CDMac

This is interesting.... Coach Ekkens retweeted this one - ASA College with UCF, Akron, Marshall, and Ball State offers

@Blue & Gold beat me again!!!

Keyondre is locked in! That's awesome!

I gave you both "likes" since you guys have run out!

They have tweeted out Jalen as both a WR and a Safety so it'll be interesting to see how they use him this spring and where he ends up.

I really am supposed to be working.... EDIT: "multitasking training"

I have ALL the likes!

@Blue & Gold I had to go in and edit and then have the patience to wait for it to upload/embed the tweet before I hit reply... Patience on 1st ever early signing period? pffftt

I'll be interested to see if any of these guys are going to be early enrollees. The sooner they can get on campus, the sooner Coach 'Sleeve can get his hands on them.

RJ officially on board too Ha ha... didn't see yours posted already B&G

Yeah, the edge players are exciting like that new toy on Christmas morning. But the linemen are the monster pack of Energizer batteries that make all the lights light, wheels turn, and whistles blow!

I love them stocking up on the big boys in the trenches. Build the team from the inside out. Skill guys can't do a damn thing without the men on the lines !!

Always great to see these pics!!

That’s the exact play they are trying to stop with the targeting rule. I don’t always agree with targeting but that’s a no brained.

Great post @zipsoutsider !!!

I'm sure Sr doesn't have any eligibility and Jr is probably in studio or on a set. =) How'd you like to grow up with that name though? That'd be interesting

You ever been to Florida and seen the outfits? I don't think that rule applies down there

Yeah but they didn't do that util this year. They jumped 20% between 2015 to 2016 and they went 4-8 in 2015 in Brown's first year. So what was it that the fanbase was excited about going into 2016 (they went 10-3) to get them to come out and support a previously 4-8 team? Was it simply the promise of the new coaching staff ? Maybe it's just an anomaly. This article gives a little more detail but doesn't venture a guess to the "why" the dramatic increase. http://www.troytrojans.com/news/2017/4/20/troy-football-attendance-improvement-among-nations-best.aspx

Ran across this interesting tidbit on twitter: Not sure if they did anything specific (game day experience, publicity, marketing, etc.) or if this meteoric rise in attendance is simply the result of them being a better team but it would be an interesting case study.

I’m wondering how Akron will work with the new early signing. Interested to see how it shakes out across the board but primarily interested in whether Akron gets some guys locked in. They early signees have to be academic qualifiers (I think) so hopefully those guys (ones we’d like to get inked early) are good to go in the classroom.