Tinker - Gospel:
It is very hard for me to believe that people left to there own devices. Will judge each other according to their difference in their age, to there parents. Or to simply not like the memory of a person who passed away 2000 years ago. Because of the difference in between now, from then. And it is equality hard for me to understand that people who have had the benefit of going through a good college education. To likewise judge that the generation that went before them, were less intelligent, or less humane.
In fact, it is getting very hard for me to believe just about most of the remark's coming from the present day news media reports, about this generation these days. Because telling us that this present day generation is much more capable of accepting a more relaxed attitude. Towards same sex marriage, and equal gender rights between men and women. And of course that this generachion is much more better towards people of different color, and religion.
That bit of present day news is to put it mildly, preposterous. And it is just a lot of hot air coming from a New Media, bent on writing a lot of glossy smoke. Flattering the present generation ego's for the news media self serving reason. And not a true honest reflection of this present day generation whatsoever.
Do tell then. How much more are you, to them?
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The Charge of the Light Brigade
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
| Half a league, half a league, All in the valley of Death "Forward, the Light Brigade! "Charge for the guns!" he said: Into the valley of Death Was there a man dismay'd? Not tho' the soldier knew Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die: Into the valley of Death Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Storm'd at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell Flash'd as they turn'd in air, Sabring the gunners there, Charging an army, while Plunged in the battery-smoke Right thro' the line they broke; Cossack and Russian Reel'd from the sabre stroke Then they rode back, but not Cannon to left of them, Cannon behind them Storm'd at with shot and shell, While horse and hero fell, They that had fought so well Came thro' the jaws of Death Back from the mouth of Hell, All that was left of them, O the wild charge they made! Honor the charge they made, Honor the Light Brigade, |
J. E. Tilton and Company, Boston, 1870
Tinker:
And how much more of you are to him?
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"But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed." Isaiah 53:5 (King James Version)
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LSU Football - Geaux Tigers!!!
| ESPN 104.5 | .mp3 Audio (14 min, 58 sec): Interview with Frank Wilson |
| Rivals | Position recruiting ranking: Defense |
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| Getting to know Cam Cameron | ||||
Soon-to-be LSU coordinator Cam Cameron
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An official announcement is expected next week that Cam Cameron will be LSU's next offensive coordinator. Before then, TSD gets the scoop on what the Tigers are getting from NFL analyst and Ravens insider Aaron Wilson. | |||
The writing is on the wall that Cam Cameron will be LSU’s next offensive coordinator. No contract has been signed or official announcement made, but the mere indication has been enough to send Tiger Nation into a state of delirium. Any change is good change, so goes the thinking. After all it’s been five seasons and two offensive coordinators since LSU has ranked in the top half of the Southeastern Conference in passing offense. From 2009-12, Les Miles’ run-first offense has ranked no higher than 97th in the NCAA throwing the football. So in comes Cameron, 52, a veteran offensive mind and someone very familiar with Miles after the two coached together for seven seasons in Michigan from 1987-93. But, those tidbits aside, just who is the man soon to be tasked with blowing life into the occasionally stagnant and usually one-dimensional LSU offense? “He’s suited for college football.” That’s the first thing Aaron Wilson, who covers the NFL for Fox Sports and the Ravens for The Baltimore Sun, had to say about Cameron, who was fired as the Ravens’ offensive coordinator following a Week 14 loss to the Washington Redskins. “Cam is a Michigan man,” explained Wilson. “He coached Jim Harbaugh, and he’s tight with everyone you can think of who has Michigan ties. Cam is Les’ guy, and I think it’s going to be a really good situation because Les has someone he can trust and someone with a ton of experience – he’s been an NFL head coach, a successful NFL offensive coordinator. “Say what you want about how it ended. He had an argument with John Harbaugh and wasn’t listening to staff input maybe as much as he should have been, and that led to his downfall this year, but he has a lot to do with the Ravens being Super Bowl champions right now. Nobody can ever take that away from him.” As for his X’s and O’s Wilson indicated Cameron, a noted developer of quarterbacks, should align nicely with Miles on offensive philosophy. “Cam believes