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Serenity now
Maybe, but with a commitment at the AA game in early January, he might not back out down the road.
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HilmerJ;654690; said:
If Schiano were to leave Rutgers, they would fall from his list... But Schiano alone wouldn't get Miami back in the race either...
Don't be extremely concerned with Florida... They are a relative newcomer to the list that has had tOSU and Rutgers on it since the beginning. We have Malcolm Jenkins here and his coach in our corner as well... We'll be tough to beat for AD IMO...
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Success has recruits excited about Rutgers
Thursday, November 9, 2006
By ADAM ZAGORIA
HERALD NEWS
PATERSON -- Markeece Preston was impatient in the Paterson Catholic locker room after his team's decisive win over Glen Rock on Saturday, and he began pestering former Cougars standout Rashawn Ricks with a question, "What's my status, what's my status?"
Ricks, a student-coach with the Rutgers football team, smiled and promised he would try and find out where Preston, a 6-foot-1, 320-pound senior All-State offensive lineman, stood in the increasingly complex recruiting picture of the Scarlet Knights.
Preston has received scholarship offers from Cincinnati, Maryland and Pittsburgh but not Rutgers. Yet like many top football players in the state, he wants to join a winner.
Preston and about 10 of his teammates on a Cougars team that has won 19 straight games will leave practice early today and head down to Piscataway to watch the biggest football game in that program's history.
Rutgers hosts No. 3 Louisville in a battle of Big East unbeatens that will be featured nationally on ESPN and has critical implications not only for the conference and national championship pictures, but also for future Rutgers recruiting classes.
"If they win, expect a lot of commitments, if not that night within the next few days following the victory," said Chris Melvin of EliteRecruits.com, one of the state's top recruiting experts. "This game is huge for Rutgers and it's huge for a lot of the recruits. That's what they're waiting to see: if Rutgers is the real deal. If they pull it out against Louisville, that's going to prove that they are the real deal."
As evidenced by head coach Greg Schiano's appearance in an ESPN studio for halftime of last week's Louisville-West Virginia game, Rutgers has become the full-blown feel-good story of the football season. Much the way the greatest rock bands get to pick and choose their groupies, the Knights can now handpick their recruits from among the cream of the crop.
Recruiting expert John Otterstedt of NJVarsity.com said approximately 50 recruits, including many juniors, turned up for Rutgers' last home game, a victory over UConn on Oct. 29. "They were four deep down one sideline," he said.
Joining Preston at this game will be Al-Ghaffaar Lane, a 6-4, 210-pound defensive end who committed to Rutgers last month; Doug Alston, a 6-3, 215-pound junior defensive end who has drawn comparisons to Lane; and Jarel Lowery, a 6-4, 275-pound junior defensive tackle who is being courted by Notre Dame, Miami, Ohio State, Louisville and Rutgers among others. Alston and Lowery are both ranked among the top 100 juniors in the nation in Tom Lemming's Prep Football Report.
"The kids, like everybody else in the state, have jumped on the bandwagon," Cougars coach Benjie Wimberly said.
Rutgers has already received commitments from seven New Jersey players, including Lane, and 14 total, according to rivals.com. Melvin said he expects the Knights to offer between 18-22 total scholarships this year, depending upon how many players leave the program due to graduation.
Rattling off the names of many of the state's top uncommitted seniors who have reportedly been offered scholarships by the Scarlet Knights, Melvin said he could see players like Evan Rodriquez, Matt Boyer, Mason Robinson, Thomas Weaver, Randy Martinez and Alex Silvestro "making a decision early based on a Rutgers' win."
"I know a few other kids who are waiting for offers from Rutgers, all of whom will commit on the spot," Melvin added.
Melvin said he regularly speaks with Anthony Davis, a 6-5, 340-pound offensive lineman from Piscataway ranked the country's No. 3 offensive tackle by rivals.com. Melvin has listened and watched as Rutgers has steadily moved up on Davis's list while other traditional powerhouses, like Miami, moved down.
"They're becoming a serious program and I don't look at is a joke anymore," Davis said in a phone interview. "A couple of years ago they wouldn't have been on my list but now it's like they're my second school. It's like Ohio State and Rutgers."
Still, Davis has said he will make his announcement at the Army All-American Bowl in San Antonio in January, and Otterstedt said Schiano and company will wait for him "down to the bitter end."
Running back Antwain Easterling of Miami Northwestern and offensive tackle John Elliott of Fresh Meadows, N.Y., are two of the top recruits nationally and both have Rutgers listed among their top three. Melvin added that Lansford Watson, New York's top receiver, had made a verbal commitment to Maryland, but told Melvin he may open up his recruiting and is considering Rutgers and Syracuse.
