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'11 MD ATH Darius Jennings (Virginia Signee)

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Closet 5* recruit. Probably going to have a full sheet of official visits with high profile coaches and schools recruiting him down the stretch. Not sure how he feels about playing defense, I really like him with the football in his hands.
 
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Scout $ - Jennings' Top Ten

8/12

By Wallace....Down to UCLA, Ohio State, Boston College, UConn, Pittsburgh, Penn State, Maryland, Virginia, Virginia Tech & Wake Forest. Says all are even, but UCLA, Maryland & Virginia Tech are recruiting him the hardest. No timetable for a decision and says education, coaching staff & early playing time are the most important to him. Claims that Ohio State is recruiting him as a DB.
 
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Gilman's Jennings Opens With Five TDs
By Keith Mills

Darius Jennings wasted little time in showing why he is one of the best high school football players in the country. He took the season-opening kickoff at Archbishop Spalding at his 12-yard line and exploded for an 88-yard touchdown in Gilman?s 41-14 win. The Aug. 27 game was a showdown between last year's MIAA A and B conference champions.

It turned into a dazzling debut for Jennings, the multi-talented, 6-foot, 180-pound quarterback who is one of the nation?s top recruits.

Jennings helped the Greyhounds win their ninth A Conference championship under coach Biff Poggi last year with a 34-27 win over McDonogh in a sensational game before 5,000 fans in Owings Mills. He rushed for 250 yards in last year?s title game and opened his senior year Friday night with 180 yards and a total of five touchdowns. He sandwiched another kick return for a touchdown around three second-quarter TD runs (8, 37 and 56 yards) as the Greyhounds opened a 28-0 halftime lead.
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PressBox: Gilman's Jennings Opens With Five TDs
 
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BuckeyeGrove.com - Weekend Watch: Best of Labor Day weekend (free)

BEST MATCHUP: Last week against St. X, Good Counsel Class of 2012 athlete Stefon Diggs showed his explosiveness and playmaking ability against a defense that had no answer for him. This week, he will square off against Darius Jennings, a four-star athlete in his own right. If Jennings can lock down Diggs, it could force the hand of the Good Counsel offense which appeared very limited in its game last week.
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GILMAN WINS IF: Darius Jennings carries them to the victory. It is tough to put the game on the back of one player, especially a 17- or 18-year old, but Jennings is the key to the total success of Gilman this year and it begins now. The offensive line will have a lot to do with this game as well but Jennings can overcome poor line play and create - he is that good on both sides of the ball.
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Gilman also has JR ATH Cyrus Jones that is on OSU's radar...
 
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Big decision looms, but Gilman's Jennings focused on season
By Katherine Dunn | The Baltimore Sun
Story posted 2010.09.03

When Darius Jennings took the field for Gilman's football opener a week ago, he wasn't thinking about being one of the nation's top recruits or about settling on a college program. He tuned that out to focus on the game -- and it showed right away.

He ran back the opening kickoff 88 yards for a touchdown to spark the No. 1 Greyhounds to a 41-14 win at No. 6 Archbishop Spalding. He later returned another kickoff for a touchdown and finished the game with 383 all-purpose yards and five touchdowns.

The 6-foot, 180-pound All-Metro quarterback, who excels at running the Wildcat offense, picked up where he left off last season, when he rushed for 2,028 yards and broke Ambrose Wooden's 2002 single-season school record by nearly 400yards.

"He's got a couple of speeds -- faster and fastest," Spalding coach Mike Whittles said. "You don't think he could be any faster or quicker and then he is. He can really turn on the jets, and he's extremely elusive."

With all that going for him and a 4.4-second 40-yard dash, Jennings is one of the most sought-after college prospects in the country, rated No. 2 in the nation in the athlete category by Scout.com and No. 18 by Rivals.com. Overall, Rivals.com ranks him No. 175, which is in the top 1 percent.

"He's a great athlete, and he can project at a lot of different positions at the next level," Mike Farrell of Rivals.com said. "When you see him with the football and the ability to make people miss, his speed -- I know he's a very, very fast kid -- we could see his explosiveness. The fact that he can play wide receiver, cornerback, safety, running back -- all those things in college is really impressive to us."

