Tomorrow is Christmas...

[burton2019]

NSD day. Let's keep this ***** up all day. For starters I'm hearing Brissett to the U. Not confirmed yet though.

[CoeburnCane]

It's a battle between Wisky and Miami for Brissett from what I hear. We'll know Friday which one he chooses.

I know Stripes/UTVols2/Lung are happy pulling Byron Moore. Miami could have used him pretty badly to give them a solid body as a top CB. He'll probably play S and defend the slot on 3rd downs for UT.

Miami's class ranking by most services will end up well out of the top 25, probably out of the top 30 unless some crazy stuff happens tomorrow. I like this class thus far though if everyone sticks. Lots of highly regarded 3* kids (aka, kids that had offer lists a mile long but just weren't ranked highly in most services)...and most of them verbaled after Shannon was gone and Golden stepped in. Take Kevin Grooms for instance--VT fans on most boards were livid that Golden swooped in on him. They wanted him to come in and take one of the RB slots that is being vacated by Williams/Evans departures to the NFL. They valued him pretty highly, and he will probably return kicks for Miami right off the bat and could possibly help us fill a hole at either CB or WR even though his natural spot is RB.

Golden has been a mad man on the trail thus far, and Brennan Carroll is going to pay major dividends for Miami in recruiting going forward. I can't wait to see what Golden can do with a full year to recruit the 2012 kids, especially if he and his staff coaches on the field as well as they've recruited so far, and have a solid winning season to use as ammunition.

Keep in mind too that Miami is one of the schools that Tom Savage is looking at now that he's been cleared to transfer from Rutgers, and also that if Duron Carter can get qualified out of Juco, he has named Miami as the place he wants to be. Both of those would be big pickups. We likely won't know about either until later this month, maybe even until early March.

[Ironlung]

I know me and UTVols were both up last night at midnight to hear officially that Moore was coming to UT. He looks like he'll be a good one.

btw, cc... Did you know that Cooper's brother is in this years class? He's a db named Tino Thomas. He's commited to UT. (this isn't a ha ha sort of thing, just didn't know if you knew).

[CoeburnCane]

btw, cc... Did you know that Cooper's brother is in this years class? He's a db named Tino Thomas. He's commited to UT. (this isn't a ha ha sort of thing, just didn't know if you knew).

Yeah I knew about that. He's another kid I scratched my head about when Shannon was still in charge. A brother of a current Cane, who plays a position of need (CB), and who would have probably came to Miami had they offered...but Shannon never offered him. Yet another reason why I'm glad Shannon's gone.

Coop was a good athlete and had a really good career for the Canes. I really admire how hard he worked coming off of that knee injury this past year. He never complained, only worked as hard as he could to get back and contribute.

If Tino is anything like Coop, ya'll got a good one. Coop wasn't super-highly rated coming out of Melrose either. He prepped at Milford for a year and came out of there a 5*, but was a HS 3*, just like Tino. Best of luck to Tino.

[The_Sage]

Moore, Clear,, I hope there are some more surprises..

[Ironlung]

Got Curt Maggitt tonight over UF too.

[Biggin]

I was bout to say that Maggitt just committed to UT.

This is the first year in a while ive actually dreaded NSD.

the big names Bama is after, notably Crowell, will most likely go somewhere else.

Im even hearing that big Cy K. might choose Auburn