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DEL.ICIO.USCamden Co. WR picks South Carolina over Georgia, Florida
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Camden County wide receiver DeAngelo Smith decided to commit to South Carolina, despite emerging interest from Georgia and Florida.
Smith, a 6-foot-2, 185-pound senior, also declined offers from East Carolina, Indiana, and Illinois, among others.
“He went to South Carolina camp a couple of weeks ago, and Coach (Steve) Spurrier’s son spent a lot of time with him individually,” Camden County coach Jeff Herron said. “[Smith] came back and said he was considering committing. I told him he really needed to take time to think it about because it’s such a big big decision.
“Then, we were standing on the football field the other day, and [Smith] said he thought about it and was ready to commit to South Carolina. It seems like a good fit for him.”
Herron said Smith might’ve been initially overlooked by many SEC and ACC schools because of Camden County’s run-oriented offense, with Smith catching 21 passes during his junior year.
Neither Florida nor Georgia had offered Smith, but both invited him to work out at each school’s respective camps on Friday, with a chance to earn a scholarship.
“We’re proud for DeAngelo, and think South Carolina got a player with huge upside potential to him,” Herron said. “He’s a 4.4 [in the 40-yard dash] kid who runs good routes and catches the ball very well.”
Rob Morton contributed to this article
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By DisneyDawg
July 17, 2008 10:38 PM | Link to this
Well,you can’t win’em all. Good luck anyway DeAngelo.
By SOS
July 17, 2008 10:49 PM | Link to this
Just another example of the Goats passing on anything other than the low hanging fruit…Welcome to the Gamecock family, DeAngelo!!!
By Dawg Fan
July 17, 2008 10:52 PM | Link to this
Sorry you didn’t pick the Dawgs. But good luck anyway.
By Chuck
July 17, 2008 10:52 PM | Link to this
Many recruiting services did not have this kid rated highly because of Camden County’s offense. They run a Wing-T, and they don’t throw the ball a whole lot.
By Dewayne
July 17, 2008 11:00 PM | Link to this
Well SC offered and UF and UGA didn’t pretty easy there,plus you can’t have every recruit so good luck to the kid!!!
By DawgCrazy
July 17, 2008 11:00 PM | Link to this
UGA wasn’t serious about this kid—-they’ve got a bunch more studs ahead of him. He’ll be on a mediocre team year at south carolina and get 4 straight losses to the Dawgs!
By unweaned lil pup
July 17, 2008 11:08 PM | Link to this
Michael … that headline refers to teams that hadn’t even offered him. Be kinda hard for him to pick a team that hasn’t offered. Now that would be a worthy article: Camden Co. WR Picks UGA Without Offer
By o
July 17, 2008 11:14 PM | Link to this
Good luck DeAngelo!
If this was the place you wanted to go - then a great decision for you to commmit.
My advice - hit the books hard - the next 4 or 5 years you will be in college will go by fast - you are fortunate to be able to get a college education paid for - take advantage of it!
Go Dawgs!
By GaDawgDude
July 17, 2008 11:36 PM | Link to this
If neither UGA or UF offered than is he really a top recruit anyway?
By Tampa Dawg
July 17, 2008 11:50 PM | Link to this
The kid is good but we are already set. I just hope he doesn’t come back and bite us like the Brinkley brothers. Remember they would have come to UGA but we didn’t want to offer a package deal. Steve took them both.
By unweaned lil pup
July 17, 2008 11:51 PM | Link to this
I wish him all the luck in the world .. and SC too when they aren’t playing the UGA. But I read the article because I was curious as to why he picked SC over the other two schools in the headline. When I realized they hadn’t even offered I saw the headline as a misrep of the content. Unfortunate pattern with the writer I have noticed. Gosh … I guess he picked SC over Texas, Ohio St., and LSU too.