Maryland made the first scholarship offer last fall after Jennings ran for 275 yards and three touchdowns against Good Counsel, whom the Greyhounds will meet tonight at 7:30 in the I-95 Kickoff Classic at Towson University's Johnny Unitas Stadium. After 30 initial offers, Jennings has narrowed his list to 10: Maryland, Penn State, Pittsburgh, Ohio State, Boston College, Connecticut, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest and UCLA.
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Darius Jennings- Baltimore Sun


Darius Jennings Video- Baltimore Sun

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GArb--UjbHs]YouTube - Darius Jennings Interview 8-27-10.MOV[/ame]
 
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RivalsHigh.com - Weekend Watch: Hometown hope starts now

WHEN: Saturday 9/18, 7:30 p.m.
LAST MEETING: 9/11/09, DeMatha won 56-35
STANDINGS: DeMatha (2-0), No. 1 in Maryland
Gilman (2-1), No. 3 in Maryland

WHY IT'S BIG: Maryland football received a lot of preseason hype entering this season. It appeared to be justified when Olney (Md.) Good Counsel went to Cincinnati (Ohio) St. X and came home with a victory. Then Gilman beat Good Counsel - but got crushed by Ramsey (N.J.) Don Bosco. Maryland is now fighting the same perception problem that it has had for years. This game is as much a statement game for DeMatha as it is for the rest of the area. If Gilman is able to get the win and assert itself as the No. 1 team in the D.C.-Baltimore area, it likely would slide the entire area below Don Bosco (currently No. 37) for the rest of the season. Not a bad place to be last year, but expectations were much higher in 2010.

BEST MATCHUP: Darius Jennings vs DeMatha. As it has been every week, Jennings is what makes Gilman go - or in the case of last week, not go. DeMatha has not played much defense at all in the first two games, giving up 31 and 32 points. Last season, it was a high-scoring affair as well and a shootout like that does not help perception. DeMatha needs to lock down Jennings.

GILMAN WINS IF: Jennings has a big game. It has been the same story each week for Gilman. He was huge in the win against Good Counsel. Silent in the loss to Don Bosco. Not a hard equation. The team lives and dies on his legs and this week should be no different.

DEMATHA WINS IF: Its defense decides to show up. It was a question when the team gave up 31 to Loyola Blakefield. It was a head scratcher when it gave up 32 against Friendship Collegiate Academy. While it wouldn't be a stunner to see Gilman throw 35 on the board, it would raise concerns as to how legitimate this team is if it is averaging 34 ppg against it.

PREDICTION: Maryland teams seem to have had a tough time playing big back-to-back games. That seemingly would be an advantage for DeMatha as Gilman has started its season with three tough tests. DeMatha has been tested but not by a team with the talent that Gilman has. This looks like a game that turns Maryland on its head with Gilman rebounding from the thumping it took last week, but DeMatha and its suspect defense keeps things right in the Maryland universe. DeMatha 40, Gilman 30
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DeMatha is no match for Gilman quarterback Darius Jennings
By James Wagner
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, September 19, 2010;

TOWSON, MD. - Standing on the sideline, recounting how he led Gilman to a 35-10 dismantling of top-ranked DeMatha on Saturday night at Johnny Unitas Stadium, Greyhounds quarterback Darius Jennings couldn't believe how many rushing attempts he accumulated on the night.

"Thirty-one carries," he said. "Oh, wow."

Asked if he had the energy for more, the 6-foot, 185-pound senior answered blankly: "Of course, of course. It's all in a day's work."

If 270 yards, two touchdowns and another toppled top-ranked D.C.-area team is just a day's work, then Jennings is truly working hard for a living.

Perhaps the best football player in the state, Jennings has led Gilman, the top-ranked team in the Baltimore area, to wins over DeMatha and then-No.1 Good Counsel this month.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/19/AR2010091900103.html

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW-HlmORDqI"]YouTube - gilman/dematha football 9-18-2010[/ame]
 
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Boys Athlete of the Week // Darius Jennings, Gilman, football
Darius Jennings, Gilman, football
September 21, 2010

The Greyhounds' All-Metro quarterback led them to their second win in three weeks against a Washington Post No. 1 team. In Saturday night's 35-10 win over DeMatha, the senior rushed for 276 yards on 31 carries and scored two touchdowns. Jennings was 3-for-5 passing for 30 yards and had a kickoff and a punt return, bringing his total yards to 340. Through four games, Jennings has 1,133 total yards and nine touchdowns. The Baltimore area's hottest recruit, Jennings has narrowed his college list to 10, including Maryland, Penn State, Ohio State, Virginia Tech and UCLA. He has a 3.0 grade-point average and also plays basketball and runs track for Gilman.
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http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/high-school/bs-sp-va-boy-athlete-0922-20100921,0,5767061.story
 
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Scout $ - Jennings Remains Unfocused

10/10

By Wallace...looking at UCLA, Ohio State, Boston College, Connecticut, Pittsburgh, Penn State, Maryland, Virginia, Virginia Tech and Wake Forest...only school that will get an official for sure is UCLA...Maryland, Virginia and UCLA are recruiting him the hardest and say location won't matter.
 
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