Jedrick Wills Top 10
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Too soon to tell. For it to be like DH again, he'll have to go to all the UK practices that he can, wear a "Why Not" shirt, go to all the Cats Walks, go to UK BB games, respond to a tweet from Drew Barker the night before he announced his choice; implying that he was still undecided, and then announce that he's not coming to UK, and then have it come out soon afterward that he had already decided on Thanksgiving weekend. Then, and only then, will it be like DH all over again.
I fully expect UK to be in his top 5 or even top 3. I hope he picks the UK hat when he announces his decision.
You can add warmly hugging Stoops at the Cat Walks.:grimace:
Young and Wood can really be a big influence on him. Fingers crossed that he lands here.
He can come to UK and be part of a line as good as any in the country.
An article with shallow analysis over what is his best choice
seems like a lot of the recruiting eggheads think it is a UK-Notre Dame race for Wills
seems like a lot of the recruiting eggheads think it is a UK-Notre Dame race for Wills
If uk makes a bowl game I think we have a chance. If not he more than likely will go somewhere else in my opinion.
LOL! If you guys are going to say this every time a player from Kentucky doesn't pick UK, that's just nuts. Jedrick Wills probably doesn't even know Damien Harris. It is the nature of recruiting that every team offers the players they want, then signs the players they can actually sign. No team signs every player they want from their own state. It doesn't matter what fans want Wills to do. From the beginning, I have said Stoops will have a hard time signing Wills. I know a guy connected with Lafayette's football team who told me a year ago that Wills would be very slow to cut his list and make a decision. Landon Young knew exactly what he wanted to do. But Wills doesn't know what he wants to do. He likes Stoops but he isn't locked into staying home for college. Stoops has 1 thing going for him in Wills' recruitment. Wills wants to be a tackle, and Stoops is recruiting him as a tackle. Ranked programs like ND and Alabama will recruit Wills without committing to develop him as a tackle. If Wills goes to any of those other programs, I can almost promise that he will end up as a guard. If Wills is careful, he will figure this out before he signs. That is Kentucky's best chance to get him. But it's going to be tough. Wills can sign wherever he wants. If it isn't Kentucky, I hope our fans will show a little respect this time.
I'm not sure about us using him as a guard. We're loaded at guard and we will be thin at tackle after this season, despite the fact that we'll likely sign 4 OT's in the 2017 class. In fact, depending on what happens with Robinson, we're going to be moving one of our guards over to LT.
LOL! If Wills signs with Alabama, he will play guard. If he signs with Kentucky, he is a right tackle. Is he is smart, he will figure that out before he signs.
Scholarship OL that will likely be on the roster in 2017:
Bradley Bozeman (OG/OC)-Sr.
JC Hassenauer (OC)-Sr.
Ross Pierschbacher (OG/OC)-rJr.
Josh Casher (OC)-rJr.
Lester Cotton (OG)-Jr.
Dallas Warmack (OG)-Jr.
Richie Petitbon (OG)-rSo.
Brandon Kennedy (OG)-rSo.
Matt Womack (OT)-rSo.
Jonah Williams (OT)-Freshman (Early Enrollee)
Chris Owens (OG)-Freshman (Early Enrollee)
Deonte Brown (OG)-Incoming Freshman
Scott Lashley (OT)-Incoming Freshman
We need all of the OT's we can get in the 2017 class, plus it's not out of the question that Lashley could be moved inside based on his weight. We currently have one 5-star OT that has committed but I don't think he'll stick. I think he'll flip to LSU or Florida. I believe Wills is the 2nd OT on our board, and our staff views him as such. However, I doubt Wills comes to Bama. I think he goes to UK and we end up with Wyatt Davis, Elliot Baker (JUCO), Austin Troxell, and either Kendall Randolph or Isaiah Wilson. IMO, Wills is the second best OT in that group (behind Davis).
The fact that UK is even in the picture with the other programs on that picture is a testament to Mark Stoops' effect on the program.