By GAMECOCKBOY
July 18, 2008 12:09 AM | Link to this
don’t forget the great wr we have here from georgia name kenny mckinley who was a sleeper coming out of georgia… before it is all over could break all the wr records that former georgia native sterling sharp has here….mckinley came here as a sleeper that had always played qb and got some action at uga 3 years ago and has started ever since….i love sleepers…we r very stocked at wr….from jason barnes out of independence high in charlotte to hills out of palmetto florida…all that is missing is a speedster at rb…some of u georgia fans sleep on us if u want and u will get spured…
http://gamecocksonline.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/mckinley_kenny00.html
By GAMECOCKBOY
July 18, 2008 12:09 AM | Link to this
don’t forget the great wr we have here from georgia name kenny mckinley who was a sleeper coming out of georgia… before it is all over could break all the wr records that former georgia native sterling sharp has here….mckinley came here as a sleeper that had always played qb and got some action at uga 3 years ago and has started ever since….i love sleepers…we r very stocked at wr….from jason barnes out of independence high in charlotte to hills out of palmetto florida…all that is missing is a speedster at rb…some of u georgia fans sleep on us if u want and u will get spured…
http://gamecocksonline.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/mckinley_kenny00.html
By Pago Flyer
July 18, 2008 12:18 AM | Link to this
Can’t figure out why you wish this kid “good luck”, do you want him to come back and beat the DAWGS?!
By JStrom
July 18, 2008 12:43 AM | Link to this
Ohio St., LSU, TX…none of them offered him a chance to camp and earn a scholarship. UGA and UF did and that’s why the writer says he chose USC over them. He’s going to have the opportunity to catch passes from Steven Garcia in SOS’ offense. Say what you want, but it really is a great situation for the kid. You can also “think” he’ll be on the losing end of the USC/UGA game his entire collegiate career (BubbaDee-Wayne…lol), but the truth is the two teams always play very, very close games. If you don’t remember last year, USC played poorly and the score was still 16-12. You never can tell, can you?
By UGA Slobberknocker
July 18, 2008 3:17 AM | Link to this
unw.little pup..i agree with you about the misleading headline and your better headline in the earlier post was hilarious and true, but dont be so quick to blame the writer. As info in newspaper work the writer rarely comes up with the headline..that is usually a copy editor who has read the story and whose job it is to create a catchy headline.
By john
July 18, 2008 6:31 AM | Link to this
Good kid off the field—GA and FL will be calling him since SC offered!!!!!!! It’s early most High School kids have not been offered yet.
By greg
July 18, 2008 7:18 AM | Link to this
Headline should have read WR chooses South Carolina over East Carolina, Indiana and Illinois…but then who would have read it other than a couple dozen Gamecock fans?
By did we?
July 18, 2008 7:46 AM | Link to this
UGA did not offer him, so why even put uga in the article?
By Native Dawg
July 18, 2008 8:07 AM | Link to this
Deangelo didn’t pick SC over UF and UGA because neither UF nor UGA offered him a scholarship. He picked SC over schools like Illinois and East Carolina that actually offered him a scholarship.
I wish the kid all the best. However, the headline of the article, and some of its content, is misleading. Guess the writer is just trying to stimulate interest, but that’s bush league.
By oldfaithfuldawg
July 18, 2008 8:29 AM | Link to this
Carver put UGA and UF in the heading of the article so that he could get a bunch of mindless responses to this stupid blog.
By SECCoachnDallas
July 18, 2008 9:01 AM | Link to this
This is another non-story. Yes, UGA and Florida had invited this young man to camp. We have invited several kids to camp. No they did not offer him. UGA has a limited number of schollies to offer. This is a fact. There are three top rated receivers we are after. We are not going to give up those offers to someone else. The story should have been, “Georgia receiver choses COOTS over Illinois and East Carolina.” The COOTS have been tough on East Carolina this year. This is the third or fourth kid East Carolina has offered that chose the COOTS.
By BigGameCock
July 18, 2008 9:39 AM | Link to this
Panzi-boy aka SECCoachnDallas, Why are you so bitter? Is it because UGA got beat up by USC in Athens last year? We took out your super-stud Safety Johnson and Cory Boyd shook him out his shoes for a TD run. Or was it when Mike Davis ran over your 4-star CB? Get over it, ya’ll get the best players but are now going to use your schedule as an excuse to try to get the National Championship game. Mark Richt has no excuse of being loaded w/ top talent over the past few year and he hasn’t been able to take UGA to the big game. That, my friend, is the plain and simple truth.
