'08 CA S Brandon Leslie (Georgia Tech Verbal)

[irishunclebill]

Brandon Leslie(5'11"/194lbs)
Edison HS (Fresno, CA)

Combine
Forty: 4.65
Bench Reps:
Bench Max: 235
Squat Max:
Shuttle:
Vertical: 35 inches
GPA: 3.3

Star Ratings
Rivals.com:
Scout.com:

Rankings & Accolades
Rivals 250 to Watch for 2008



Statistics
2006- Injured DNP
2007- N/A

Schools of Interest
California
Michigan
Nebraska
Notre Dame
Stanford
UCLA
USC
Washington

 

[irishunclebill]

Brandon Leslie

 

[irishunclebill]

Brandon is coming off of a shoulder injury which forced him to miss his entire Junior season. Primarily because of this reason, he has only received offers from Nebraska & Washington. However, it is expected that if he performs well at combines and camps to show that he has overcome the injury that he will become a heavily sought after national recruit.

Brandon has family in Chicago and is planning on being at Notre Dame for the B&G game on April 21.

 

[GoshenGipper]

I've heard ND might be looking at him as a CB rather than a S prospect.

 

[irishunclebill]

I've heard ND might be looking at him as a CB rather than a S prospect.

GG- Haven't seen a lot on Leslie. I'll change his tag to CB.

You will have to change his Thread Title.

Also, while you are at it, can you change Ben Habern's thread title to Oklahoma Verbal/Official Offer. Thanks.

 

[laxkid23]

He runs a 4.65. For a corner that is too slow. Even guys like Goodman, who don't have the greatest speed, will burn this kid.

 

[laxkid23]

By this summer I will be running a 4.55 or close to it and I don't consider myself even a good athlete.

 

[Katzenboyer]

He runs a 4.65. For a corner that is too slow. Even guys like Goodman, who don't have the greatest speed, will burn this kid.

He ran it his sophomore year. Let's see what he does at camps.

 

[laxkid23]

That does make it better.

 

[GoshenGipper]

GG- Haven't seen a lot on Leslie. I'll change his tag to CB.

You will have to change his Thread Title.

Also, while you are at it, can you change Ben Habern's thread title to Oklahoma Verbal/Official Offer. Thanks.

I'll just leave it as DB untill we know one way or the other for sure.

 

[irishunclebill]

Leslie has confirmed that he will be attending the B&G game on April 21, feels that he is being heavily recruited by ND, and is hoping to leave South Bend with an offer. He also says that even without an offer, ND is in his Top 2. If he does get an offer, we will find out if that is correct, or just another case of name dropping to attract attention.

 

[Irishknight1023]

“I like the support system they have at Notre Dame,” he said. “The tradition there is really cool too. I think I’d have a great opportunity there, especially since their defense had an off year last year. That doesn’t bother me—everyone has a bad year sometime.”

Goood good he thinks our crappy defense was only a one year deal...hes definently the big type we're looking for at CB. I thought i heard him mention how he would like to commit somewhere by the summer and maybe take some official visits during the year, that doesn't fly with me or the ND staff.

 

[robdog_5]

he's a Saftey

 

[Irishknight1023]

“I talk to Coach (Rob) Ianello all the time. I just talked with him yesterday. He’s been keeping me posted on what’s going on. He told me that they really need corners and that I fit the prototype they are looking for. I got to meet him at a combine last year and we really hit it off. He’s a great coach."

 

[irishunclebill]

I thought i heard him mention how he would like to commit somewhere by the summer and maybe take some official visits during the year, that doesn't fly with me or the ND staff.

Leslie did say something to that effect in an earlier interview, however, in a new interview where he confirms his visit to ND for the B&G game, he has taken an abrupt turn. He now says he would like to commit in late summer, and wants to have all of his visits complete by then, because once he commits, his recruitement will be done.

I wonder if someone on the ND staff heard about the earlier comments and told Brandon not to bother to come if that is how you plan to handle the recruiting process. Leslie's latest remarks are now 100% in line with the new ND policy, and I would expect Brandon will receive an offer at the B&G game, if not before.

 

[notredomer23]

I think if he gets offered at the B+G game, he is all ours by august.

 

[irishunclebill]

I think if he gets offered at the B+G game, he is all ours by august.

Now that's what I like to see ND23, confidence!

 

[Akron Irish]

Now that's what I like to see ND23, confidence!

The confidence is great....but the avatar is awesome

 

[irishunclebill]

ND is back in the loop again with Brandon Leslie. Brandon has been pretty cool toward the Irish since leaving the B&G game without an offer because he had hoped to make a decision during the summer. However, he has apparently now accepted the reality that if he wants to get more big time offers, he will have to wait until the Fall for schools to see whether he has fully recovered from the shoulder injury that caused him to miss his entire Junior Year. He currently is only holding offers from AFA, GT, Nebraska, Stanford, Washington, and Nevada.

