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bcbasketball20 {l Wrote}:any other possible commits or is this class pretty much done??

QuailMan {l Wrote}:

bcbasketball20 {l Wrote}:any other possible commits or is this class pretty much done??

I bet we get a few more targets and decomits. Who? I have no idea

MF73-Eleazar {l Wrote}:

QuailMan {l Wrote}:

bcbasketball20 {l Wrote}:any other possible commits or is this class pretty much done??

I bet we get a few more targets and decomits. Who? I have no idea

Any currents commits from Rutgers that we could steal?

QuailMan {l Wrote}:

bcbasketball20 {l Wrote}:any other possible commits or is this class pretty much done??

I bet we get a few more targets and decomits. Who? I have no idea

DuchesneEast {l Wrote}:

MF73-Eleazar {l Wrote}:

QuailMan {l Wrote}:

bcbasketball20 {l Wrote}:any other possible commits or is this class pretty much done??

I bet we get a few more targets and decomits. Who? I have no idea

Any currents commits from Rutgers that we could steal?

We''ll have to fight PSU for them. I think a kid on an RU visit committed to PSU the day after the game last week.

MF73-Eleazar {l Wrote}:

DuchesneEast {l Wrote}:

MF73-Eleazar {l Wrote}:

QuailMan {l Wrote}:

bcbasketball20 {l Wrote}:any other possible commits or is this class pretty much done??

I bet we get a few more targets and decomits. Who? I have no idea

Any currents commits from Rutgers that we could steal?

We''ll have to fight PSU for them. I think a kid on an RU visit committed to PSU the day after the game last week.

buddy, who is a PSU grad from LI said that happened.

bcbasketball20 {l Wrote}:not too pumped about this class. honestly i thought our success last year would get us much better recruits.

i think 2016 we will get much better caliber players

DuchesneEast {l Wrote}:

bcbasketball20 {l Wrote}:not too pumped about this class. honestly i thought our success last year would get us much better recruits.

i think 2016 we will get much better caliber players

Its solid, it just lack a superstar.

bcbasketball20 {l Wrote}:not too pumped about this class. honestly i thought our success last year would get us much better recruits.

i think 2016 we will get much better caliber players

BCSUPERFAN22 {l Wrote}:

bcbasketball20 {l Wrote}:not too pumped about this class. honestly i thought our success last year would get us much better recruits.

i think 2016 we will get much better caliber players

Youre saying this based on the star rankings on rivals. There is very little difference between this class and last years class aside from a few names at the top (where last year Strachan, Landry and Hilliman were all rated 4*).

BCSUPERFAN22 {l Wrote}:

bcbasketball20 {l Wrote}:not too pumped about this class. honestly i thought our success last year would get us much better recruits.

i think 2016 we will get much better caliber players

Youre saying this based on the star rankings on rivals. There is very little difference between this class and last years class aside from a few names at the top (where last year Strachan, Landry and Hilliman were all rated 4*).

eepstein0 {l Wrote}:

BCSUPERFAN22 {l Wrote}:

bcbasketball20 {l Wrote}:not too pumped about this class. honestly i thought our success last year would get us much better recruits.

i think 2016 we will get much better caliber players

Youre saying this based on the star rankings on rivals. There is very little difference between this class and last years class aside from a few names at the top (where last year Strachan, Landry and Hilliman were all rated 4*).

This class doesn't help with any of the major needs on this team, specifically WR and secondary

NJM89 {l Wrote}:

eepstein0 {l Wrote}:

BCSUPERFAN22 {l Wrote}:

bcbasketball20 {l Wrote}:not too pumped about this class. honestly i thought our success last year would get us much better recruits.

i think 2016 we will get much better caliber players

Youre saying this based on the star rankings on rivals. There is very little difference between this class and last years class aside from a few names at the top (where last year Strachan, Landry and Hilliman were all rated 4*).

This class doesn't help with any of the major needs on this team, specifically WR and secondary

We have 3 WR's and 4 DB's in that class...Also to go with the 4 WR and 5-6 DB's from last years class.

BCSUPERFAN22 {l Wrote}:

bcbasketball20 {l Wrote}:not too pumped about this class. honestly i thought our success last year would get us much better recruits.

i think 2016 we will get much better caliber players

There is very little difference between this class and last years class.

Only a fraction of the top high school players are invited to the Under Armour All-America Game. Even fewer hail from the Northeast. Rivals100 defensive tackle Christian Wilkins from Suffield (Conn.) Suffield Academy is going to Orlando with that in mind.