in balance,” said Wilson. “He’s one of these guys who is really going to establish the run. He believes in the fullback. He believes in establishing a kind of smash-mouth approach, and then he’ll go vertical if he feels like he can trust the quarterback and the wide receivers to not throw interceptions. “He can be a little wary sometimes with a young quarterback and throwing over the middle because he believes that leads to interceptions. He likes to work the sidelines, work the intermediate stuff. He is a definite disciple of the Don Coryell principles of the old San Diego Chargers. You look back at Cam in his career, and there’s been some West Coast system, some option football. He’s been a versatile coordinator.” On top of his NFL experience with the Ravens, Cameron enjoyed a successful run as offensive coordinator of the San Diego Chargers from 2002-06 and coaching quarterbacks with the Washington Redskins from 1994-96. His stint as head coach of the Miami Dolphins didn’t fare as well, with the south Florida team slumping to 1-15 in his only season at the helm in 2007. Cameron has also served as a collegiate head coach, leading Indiana to an 18-37 record in his five seasons in Bloomington from 1997-2001. It’s Cameron’s stay there, however, coupled with his body of work at Michigan, which lead Wilson to believe he’ll be a more-than-serviceable recruiter for LSU. “He was a good recruiter at Michigan and Indiana,” Wilson said. “He got and helped develop Antwaan Randle El. He’s got a good personality and is friendly. He’s good with parents. He’s a good, trustworthy, Christian kind of guy, and I think that plays real well in the South. He’s charismatic, smart and a good speaker, and he knows how to flatter people.” Asked what the biggest downside of Cameron is, Wilson responded he can over-think the game and playcalling from time to time. “The one thing is he’ll have this tendency where sometimes if something’s working, he won’t stick with it,” continued Wilson. “That’s a little bit of a drawback because (it makes you think) if they can’t stop it then stick with it. But he sort of tries to outsmart himself a little bit by saying ‘I need to adjust or I’m going to adjust because they don’t have the personnel to adjust.” Still, all in all, Wilson said he can’t think of a better situation for Cameron, who excels at molding young signal callers and fits right in to the college scene, especially at a place like LSU where there’s no shortage of talent. “When you give him the right personnel, he can kick some butt.” Wilson finished by stating Cameron shouldn’t require too much assistance to fulfill the duties of his new job, at least as far as in-game involvement from the head coach. “The offense by itself,” Wilson said, “I don’t think there’s any reason why at the collegiate level Les needs to do anything other than tell Cam, ‘Hey, this is my vision. This is my take. Let’s talk about it. You execute it and I trust you.’ “I think he’s more than qualified to be an offensive coordinator obviously.” On this topic, given Miles’ past with Gary Crowton and Greg Studrawa, who’s rumored to be staying on as LSU’s offensive line coach, many on the Bayou will want to see it to believe it. It’s hard to imagine, though, that Miles will ever be able to find someone he trusts or is more familiar with than Cameron. | ||||
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The recruitment of Alabama signee Reuben Foster was about as bizarre as it gets, but nothing beats Friday's bombshell.
Authorities say a man who was arrested after spending 16 years on the run for allegedly shooting his estranged wife while she was holding their 18-month-old boy is Foster's father. U.S. Marshals spokesman Scott Sides says 41-year-old Danny Foster was captured Friday in Miami.
Danny Foster was originally arrested in Randolph County, Ala., after the shooting, which the woman survived. A young Reuben was wounded in the back. Danny Foster was indicted by a grand jury in 1996, but fled the state before being arrested in California. Sides says he was extradited to Randolph County, but escaped from jail in December 1996.
Sides says Danny Foster took on a new identity in Miami and will again be extradited to Randolph County.
Authorities say a man who was arrested after spending 16 years on the run for allegedly shooting his estranged wife while she was holding their 18-month-old boy is Foster's father. U.S. Marshals spokesman Scott Sides says 41-year-old Danny Foster was captured Friday in Miami.
Danny Foster was originally arrested in Randolph County, Ala., after the shooting, which the woman survived. A young Reuben was wounded in the back. Danny Foster was indicted by a grand jury in 1996, but fled the state before being arrested in California. Sides says he was extradited to Randolph County, but escaped from jail in December 1996.
Sides says Danny Foster took on a new identity in Miami and will again be extradited to Randolph County.
Reuben
is of course a very good football player that had a sad domestic
problem in his family. That has nothing what so ever to do with his
present day "Character." Hey what is this column trying to say anyway?