Lemming, host of CSTV's "Generation Next," said landing players like Davis will be critical if Rutgers wants to remain in the national rankings year in and year out.
"They could really a make statement with a guy like Anthony Davis, who's a local kid and guy who everybody in the country wants, from USC to Ohio State to Miami," he said. "That would make a big statement to say that Rutgers is here to stay."
While Otterstedt is not as convinced that a Rutgers victory tonight would yield immediate commitments, he does agree that the Scarlet Knights' success this season -- ranked No. 13 in the BCS standings and headed to a second straight bowl game -- has allowed Rutgers to be much more choosy in terms of who it recruits.
"The other night I was sketching out a list of 22 New Jersey kids who probably would have had Rutgers' offers (in years past) who don't this year, which is unbelievable because there are still scholarship offers to give," Otterstedt said. "The number of kids who still have a reasonable shot of getting a Rutgers offer or still having their Rutgers offer on the table is very small now."
Otterstedt said Rutgers has been afforded the luxury of backing off certain kids because it is stocked at certain positions, or is recruiting better players at others.
Kennedy quarterback Chris Johnson, for example, was extended a scholarship offer after his junior season, but because the Knights have six quarterbacks on the roster, Johnson was no longer a priority. He recently committed to Buffalo, where he believes he stands a better shot of playing soon.
Lakeland offensive lineman Craig Parmenter has attended every Rutgers home game this season and is on record saying the Knights are his No. 1 choice. Yet while schools like Kansas State, Cincinnati and Bowling Green have offered, and Purdue and Minnesota are interested, the Knights have not offered.
"He's going to the Louisville game and he's still being told (by Rutgers) he's being highly recruited," said Skip Parmenter, Craig's father and the Lakeland coach. "Now they have the luxury of looking over the best of the best. Two years ago they were hoping to get their top-level guys on the board, and now they're getting those top-level guys."
Melvin rattled off half a dozen top-flight running backs throughout the state, including Purdue-bound Malcolm Harris of Paterson Catholic, Jeremy Tucker of Pope John, the state's leading scorer this year, and Ray Van Peenen, the All-State back from Wayne Hills who last year led the state in scoring.
"You're talking about five or six running backs that could play anywhere in the country and none of them are going to Rutgers," Melvin said. "It's a problem but it's a good problem. This is what coach Schiano and those guys want, for everybody to have their eyes set on Rutgers and it's become a reality. The other side is that everyone wants to come and you can't bring everyone in."
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Success has recruits excited about Rutgers
Thursday, November 9, 2006
By ADAM ZAGORIA
HERALD NEWS
PATERSON -- Markeece Preston was impatient in the Paterson Catholic locker room after his team's decisive win over Glen Rock on Saturday, and he began pestering former Cougars standout Rashawn Ricks with a question, "What's my status, what's my status?"
Ricks, a student-coach with the Rutgers football team, smiled and promised he would try and find out where Preston, a 6-foot-1, 320-pound senior All-State offensive lineman, stood in the increasingly complex recruiting picture of the Scarlet Knights.
Preston has received scholarship offers from Cincinnati, Maryland and Pittsburgh but not Rutgers. Yet like many top football players in the state, he wants to join a winner.
Preston and about 10 of his teammates on a Cougars team that has won 19 straight games will leave practice early today and head down to Piscataway to watch the biggest football game in that program's history.
Rutgers hosts No. 3 Louisville in a battle of Big East unbeatens that will be featured nationally on ESPN and has critical implications not only for the conference and national championship pictures, but also for future Rutgers recruiting classes.
"If they win, expect a lot of commitments, if not that night within the next few days following the victory," said Chris Melvin of EliteRecruits.com, one of the state's top recruiting experts. "This game is huge for Rutgers and it's huge for a lot of the recruits. That's what they're waiting to see: if Rutgers is the real deal. If they pull it out against Louisville, that's going to prove that they are the real deal."
As evidenced by head coach Greg Schiano's appearance in an ESPN studio for halftime of last week's Louisville-West Virginia game, Rutgers has become the full-blown feel-good story of the football season. Much the way the greatest rock bands get to pick and choose their groupies, the Knights can now handpick their recruits from among the cream of the crop.
Recruiting expert John Otterstedt of NJVarsity.com said approximately 50 recruits, including many juniors, turned up for Rutgers' last home game, a victory over UConn on Oct. 29. "They were four deep down one sideline," he said.
