'11 GA DE Ray Drew (Georgia Verbal)

[irishff1014]

And you are on antional tv every weekend.

 

[Irish Man3]

Jamie Newburg on ESPN has posted something today about Ray Drew naming his final 6.

Auburn
Clemson
LSU
Georgia
Florida
Tennessee

 

[GoldenIsThyFame]

Jamie Newburg on ESPN has posted something today about Ray Drew naming his final 6.

Auburn
Clemson
LSU
Georgia
Florida
Tennessee

I guess so much for him saying he wanted to take a look outside the SE.... There is probably a .5% chance the kid leaves SEC country.

 

[irishff1014]

Oh well no more wasted time on him.

 

[JDAtlanta]

Oh well no more wasted time on him.

Does the Urban Meyer retirement bring us back in?

 

[IrishinSyria]

Does the Urban Meyer retirement bring us back in?

I think it's more likely that he just has a final 5 now.

 

[NDinL.A.]

Does the Urban Meyer retirement bring us back in?

It definitely threw him for a loop. He was already quoted as saying that Meyer resigning is a 'big problem' for him. But he's staying down south. ND was never really in it for him anyway. He always said he could see himself visiting ND, but would never set a date. This helps Georgia more than anything...he's visiting them this weekend.

 

[Irish Man3]

Auburn, Georgia, Clemson, and LSU are the avorites for Drew. Urban stepping down had little influence on his overall decision and means little to nothing for ND.

 

[irishandy]

Drew can stay down south, I am satisfied with Tuitt and will be more satisfied if we land Ishaq.

 

[The Polish Irishman]

Rivals.com Football Recruiting - Ministry is what drives Drew

SAN ANTONIO - Some kids go to bed hearing Little Bo Peep. Some drift off to Humpty Dumpty. Still others fly away with Peter Pan. But when Ray Drew, Sr., and his wife Pamela used to lull their baby boy to sleep, they didn't read from the Brothers Grimm or even stately old Mother Goose. They went straight to the Good Book. You know: light reading.

"When I was younger, when most kids would have their bedtime stories be the Three Little Pigs or Goldilocks and the Three Bears, I would always have a story read to me out of the Bible," says Ray Drew, Jr. "I believe that's where it mostly started. I didn't understand them at the time, but we had a preacher and my godfather Cory McGee - who's a minister, and he'll be here this week - and they just told my parents to keep reading to me."



Ministry is the top priority of Ray Drew.
So his parents kept on reading scripture to that baby boy, and now, Ray, Jr., is a 6-foot-5, 243-pound man-mountain from Thomasville (Ga.) Thomas County Central. He also is the No. 1-ranked weakside defensive end in the country, a four-star recruit and a hair's breadth away from being - wait for it - an ordained minister.

"They said at the time to wait for me to grow up and learn how to read the stories for myself, and then, they'd see where it takes me, and this is where we're at so far," says Drew. "I actually started ministering at the age of 12 or 13, and I gave my first sermon in front of a congregation my eighth-grade year.

"If it had been up to me, I probably wouldn't be doing it. It was the calling of the Lord."

It seems clich?o say that it all started with a dream, but if the vision fits, well, you wear it.

"He came to me one night in a dream," Drew says, "and in a vision, He let me know what He had in store for my life. That (ministering) was the plan He had for me, and I couldn't go back on it."

Drew is under the tutelage now of Pastor Eddie Lee Edwards, who will determine when his young charge is ready to take up the pulpit. And what better a stage to have now than the US Army All-American Game and - soon enough - big-time college football.

"I couldn't second-guess it, but if it was up to me, I'd just be a normal teenage guy, running around and just doing whatever, I guess," Drew says. "I know that, when it's all said and done, we have to set our sights on things eternal, because in the end, everything is going to pass away and the only thing that's going to be left standing is His word. That's what I'm working towards."

