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Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Calhoun WR hopes UGA will be his sixth early offer
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Calhoun wide receiver Darick Rogers scheduled his first Junior Day visit to Georgia the weekend of March 21.
The 6-foot-3, 208-pound Darlington transfer currently has offers from LSU, Alabama, Mississippi State, West Virginia and Central Florida.
“I think Georgia or Oregon will be the next to offer,” he said. “I have been in contact with Florida as well and I think they will offer sometime over the summer.”
Rogers said Georgia Tech has not contacted him, and he does not think they will. “They run a Wing-T and triple option, so I’m not sure if they are interested,” he said.
Rogers said if he could play college football tomorrow he would want to play for Nick Saban’s Crimson Tide. “I visited Alabama a couple of times, and I really like the coaches and facilities there,” he said. “I know they have already offered, but I want to weigh my options and see how everything pans out.”
Rogers, who said he most likely sees himself playing in the SEC, hopes to make a college decision during the upcoming football season.
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Recruiting Rewind: Stone Mountain LB tells what happened with South Carolina
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Stone Mountain linebacker Robert Nelson thought he was going to be a South Carolina Gamecock. But in the cut-throat world of college football, coaches come and go, communication lines break down, and often times players fall through the cracks.
“All I have to say about South Carolina is they better be ready when we play them,” said Nelson, who will be playing for Tennessee next year.
With signing day over, Nelson shares the real story:
Q. What happened with South Carolina? A. “[Former South Carolina assistant Ron Cooper] led me to believe that he was giving Coach [Ellis] Johnson all the information he needed about me. But he wasn’t and when Cooper left for LSU they didn’t know much about me. I ended up not having a scholarship offer. I was forgotten about.”
Q. What one piece of advice can you give juniors who will be going through this recruiting process next year? A. “Keep in touch with the schools you have on the back burner. You never know what could happen.”
Q. What kind of guy is Lane Kiffin and how did he influence you to come to Tennessee? A. “He seems fired up about the up and coming season. He wants to make a change and he is passionate about it. He told us it’s easy to come into a winning program and continue winning, but it’s a lot harder to come into a losing program and turn it around. I’m ready to help him out with that. He wears his passion for football on his sleeve.”
Q. What was the best single experience you had on any of your recruiting trips? A. In Monte Kiffin’s office we had a meeting with just the linebackers and Coach Monte got right in my face and told me I’d be playing exactly where Derrick Brooks played. He had me ready to go and hit somebody right then and there. For an older guy you can really see his passion for defense and the game of football.
Q. Who was the best player you ever played against in high school? Tucker’s Jonathan Davis [who had his scholarship rescinded by South Carolina after committing to the Gamecocks]. He is a hard runner and he is a good friend of mine. We were both going to go to South Carolina, but it didn’t work out that way for either of us.
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Lane Kiffin told prospect “he would end up pumping gas,” says ESPN report
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Tennessee coach Lane Kiffin had some stinging last words for Alshon Jeffrey, one of the nation’s top wide receivers, according to ESPN.com.
Jeffrey of St. Matthews, S.C., signed with South Carolina last month after an intense recruiting battle with Southern Cal and Tennessee.
According to ESPN’s Chris Low, “Kiffin told Jeffrey that if he chose the Gamecocks, he would end up pumping gas for the rest of his life like all the other players from that state who had gone to South Carolina.”
To read the rest of the ESPN article, please click here.
Two weekends ago on Tennessee’s Junior Day, several assistants pulled a shirt-ripping stunt to get prospective recruits excited about Tennessee football.
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