Joining Preston at this game will be Al-Ghaffaar Lane, a 6-4, 210-pound defensive end who committed to Rutgers last month; Doug Alston, a 6-3, 215-pound junior defensive end who has drawn comparisons to Lane; and Jarel Lowery, a 6-4, 275-pound junior defensive tackle who is being courted by Notre Dame, Miami, Ohio State, Louisville and Rutgers among others. Alston and Lowery are both ranked among the top 100 juniors in the nation in Tom Lemming's Prep Football Report.
"The kids, like everybody else in the state, have jumped on the bandwagon," Cougars coach Benjie Wimberly said.
Rutgers has already received commitments from seven New Jersey players, including Lane, and 14 total, according to rivals.com. Melvin said he expects the Knights to offer between 18-22 total scholarships this year, depending upon how many players leave the program due to graduation.
Rattling off the names of many of the state's top uncommitted seniors who have reportedly been offered scholarships by the Scarlet Knights, Melvin said he could see players like Evan Rodriquez, Matt Boyer, Mason Robinson, Thomas Weaver, Randy Martinez and Alex Silvestro "making a decision early based on a Rutgers' win."
"I know a few other kids who are waiting for offers from Rutgers, all of whom will commit on the spot," Melvin added.
Melvin said he regularly speaks with Anthony Davis, a 6-5, 340-pound offensive lineman from Piscataway ranked the country's No. 3 offensive tackle by rivals.com. Melvin has listened and watched as Rutgers has steadily moved up on Davis's list while other traditional powerhouses, like Miami, moved down.
"They're becoming a serious program and I don't look at is a joke anymore," Davis said in a phone interview. "A couple of years ago they wouldn't have been on my list but now it's like they're my second school. It's like Ohio State and Rutgers."
Still, Davis has said he will make his announcement at the Army All-American Bowl in San Antonio in January, and Otterstedt said Schiano and company will wait for him "down to the bitter end."
Running back Antwain Easterling of Miami Northwestern and offensive tackle John Elliott of Fresh Meadows, N.Y., are two of the top recruits nationally and both have Rutgers listed among their top three. Melvin added that Lansford Watson, New York's top receiver, had made a verbal commitment to Maryland, but told Melvin he may open up his recruiting and is considering Rutgers and Syracuse.
Lemming, host of CSTV's "Generation Next," said landing players like Davis will be critical if Rutgers wants to remain in the national rankings year in and year out.
"They could really a make statement with a guy like Anthony Davis, who's a local kid and guy who everybody in the country wants, from USC to Ohio State to Miami," he said. "That would make a big statement to say that Rutgers is here to stay."
While Otterstedt is not as convinced that a Rutgers victory tonight would yield immediate commitments, he does agree that the Scarlet Knights' success this season -- ranked No. 13 in the BCS standings and headed to a second straight bowl game -- has allowed Rutgers to be much more choosy in terms of who it recruits.
"The other night I was sketching out a list of 22 New Jersey kids who probably would have had Rutgers' offers (in years past) who don't this year, which is unbelievable because there are still scholarship offers to give," Otterstedt said. "The number of kids who still have a reasonable shot of getting a Rutgers offer or still having their Rutgers offer on the table is very small now."
Otterstedt said Rutgers has been afforded the luxury of backing off certain kids because it is stocked at certain positions, or is recruiting better players at others.
Kennedy quarterback Chris Johnson, for example, was extended a scholarship offer after his junior season, but because the Knights have six quarterbacks on the roster, Johnson was no longer a priority. He recently committed to Buffalo, where he believes he stands a better shot of playing soon.
Lakeland offensive lineman Craig Parmenter has attended every Rutgers home game this season and is on record saying the Knights are his No. 1 choice. Yet while schools like Kansas State, Cincinnati and Bowling Green have offered, and Purdue and Minnesota are interested, the Knights have not offered.
"He's going to the Louisville game and he's still being told (by Rutgers) he's being highly recruited," said Skip Parmenter, Craig's father and the Lakeland coach. "Now they have the luxury of looking over the best of the best. Two years ago they were hoping to get their top-level guys on the board, and now they're getting those top-level guys."
Melvin rattled off half a dozen top-flight running backs throughout the state, including Purdue-bound Malcolm Harris of Paterson Catholic, Jeremy Tucker of Pope John, the state's leading scorer this year, and Ray Van Peenen, the All-State back from Wayne Hills who last year led the state in scoring.
