Vanderbilt Commodores Football: National Signing Day Open Thread
by KingJamesIV on Feb 1, 2012 10:26 AM EST
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It's national signing day. Come discuss the Vanderbilt Commodores 2012 signing class.
Important developments:
- As of 9:53 CST, five players with at least one four-star rating have faxed in their commitments (Brian Kimbrow, Andrew Jelks, Darreon Herring, Jacob Sealand, and Caleb Azubike). UPDATE: Stephen Weatherly makes it six players.
- Another four-star recruit, Josh Dawson, decommitted from Vanderbilt to choose Georgia. A loud cackling was heard across the southeast, thought to be coming from Todd Grantham's general area.
- The biggest surprise thus far has been the commitment of three-star recruit Harding Harper, who is poised to join Archibald Barnes and Hunter Hillermayer amongst the ranks of linebackers whose names make them sound like 1900s investment bankers.
As of 11:11 CST, Vandy's got 20 players lined up to join the team in 2012. All are rated three-stars or higher by Rivals.com.
We'll have more as events develop throughout the day. Pictures, discussion, and more are after the jump...
Here's Tip McKenzie and his family on signing day:
via p.twimg.com
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Charlie Miller just pushed back his announcement to noon
he got late calls from WF and UK.
Also any news on Weatherly?
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Approximately 8 left
that have either not confirmed faxing in their LOI or confirmed by someone inside War Room.
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Have I mentioned
how much driving 3 hours from Little Rock to get to the game an hour early, then suffering through the game, then walking to my rental car and then driving back 3 hours starting at 10.30pm to Little Rock and then getting in at 1-something am sucks? Particularly after having gotten up at 4am to make a flight from Nashville to Little Rock for work and then having to go through Houston and then work all day prior?
Well, it sucked. Just now getting up and moving. Saw the news on Josh Dawson. Effing Grantham. I’m not sure Dawson is seeing clearly with all the spit in his eyes.
Anyway, unless TI has something in the works for NSD, this might be it until I get home around 10 tonight. Two more flights! At least it’s back through Houston as opposed to Midway. /shudders at the thought
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Well if it makes you happy
we did get a LOI from Harding Harper.
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That does
Me missing the signing day celebration at VU tonight does not :(
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Yeah, wish I was there too.
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We lived in Princeton for a couple of years.
Other than not being able to make a left turn on most roads, we liked NJ a lot.
Closest we came to Wayne was the IKEA in Elizabeth.
by Pope Vanderbilt on Feb 1, 2012 10:54 AM EST up reply actions
Josh Dawson went with UGA
You’ve won this round Grantham….
But James Franklin has a helicopter, and he can drop in any time.
by Pope Vanderbilt on Feb 1, 2012 10:51 AM EST reply actions
We just got a WR named Tip McKenzie...
If awesome names mean anything on the field, Tip will be juking Dawson out of his shoes in a couple years.
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by Harbinger of Joy on Feb 1, 2012 10:56 AM EST up reply actions
Hopefully that Tip has an Iceberg under it...
…I’ll show myself out…
"Well, if that ain't a show, I'll kiss your ass." - Gov. Jim Folsom Sr. (D-AL), 1948-52
Corey Batey is now official
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Andrew Jelks
4* OL 6’6 270 and plays the cello.
This is what CJF was talking about when he said at Vanderbilt we need to recruit “a certain kind of young man.” I like to imagine that his gameday trash talk is littered with references to Bach and the Brandenburg Concertos.
I’m a dork, if there was any doubt. My passion for Vanderbilt sports is rivaled by only a few things, cello among them.
by Pope Vanderbilt on Feb 1, 2012 11:02 AM EST reply actions
6-6? He must play that cello on his shoulder like a fiddle
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Harding Harper is now official
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Shouldn't Be Checking This at Work, But...
Just saw Harper’s video highlights. I know these are made to make the recruit look good in a game, but DANG! Dawson who?
All public recruits are in except for Colby
hearing a few surprises in the mix.
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What about Kevin McCoy?
And based on last season’s kicking game, Colby could be one of our bigger signings.
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by Harbinger of Joy on Feb 1, 2012 12:48 PM EST up reply actions
Kevin McCoy is rumored to be in
But he isn’t listed on VUCommodores yet. That takes a little time to get processed so to the point that they are officially allowed to talk about it.
Once he is in that is 21.
When Cooke signs that is 22, though he still may not enroll until the spring we can choose. If I’m not mistaken, if he doesn’t sign until Spring, we can choose whether we count him against the 25 per year cap this year or next year. I don’t know whether that affects how he counts against the 85 total, though I would imagine that it does affect that. Though, if we have an open spot in the 85, I’d assume we’d bring him in right away.
CJF said he was looking at like 22-24 to sign this year.
mcdonald and dawson
its really true that student athletes think of themselves as soley athletes. To think that 2 players who most likely arent going to end up in the nfl would give up a vanderbilt education to go to georgia and minnesota respectively is appauling
[Insert "appauling" and "vanderbilt education" joke here.]
That is all.
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by NCT on Feb 1, 2012 1:09 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs
I call on Dawg Sports to refudiate this comment.
by Pope Vanderbilt on Feb 1, 2012 1:43 PM EST up reply actions
I mean no harm.
