Written by Ryan Wright Just two games into the 2014 season Centennial High School was a team teetering on the brink of disaster. A tough 28-24 loss to Chandler followed by a 31-21 loss to Basha put the Coyotes in a tough hole to climb out of going forward. A lot of teams would have folded up the tents and […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Football is a game of inches won up front on both the offensive and defensive sides if the ball. In the SEC, where every team can run the ball, a true running stopping defensive tackle is worth said recruit’s weight in gold. On Monday the Commodores got a key verbal commitment when Brandon Adams said he […]
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Written by Ryan Wright The old commercial tag line runs something like “never let them see you sweat.” Regardless of how great other Pac-12 recruiting class are shaping up Standford’s 2016 haul to date has to be making opposing conference coaches sweat. On Sunday the Cardinal added yet another 4-star recruit landing a commitment from wide receiver Simi Fehoko. Fehoko […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Few programs can tout rising up from adversity as well as Arkansas State has been able to do in recent years. The program tucked up in northeast Arkansas, about an hour away from Memphis, has been a consistent winner on the field despite going through an unusual amount of coaching turnover in the past five years, […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Just two games into the 2014 season Centennial High School was a team teetering on the brink of disaster. A tough 28-24 loss to Chandler followed by a 31-21 loss to Basha put the Coyotes in a tough hole to climb out of going forward. A lot of teams would have folded up the tents and […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Just two games into the 2014 season Centennial High School was a team teetering on the brink of disaster. A tough 28-24 loss to Chandler followed by a 31-21 loss to Basha put the Coyotes in a tough hole to climb out of going forward. A lot of teams would have folded up the tents and […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Just two games into the 2014 season Centennial High School was a team teetering on the brink of disaster. A tough 28-24 loss to Chandler followed by a 31-21 loss to Basha put the Coyotes in a tough hole to climb out of going forward. A lot of teams would have folded up the tents and […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Year after year the state of Georgia is absolutely loaded at the high school level with future Division-I talent. In 2015 some of the best players in the nation will come out of the Peach State, guys like Julian Rochester (McEachern HS), Demetris Robertson (Savannah Christian), Nigel Warrior (Peachtree Ridge HS), and Zerrick Cooper (Jonesboro HS). […]
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Written by Ryan Wright On Friday Ole Miss added verbal commitment No. 15 pulling offensive guard Chandler Tuitt away from SEC East foes Georgia and Florida. Tuitt worked his way from being in the 260 pound range as a highly productive junior for Sandy Creek High School to being a growing 6’3”, 294 pound, near college ready lineman heading into […]
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Written by Ryan Wright The SEC released their preseason football teams on Friday placing six Arkansas Razorbacks among the best in the conference. Ole Miss owned the first-team offensive selections with three (TE Evan Engram, OL Laremy Tunsil, and WR Laquon Treadwell) but the Razorbacks owned the second-team All-SEC squad placing four selections on the list; RB Jonathan Williams, TE […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Across the U.S., as high school football programs pickup summer camp that will lead straight into the season and continue all the way through November, or later, a backyard brawl has begun. High school players are putting in the extra hours in the weight room and on the practice field, studying film, and battling their teammates […]
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Written by Charlie Beuttel Tom Killilea has had a great career at St. Thomas Aquinas in Overland Park, Kansas. The 6’6″, 270 pound, offensive lineman is one of the key returning starters to a team that made it all the way to the Kansas 5A State Championship Game in 2014. Killilea and the Saints came up short in the state […]
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Written by Ryan Wright On Thursday there was a fair amount of anticipation in Fayetteville with Coconut Creek safety Alexy Jean-Baptiste coming to town. The Arkansas Razorbacks have 11 verbal commitments to their 2016 recruiting class but Jean-Baptiste was one of the few who committed to the Hogs (June 16) site unseen. Arkansas beat out some heavy competition for the […]
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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 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 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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