2018 Recruiting

[CDMac]

@Blue & Gold beat me again!!!

[CDMac]

 

[LZIp]

Woo

 

[CDMac]

This is interesting.... 

 

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

 

 

[zippy5]

44 minutes ago, CDMac said:

This is interesting.... 

 

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

 

 

Signed with Ball State

[dre22era]

#Dillard HS (FL) 2018 RB @KeyondreWhite officially signs with the #Akron #Zips pic.twitter.com/Xt2urcFvbm

— Sleeper Athletes (@SleeperAthletes) December 20, 2017

[CDMac]

 

 

[ZachTheZip]

Alrighty, let's take a look at how many offers these guys had, according to the recruiting services. I don't feel like going through the players' twitter feeds to pick out any offers not listed on the recruiting websites at this time. Also keep in mind that the offer lists don't mean much of anything, since if you don't participate in the recruiting services' camps they'll straight-up ignore you unless you get a top-25 team chasing after you.

 

OL Ben Phillis: Only offered by Akron

OL Vincent Fonte: BGSU, Buffalo, Eastern Kentucky, and Kent.

DL Logan Hawkins: Army, Ball State, Citadel, EMU, and Navy

OL RJ Kelly: App State, BGSU, Bryant, Buffalo, EKU, Iowa State, Kent, Marshall, Minnesota, Pittsburgh, Toledo, YSU

DB Rich Hall: Alabama State, Duquesne, FAU

ATH Jalen Hooks: Boston College, Cincinnati, EKU, Kent, Miami OH, Toledo

RB Keyondre White: Army, Buffalo, Florida A&M, FAU, Illinois, Louisville, Minnesota, Purdue, South Florida, Syracuse, UAB

RB Devanier Floyd: Indiana State

WR Daishawn Brimage: Only offered by Akron

WR Gavin Blunt: Albany, Indiana State, Robert Morris

 

This is a far cry from the years when nearly all of our recruits had only D-I offer.

Edited December 21, 2017 by ZachTheZip

[Blue & Gold]

Alright, update as of 6:00 p.m.

Signed LOI's:

WR/S Jalen Hooks

DB Rich Hall

OL R.J. Kelly

DL Logan Hawkins

OL Vincent Fonte

OL Ben Phillis

RB Devanier Floyd

WR Daishawn Brimage

WR/S Gavin Blunt

RB Keyondre White

 

Still awaiting word on/from:

WR Timothy Scippio.  His twitter profile still says "WR @ The University of Akron"

OL Ronald Beasley.  who's twitter profile still reads "Committed to The University of Akron"

DT Ramon Fields.  Difficult to tell from his twitter but he may end up playing at a lower level

ATH Te'Cory Tutson. Wasn't able to find anything on Te'Cory

WR Treon Sibley. Can't tell anything by his twitter profile.  But I know for certain he was/is planning on playing for UA.  I'm gonna go out on a completely unfounded limb, but take a guess that he may be a academic non-qualifier.

 

And speaking of academic non-qualifiers, we had a handful last year, so I'm not sure how that works against this year's scholarship count (I'm confused by this every year).  Off the top of my head:

S Reggie Corner Jr.

RB/WR Marquise Bridges

OL Marcus Kidd

DB Marquess Callaway

DL Tracy Jordan

DL Matthew Hanson

[UAZippers]

Zips announce 12 signings, including reannouncing Eric Bentley and Reggie Corner Jr..

 

Bentley, Corner, Hall, and White are early enrollees.

 

http://www.gozips.com/news/2017/12/20/football-signing-day-release.aspx

 

 

 

 

Edited December 21, 2017 by UAZippers

[LZIp]

2 hours ago, Blue & Gold said:

Alright, update as of 6:00 p.m.

Signed LOI's:

WR/S Jalen Hooks

DB Rich Hall

OL R.J. Kelly

DL Logan Hawkins

OL Vincent Fonte

OL Ben Phillis

RB Devanier Floyd

WR Daishawn Brimage

WR/S Gavin Blunt

RB Keyondre White

 

Still awaiting word on/from:

WR Timothy Scippio.  His twitter profile still says "WR @ The University of Akron"

OL Ronald Beasley.  who's twitter profile still reads "Committed to The University of Akron"

DT Ramon Fields.  Difficult to tell from his twitter but he may end up playing at a lower level

ATH Te'Cory Tutson. Wasn't able to find anything on Te'Cory

WR Treon Sibley. Can't tell anything by his twitter profile.  But I know for certain he was/is planning on playing for UA.  I'm gonna go out on a completely unfounded limb, but take a guess that he may be a academic non-qualifier.

 

And speaking of academic non-qualifiers, we had a handful last year, so I'm not sure how that works against this year's scholarship count (I'm confused by this every year).  Off the top of my head:

S Reggie Corner Jr.

RB/WR Marquise Bridges

OL Marcus Kidd

DB Marquess Callaway

DL Tracy Jordan

DL Matthew Hanson

I'm not sure Hanson was a non-qualifier as he is listed on the roster.

[Blue & Gold]

22 minutes ago, LZIp said:

I'm not sure Hanson was a non-qualifier as he is listed on the roster.

Good catch. My bad.

Edited December 21, 2017 by Blue & Gold

[zzx]

13 hours ago, CDMac said:

 

 

Article related to DT Logan Hawkins signing

[Blue & Gold]

Alex Ramart showing fantastic leadership already!  He sent out congratulatory texts to all the recruits & though each text was different, he basically told them he's excited they're part of the team & can't wait till they're on campus & they can get to work together!