Clearly I’m attracted by low-hanging fruit, and I sometimes can’t just keep my mouth shut.
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by NCT on Feb 1, 2012 1:49 PM EST up reply actions
Excellent exchange
I’m not so sure he realized that you ’Palin’ed’ him
It is frustrating when kids jerk you around
But the kids are still just trying to do what is best for themselves and it is up to them to value what that is. They are entitled to that and we all did the same things choosing a college, just no one really cared if we changed our minds.
And the kids also get jerked around plenty too, so it isn’t a one-way street on that.
by The Goche on Feb 1, 2012 1:12 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Tough to know.
It’s entirely possible that Dawson just felt more comfortable at UGA. Maybe they had different classes that he wanted. Maybe he liked the campus and atmosphere better there. Maybe he just wanted to be closer to home. All we know is that he decided based on what he thought was the best fit for him, and that’s not necessarily solely a football decision.
Same with McDonald. He stayed closer to home, and Minnesota and Tennessee are very different places. Maybe he was just more comfortable there.
Besides, it’s not like getting a UGA or UM education is going to disqualify you from jobs later in life. Ultimately it’s going to come down to how they apply whatever they learned in college. They could be better off at their new schools than Vandy in the long run educationally, because it’s all about fit and what you do with it.
by Christian D'Andrea on Feb 1, 2012 2:05 PM EST up reply actions
UGA
As a Georgia native and current resident, I can elucidate what Josh likely experienced discussing his college options with friends and family in our fair state:
Friends/Family: “So, J, have you committed to a school yet?”
Josh Dawson: “Yeah, I’m going to Vanderbilt.”
Friends/Family: “Oh, really? [searches for appropriate comment] Where is that, Massachusetts? They’re pretty good at…basketball, right?”
OR
Friends/Family: “So, J, you still going to Wake Forest?”
Josh Dawson: “It was Van….never mind. Nah, I’ve decided on UGA.”
Friends/Family: " Seriously?! That’s amazing. Go Dawgs!"
That’s what the kid was up against. UGA football is the THE primary sports interest of this state. Picture the amount of Creamsicle Orange T’s you see anywhere in the Volunteer State and you’ve got at least that sort of inundation of UGA paraphernalia around Georgia. Plus, it is a great public university.
by Pope Vanderbilt on Feb 1, 2012 3:11 PM EST up reply actions
Can’t speak to Georgia, but Minnesota is a pretty damn good public university. If it’s true they won’t be going pro, they should be looking out for their best career interests. If McDonald wants to stay close to home (originally from MN), there is no better place to go than University of Minnesota. Undergrad degrees get you so little these days that it would be silly to go to Vanderbilt just because of its prestige (its a good school but its not Princeton/Harvard).
I just looked it up. I’d never heard of it, but then, I’ve never been to MInnesota.
Even though it’s non-sensical to market beer as being “friendly,” it is still more appealing than marketing beer as being “cold” (looking at you Coors).
by Pope Vanderbilt on Feb 1, 2012 3:58 PM EST up reply actions
They sell it at pro sporting events in Minnesota
And I have yet to find a sports bar there that didn’t have it on tap. It’s not bad, a little sweet and light. A very good hot-day tailgate beer.
by Christian D'Andrea on Feb 1, 2012 5:03 PM EST up reply actions
Still in the works
Charlie Miller went to NIU.
Rumor that it was up to us, that he wanted to come and we said no thanks. (Or more likely not right now.)
No real news on what we might be doing instead. One would assume that we wouldn’t pass on a WR if we weren’t also working on a WR, but no way to know. If we do have a WR lined up, no one has any idea who it is. It looks like our target WR that we had come close on before have got their letters in (Thomas, McDonald, Harbison).
It is known that we are still in on another DB who isn’t deciding today.
3* CB Anthony Standifer (@RealChewy) tweeted yesterday “GOING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF PITT FEBRUARY 10TH & THE UNIVERSITY OF VANDERBILT EITHER THE 8TH OR THE 17TH”
No real idea if anything else is in the works, but for the most part any surprise options are drying up.
Odds are
If we are still working on anything it is WR or S. After missing on McDonald et al, and after identifying 3 safeties for South Carolina to snag from us those are our biggest need positions, not really for next year, but longer term.
Still blows my mind that we had 3 S recruits all decide against us to go to the same school.
Kevin McCoy is in officially
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The class appears to be capped
I have a check mark on all of the candidates on my list. Plus Harding Harper and less Dawson.
With 22
we may see another 2 (Safety and Wide Reciever?)
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Keep hearing that we are not done
does that mean Diggs is still in play?
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Jordan or Stefon?
SC sounds like they are not having any doubts on Jordan Diggs signing his LOI. There was 1 report that he was just waiting on his mom to get to the school.
Stefon I know isn’t signing today, but wouldn’t that be awesome. That still seems like a way out there hope since we didn’t appear to ever really get into the heart of his conversation.
I don’t know if anything is going to happen, but I can’t imagine they didn’t think they had a good chance on someone if they really did tell Charlie Miller to go ahead to NIU.
holding out hope for Stefon
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