As committed as Drew is to his spiritual mission, he still has yet to make a pledge to one of his many suitors. His final five are believed to be Auburn, Clemson, Georgia, LSU and Florida.

His religious devotion is likely to play a role in where he eventually decides to commit.

"I know the way that I was raised, how I was brought up, and I'd like to continue that in my college years," says Drew. "I don't want to, in the next three-to-five years, tear down what I've built so far. As far as the religious aspect, it plays a big part in my process."

Drew's been called one of this year's toughest recruits to get a read on, and he likes it that way.

"I dig it," he laughs. "I like to have fun. I'm just that type of individual: I don't like to be predictable."

He's definitely not above pulling the media's collective leg, but, frankly, it's just too hard to get mad at the kid. He's easy with a smile, boasts a full, deep laugh and always answers with a 'yes sir' or a 'no sir.'

"I'll tell you that I'm not going to a game on a given weekend, but then I may just end up at Notre Dame the next day; that's just me," Drew says with a smile. "I don't like to be predictable. I just like to do my own thing and to keep people thinking, keep 'em guessing."

Drew has said rather nebulously that he's "looking into a lot of stuff."

"What I'm looking for in a school, as far as making my final decision, first off is going to be education," says Drew, whose mother Pamela is an educator, herself. "Any education at the Division I level will be up-to-par. Next, I would say would be how comfortable I feel on that campus. If I were to go there as a regular student, if I weren't being recruited to go there as a player, would I feel comfortable there as a student? Third off, I'd say playing time has a role in my process, as well, because if you love football the way you say you do, you would rather be on the field than on the sideline, any day."

And one of the things that Drew loves best is hitting people. Given his pious lifestyle and peaceful nature off the gridiron, one would think it difficult to reconcile such violence and physicality with his philosophical proclivities, but Drew doesn't see it quite like that. Instead, he relates that dichotomy to the Parable of the Talents, found in Matthew 25:14-30.



Christian LeMay and Ray Drew have had a fun rivalry of late.
"The way I look at it, a lot of people say that football's a violent sport, and all this kind of stuff, but the way that I take that, what I take from that, is from this story told in the Bible, where the Lord gave three men different talents," Drew begins. "He gave one to one man, two to another and a little more to the third. The man he gave one buried his. The other two and multiplied their talents and brought back more than what the Lord had blessed them with. That's the way I look at my talents. The Lord has given me the ability to go out and play football and have fun with it, as well. I might as well go out and multiply them, as the story says, so He won't get angry and won't take them away. If He gives you something, and you don't use it, it's a slap in the face."

A slap in the face is more than what he promised good friend and rival Christian LeMay, a 2011 Georgia QB commit from Matthews (N.C.) Butler. Last week, Drew posted on LeMay's wall: "Love ya Lemay, but I'm like a bull. I hate red and when I see you on the opposing sideline, I'm comin to get ya."

LeMay - who enrolled early at Georgia - responded: "hahahah wow bro bro hurtful words :/ go dawgs :>".

The two have become fast friends throughout the recruiting process, and the back-and-forth is no more than some of Drew's patented ribbing. Frankly, he still has no idea where he wants to go.

"He's tried to talk to me about Georgia and everything," Drew says of LeMay. "I had to be all big with him, but really in the end, I've got to do what's best for me, whether it be Florida, whether it be Auburn, maybe it is Georgia. In the end, I have to do what's best for me, because I'm going to be the one there, and where Georgia may be home for you (LeMay), for me, it might be out west in California."

Talk about a bolt from the blue. It turns out that Drew has himself a darkhorse candidate out on the West Coast.

"I was looking at UCLA, mainly because of its location and the major that I want to go into, which is communications," says Drew. "Them being in LA, it'll offer up a lot of opportunities."

Adding the Bruins to his top tier of schools with just a month left until National Signing Day, Ray Drew is, as usual, just full of surprises.

