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Bump for roster update. Also linked to their Rivals profiles and added game film.

Bump for roster update.

Bump for roster update.

The interviewer did a nice job with his questions. JoeMo also chose his words carefully and made sure to point out others after talking about an individual. If you didn’t know any better you’d think he was the coach for the past few years with the way he made sure to speak about “we” and speak about improvement areas without throwing anyone under the bus.

And a few more gone: OLB Juan Jarrett DL Janirr Wade

Yep. According to his twitter, he is one the current staff re-offered.

We’re in his top 7 like @94zipgrad mentioned. Ive been on the lookout for players we’ve offered and where we stand in the process. For some of the players it’s not easy to tell if the previous staff was who offered, and if that offer still stands, or if the new staff has re-offered. The current staff does not have to honor the offers that went out by the previous staff. To add to the lack of clarity is which schools are actually pushing for the player. For instance with Howard just because he has an offer from Louisville and they are in his “top 7”, it doesn’t actually mean they are holding a spot for him. They may have guys higher on their priority list. On the flip side, we may be pushing for him and be one of the leaders. Hard to know without talking to the players or coaches. Just speculation on my part.

Another one to watch.

I updated Kameron Cheatom’s profile. According to Cheatom, Moorehead’s staff re-offered in January. Looks like he took multiple visits to Pittsburgh, but was unable to garner an offer from them. Cheatom seems to be athletic, possess great size, and should fit into an edge roll. The majority of his highlights are rushing off the edge unabated, so he can certainly do that. We are currently ranked #82 according in Rivals team rankings for the 2023 class and Rivals only ranks the top 100 classes. New individual player ratings will be released in August. We will see how many players receive bumps.

I updated Williams profile. Even though coach Fess recruited Williams, I am guessing Williams will be a defensive back. He is an explosive athlete and often played in the box as a nickel or safety on defense, so he certainly did not shy away from contact at the high school level. He is a playmaker with the ball in his hands, but is raw as a wide receiver. There are only 3 highlights in his latest film of him throwing the ball as a QB and those passes do not demonstrate any reason why he would land at QB here. However, I have not seen him play live so maybe there is something I am missing? It could be that Williams falls into Fess’ recruiting territory and that is why Fess was the one who made the offer. Regardless where he lands positionally, I like this offer. Williams is a playmaker no matter where he is slotted and sometimes it is just a matter of getting players like that on campus and finding where they fit best.

Wow! Why not just add the whole PAC at that point? Go big or go home I guess.

Dengohe to James Madison, so he’s off the list.

He also has an offer from Temple, but I don’t know how much we should read into that. I don’t know anything about Temple outside of the hiring of a new coaching staff this past offseason. Maybe they feel the kid fits whatever scheme they’ll be running? I think our staff has done a really nice job of identifying and balancing our needs through the portal and prep route.

OL Marleo Neolien was on campus this past weekend, but did not pickup an offer. At least not yet.

Massive OT Jatavius Shivers decommitted from Vanderbilt yesterday. He carries an offer from Akron on 2/11/2022, but is expected to commit to South Carolina.

I suspect it was proposed as a package deal with USC and UCLA. Oklahoma State attempted to make it a package deal to move to the SEC with Oklahoma, but neither the SEC nor Oklahoma seemed to care too much about that idea. However, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Oklahoma State eventually make their way to the SEC by the time all the realignment is completed - whenever that may be.

Yes, the media contracts are a part of it and I believe the B1G is up for a new one soon, but it doesn’t have much to do with alumni on the West Coast.

I agree most people in the Southeast - especially with ties to the SEC - don’t care much about the move of Southern Cal and UCLA to the B1G. Outside of maybe something along the lines of “oh, that’s neat.” Like you mentioned, it’s all about revenue. And according to the revenue numbers from a few years back neither Southern Cal nor UCLA were in the top 20 in revenue for football or as an athletic department. Those numbers could have changed recently and certainly could change in the coming years, but if revenue is what this is all about then it’s a ho-hum move. Most B1G schools aren’t going to spend much time and money recruiting the state of California except in certain situations, so it doesn’t help in that department. Nor will Southern Cal and UCLA spend a ton of time recruiting the Midwest. I can’t speak to what dominoes will fall from here as it seems almost any possibility could turn into reality at this point. I’d guess there is some concern amongst the other P5 conferences, as well as the G5, in how the overall scope could affect them.

Agreed. I thought Maddox might commit on his OV this past weekend, but that didn’t happen - at least not publicly. JoeMo also offered Maddox’s little brother who I believe is a rising high school freshman.

2023 uncommitted prep prospects with offers: WR - Oluwakoleade Osinubi OT - Barrett Maddox OT - Cameron Jones OLB - Roosevelt Andrews ILB - Joe Ginnetti DT - Darold Dengohe DE - Abdoul Idriss

I’m not sure what happened. His absence surprised me as he looked pretty good with the backups in the spring game. His Twitter does not have him listed as an Akron football player anymore, so I’m pretty sure he’s gone. He’s from Florida so maybe he was looking to play somewhere closer to home? I haven’t seen anything related to portal activity, but all the recruiting services have been overwhelmed on that front lately.

Removed Singleton and Scippio.

Fairly recent offer to Troy OL transfer Toryque Bateman. Other offers from: Grambling State Bethune-Cookman Delaware State Mississippi Valley State Florida A&M West Virginia State Eastern Illinois Morgan State Tennessee State Townson Alabana A&M

https://n.rivals.com/content/prospects/2023/adrian-norton-276321 Toledo also offered. I did a little digging and got his Rivals profile updated. Sounds like he was a late bloomer. His film is impressive and he also camped at Akron, so our coaches were able to see him in person. I’m with you in the hope he works out. Seems to have what it takes physically, but so do most that are recruited to the D1 level.

https://n.rivals.com/content/prospects/2023/adrian-norton-276321 He seems to be a good one. Not sure how Norton doesn’t have more offers.