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+1. He's my favorite player on the team. LOVE his attitude.

You're correct. How'd I omit that? Okay, two good years in my lifetime 😭

I believe so. But if AJ George is a walk-on, as we suspect, he may not officially sign, correct?

We Zips football fans have been beaten down and dragged through the mud for... really our entire lives. There was a one-year respite in 2005 but then we fizzled again after that. And we haven't just been sub .500, we've been absolutely abysmal. Most folks around town think you're nuts if you're a Zips football fan. But in Coach JoeMo we trust. A glimmer of hope: In 2005 we won the MAC East, won the MAC Championship Game in Detroit, and then a few weeks later ~30,000 Zips fans drove back up to Detroit for the Motor City Bowl. So... hope springs eternal.

Agreed. You never want to rely on a freshman PG. Having said that, I remember Coach Jackson remarking a number of times how she liked incoming freshman PG Olivia Brown of Fishers, IN. This is from a GoZips dot com press release: JACKSON ON BROWN – "From Day One, Olivia was our No. 1 point guard in the 2023 class. She is an outstanding leader and winner in everything she does. Olivia is an elite defender with a motor and tremendous speed. She is a great floor general who can really run a team. A candidate for Miss Indiana, Olivia can also score the ball with great ability to get to the rim."

Lanae has a beautiful smile.

We received a verbal from U of Cincinnati transfer OL AJ George.

Updated 2023 recruits list. This gives us 24 scholarship players in the 2023 class. 2023 VERBAL COMMITMENTS Kameron Cheatom, DE, 6-4, 225, Brashear HS, Pittsburgh, PA Conner Cravaack, TE, 6-5, 220, Madeira HS, Cincinnati, OH Bruno Dall, DE, 6-8, 230, St. Stanislaus HS, Bay St. Louis, MS Paul Davis, WR, 6-0, 185, Hart Co. HS, Bowman, GA Ben Frank, OL, 6-5, 310, Transfer from Hobart College, NY Joey Hunter, CB, 6-1, 200, Transfer from University of South Carolina Jayvin James, OL, 6-6, 270, Blanche Ely HS, Pompano Beach, FL David Jester, S, 6-3, 195, Homestead HS, Homestead, FL Terray Jones, DL, 6-1, 290, Transfer from Tennessee State University Zayden Laing-Taylor, CB, 6-0, 185, Miami Central HS, Miami, FL Lorenzo Lingard, RB, 6-0, 210, Transfer from U. of Florida Jean Louis III, WR, 5-9, 185, Canarsie HS, Middle Village, NY Jonas Mann, OL, 6-8, 295, Pickerington North HS, Pickerington, OH Marcus Moore, DT, 6-3, 310, Massillon Washington HS, Massillon, OH Delvin Morris, OL, 6-5, 285, Caldwell HS, Caldwell, TX Adrian Norton, WR, 6-1, 195, Stebbins HS, Dayton, OH CJ Nunnally, DL, 6-4, 245, Transfer from Independence CC, Independence, Kansas Darius Owens, S, 6-0, 175, South Gwinnett HS, Snellville, GA Ahmad Rabah, DE, 6-5, 215, Transfer from American International College Antonio Smith, DL, 6-5, 240, Transfer from New Mexico Military Institute Melvin Spriggs, LB, 6-3, 215, St. Michael the Archangel HS, Fredericksburg, VA Gage Summers, LB, 6-0, 230, Transfer from Riverside City College, CA Judson Tallandier, S, 6-2, 190, Transfer from Pitt Dakota Thomas, WR, 6-1, 200, Transfer from Western Kentucky University Terrence Thomas, S, 6-0, 190, Transfer from Purdue University Steele Wassel, QB, 6-4, 210, Choctaw HS, Choctaw, OK Catrell White, CB, 5-10, 175, Erasmus Hall HS, Brooklyn, NY CLASS BREAKDOWN Total Commits: 24 Offense: 11 QB: 1 (Wassel) RB: 1 (Lingard) WR: 4 (Louis III, Norton, Thomas, Davis) TE: 1 (Cravaack, ) OL: 4 (James, Mann, Morris, Frank) Defense: 16 DT: 2 (Jones, Moore) DE: 5 (Cheatom, Dall, Rabbah, Smith, Nunnally) LB: 2 (Spriggs, Summers) CB: 3 (Laing-Taylor, White, Hunter) S: 4 (Owens, Jester, Thomas, Talliander)

On my phone but we received a commitment from JUCO LB Gage Summers.

@LZIp, that last sentence is saying: “I would only take him if: 1. He could play immediately 2. No other recruits have his talent, and 3. He really wants to come here.”

A starting 5 of PG - Thornton W - Dawson W - Ali F - Sammy F - Freeman would be killer.

I've currently got one window open to ZN.o while I'm taking on online American Red Cross course in another. With the football and basketball transfer portals, this is the most fun ZN.o's been this time of year in... well, forever. Add baseball, softball, and women's basketball... I'd better pay more attention to my Red Cross course 😂

Do you know something we don't or is this just your gut?