"I'm looking forward to seeing where I'm at nationally being able to play with all of those guys," said the 6-foot-5, 305-pound Wilkins. "I want to be able to showcase my talents and show that guys from the Northeast can play with anybody. I feel like both Chris Clark and I will be able to represent Connecticut very well.

"It's a great honor being considered an Under Armour All-American," he said. "I feel honored because of all the people that were in a position to make the roster, I'm happy to be one of them. It just shows that all the hard work through these four years of high school has paid off."

While the competition will be intense, Wilkins is looking forward to taking everything in.

"I haven't really looked at the roster very much," Wilkins said. "I know I'm looking forward to working with a few of the guys, learning some things and teaching each other new things. I'm interested in getting to know they guys and build relationships with some of them because you never know what will happen in college."

Wilkins' recruitment has been a little slow to develop, but he has already taken an official visit to Stanford.

"It was a good visit to Stanford," he said. "It was helpful. It was nice to get that visit in and I'm planning on taking all my other ones as well. I got to see a lot of what the campus life is like and watch the game. I got a good feel for the everyday life of a player. I made connections with everybody. They were telling me about the opportunities on and off the field out there."

There are still a number of other schools on Wilkins' radar.

"I haven't scheduled any of my other visits yet or penciled anything in yet," he said. "I'm keeping in contact with Ohio State, Penn State, Clemson, Boston College, Stanford and Notre Dame. I don't know if I'll be committed by then. It's tough to say really."

With having already taken an official visit to Stanford and taken many trips to nearby Boston College, Wilkins responded to speculation that Ohio State, Penn State, Clemson and Notre Dame could receive his other four official visits.

"In some ways, maybe," said Wilkins. "Anything could play out. I don't know if I'll want to visit another school yet."

Through two games of his senior season, Wilkins has 21 total tackles and three tackles for a loss.

Defensive tackle Christian Wilkins is probably one of the highest-ranked prospects that no one knows about. Wilkins is perfectly fine with that, too, as he has made it a point to stay out of the limelight.

The No. 83 ranked prospect was presented with his Under Armour All-American jersey on Wednesday and said his process has been smooth sailing because of his plan to keep things to himself.

“I just wanted to let things happen on their own. I feel like there’s not really a point to getting all the media involved with everything,” he said. “It’s my process and I’m going to control it. I don’t want people to be in my ear about things and I just didn’t think adding the media to the process was necessary.”

Wilkins has done an excellent job balancing high school life with his recruiting process and is happy because of it. That doesn’t mean he isn’t serious about his recruitment, though, as things are starting to wind down.

The ESPN 300 prospect has already taken one official visit to Stanford and plans on taking four more out of a list of top schools.

“The last visits will be between Boston College, Clemson, Penn State, Ohio State and Notre Dame,” he said. “I’m coming closer to my decision. I don’t have a set date, but definitely in the next few months.”

Wilkins had plenty more to talk about after his jersey presentation and gave us a look at who he really is.

What one player are you looking forward to competing against?
I haven’t really looked at the roster. I’m just overall excited to play against the top players. That’s a great opportunity for me to showcase my talents, get better and play against the best high school players from all over the country. I’m excited to play with the players and learn from them and get better from being in that environment.

If you could start a team with any other player in your class who would it be?
I believe it starts up front so I would either go with a defensive or offensive lineman. Some of the guys I’ve met in my recruiting process like Adam McLean or Tim Settle, it would be one of those two. That would be cool and we would definitely have a good time knowing them.

What was your earliest football memory?
My first memory, I wasn’t a huge fan of football when I was younger and every time someone would play I would ask why they were playing it. Then after being around my siblings they taught me how to play and ever since then I have loved it.

Which football player did you idolize or want to be like when you were a kid?
Any of the Patriots because they always have good players. Good players like Warren Sapp, even Michael Strahan.

If you could take on any pro player in their sport who would it be?:
That would definitely be my favorite athlete, Paul Pierce. Just because I always wanted the chance to meet him and the chance to hang out with him would be great. Playing him in one on one, he’s a crafty guy so maybe in some way that would rub off on me. He’s just a great man, so I could learn a lot from him.

Why do you wear your number?:
My favorite number is 42 and that’s the number I hope to wear in the Under Armour game. That’s the [year] my grandpa was born. My grandfather passed about four years ago now. The impact he had on my life was great. I take that number everywhere and know that he’s in my mind.

