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Complete recruiting coverage coming today
By Dane Huffman Feb 4, 2009
Today is signing day in college footballm, and the local teams are looking for a major impact as the letters of intent roll in.
Duke, which holds its news conference at 1 p.m., has a surprising number of North Carolina players ready to sign. The University of North Carolina is looking to sign a monster class that could be one of the nation's best, but Carolina's commitments exceed the NCAA limit of 25 per class.InsideCarolina.com is already reporting 25 players have faxed in their letters of intent to UNC, including elite quarterback Bryn Renner of Springfield (Va.) West.
Carolina's class is expected to be ranked among the top five in the country and would continue Butch Davis' strong recruiting run since arriving in Chapel Hill. Carolina's best recruiting successes before Davis came in the 1990s under Mack Brown. The highest-rated Brown classes, according to the California-based SuperPrep magazine at the time, were No. 9 in 1990 and No. 10 in 1997.
Many of Brown's classes, however, were ranked in the top 20, and Carolina signed many of the state's highest-rated players in that era.
UNC coach Butch Davis is scheduled to be live on 99.9 FM The Fan today at 5:05 p.m.
N.C. State is looking to fix its shallow depth on the lines with a class packed with offensive and defensive linemen. While State's class isn't as highly rated as others, Wolfpack coach Tom O'Brien had plenty of success at Boston College identifying players he wanted who weren't always highly sought.
O'Brien will discuss his class live on The Fan at 5:25 p.m.
And East Carolina will announce a class that will try to continue the success the Pirates have had under coach Skip Holtz.
Meanwhile, you can find where all the local athletes are headed with extensive coverage on HighSchoolOT.com.
Coaches love to say it takes four years to evaluate a class, and to some extent that's true, but you won't have to wait four years for the skinny on these recruits. You'll find coverage and analyse throughout the day on WRALSportsFan, The Fan and WRAL-TV. Josh Hailey will be at Duke today, Bob Holliday and Jason Jennings at UNC and Ken Medlin at N.C. State to provide full reports on what the schools were seeking - and what they found.
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RE: Complete recruiting coverage coming today
It most definitely will! Give Coach Cut and gang about 3 years. That's all he will need to upset EVERY NC school at least once. By then, Duke will be Bowling while one or two other NC Schools are sitting at home in the Bowl Season.
I think you're smoking crack. Not because you think Duke will be improved in three years, but because you're so quick to downplay the strides being made by the other NC teams. They're ALL doing well, including ECU. I can see Duke being a bowl-eligible calibre team this year. But the other D-1 teams already are, and they should all be even better next year. Just be glad that (hopefully), Duke won't be the odd man out this time.
RE: Complete recruiting coverage coming today
You'll Get What You Wish For
Wow! Duke's 2009 recruiting class was rated better than Boston College, NC State, ECU and Wake's and right behind Ga. Tech's.
- Posted by oldb77
We'll see if that translates to wins over any of those teams, won't we?
It most definitely will! Give Coach Cut and gang about 3 years. That's all he will need to upset EVERY NC school at least once. By then, Duke will be Bowling while one or two other NC Schools are sitting at home in the Bowl Season.
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HAHAHA.. Two words: CHRIS JOHNSON. Coaching is what makes the difference, I'll give you that Cut is moving things in the right direction but I'd say the other coaches in the area are equally making big strides.
You'll Get What You Wish For
Wow! Duke's 2009 recruiting class was rated better than Boston College, NC State, ECU and Wake's and right behind Ga. Tech's.
- Posted by oldb77
We'll see if that translates to wins over any of those teams, won't we?
It most definitely will! Give Coach Cut and gang about 3 years. That's all he will need to upset EVERY NC school at least once. By then, Duke will be Bowling while one or two other NC Schools are sitting at home in the Bowl Season.
RE: Complete recruiting coverage coming today
Well, yes. It is basketball country around here. I'm one of the people that hopes the tide will turn. Football is so much more entertaining than basketball!
RE: Complete recruiting coverage coming today
There are football conferences and there are basketball conferences. Obviously, since there are only 5 or so Posts to this article, this is basketball country. If you could post on this article, on ANY SEC schools website, there would be between 200 and 300 Posts on ths article in about 2 hours.
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