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Thanks for your immense contribution to the offfer list.Rookies everywhere.
Verbal commits are not binding.Try December 20th.Posting competition verbal commits are not a big help.Suggest a separate thread.Offer list is clean up to recent posting.Figure we have 15- 20 more future offers to go.We have over 70 offers outstanding.Maybe 05 and Fan1 could allocate responsibility to 17 to track UR offerees that verbally commit elsewhere.
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First RussBus Passenger-as of today,we miss a Ray Eldridge ignition in this 2019 recruiting class.
https://richmond.rivals.com/news/first-russbus-passenger
https://richmond.rivals.com/news/first-russbus-passenger
First verbal in 2017 was 6/14 with the second on 7/18 as far as I can tell.
We need to get some commitments soon. ...
FBS(BCS) Dead Period for the next 30 days should have recruits concentrating on FCS.
- Richmond football coach Russ Huesman placing 'renewed emphasis' on northeast recruiting
- BY JOHN O'CONNOR Richmond Times-Dispatch
- 32 min ago
Richmond football coach Russ Huesman
“As the University of Richmond works toward solidifying its football recruiting for the Class of 2019, there may be a few more prospects from the north and a few less from the south, relative to past years. - Second-year coach Russ Huesman, who was coach at Chattanooga of the Southern Conference for eight years before moving to UR, knows the Spiders can do well in the south. He was the Spiders’ defensive coordinator in 2008, when Richmond won the FCS national championship with a quarterback from Atlanta (Eric Ward) and several other players who were residents of the south.
Such were the recruiting ways of Dave Clawson, UR’s coach 2004-07, and now at Wake Forest. Clawson began going south on the recruiting road, and having great success there, while coach at Fordham 1999-2003.
“It’s hard,” Huesman said of recruiting in the south. “They're going to have to go through some pretty decent places to come here.”
Huesman was referring to the number of quality Division I programs and schools on the FBS and FCS levels located south of Richmond.
During Huesman’s first year, the Spiders lost two players from the south who orally committed to UR. They elected to sign with schools in the south, and Huesman believes the distance between Richmond and those prospects’ homes was a factor in each switch.
Those situations impacted Huesman's recruiting strategy.
“It’s pretty competitive down there,” he said. “We’re still down there. We’re going to recruit Georgia, Tennessee, Florida. But we’ve kind of put a renewed emphasis on New Jersey, Pennsylvania and actually put another coach [recruiting] up in Jersey because we didn’t think we handled that well enough this past year.”
There are major academic considerations when seeking players for UR, Huesman noted, and that strongly influences which directions the Spiders focus their recruiting.
One advantage of recruiting in the south: many states in that region have full-contact spring football for high-school programs, which helps recruiters evaluate.”
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To date,we have lost recruiting verbal commit battles with Furman,Wofford,USMA,USNA,Wake,JMU.We recently lost a verbal battle to NOVA of a Charlotte Catholic kid.Surprising.
Mercer,Kennesaw State and UAB present new entrants into the southern recruiting fray.
Yale and Harvard and Holy Cross and Fordham have become very aggressive in their recruiting.Some of their targets are in our academic sweetspot particularly with the investment Holy Cross College has made with their new indoor football practice facility.There was no mention of the DC metro area for recruiting.
I personally don’t believe we have aggressive closers on our staff except for Durden and Sparky.Moms and Dads Love Sparky. - Many of our coaches are south and southeast centric,not northern or northeast centric.We presently have a mismatch between geographical recruiting expertise and this new recruiting strategy.
We certainly invited many Pa and NJ and DC metro players to our Junior Invite Day.
We need to establish a real recruiting machine with proper tools for success.Recruiting good footballers is serious business especially if we intend to be in upper tier of FCS.Finding and securing top recruits ain’t by luck.I’m not sure our coaching imagery provides for that level of success.We are up against young,aggresive,media savvy coaches that cherish the hunt and driven toward success.We may have too many laid back assistant coaches who may think UR’s academic prowess is sufficient enough to close any recruiting deal.We’re delusional if we think that.Just ask Mooney. - Recruiting a certain player at UTC and playing in the SoCon is day and night compared to recruiting a certain player at UR and playing in the CAA.Russ as an assistant and now head coach at UR understands this but not sure the majority of assistants do.The caliber level and personality of UR assistants between 2003-2008 are quite different than we have today.
- We are gradually graduating all of Danny’s recruits and players.
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Eldridge was a fantastic first recruit for us. He was very active in getting other guys on board. First guy needs to be a flag bearer and he was.
- Richmond football coach Russ Huesman placing 'renewed emphasis' on northeast recruiting
- BY JOHN O'CONNOR Richmond Times-Dispatch
- 32 min ago
Richmond football coach Russ Huesman
“As the University of Richmond works toward solidifying its football recruiting for the Class of 2019, there may be a few more prospects from the north and a few less from the south, relative to past years.- Second-year coach Russ Huesman, who was coach at Chattanooga of the Southern Conference for eight years before moving to UR, knows the Spiders can do well in the south. He was the Spiders’ defensive coordinator in 2008, when Richmond won the FCS national championship with a quarterback from Atlanta (Eric Ward) and several other players who were residents of the south.