I enjoy your posts. Congratulations on your respectable knowledge of your roster. My football guy at Lafayette high school says Wills would redshirt and be developed as a guard at most of the schools on his list including Alabama. But Wills wants to play tackle in college. At the NFL level, tackles make a lot more money than guards. Based on his performances at skills camps, Wills believes he is a tackle. According to my friend, most schools are telling Wills that they will give him a chance to win a job as a tackle, if he can. But my friend thinks Wills profiles as a guard in most of these programs because he is 6-4 and his arms aren't very long. At a program that moved Barrett Jones to center, Wills would be moved inside where his power could be exploited in Alabama's system. I am far less convinced than you are that Saban will have trouble finding classic tackles. The deal at Kentucky is different. Mark Stoops just signed Wills' high school teammate Landon Jones who is our left tackle of the future. Stoops is recruiting Wills to be our right tackle. Obviously, Wills has a decision to make. As he makes it, he might consider this list of current Kentucky players who turned down scholarship offers from Alabama: Matt Elam, Tate Leavitt, Kendall Randolph, Kengera Daniel, Landon Young, Drake Jackson. So Wills and Mac Jones could be next.
I think as long as Wills doesn't pull a DH stunt that the fans will be fine...I think Wills has a much more genuine interest in becoming a CAT and respects the UK coaches and program that DH ever did...that being said...Come be a part of#BBN Jedrick , you and Landon can make UK history together!!!
Barrett Jones started at guard for 2 seasons but was moved to LT in 2011 because A.) we were thin at tackle, B.) the slow learning curve for Cyrus Kouandjio, and C.) Anthony Steen played very well at Guard in the last few games of 2010 when Jones was out. Although Jones won the Outland the year before, Cyrus Kouandjio had a great camp and had finally adjusted to playing in college, and the only full-time starter we needed to replace was our Center, William Vlachos. Saban realized that by having Kouandjio at LT and moving Jones to center, we'd have our best 5 lineman on the field. I agree with the others that ND is much more of a threat to UK than Bama for Wills' services. I really don't think we have much of a shot at him. Because we are thin at Tackle, I think Wills would have a chance to play Tackle and crack the 2-deep. Heck, if we miss out on Wyatt Davis and Lester Cotton stays at Guard, Wills would have a good chance to start at RT as a true freshman. He's better right now than Womack, Lashley has some bad weight, and Jonah Williams will be our LT in 2017.
That's the current scuttlebutt. It might be right. February is a long way off. My guy at Lafayette high school says Wills will be very slow to cut his list and make a decision. So far, he is right. He says Kentucky's best chance rests on Stoops recruiting Wills strictly as a tackle, the position Wills prefers to play. He doesn't think Wills is even close to making his decision. If that's right, the deciding factors will play out in the fall. I don't think it is a matter of Kentucky's record. It's about where Wills feels most comfortable. I don't know how big Landon Young's recruiting role might be, but it is a factor.
Damien Harris didn't do anything wrong. There is a public theory that Harris misled Stoops, but that is sour grapes from childish people who don't have a clue what Stoops and Harris discussed. Fans of schools that don't sign highly ranked prospects are never happy. I didn't hear Kentucky fans object when Terrance Jones ditched Washington, when Malik Monk jilted Arkansas, when Bam Adebayo dumped NC State, or when Chris Westry decommitted from Auburn. Any player can go to school wherever he wants. Fans at other schools will be unhappy. Jedrick Wills will pick a school based on what is best for him. It helps that Stoops is recruiting Wills strictly as a tackle. Most other schools are telling Wills they will give him a chance as a tackle, then place him at whatever position is best. Hopefully, Wills will give that a lot of thought before signing. By 2017, Kentucky's program should be rising as Stoops' 2014 and 2015 signings move into the maturing phase of their careers. Wills can own the right tackle job, with Mac Jones as Kentucky's up and coming quarterback. For Wills, the timing could be perfect.
About all I can say about him is I can almost guarantee you he isn't coming to UGA, we are recruiting 2 instate guys extremely hard and things look good right now, and looking for a JUCO OT. I think one big difference in Richt and Kirby's recruiting style is Kirby doesn't put as much time and resources into kids we have little chance of signing. I think its pretty safe to say we are sitting at number 10. The good think is, no Ole Miss there, a late official there and everything changes. Of course after Tunsil's confession on national TV they might lay a little low for a couple years.
Good news, so you say we are no longer in his top ten now, we are in his top nine?
Man, you are really down on Ole Miss and Auburn recruiting, and I am sure with good reason, you seem to know a great deal about all the programs, but how do you compare them to TU and Transfer U? I have a long list of truly horrific things those programs have done, not just in recruiting but in coverups, and they both seem to thrive on it. Not surprising with the present NCAA leadership.
