'08 OH RB/LB Devoe Torrence (Akron signee, transfer to ??)

[Buckskin86]

TORRENCE VERY IMPRESSIVE

It was obvious that one of the problems Massillon head coach Tom Stacy will have this season is too much talent and not enough positions. The Tigers rotated two tailbacks, two fullbacks, two quarterbacks and about five receivers with the first team offense in the win over Middletown.

DeVoe Torrence and K.J. Herring alternated at tailback. They are similar runners with slightly different styles.

"K.J. is more of a slasher and DeVoe is a bigger version of (2006 running back) Brian Gamble," Stacy said.

It will be difficult to prepare to play Massillon. Stacy is running plays into the huddle with QBs Chris Willoughby and Mike Clark. Willoughby is more of a passer, and Clark is a runner. Massillon can lull a defense to sleep with sweeps to the backs, then fake the sweep and run Clark on a naked bootleg before a defense remembers he is in the game.

Torrence was impressive in his Division I debut. He looked just as strong running against Middletown as he did against NBC teams last year at Canton South. Incidentally, Torrence was ranked as the No. 37 best prospect in the country by The Sporting News. The magazine ranked the top 101 high school players.

cantonrep.com

 

[Buckskin86]

Torrence shines in his Tiger debut
By CHRIS EASTERLING
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From the moment he enrolled at Washington High School last March, DeVoe Torrence had had his eyes on last Friday night.

Arriving from Canton South, Torrence came in with the fanfare one would expect surrounding a player who already owns a scholarship offer from Ohio State. Still, when he walked onto the Paul Brown Tiger Stadium turf for the first time before the Tigers? season-opening 42-21 win over Middletown, the senior felt there was something missing.

?I?ve been amped since day one,? Torrence said after Friday?s game. ?I had to try to prove myself.?

Torrence should be able to consider himself a proven commodity now, thanks to his impressive debut against the Middies. His first game as a Tiger ended with him gaining a game-high 157 yards on 20 carries, two touchdowns scored, and another 49 yards on three receptions.

And none of that takes into account a nifty 40-yard touchdown catch he had in the first quarter which was brought back due to a holding call on Massillon.

The Independent

 

[sears3820]

Had the opportunity to see DeVoe play last Friday and snapped a few pics with my trusty camera phone. I won't bore anyone with an amatuerish scouting report. We all know he's a stud.

jwins, eat your heart out!!!

 

[jwinslow]

Was your phone in landscape mode, or were you looking through a white blast shield?

 

[Buckskin86]

Visiting Solon stuns Massillon
Saturday, September 1, 2007
By Todd Porter
REPOSITORY SPORTS WRITER

Torrence, who struggled in all aspects, was held to 25 yards on 16 carries.

cantonrep.com

 

[osugrad21]

Scout $

Article discusses Devoe's tough night in friday night's loss.

 

[bucknut11]

JJHuddle

Photo gallery of Massillon vs. Solon. Many pictures of Devoe

 

[Buckskin86]

Parma Normandy 27, Massillon 13

The visiting Tigers fell to 1-2 as Normandy (3-0) rushed for 209 yards on 41 carries. Massillon senior DeVoe Torrence rushed for 82 yards and a touchdown on 16 carries. Tigers senior Steve Schott kicked two field goals.

Ohio.com - Junior helps CVCA remain undefeated

 

[Buckskin86]

TORRENCE ON DEFENSE?

We asked Stacy a question that's been obvious since the start of the season: Why isn't DeVoe Torrence playing linebacker?

"That's an in-house issue we're working on now," Stacy said. "We would like for him to play more defense. It hasn't worked out that way."

Regardless of how much talent Massillon has on offense, there is still just one football. That could be part of the Tigers' offensive woes. They have run or passed for more than 100 yards in each of the last two weeks. Perhaps personnel groupings are leading to plays being tipped off before the snap?

cantonrep.com

 

[stowfan]

cantonrep.com

As hard as it is to sell a house today, I hope the Massillon coach is renting.

 

[Buckskin86]

Not pretty, but it's a Tiger win
Saturday, September 15, 2007
By Todd Porter
REPOSITORY SPORTS WRITER

Stacy relied almost solely on Torrence. He carried the ball 29 times for 158 yards, 108 coming in the second half. He gashed Ursuline's tired defense late in the fourth. Massillon's ground offense has been anemic the last two weeks.