Such were the recruiting ways of Dave Clawson, UR’s coach 2004-07, and now at Wake Forest. Clawson began going south on the recruiting road, and having great success there, while coach at Fordham 1999-2003.
“It’s hard,” Huesman said of recruiting in the south. “They're going to have to go through some pretty decent places to come here.”
Huesman was referring to the number of quality Division I programs and schools on the FBS and FCS levels located south of Richmond.
During Huesman’s first year, the Spiders lost two players from the south who orally committed to UR. They elected to sign with schools in the south, and Huesman believes the distance between Richmond and those prospects’ homes was a factor in each switch.
Those situations impacted Huesman's recruiting strategy.
“It’s pretty competitive down there,” he said. “We’re still down there. We’re going to recruit Georgia, Tennessee, Florida. But we’ve kind of put a renewed emphasis on New Jersey, Pennsylvania and actually put another coach [recruiting] up in Jersey because we didn’t think we handled that well enough this past year.”
There are major academic considerations when seeking players for UR, Huesman noted, and that strongly influences which directions the Spiders focus their recruiting.
One advantage of recruiting in the south: many states in that region have full-contact spring football for high-school programs, which helps recruiters evaluate.”
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To date,we have lost recruiting verbal commit battles with Furman,Wofford,USMA,USNA,Wake,JMU.We recently lost a verbal battle to NOVA of a Charlotte Catholic kid.Surprising.
Mercer,Kennesaw State and UAB present new entrants into the southern recruiting fray.
Yale and Harvard and Holy Cross and Fordham have become very aggressive in their recruiting.Some of their targets are in our academic sweetspot particularly with the investment Holy Cross College has made with their new indoor football practice facility.There was no mention of the DC metro area for recruiting.
I personally don’t believe we have aggressive closers on our staff except for Durden and Sparky.Moms and Dads Love Sparky.- Many of our coaches are south and southeast centric,not northern or northeast centric.We presently have a mismatch between geographical recruiting expertise and this new recruiting strategy.
We certainly invited many Pa and NJ and DC metro players to our Junior Invite Day.
We need to establish a real recruiting machine with proper tools for success.Recruiting good footballers is serious business especially if we intend to be in upper tier of FCS.Finding and securing top recruits ain’t by luck.I’m not sure our coaching imagery provides for that level of success.We are up against young,aggresive,media savvy coaches that cherish the hunt.
Lots of good points here. Moon has a chance to be good. Fontel Mines was really good at UR, great at UD and believe he's one of the best at JMU. You have to have the Sparkys and the Mines of the world.
Collegiate WR
2017 All-Prep League Football Team.
http://www.prepleaguesports.com/articles/2017-all-prep-league-football-released/
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A nice looking letter from Russ which would be worth $260,000 and a top notch education for the accepting recipients.
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Perfect timing on posts of the official offer letter from Richmond, the Oregon paper did a screenshot of most major programs' letters.
https://www.oregonlive.com/recruiti...all_programs_send.html#incart_2box_recruiting
https://www.oregonlive.com/recruiti...all_programs_send.html#incart_2box_recruiting
Top 4-Coastal,USMA,LU,Purple.Hodge podge.We are in a mutual rear view mirror.
Aidan Murray UR DL frosh teammate at Pope John.
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tough young man for he is double teamed almost every play. Did not find situation where one OL could handle him for very long. Good quickness and goes downhill very quickly.
2018 Player Previews in 100 Days – Day100 Colton Richards, OL, Wilmington @ColtonR23
Written by: Billy Splain on Friday, August 24th, 2018
School: Wilmington High School
Class Of: 2019
Primary Postion: DT
Secondary Position(s): OG
Jersey Number: 54
Height: 6’2”
Weight: 270
40-Yard Dash: 4.84
GPA: 3.5
Other Sports: Basketball
Starting Experience: Lettermen Freshmen year, starter sophomore junior and senior year
Honors: ALL STATE OL.
ALL STATE WPA.
ALL STATE EPA/WPA. SUPER 25.
ALL SMALL SCHOOL ALL STAR.
ALL D10 FIRST TEAM OL/DL.
ALL REGION FIRST TEAM OL/DL.
offers: Navy, UMass, Delaware, Richmond, Albany, Fordham, Duquesne, Robert Morris, Saint Francis, Slippery Rock, and Notre Dame of Ohio.
2017 Stats:
Offers: Slippery Rock, Navy, RMU, Duquesne, Notre Dame College, Richmond, Umass, Albany, Fordham, St Francis, Delaware
Twitter: @ColtonR23
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