The 11th Annual US Army All-American Bowl will take place on Saturday, Jan. 8 at 12 p.m., CST, live on NBC at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Tex.

 

[The Polish Irishman]

"I'll tell you that I'm not going to a game on a given weekend, but then I may just end up at Notre Dame the next day; that's just me," Drew says with a smile. "I don't like to be predictable. I just like to do my own thing and to keep people thinking, keep 'em guessing."

Interesting quote

 

[ndcoltsfan2010]

Interesting quote

Love the quote

 

[Fbolt]

"What I'm looking for in a school, as far as making my final decision, first off is going to be education," says Drew, whose mother Pamela is an educator, herself.

Interesting quote

 

[ryno 24]

drew is not coming to ND we should no that by now

 

[ndcoltsfan2010]

drew is not coming to ND we should no that by now

Concur, but it still was an interesting quote. He stays south for sure.

 

[ryno 24]

yea i guess we all just know he is staying in the south

 

[InKellyITrust]

I'd love for BK to call him and say "Tuitt, Lynch and Ishaq, what are you thinking?"

 

[PLACforever]

there was something a few days ago about Tuitt messaging him on FB or Twitter asking if he was still coming to visit South Bend and he said "probaly" (or something)
Anyone remember seeing that or did i imagine it?

 

[Ricochet]

there was something a few days ago about Tuitt messaging him on FB or Twitter asking if he was still coming to visit South Bend and he said "probaly" (or something)
Anyone remember seeing that or did i imagine it?

Your thinking of Sterling Bailey another Georgia DE, I believe.

 

[irishmarine]

Didn't Aaron get mad at fsu because they were looking for more guys ar his position?

 

[IrishMoore1]

Lynch and Tuitt are the only true DE's in this class

 

[IHateMarkMay]

Where would Drew play, I don't think it has been discussed much on here.

 

[KPENN]

He'd be an OLB at ND

 

[Ricochet]

Didn't Aaron get mad at fsu because they were looking for more guys ar his position?

He was mad because they lied about it and as he stated he's not shying away from any competition it was the fact that trust had been lost before he even got started there and think he came to the conclusion if he can't trust them with something as simple as that then this isn't the right place for him.

 

[BGIF]

He was mad because they lied about it and as he stated he's not shying away from any competition it was the fact that trust had been lost before he even got started there and think he came to the conclusion if he can't trust them with something as simple as that then this isn't the right place for him.

That's exactly how I read it.

 

[FightingIrishLover7]

Aaron isn't afraid of comp. He just hates liars. That's why he came back.

 

[ndcoltsfan2010]

I've been on cloud nine now for the past couple of days. I have wanted Ishaq to be Irish more than anyone and we got him..., I was elated and in heaven when I heard Aaron decided to come back to us. We have all the ingredients now to make our defense a top 5 in the nation for the next few years. I would have loved to have gotten Drew in this class, but after watching Tuitt and Lynch in the AAA bowl, I am convinced we have the two best DE in the country!!! What we have accomplished defensively in this recruiting class is amazing and just short of a miracle that will be remembered and discussed for years to come. Good Luck to Drew and wherever he ends up at. He's a great player, but I think we hit the jackpot with Tuitt and Lynch and a dash of Williams!! GO IRISH!!!!!

 

[irishff1014]

I would say that we need to leave Drew alone. And if we are going to go after someone go after another RB or an Good DB.

 

[notredomer23]

he's not coming to notre dame. thats a fact.

 

[NDinL.A.]

I would say that we need to leave Drew alone. And if we are going to go after someone go after another RB or an Good DB.

We're full at DB (we have 5). I'm very happy with our DB class.

And as ND23 said (and I've said this about 5 times in this thread and others), Drew is not coming to ND, nor is he leaving the South. It's all lip service when he says he is thinking about taking a visit to ND. He's been saying that forever, to ND people of course. And he's never come close to taking a visit. And he NEVER mentions ND to reporters in the South. He's not coming.