By SOS
July 18, 2008 10:00 AM | Link to this
SECCoachnDallas is back and apparently so is the dial-up connection service from his Paulding County mobile home park…
Hey Coach, please take a moment to pull out of that pig and tell us how many All-SEC receivers Georgia has this year among all its four star WR recruits…
By ColumbiaCock
July 18, 2008 10:38 AM | Link to this
For all the puppies on here running their mouths about USC, I only have one word for you…SCOREBOARD.
16-12
By ColumbiaCock
July 18, 2008 10:40 AM | Link to this
For all the puppies on here running their mouths about USC, I only have one word for you…SCOREBOARD.
16-12
By BJOHNDAWG
July 18, 2008 10:47 AM | Link to this
OKAY I am a big Georgia fan.But guys you are wrong on this one.
The writers first sentence says “Picked SC despite EMERGING interest from Fla and Georgia.
Fair to say Georgia would probably offer the kid as well as Fla. He is 6’2” with 4.4 speed.
That can get you plenty of offers right there.
Deangelo…congrats,and best of luck.Except when you play Georgia….hope you drop every pass against the Dawgs.
By BLACKEDOUT
July 18, 2008 10:52 AM | Link to this
Don’t forget about the great WR we have from South Carolina named AJ Green, he wanted to go to bowl games so he got the heck out of South Carolina. Did Ga Tech even offer this dude?
By BLACKEDOUT
July 18, 2008 10:59 AM | Link to this
Nice second half of the season last year cocks!
By RAMBLE ON!!!
July 18, 2008 11:05 AM | Link to this
Mark Richt loses star recruit: Sources within the Bulldawg Nation program have indicated that the young man approached coach Richt yesterday with the startling news. “Coach you know I want to play, but I can’t be in a huddle with your other players.” Richt, visibly shaken responded, “What do you mean boy? Haven’t we taken good care of you here at Georgia?” “Oh yes sir, it’s just that my probation officer says I’m not supposed to hang around with known felons.”
By cockssux
July 18, 2008 11:10 AM | Link to this
lets see, go to a school with no campus, no tradition, whose stadium is in the middle of an industrial wasteland, with a has been coach, a chicken as a mascot, and were fans reminisce about the glory years of 9 win seasons….its a no brainer, you obviously go to the university of south carolina……
By BobDog
July 18, 2008 11:28 AM | Link to this
Congratulations, DeAngelo. It looks like you have the tools to be a success at Carolina. Good luck to you except when you’re playing the Dogs.
By Gadawg
July 18, 2008 11:30 AM | Link to this
Hey Ramble on! looks like your players are gonna have that problem more so than the DAWGS, I mean with a Rape charge and all. The Heroine trade took a hit,and Credit Card Fraud. Looks like another Sad year for the North Ave. Convicts. PJ’s really got control of that program
By blade
July 18, 2008 12:00 PM | Link to this
Ok, Dawgcrazy. Congratulate the young man. If i’m not mistaken, Lizard man beat you last year. It’s going to real embarrassing, listening to you or ya’ll dawg fans when you get those 4 maybe 5 losses (LSU, Tenn, Fl, Auburn, ?S. Car and Bama?). Don’t whine when this come true, just take it man.
By prd uga mom
July 18, 2008 12:10 PM | Link to this
Just a reminder to “BigGameCock”, and where did Carolina end up last season? Guess winning over UGA was the highlight of your season, ‘cause you sure don’t have anything else to brag about!!!!
By Haywood Jablowme
July 18, 2008 12:26 PM | Link to this
Good job, kid……get ready for 4 years of mediocre football and maybe an appearance in the Vanish Toilet Bowl.
By JStrom
July 18, 2008 12:27 PM | Link to this
prd uga mom…that highlight works for me. How’s it working for you? Shouldn’t you be getting ready to take your son to see his probabation officer instead of on here though? UGA, where you can be all you can be, and they give you your own orange jumpsuit to do it in!
By Haywood Jablowme
July 18, 2008 12:28 PM | Link to this
Good job, kid……get ready for 4 years of mediocre football and maybe an appearance in the Vanish Toilet Bowl.