 

Alex Ramart's twitter page

 

P.s. Can't wait for this QB competition in the spring.

 

[zipsoutsider]

2 minutes ago, Blue & Gold said:

Alex Ramart showing fantastic leadership already!  He sent out congratulatory texts to all the recruits & though each text was different, he basically told them he's excited they're part of the team & can't wait till they're on campus & they can get to work together!

 

Alex Ramart's twitter page

 

P.s. Can't wait for this QB competition in the spring.

 

+1

 

Really nice to see. 

[LZIp]

I'm going to try to put a scholarship chart together (similar to what was done for basketball) today or tomorrow to see where we really stand with openings since there are always questions. Of course there will be a ton of uncertainties of whether or not a player is on scholly or not, but hopefully the wonderful members of Zn.O will have some random knowledge and help narrow it down.

Edited December 21, 2017 by LZIp

[Blue & Gold]

32 minutes ago, LZIp said:

I'm going to try to put a scholarship chart together (similar to what was done for basketball) today or tomorrow to see where we really stand with openings since there are always questions. Of course there will be a ton of uncertainties of whether or not a player is on scholly or not, but hopefully the wonderful members of Zn.O will have some random knowledge and help narrow it down.

[LZIp]

Let's see how this works...

 

I've sorted by position group as how they are listed on GoZips. An "X" in Column C means I believe they are on scholarship one way or another. Either announced in a signing day presser, transfer from a bigger school, late signing, or at least a semi-regular contributor. I've got 2 players listed as Medical Redshirt Seniors - MTB and DeMarcus Lloyd. Both have been injured all year and did not participate in senior day. I assumed all walk-on freshman from last year will be redshirt freshman next year, and everyone else I just added a year based on what was listed for 2017. Ex. A R.Sophomore in 2017 will be a R.Junior in 2018. I did my best guesstimating the 2017 freshman class classification for next year. I would imagine it is correct, though. I also assumed only one of each specialist (PK,P, LS) were on scholly. I think we know this is done based on the Stein story of letting O'Leary keep the scholly even though he was the starter because he didn't need it.

 

If you are pretty sure a player shouldn't be/should be listed as a scholly player, let me know! Right now I am showing we have 11 scholarships left going into next year. I would imagine there are probably a few on scholly we don't know of, 6-7 more signees for this years class, and a few to be left open for any transfers opportunities that may arise.

 

LB is an area of concern that sticks out to me immediately. We lose a lot of scholarship players after next season and I don't feel the best about the talent of the lower-classman. DE looks a little thin as well, but we know Reinke plays DE and Hanson may end up there too as he is too light to play interior to me.

 

Zips Football Scholarship Chart.xlsx

Edited December 21, 2017 by LZIp

[Blue & Gold]

That is simply awesome!! 

[CDMac]

3 hours ago, LZIp said:

Zips Football Scholarship Chart.xlsx

[94zipgrad]

7 hours ago, LZIp said:

Let's see how this works...

 

I've sorted by position group as how they are listed on GoZips. An "X" in Column C means I believe they are on scholarship one way or another. Either announced in a signing day presser, transfer from a bigger school, late signing, or at least a semi-regular contributor. I've got 2 players listed as Medical Redshirt Seniors - MTB and DeMarcus Lloyd. Both have been injured all year and did not participate in senior day. I assumed all walk-on freshman from last year will be redshirt freshman next year, and everyone else I just added a year based on what was listed for 2017. Ex. A R.Sophomore in 2017 will be a R.Junior in 2018. I did my best guesstimating the 2017 freshman class classification for next year. I would imagine it is correct, though. I also assumed only one of each specialist (PK,P, LS) were on scholly. I think we know this is done based on the Stein story of letting O'Leary keep the scholly even though he was the starter because he didn't need it.

 

If you are pretty sure a player shouldn't be/should be listed as a scholly player, let me know! Right now I am showing we have 11 scholarships left going into next year. I would imagine there are probably a few on scholly we don't know of, 6-7 more signees for this years class, and a few to be left open for any transfers opportunities that may arise.

 

LB is an area of concern that sticks out to me immediately. We lose a lot of scholarship players after next season and I don't feel the best about the talent of the lower-classman. DE looks a little thin as well, but we know Reinke plays DE and Hanson may end up there too as he is too light to play interior to me.

 

Zips Football Scholarship Chart.xlsx

Meeks was an all state LB & wrestler in FL & could be moved back next season, TE was a position of need early in season & he was moved there from LB

[Captain Kangaroo]

Thank you, LZip. Great job! 

[Balsy]

On 12/21/2017 at 8:19 AM, LZIp said:

I'm going to try to put a scholarship chart together (similar to what was done for basketball) today or tomorrow to see where we really stand with openings since there are always questions. Of course there will be a ton of uncertainties of whether or not a player is on scholly or not, but hopefully the wonderful members of Zn.O will have some random knowledge and help narrow it down.

 

There's already a chart I've put together in the Recruiting section that has them separated by year.  Now it doesn't have scholarships, but it has the players on in by class and indicates (RS) status or not.  I update it 2-3 times a year.  If you'd like a copy of it to work with, PM me.

 

EDIT:  NVM, I missed where you've already posted it...

Edited December 23, 2017 by Balsy

[Blue & Gold]

Rough sledding at K.ent right now

 

[LZIp]

i saw those as well B&G. I was wondering if it was the players moving on of the coaches that decided they didn't want to honor Haynes' offers for them?