Jappy Oliver was at Brandon's school to visit him last Thursday, and he told Oliver that he is willing to wait for an ND offer. Brandon also said that Jappy told him that ND is now recruiting him as a CB, because there are already so many Safety's on the depth chart. This may also be an indication that the Irish may still be pretty confident about Dan McCarthy. In any case, Leslie may never see an offer if any 2 of the Brown/Blanton/Slaughter/McCarthy group decide to commit before ND has a chance to see Brandon in game action. For example, if Blanton and McCarthy are Irish, and Slaughter and Brown still have not decided, Leslie will most likely not get an offer, if at all, until those guys decide, and there is a good chance that with the limited schollies that ND will not be able to take more than 2 DB's in this class, although I very highly doubt that they would turn Slaughter down if he decides to commit and Blanton and McCarthy are already Irish.

 

[IrishSanDiego]

free story on scout, mentions ND already has a safety commit?!? Any guesses?
http://story.scout.com/a.z?s=109&p=2&c=646332

 

[marv81s]

maybe a referrence to Harrisson Smith?

 

[IrishSanDiego]

It sounded like he was referring to this year. Do you know which safeties were at the Spring game or visited before?
"I went to their spring game last month and they told me they were really interested, but that they just had a safety commit"

 

[marv81s]

Dan McCarthy and Slaughter were the only ones that I can remember that were at the spring game that are secondary prospects, don't remember for certain which one was being recruited as a safety, I would guess McCarthy, and as far as I can tell, he wasn't anywhere near a committment, unless he is playing it totally cool until he is ready to tell the world he committed, but I don't believe it is Weis's policy to accept silent verbals

 

[grantphilly]

If you commit and don't go public with it right away is that considered a silent verbal. The recruit could just be waiting for the right time but knows ND is where he wants to end up

 

[irishunclebill]

First of all, you have to look at who wrote this story. He is notorious for misquoting recruits, or taking what they say out of context. When Jappy Oliver visited Leslie last week, he told him they were recruiting him as a CB because they already had enough Safety's on the depth chart. Leslie may have repeated this to Allen Wallace, and idiot that he is, he just misinterpreted what Leslie said. Think about it, if Dan McCarthy (and he is the only possibility here) did "silent verbal" to ND at the B&G game, what possible reason would the ND coaching staff have to pass that piece of information on to Brandon Leslie. The answer is there is no reason, so I just chalk this up to another Allen Wallace blunder.

BTW, if McCarthy did "silent verbal", which I do not believe he did, he would not be considered to be one anymore, because there is no way that CW would have accepted it knowing that Danny was going to visit Stanford the next weekend. As I have said before a "silent verbal" is meaningless anyway, that is why CW no longer accepts them. There is a difference between the Benn "silent verbal" of 2007, and Darius Fleming telling CW in early April that he had selected ND, but wanted to wait until B&G weekend to announce. The difference is this, the staff no longer counts such promises as an actual committment, or considers the slot filled, until the recruit actually verbally commits. If Danny McCarthy told the ND staff at the B&G weekend that he was going to commit to ND, but still has not, it means absolutely nothing anymore.

 

[rockne19]

If your looking were looking!

 

[illinoisirish88]

A short term silent commit still is accepted by ND as long as you are not visiting other schools or actively looking...see Fleming, Darius.

 

[irishunclebill]

A short term silent commit still is accepted by ND as long as you are not visiting other schools or actively looking...see Fleming, Darius.

If you want to call Darius Fleming a "silent commit" that is fine, but I do not beleive that the ND staff uses that term anymore. If there was one slot left for the LB positions, and someone said they wanted to commit to ND in the next few weeks, I am sure the coaching staff would tell them, that's fine, but if another offered LB commits in the interim, we will not wait for your verbal. That is the difference between this year and last year with Benn, where a slot was held for him and that is why I don't think the term "silent commit" is applicable to ND anymore. However, it is all a matter of semantics anyway, so it's no big deal.

 

[Katzenboyer]

A short term silent commit still is accepted by ND as long as you are not visiting other schools or actively looking...see Fleming, Darius.

Yes. From what I got from CW's presser, a silent commit is ok if it's something to the extent of "I'm committing to play for you, but I'm going to take a few days/weeks before I announce."

The time when it WON'T be ok is "I'm committing to play for you, but I'm still going to go on visits and see other schools." This is what Benn did last year.

 

[irishunclebill]

Yes. From what I got from CW's presser, a silent commit is ok if it's something to the extent of "I'm committing to play for you, but I'm going to take a few days/weeks before I announce."

The time when it WON'T be ok is "I'm committing to play for you, but I'm still going to go on visits and see other schools." This is what Benn did last year.

Again, it's just a matter of semantics, but I don't think it matters whether they visit or talk to other schools, until they actually verbally commit, the slot that they are filling will be left open in the interim between their promise and their actual announcement. Will there be exceptions to this, probably for guys like Hill, Brown, etc. if they ask for a few weeks to decide, and don't do any visits in the interim.