"You're talking about five or six running backs that could play anywhere in the country and none of them are going to Rutgers," Melvin said. "It's a problem but it's a good problem. This is what coach Schiano and those guys want, for everybody to have their eyes set on Rutgers and it's become a reality. The other side is that everyone wants to come and you can't bring everyone in."
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Alex Boone fan
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Maybe if Rutgers looses tonight it will be a deterrent to going there. Not such a big time program as he might think
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schwab
Donkey Punch Ann Arbor
If #1 Ohio State vs. #2 Michigan's outcome has no bearing on recruits while they are at the game (as posted in another thread, I will search) then what happens in the case of Rutgers after the L'ville game. Was Davis at the game last night? They are world beaters and the #1 focus at least until Saturday afternoon. Big Mo has a R on his shirt
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Future looks bright
John Otterstedt saw big Anthony Davis, the lineman out of Piscataway, in the recruiting tent. Then he saw Somerville DB Mason Robinson. And then the publisher of ScarletNation.com rubbed his eyes.
"Seeing the quality of players congregated there was almost surreal," Otterstedt said. "That was by far the strongest group that I've ever seen here."
Future looks bright
John Otterstedt saw big Anthony Davis, the lineman out of Piscataway, in the recruiting tent. Then he saw Somerville DB Mason Robinson. And then the publisher of ScarletNation.com rubbed his eyes.
"Seeing the quality of players congregated there was almost surreal," Otterstedt said. "That was by far the strongest group that I've ever seen here."
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Wild night impresses star recruit
Friday, November 10, 2006 BY VINCENT VELASQUEZ
Star-Ledger Staff
While thousands of fans celebrated the biggest kick in school history -- one of the biggest catches took it all in, knowing that next year he could be in the middle of it all.
If he chooses.
Could you see yourself playing here?
"Yes," said Piscataway's Anthony Davis, a 6-5, 330 offensive lineman considered the state's top recruit and the nation's best lineman.
But don't get too excited yet.
"That's a decision that I need to sit down with my coaches and figure out what I'm going to do next year," he said.
Davis has said previously that Rutgers is in his top three. He likes top-ranked Ohio State and is intrigued by Southern California.
But he also is interested in staying close to home -- at a school he could walk to. A school he never thought until recently could pull off an upset like this.
"It was crazy," he said. "They proved a lot tonight."
Landing Davis would be the biggest coup of the recruiting season, the top catch of what already appears to be the best recruiting class in Rutgers history.
This, of course, was the plan all along.
When Greg Schiano arrived at Rutgers six years ago, his goal was to keep the best players in the state at home.
But like this season, it seemed only like an impossible dream at the time. Even Davis said he rarely used to pay attention to the state university.
"When I was younger, I watched Miami a lot," he said previously.
Now he's watching Rutgers.
"They showed a lot of heart," he said.
Wild night impresses star recruit
Friday, November 10, 2006 BY VINCENT VELASQUEZ
Star-Ledger Staff
While thousands of fans celebrated the biggest kick in school history -- one of the biggest catches took it all in, knowing that next year he could be in the middle of it all.
If he chooses.
"Yes," said Piscataway's Anthony Davis, a 6-5, 330 offensive lineman considered the state's top recruit and the nation's best lineman.
But don't get too excited yet.
"That's a decision that I need to sit down with my coaches and figure out what I'm going to do next year," he said.
Davis has said previously that Rutgers is in his top three. He likes top-ranked Ohio State and is intrigued by Southern California.
But he also is interested in staying close to home -- at a school he could walk to. A school he never thought until recently could pull off an upset like this.
"It was crazy," he said. "They proved a lot tonight."
Landing Davis would be the biggest coup of the recruiting season, the top catch of what already appears to be the best recruiting class in Rutgers history.
This, of course, was the plan all along.
When Greg Schiano arrived at Rutgers six years ago, his goal was to keep the best players in the state at home.
But like this season, it seemed only like an impossible dream at the time. Even Davis said he rarely used to pay attention to the state university.
"When I was younger, I watched Miami a lot," he said previously.
Now he's watching Rutgers.
"They showed a lot of heart," he said.
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That was an exciting atmosphere that had to carry some weight. In many ways the emotion in smaller stadiums is more electirc than big houses like the Shoe.
Hopefully Schiano will have his new job before the start of February.
Hopefully Schiano will have his new job before the start of February.
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Buckskin86
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Rivals premium article has quotes from Davis after RU's win. Mentions that his grandfather wants him to go to tOSU while his grandmother wants him to stay close to home. Still intends on taking his official visits to tOSU, RU and USC.
http://rutgers.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=606404
http://rutgers.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=606404
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