By Bull-Spit
July 18, 2008 12:42 PM | Link to this
JStrom….That’s the only highlight you have to hang your hat on for last season. How did that mid-season collapse last year work out for you? It worked out fine for me. Enjoy it, though….it only happens once or twice a decade on the average. Shouldn’t you boys be more worried about that thug wannabe QB you have there instead of crowing about that fluke win you got over UGA last season?
By Gamecock Gary
July 18, 2008 1:59 PM | Link to this
I like men!
By UnderDawg
July 18, 2008 3:00 PM | Link to this
Nobody beats our COCKZ!!!!!
By Gamecock Travis
July 18, 2008 3:21 PM | Link to this
DeAngelo, welcome aboard the Garnet and Black train. We are happy to have you.
If you happen to read these posts, I urge you to print them and keep them for the next few years. Pull them out the week before the uga game. Let these dumba$$ uga fans’ remarks add to your motivation.
95% of the posts above are perfect examples of why uga fans are the most disliked fans in all of college sports. You GEORGIA fans should be happy for this young man FROM GEORGIA! You people are such morons.
For the couple of you uga fans that posted with class and decency congratulating the young man, you must be the actual uga alums because it shows. The rest of you must be the typical redneck fans who have nothing else noteworthy in your sorry little lives except uga football. Because of this fact, when uga falls short of winning the NC this year I expect the state suicide rate to rise dramatically just before Christmas.
By ufgator
July 18, 2008 3:35 PM | Link to this
me things that haywood has a fetish for penises besides his own.
i bet you can find him on craigslist along with a whole lot of dawgs looking for some down low action as a bottom.
but hey that is just rumor here on campus.
haywood yur a tool fella.
By Will
July 18, 2008 3:59 PM | Link to this
You Lamecock fans truely amaze me. I guess time really does make people forget. But as for me, I remember well you being the #6 team in the land then never winning another game. Then you got passed over for a bowl by a bunch of really crappy teams like GT and Alabama. Now Spurrier says he has a gem in this Beecher kid. Says he’s the next Shane Mathews. Ya, whatever Steve, Then why was holding the pencilboard so much last year? I see another 6-6 team in the making here.
By gamecockman
July 18, 2008 5:54 PM | Link to this
just another sleeper reciever for us gamecocks. All we ever get anymore are sleepers. If Steve is gonna go after all these receivers, then he better do better than 3 attempts runs for a 1st down against Climpson.
By Car
July 18, 2008 7:16 PM | Link to this
coaches son???? not good enough for the old ball sack, and I do mean ‘old’ ball sack. the coaches son?? Was his dad sitting on his throne at the time? No wonder their recuiting stinks, and that Clemson is stomping them in the game of football!!!
By wanttaknow
July 18, 2008 9:34 PM | Link to this
Was Marks son a sleeper, not good enough or just didn’t want to play for UGA?
By Unbiased
July 18, 2008 9:36 PM | Link to this
“No wonder their recuiting stinks, and that Clemson is stomping them in the game of football!!!”
Dang, I remember that South Carolina BEAT UGA in Athlens last season and that CU only won on a last second FG last year after losing the year before to USC.
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By Gamecock Travis
July 21, 2008 10:13 AM | Link to this
So our recruiting stinks because of all the “sleepers” on the team. Hmmm. Maybe you dawg fans need to take a look at Hood’s post on the 17th. CMR is recruiting, you guessed it, a “sleeper”.
By USC Gamecock
July 23, 2008 5:56 PM | Link to this
This kid will blossom into a super star at USC in SOS offense. Bank on it. GO COCKS….16 -12 tween the hedges was sooo sweet!
By USC Gamecock
July 23, 2008 5:56 PM | Link to this
This kid will blossom into a super star at USC in SOS offense. Bank on it. GO COCKS….16 -12 tween the hedges was sooo sweet!
By USC Gamecock
July 23, 2008 5:56 PM | Link to this
This kid will blossom into a super star at USC in SOS offense. Bank on it. GO COCKS….16 -12 tween the hedges was sooo sweet!