But I don't think anyone has insulted my intelligence as much as the TU guy from their athletic department claiming that athletes are treated the same as all other students in Knoxville when some of us still haven't forgotten the eight thugs that should have gone to prison that didn't even get a parking ticket. I think the lawyers for the plantiff's in their lawsuit are going to have a field day with that, and I will remind them if they happen to forget, LOL. I heard a callin to Finebaum's show bring it up once and he professed ignorance of the whole incident, maybe they are a lot better of covering things up than I thought, or maybe people just forget some things too easily.
So, do you think those two are really worse than my two, or are they all about the same?
Its hard not to feel that way about those 2 programs with former players get on TV and admit they took money from coaches, when a former coach gets on TV and says he had a players slush fund. They are cheaters, they buy players. As for UofL, I don't think they cheat at recruiting, they don't recruit well enough to be cheating, other than that I don't know much about them because this far south they are looked at as just another school named after a town. But they are more than willing to give any player a 4th, 5th or 6th chance.
UT, I don't think they are now, they just happened to have a run of former players having highly rated football playing sons. I have a couple of friends who are former UT players, one spent several years in the NFL who are still close to the program. They tell me Butch is very charismatic and kids like him, that he is a great recruiter, so combine that with 2-3 highly rated legacies and you get the classes they have signed. Now they don't think near as much of him as a gameday coach, in fact they say he is below average gameday coach.
So to answer you question, I think UT fans feel they are entitled more than any fanbase other than most Bama fans, Rammer is definitely an exception to your average Bama fan. But I don't think either of them are cheating at the level of OM and AU do in recruiting. Louisville, not a rival of ours, only played them one time I can remember so other than what I said above I don't know anything about them. But I understand your dislike for them, when Tech was beating us about half the time, I couldn't stand them, now that we beat them 9 out of 10 times, they aren't a big game for me anymore. As long as Johnson is there, any decent Georgia HS DC can stop them, they made that offense obsolete in Georgia. Maybe that should have been older, the young guys have never seen it.
Yep, I would say our chance of signing him is less than 1%, so UK would at least be in top 9. We offered like everyone else, but as far as I know, he hasn't visited and none of our coaches have visited him, so pretty slim chance we sign him.
He should not string us along like D.Harris, the biggest traitor in UK football recruiting history.
Unlikely that he makes his decision early, but he could be a leader in this class if he committed early to UK.
I feel the same way...He could really help us recruit other top level recruits if he committed early. That's also the reason i feel like he ends up at ND or Bama. Just saying...
I don't think he ends up at Bama. Our staff would love to have him as we're looking to take one more OT. Since it came out that we're recruiting Wyatt Davis at guard, Wills would fit that last OT. Wills is above the OT that I think we're going to finish with, Austin Troxell. Good player, but Wills is a superior talent, and our staff feels the same way.
Really gun shy after Jones and won't even look at Wills until signing day or unless I am forced to forget about him if he verbals elsewhere
I won't ever get excited over a Kentucky football verbal again
I won't ever get excited over a Kentucky football verbal again
What the hell does that mean? For the sake of your entertainment, Wills should decide now?
I disagree with your statement that Damien Harris didn't do anything wrong. He stated during his press conference he knew where he wanted to go when he went to the Iron Bowl in November.
I don't know why he came to UK so much if after he had ZERO intentions of committing, I'm not mad at the kid, and I won't spew venomous junk at him, but it definitely shows lack of character. I don't know how anyone can say it doesn't.
Or he go to another school and be apart of a team as good as any in the country.
I still say last years losses to VANDY and UL, missing a bowl along with the disaster Dawson was will be tough for Stoops to overcome at UK.
Look at what's already happened to this year.
Hope I'm wrong but I don't see him at UK.
He probably enjoyed all of the attention. He got to attend a lot of basketball games for pretending he was interested in uk.
Yeah, that's prob what it was,but that still goes back to lack of character. I would never want my kids to "use" people for attention, etc.
I'd say that to continue to recruit well, we need to start winning more and get to bowl games...
I'd think that how we play this year will have a pretty big impact on Wills' decision.
I'd think that how we play this year will have a pretty big impact on Wills' decision.
I wonder how many people will repeatedly post that winning will help recruiting.
I also think any post with "I hope I am wrong" is usually suspect.
I also think any post with "I hope I am wrong" is usually suspect.