'08 CA RB Milton Knox (UCLA Verbal)

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no, i think he meant patrick johnson, who originally picked the gators, then changed to LSU.
 
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I don't know if this will have any effect on Knox's decision or not .... but 4* running back Aundre Dean recommitted to UCLA today.

I guess UCLA is still actively pursuing Darrell Scott
 
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Just saw on the UCLA board where there is speculation that they are NOT pursuing Scott anymore.

Supposedly, according to sources, UCLA had an in home visit scheduled for the 29th. When the UCLA coaches showed up ............... the Texas coaches were already there.

Wooooooooops!
 
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ab2cmiller said:
Just saw on the UCLA board where there is speculation that they are NOT pursuing Scott anymore.

Supposedly, according to sources, UCLA had an in home visit scheduled for the 29th. When the UCLA coaches showed up ............... the Texas coaches were already there.

Wooooooooops!
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Those darn party bashers!!!
 
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ab2cmiller said:
Just saw on the UCLA board where there is speculation that they are NOT pursuing Scott anymore.

Supposedly, according to sources, UCLA had an in home visit scheduled for the 29th. When the UCLA coaches showed up ............... the Texas coaches were already there.

Wooooooooops!
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I am surprised Urban doesn't do this to CW...follow him around and crash his visits
 
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ab2cmiller said:
Just saw on the UCLA board where there is speculation that they are NOT pursuing Scott anymore.

Supposedly, according to sources, UCLA had an in home visit scheduled for the 29th. When the UCLA coaches showed up ............... the Texas coaches were already there.

Wooooooooops!
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That probably happens often. Terry Bowden wrote an article a year or two back about recruiting lessons he learned.

Edit: I thought posting the whole story would be a good idea:
It was 1994, after my second year at Auburn. We had just completed a two-year run, going 20-1-1. Although we were finishing up probation from the prior coaching staff and had not been able to go to a bowl or compete for the national championship, the fact that we started my tenure at Auburn with 20 straight victories was getting us into the homes of some of the best players in the country.

It was the last week of recruiting, and the No. 1 defensive player in the state of Florida was named Martavius Houston. He was a defensive back from Boyd Anderson High School in Fort Lauderdale, and he had the choice of going to any school in the country. However, by this final week he had narrowed his decision down to two schools. He was either going to go to Auburn and play for me or he was going to go to Florida State and play for my ol' man, Bobby Bowden (I'm sure you've heard of him).

Per NCAA rules, the head coach is allowed only one official home visit. I strategically looked at the calendar for the best chance for me to go into his home and hopefully close the deal. I decided to have my home visit from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday night. He had a basketball game Friday night, which would keep him busy, and he had no more official school visits left for the final weekend. I made up my mind that Thursday night was do-or-die time with this recruit.

I booked the flight to Fort Lauderdale and rented a nice Lincoln Town Car in order to impress him when I drove up. As I met him and his mother on the front porch, I immediately hugged his mom and told her how much I loved her and turned to Martavius and said, "Son, you're going to win a Heisman Trophy at Auburn University."

I followed them into the house and proceeded to sing his praises – nonstop – for an hour and a half. I said, "Son, you are the No. 1 recruit on my list, the best player I've ever seen, I'm going to make you my star, I'm going to make you my captain, and you're going to win two Heisman trophies at Auburn. Only Archie Griffin at Ohio State has ever done that." The more I talked, the bigger his eyes got, and the more he started leaning off the front of that chair. As most coaches will tell you, when you get a "leaner" you need to seal the deal right then and there. I wanted to stick my cell phone in his face and say, "you call that Bobby Bowden right now and tell him you don't want to go to FSU, that you want to be an Auburn Tiger."

However, high school coaches do a great job of prepping these young men by telling them not to get pressured into making a decision in front of the head coach but instead to wait until they can be alone with their family and loved ones so they can make a rational decision. So although he didn't verbally commit right there, I believed I had done the best selling job ever – I knew I had him.

As we walked back out onto the front porch, before I said goodbye, I turned to his mom one last time, hugged her neck and reminded her how much I loved her. Then, with all the sincerity I could muster, I looked that young man directly in the eyes and said, "I have never told anybody this before, but you're gonna win three Heisman trophies at Auburn. You'd win four, but you're gonna be in the NFL by then."

As I turned to leave, a long black, stretch limousine pulled up in front of the house. A little, short driver with one of those driver's caps and half-jackets on got out, walked all the way around the back of the limousine and opened the back door next to the curb.

Out stepped my ol' man.

He had scheduled his official visit for 7:30 p.m. on the same night.

As he waddled up that sidewalk wearing that silly-looking safari hat and those red/yellow/green sunglasses that he always wears, my eyes got as big as saucers and my jaw dropped.

My ol' man stepped up on the porch, said hello to that mama, shook Martavius' hand, turned to me, patted me on the head (in front of both of them) and said, "Terry, when you get home, your mama wants you to call her."

That's all he said!

You talk about dirty recruiting – it doesn't get any dirtier. Nobody has ever been "who's your daddy-ed" worse than that.

I mean, who do you want to play for – BOBBY – or terry?

I'm sure every coach out there has his war stories to tell. I just thought you'd like to hear mine.

Incidentally, Martavius Houston had a great career at Auburn University.
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Big differenece going from a 29-36 and a 16-22...29 the kid actually started out really smart!
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i jumped from a 24 to a 27..

i was scared to take it again because it might go down and notre dame will see it..

eitherway, i dont think it is enough for ND, but i sure hope it is


and after the first ACT you jump more than just 1 or 2 points..

the first time (if you didnt prepare for it) you most likely will not finish in time and by time you get to the science portion you just want to go home..

i took it the first time in 9th grade and got a 21.. then jr year i got a 24, then this year i got a 24 again, and then a 27 a month later
 
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Yeah, as I said in the VC a few days ago, ND basically already has him. This visit is more about sealing the deal and not screwing things up, than it has to do with selling him on ND.
 
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RB Aundre Dean committed to UCLA yesterday. He's the #6 RB in the country.
UCLA is also supposed to get a commit from Jonathon Franklin at some point before NSD. He's listed on Scout as a 'soft verbal'.

This should also help lock up Knox to ND.
 
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Milton will announce live Wednesday at 4:00 p.m. PST on Fox Sports West.

He'll choose between UCLA, Florida and Notre Dame.

Thing are looking very good at the moment, and unless his parents don't wnat him leaving home I think he'll be Irish.
 
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Nice Gip, I can't wait! I'm hearing its 4 est though. I hope it is, why would he wait so long? Recruits usually fax their letters early, I hope it leaks before then.
 
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Clausen2Kamara said:
Nice Gip, I can't wait! I'm hearing its 4 est though. I hope it is, why would he wait so long? Recruits usually fax their letters early, I hope it leaks before then.
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If you don't mind can I ask where you saw that. It would be nice if that were the case. The info I saw didn't specify but since it was talking about FSW I thought it would be PST and not EST.
 
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If you don't mind can I ask where you saw that. It would be nice if that were the case. The info I saw didn't specify but since it was talking about FSW I thought it would be PST and not EST.
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on scouts it says 6:30 at this link Scout.com but i tink thats the time in cali
 
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Hmm, this is what it lists and I know I've seen articles that said 4pm. I'm guessing the show starts at 6:30 EST and he'll announce half an hour into the show which will make it 4pm PST.

Announcing: 2/6 - Signing Day - 6:30pm FSN
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