"We have to be able to run the ball," Stacy said. "We wanted to run DeVoe a bunch. We knew they had linemen playing both ways, and we wanted to wear them down. We're still not executing like we should be. I thought we wore them down in the fourth quarter."

http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?ID=376254&Category=17&subCategoryID=29

 

[Buckskin86]

Profile: DeVoe Torrence

Putting up big numbers has never been an issue for DeVoe Torrence, but it took returning to his roots at Massillon Washington for him to feel complete.
By: Matt Remsberg 9/18/07

DeVoe Torrence thought life on the football field might never again be as good as it was when he was 10 years old.

Back then -- in his first year of competitive football -- everything about the game was fresh and exciting. He was playing with his friends and scoring touchdowns with ease. He enjoyed practice and lived for gameday.

At various times during the following seven years, Torrence felt all of those same feelings when he strapped on a helmet. But they never intersected all at once like in that first year.

That is until Torrence transferred to Massillon Washington for his senior season. And now, with one year left until football becomes life for the Ohio State commit, Torrence is feeling like a kid again.

"Being on the field playing the game, that's been fun at every age," says Torrence, a 6-foot-2, 210-pound running back/linebacker who is rated the nation's No. 46 recruit in the Class of 2007 by RISE. "Some stuff off the field has gotten in the way at times, but right now I'm happy with everything that's going on."

"My brother and I always wanted to be at Massillon," says Torrence. "But at least we were together at Canton South so it wasn't a big deal. Once I knew he'd be gone, though, I couldn't stop thinking about transferring to be with my friends."

"DeVoe immediately set a new standard in terms of effort, dedication and results," Massillon Washington coach Tom Stacy says. "Everyone around the program quickly understood why he had earned a scholarship to Ohio State. He works extremely hard and has never failed to take care of his academic responsibilities."

As a running back -- the position he will most likely play at Ohio State -- Torrence is a threat to score every time he touches the ball.

He may not have sprinter's speed, but he is elusive and nearly impossible to bring down by one defender alone. He also catches the ball extremely well out of the backfield or as a receiver and piled up 665 receiving yards last year.

"I've always been able to find the end zone," Torrence says. "It's always come naturally, since my first practice. Coming from Division III (at Canton South) to Division I (at Massillon Washington), I thought those days would be over. But so far it's been pretty much the same. I think I'll be able to make an impact for this team."

RiseMag.com > News > Top Stories

 

[Buckskin86]

No Torrence


When DeVoe Torrence enrolled at Massillon in the spring, as much was made of him as a linebacker as was made of him as a running back. However, since recording one tackle in the season opener, the senior has not stepped on the field at inside linebacker.

Asked about seeing Torrence on defense, Kovacs quickly responded, ?As of now, he is strictly an offensive player.?

Torrence is the Tigers? leading rusher with 430 yards on 80 carries, with three touchdowns.

The Independent

 

[bucknut11]

Devoe had a monster game this evening. He rushed for 283 yards and at least 3 TDs in a losing effort against Mentor 56-52.

I was going to go to this game but got off late. Should've gone...


EDIT: 4 scores.

 

[Buckskin86]

Workload keeping Torrence off ?D?
By CHRIS EASTERLING
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When the season started, many observers of the Massillon Tigers expected DeVoe Torrence to be one of, if not the, top two-way player on the team. Certainly, the track record of the Ohio State recruit showed him as a potent performer both as a tailback and linebacker.

However, Torrence hasn?t seen action at linebacker since the opener against Middletown. But Tiger coach Tom Stacy said Tuesday that was all part of the plan.

?The thing with DeVoe is, we knew eventually it was going to get to the point where he was going to have a ton of carries,? Stacy said. ?So, because of that, we didn?t want to have to count on him a lot on defense.?

The high number of carries has certainly held true so far for Torrence. His 116 rushes are more than twice as many as K.J Herring?s second-highest total of 48. He already has a team-high 713 yards on the ground, thanks to last week?s 283-yard performance against Mentor.

Early meeting


Stacy was a late arrival to Tuesday?s Touchdown Club meeting because he was participating on a coaches panel in Cleveland sponsored by the Ohio High School Athletic Association. The only other football coach on the panel was his counterpart this Saturday, St. Ignatius coach Chuck Kyle.

?We had an interesting conversation before I left,? Stacy said. ?He said, ?Hey Tom, I don?t think we?re going to be able to imitate No. 3 (Torrence) in our practices.? And I said, ?No, I don?t think there?s too many people who can imitate that guy.??

The Independent