and the year finished […]
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Written by Ryan Wright An interesting recruiting shockwave went through the college football world on Sunday when Cal went into the University of Texas’ backyard on Sunday landing hybrid defensive lineman Tevin Paul. Paul, listed at 6’4”, 265 pounds, seems to fit the mold head coach Sonny Dykes is going for with defensive lineman going forward. The Austin area talent […]
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Written by Ryan Wright A small town located between Monroe, Louisiana and the southern Arkansas border has a living tourist attraction running up and down the sidelines every Friday night. Throughout the past two high school football seasons fans have come to see the attraction bobbing and weaving, hustling and grinding, and out working others on his way to local […]
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Written by Ryan Wright The 20th annual Manning Passing Academy kicked off this weekend at Nicholls State University with an estimated 1,200 campers attending ranging in experience from 12th to 8th grade. Of the 1,200 attending 900 are quarterbacks. Beyond the usual cast of Manning family members on hand, patriarch Archie along with sons Peyton (Denver Broncos), Eli (New York […]
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Written by Ryan Wright The Utes coaching staff pulled off a recruiting coup of sorts on Saturday landing St. Thomas Aquinas running back Devontae Henry-Cole. Henry-Cole (5’9”, 190) plays for national football powerhouse St. Thomas Aquinas (Fort Lauderdale, Florida). In 2014 the Raiders steamrolled through the season posting a 15-1 mark that included a Florida state championship only losing to […]
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Written by Ryan Wright The preseason Bronko Nagurski Trophy watch list was released on Friday naming a ridiculous 88 players as potential candidates. Among the 88 players compiled as potential candidates to win the award given to the best defender in college football was 2014 award winner Scooby Wright. Wright took college football by storm in 2014 coming up with […]
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Written by Ryan Wright The 70th annual presentation of the Outland Trophy award appears to be a wide open race in 2015. Of the 81 players added to the preseason watch list only Baylor offensive tackle Spencer Drango made it as a semifinalists for the 2014 award before losing to Iowa’s Brandon Scherff. The watch list includes 15 SEC players, […]
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Written by Ryan Wright The future is bright on the gridiron at North Little Rock High School, especially for one player, Tobias Enlow. The Charging Wildcats have new head coach Jamie Mitchell bringing in an up-tempo spread attack that is sure to highlight the passing game giving Enlow an opportunity to have a breakout senior season. All of the signs […]
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Written by Ryan Wright When some high recruits trim their list of top teams down and make a spectacle of it, the act seems ridiculous. When a player like Devin White narrows down his list from over 40 offers down to 10 it makes sense. Friday night, via Twitter, the Louisiana running back/linebacker did just that trimming his top teams […]
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Written by Ryan Wright The culture built around the Florida State program by head coach Jimbo Fisher is in serious question after a second Seminoles player was arrested in as many weeks after both players punched women at a bar. The newest allegation is against true sophomore running back Dalvin Cook. Per reports, on Tuesday, June 23, Cook and other […]
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Written by Charlie Beuttel St. Thomas Aquinas did not know what to expect going into the 2014 season. The Saints had suffered through a 3-7 season in 2013 and just hired Coach Randy Dreiling as their new head coach. Coach Dreiling came in and led the team to an 8-4 record and a trip to the Kansas 5A State Championship […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Oregon’s recruiting efforts towards the 2016 class has been slow and methodical yielding great returns. On Thursday the Ducks won the day landing in-state linebacker/defensive end LaMar Winston and cornerback Jared Mayden. Mayden is one of the more highly recruited players in the nation with 45 reported offers. The 6’0”, 190 pound, Texan had teams like […]
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Written by Ryan Wright The recruiting riches just got richer for the USC Trojans on Thursday when they landed 4-star safety C.J. Pollard while attending The Opening. Twelve teams in all offered the 6’1”, 180 pound, safety but the only perceived team in the mix all along was USC. Arizona State, Wisconsin, Utah, Oregon State, Oregon, Boston College, Duke, Illinois, […]
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Written by Ryan Wright If you consider yourself a college football fan but are unaware of the name Tuiasosopo you are one of two things, either not a true football fan or suffer from a horrible case of east coast bias. West coast schools like USC, UCLA, Arizona, Utah, and Washington have had their share of the athletic Tuiasosopo bloodline, […]
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Written by Ryan Wright True diehard college football fans have to love what the SEC is rolling out in 2015. The parity in the league is at an all-time high with as many as three teams that could win the SEC East and as many as four in the West. All of the buildup before the season kicks off starts […]
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