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Monday, August 18, 2008
Tech set to offer Newnan junior safety Ogletree
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Newnan junior safety Alec Ogletree has extra incentive to attend at least one Georgia Tech home game during the upcoming season.
“I have a teammate, Ray Beno, who has already committed to Georgia Tech,” Ogletree said. “[Tech’s coaches] said they want me to come to a game with him and they’ll offer me.”
Ogletree (6-foot-3, 210 pounds), who plans to attend a game at Tech in September, has scholarship offers from Clemson, Florida State and Georgia.
He says his current top five are Clemson, Georgia, Florida State, Florida and Miami.
Ogletree has attended camps in Athens, Clemson and Tallahassee. He plans to revisit those campuses this fall.
“I want to visit all the schools I’ve been to and go to a game,” he said.
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Tech QB Shaw facing future competition from baby brother?
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Flowery Branch junior quarterback Connor Shaw has an early scholarship offer from Georgia Tech, where he could wind up competing for playing time with his brother, Jaybo, who’s No. 2 on the depth chart as a true freshman.
”They did it here,” said Flowery Branch head coach Lee Shaw, the father of the quarterbacks. “If Connor gets to Tech, I don’t know what he’ll wind up going as, maybe as an athlete, but at Georgia Tech, those athletes play quarterback in that system, so I’m not sure where they’ll end up slotting him. But I do know they like him as an option quarterback.”
Connor, who has not made a college decision, caught 59 passes for 1,086 yards and 13 touchdowns last season with his big brother making the throws to him at wide receiver.
Lee Shaw didn’t hide the fact that he’d love to see both sons at Tech.
”It’s pretty neat seeing one play at Georgia Tech and another with an offer at Georgia Tech, and their dream has always been to play college football together,” Lee said. “I know as a dad, it sure would be a lot easier on me. To be able to coach football on Friday night and watch them play on a Saturday would be a blessing that’s indescribable.” …
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Douglass LB Atchinson is Auburn’s 23rd commitment
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Douglass linebacker Jonathan Atchinson appears to be one of the finishing touches of Auburn’s 2009 recruiting class.
The 6-foot-3, 215-pound Atchinson committed to the Tigers over Alabama, among other colleges. He is a member of the AJC’s Georgia Top 150, and rated as the nation’s No. 59 outside linebacker by Rivals.
“It just felt like the right thing to do,” Atchinson said Monday evening after practice.
Auburn now has 23 commitments for its 2009 class. Atchinson is the fifth linebacker who said he intends to sign with the Tigers, joining Jonathan Evans of Prichard, Ala., Donald Ford of Odenville, Ala., Harris Gaston of Bessemer, Ala., and Eltoro Freeman of Perkinston, Miss.
Atchinson said he was informed by Auburn coach Tommy Tuberville that the Tigers were going to sign five linebackers. Atchinson said he wanted to be the fifth, as the Tigers have offers extended to several other top-rated linebackers.
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Sandy Creek WR Lane skipping ‘08 football, hopes Tech’s OK with it
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Sandy Creek wide receiver Braxton Lane said he hopes his decision to skip his senior season of high school football won’t affect his recruitment at Georgia Tech.
“I don’t know if they know yet,” Lane said Sunday night. “If they do [back off], then that’s their decision, but I know not all of them will. I’m not worried.”
Lane, who plans to use the fall to focus on baseball, says he has offers from nine Division 1-A schools, including Tech, Auburn, Michigan and Oregon. He’s one of only 33 recruits who received a grade of A or better in the AJC’s Georgia 150. He caught 55 passes as a junior at Sandy Creek, the school that graduated former Tech All-American receiver Calvin Johnson.
Tech is recruiting Lane as an A-Back, which would have him lining up outside the tackles and going in motion, often receiving passes or pitchouts from the quarterback.
Tech has no commitments from its A-Back targets, which include Orwin Smith of Alabama and Al-Terek McBurse of Florida. …
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So You Want To Know: The AJC answers readers’ football recruiting questions
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Q. I’m going to the Corky Kell Classic this weekend. Who are the top prospects there? — J.S., Lilburn.
A. The eight teams playing in the Kell Classic at the Georgia Dome have 12 players who made our The Georgia 150 recruiting list. Here’s a list broken down by school with the players’ grades we assigned them:
Brookwood
OL Kellen Williams (Alabama) … B+
Camden County
WR DeAngelo Smith (South Carolina) … A-
DB Robert Williams … B+
Etowah
None
Grayson
None
McEachern
TE Terrell Mitchell … B+
Norcross
RB D.J. Adams (Maryland) … A
DB Prince Kent (Miami) … A
DE Matt Autry … B-
Starr’s Mill
PK Chris Ward (North Carolina State) … A-
LB Stephen Roberts … B+
Walton
QB Ray Rayburn … B-
PK Brady Biggers … B
DE David Paulsen … A-
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The Doghouse: Georgia recruiting notes
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Recruiting the offer
Ridgeland wide receiver Michael Bowman wants to be commitment No. 14 for Georgia’s
2009 class.
And Bowman says the Bulldogs have promised an offer, providing he improves his test scores.
“If Georgia offered me today, I would commit,” Bowman said. “I’ve talked and visited with other schools, but Georgia has always been No. 1 with me. I’ve never changed my mind about that. I’ve felt that way since the first time I went there.”
The 6-foot-4, 215-pound Bowman is arguably the state’s top prospect at wide receiver and a member of the AJC’s Super Southern 100. He has offers from Alabama, Auburn, LSU, Kentucky, Arkansas, North Carolina State and Oregon, among others.
But Bowman’s dream school has yet to tender an offer. Said Bowman: “Georgia told me if I did well at camp, they would offer me. I went to camp and [was named best receiver]. But they didn’t offer that day. But they did tell me if I could get my test scores up, then they would offer.
“It’s kind of confusing. I know I am going to make my test scores. I’m so close now. I wish they would have enough [faith] in me to go ahead and offer.”
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