What is one thing people would be surprised to know about you?:
One is that I’m a mama’s boy. I love my mom deeply. The other is my obsession with the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. That was a show I watched growing up and my brothers were in to that when I was growing up. I always got into it and even today it’s my favorite movie. It’s just one of those things that sticks with you.

bcbasketball20 {l Wrote}:QUESTION

is this class going to be ranked higher or lower than last years class (last years class was ranked 42)?

twballgame9 {l Wrote}:Size, hansen

Last year's class should have been ranked a lot higher. It will take a few years of solid recruiting for BC to have a rep again. We all know that a 2-star LB from St. X that goes to BC is a 2 star LB, maybe 3. The minute he commits to tOSU, he's a 4. Everyone knows that deciding to go to a top 25 school automatically makes you better at football.

eagle216 {l Wrote}:

twballgame9 {l Wrote}:Size, hansen

Last year's class should have been ranked a lot higher. It will take a few years of solid recruiting for BC to have a rep again. We all know that a 2-star LB from St. X that goes to BC is a 2 star LB, maybe 3. The minute he commits to tOSU, he's a 4. Everyone knows that deciding to go to a top 25 school automatically makes you better at football.

This, all day long, and I (and others) have been saying it for a while. In the early days of the interwebs (thank you Al Gore!!!), I was a recruiting wEirDoz, following the ups and down of stars, soft verbals, commitments, and verbals. But eventually I saw it for what it really was - a self serving circle jerk wherein so-called gurus simply declared that so and so had some arbitrary amount of stars simply because he was offered by Big Ums, while at the same time these same gurus simply declared said Big Ums to have the best recruiting classes. Eventually I realized that if TGOSB and his ilk knew how to evaluate high school talent, they would be doing so on the staff of a Big Um.

Boston College head coach Steve Addazio stood in attendance on the New Canaan sideline with Eagles tight end coach Mark Leonard. Boston College offered Allen a scholarship last December.

DuchesneEast {l Wrote}:No bye week for the Dazzler:
Looking at Northwestern Commit Zach Allen

Boston College head coach Steve Addazio stood in attendance on the New Canaan sideline with Eagles tight end coach Mark Leonard. Boston College offered Allen a scholarship last December.

The catfishing trend has officially transitioned from the dating sphere to college football recruiting.

Houshun Gaines, a three-star defensive end recruit from North Carolin's Nash Central High School, formally announced last week his commitment to attend Florida.


Nash Central's Houshun Gaines is a Florida Gator: http://t.co/Pjgl5qXJce via @ @RMTSports pic.twitter.com/kKoF1pb1cG

— Andrew Ivins (@andrewrivins) October 3, 2014

The only problem? He didn't actually have an offer from the Gators.

Gaines claimed he was in communication with Florida assistant Brad Lawing. But the athletic director at Gaines' high school spoke with Gators coaches and they said they haven't spoken with Gaines in weeks. College coaches aren't allowed to publicly comment on recruits until they officially sign with the school.

As it turns out, Gaines was communicating on Twitter with someone he thought was associated with the program. He thought he spoke with Lawing the night before his commitment, but it turns out it must have been someone pretending to be Florida's defensive line coach.

“The (Florida) coaches said that there are so many people out there who claim to be close to the program or be part of the program, who aren’t part of the program that get in a kid’s ear,” Nash Central athletic director Michael Mosley told the Rocky Mountain Telegram. “They can’t filter it.”

Gaines had been in contact with Lawing over the summer, and the two had even met in Gainesville:


“@MistaAlderman: Brad Lawing talking with 3 star DE Houshun Gaines in stands at FNL http://t.co/skM2JPx0Ty pic.twitter.com/FIWtPxGsvr”

— Houshun Gaines (@HZGduoUno) July 27, 2014

Florida expressed interest in Gaines but never made an official offer. According to Mosley, who spoke with Gators coaches, there's still a possibility that they'll extend an offer to Gaines.

Fortunately for Gaines, he appears to be in good spirits following the ordeal:


Due to recent events I am not committed and my recruitment is still open.

— Houshun Gaines (@HZGduoUno) October 5, 2014


Lol I didn't think about it that way but, I got catfished.. Haha

— Houshun Gaines (@HZGduoUno) October 6, 2014


The kid done made the bleacher report. http://t.co/Lx1a5zr63O

— Houshun Gaines (@HZGduoUno) October 6, 2014


Never stressing because I'm sitting comfortably in the palm of God's hands..

— Houshun Gaines (@HZGduoUno) October 6, 2014

Gaines does have real offers from a handful of schools including Miami, Virginia Tech, North Carolina, North Carolina State and Boston College.