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That's huge! With the addition on Lanae we're going to have the best front court in the MAC 💪💪💪

This team starts 3 freshmen (IIRC) and our best hitter, Lexi Campbell, is a sophomore 👀👀🔥 Just like we keep saying with football, there is so much HS talent in the area. If we can only become a destination... 🙏

Anyone know what our current roster looks like & whether we signed any HS seniors this past year?

On my phone so can’t post tweet, but Lanae Riley is transferring home! #GoZips

2025 VERBAL COMMITMENTS TP - Amarie Archer, OL, 6-3, 300, transfer from ECU SIGNED: Markus Boswell, LB, 6-1, 230, Jireh Prep HS via Lake Travis, TX TP - Alex Branch, DB, 6-0, 190, Twinsburg HS, Twinsburg, OH transfer from KSUcks TP - Aamii Branch, DB, 5-10, 185, Forney, TX, transfer from Kilgore College SIGNED: Cibastian Broughton, QB, 6-0 175, Fleming Island HS, Fleming Island, FL TP - Chase Brown, DE, 6-2, 226, Cincinnati, OH, transfer from Dayton SIGNED: Jaiden Brown-Demery, OL, 6-3, 300, West Mifflin Area HS, PA SIGNED: Taven Curry, RB, 6-0, 225, Loxley, AL transfer from UL-Monroe SIGNED: Tairan Davis, S, 5-11, 185, Ursuline HS, Youngstown, OH TP - Jake Dennis, LS, 6-2, 220, Omaha, NE, transfer from Colorado State TP - Israel Duncan, DL, 6-3, 250, Vancouver, WA, transfer from Pasadena City College TP - Cyrus Durham, DL, 6-3, 250, Redwood City, CA transfer from Arizona TP - Mehki Flowers, S, 6-0, 200, Harrisburg, PA, transfer from Penn State TP - Jordan Gant, RB, 5-10, 205, transfer from Tennessee State TP - Chris Gee, RB, 5-11, 215, Fort Worth, TX, transfer from Colgate SIGNED: Jon Gould, OL, 6-5, 270, Maize HS, Maize, KS TP - Tim Grear, WR, 6-0, 190, transfer from Fresno St. TP - Bebe Hills, WR, 5-10, 175, transfer from Washington St. SIGNED: Gavin James, LB, 5-11, 205, Lincoln HS, Tallahassee, FL TP - Allen Jones, OL, 6-4, 310, transfer from West Alabama JUCO TP - Darrell Johnson Jr., OL, 6-4, 300, Indianapolis, IN, transfer from WKU TP - Michael Johnson Jr., QB, 6-3, 225, San Jose, CA, transfer from Syracuse TP - Ben Kamara, CB, 6-3, 205, Philadelphia, PA, transfer from Upper Iowa University SIGNED: Vann Kavals, DE, 6-4, 250, OLSH HS, Coraopolis, PA SIGNED: Maasai King, OL, 6-3, 300, JUCO: Lackawanna CC, originally from Scranton, PA TP - Julien Laventure, DL, 6-2, 285, Upper Darby, PA, transfer from Pennsylvania Western U. SIGNED: Kenneth McManus, OL, 6-2, 305, St. John's College HS, Washington DC TP - Cam Monteiro, WR, 6-1, 180, Brockton, MA, transfer from Pitt TP - Javirea Moore, OL, 6-5, 300, Lancaster, TX, transfer from East Texas A&M TP - Jayme Motley-Simmons, OL, 6-5, 315, transfer from University of North Alabama TP - Nehemiah Musika, DL, 6-1, 315, Milpitas, CA transfer from San Mateo College SIGNED: Devin Reeves, LB, 5-11, 220, Hayfield Secondary School, Woodbridge, VA TP - Adam Samaha, K, 5-11, 185, Ypsilanti, MI, transfer from North Carolina Gavin Schieler, LS, 6-3, 235, Normal Community HS, Normal, Illinois SIGNED: Luke Sivon, WR, 6-0, 195, Perry HS, Perry, OH TP - Jamari Somerville, S, 5-11, 190, Indian Head, MD, transfer from James Madison TP - DJ Stepney, DB, 5-11, 200, Macomb, MI, transfer from Marshall TP - Jamall Thompson, DL, 6-3, 250, Sarasota, FL, transfer from Samford TP - Eddie Vega, DL, 6-3, 285, Dinuba, CA, transfer from Reedy College SIGNED: Ty Watkins, DE, 6-3, 230, Mt. Healthy HS, Cincinnati, OH TP - Marcel Williams, WR, 6-0, 200, Hollywood, FL, transfer from Marshall CLASS BREAKDOWN Total Commits: 41 Offense: 19 QB: 2 (Broughton, Johnson Jr.) RB: 3 (Curry, Gant, Gee) WR: 5 (Grear, Hills, Monteiro, Sivon, Williams) OL: 9 (Archer, Brown-Demery, Gould, Johnson, Jones, King, McManus, Moore, Motley-Simmons) Defense: 19 DL: 8 (Brown, Duncan, Durham, Kavals, Laventure, Musika, Thompson, Vega, Watkins) LB: 3 (Boswell, James, Reeves) DB: 7 (Branch, Branch, Davis, Flowers, Kamara, Somerville, Stepney) Specialists: 3 K: 1 (Samaha) LS: 2 (Dennis, Schieler)