Ha ha.http://www.youtube.com/
I have been writing that I am elated about the prospects of playing Alabama on a equal coaching footing. Now with this addition to the LSU offensive staff of Cam Cameron. I am downright crazy bloodthirsty. http://www.youtube.com/watch?
I have been writing that I am elated about the prospects of playing Alabama on a equal coaching footing. Now with this addition to the LSU offensive staff of Cam Cameron. I am downright crazy bloodthirsty. http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Are y'all (as a fan base) happy with the hire? As an outsider I wasn't too impressed with it but then again that's JMO
Look
another experience offensive coach can only help LSU offense at this
point. I feel better over getting his help. If I see another LSU RB
getting the toss pitch play, and running into a stack defense. I will
need therapy!?
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Alabama
Alabama's Nick Saban says departing O-line coach Jeff Stoutland will do 'great job' with Philadelphia Eagles
By
Andrew Gribble | agribble@al.com
Alabama Assistant Head Coach Jeff Stoutland warms up offensive lineman Ryan Kelly before the Florida Atlantic game at Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Saturday, Sept. 22, 2012. (The Birmingham News/ Mark Almond)
New Philadelphia Eagles coach Chip Kelly has yet to confirm Stoutland's hire and has confirmed just three of his coaching hires since he left his position at Oregon. It's presumed that Stoutland will hold the same position with the Eagles.
Hired to replace Joe Pendry, Stoutland came to Alabama in 2011 after a four-year stint at Miami (Fla.). In each of his two seasons, the Crimson Tide's offensive line was considered to be among the best in the nation.
Stoutland is the second member of Saban's 2012 staff to leave for a new job. Greg Brown was recently named Alabama's new secondary coach after the departure of Jeremy Pruitt, who left to become Florida State's defensive coordinator.
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timing. Wait to leave immediately signing day. I hope the O-line
recruits don't feel deceived. ...similar situation with Coach Grantham
at Georgia.
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Snake Oil For Sale And The Athletes Who, Science Be Damned, Think It Might Work
FROM THE BACK OF A GYM IN ALABAMA, TWO TRUE BELIEVERS IN THE PERFORMANCE-ENHANCING POWER OF RADIO WAVES AND DEER-ANTLER VELVET AND NEGATIVELY CHARGED WATER PURSUE THEIR DREAM: A FAMOUS ENDORSER
DAVID EPSTEIN,
GEORGE DOHRMANN
On the two nights before the Jan. 9, 2012, BCS national
championship game, a handful of Alabama players in crimson and gray
sweats made their way to room 612 in the New Orleans Marriott. A few
brought family members, but most arrived in clusters with teammates.
They came in search of an edge.
The room belonged to Christopher Key, who was in town to demonstrate the wares of S.W.A.T.S.—Sports with Alternatives to Steroids—a two-man company run out of the back of a gym near Birmingham. Stocky and genial, with short black hair carefully curled at his forehead, Key began by telling the players that there would be thousands of cellphones in the Superdome the following night and that frequencies from those phones would be swirling through their bodies. "They're going to affect you guys very negatively," Key said rapidly and with a twang. "We figured out a way to manipulate that so that you aren't affected ... [to] give you strength, give you balance, give you flexibility and help with pain."
Key asked 6' 6", 304-pound defensive end Quinton Dial to hold one arm out to his side and to keep the arm up when Key tried to push it down. Dial, who towered over the 5' 8" Key, did so easily. "Now I'm going to do nothing different," Key told the players. "But I'm going to take two fingers, and I'm going to take his cellphone, and I'm going to just put it up against [Dial's] chest." He turned back to Dial. "Take a deep breath, man up to me, O.K.? ... Two fingers, everything you got on three, O.K.? One, two...."
This time, while holding the phone to Dial's chest, Key easily forced the player's arm down to his side. Dial smirked, bemused. "What happened," Key said, "was the frequencies from the phone, as soon as they came into your energy field, they zapped ya, like a Taser."
And then Key passed out his remedy for the frequencies: stickers, which he calls chips, bearing holograms of a pyramid. Key told the players that on game day they should place the chips on three acupuncture points—one on the inside of each wrist before they tape their arms (the chips also come embedded in bracelets), and one over the heart. "It's going to help your heart have so much more energy," he said. "Come the fourth quarter, you guys will not be gassed at all."
Like the star of an infomercial flush with catchphrases—"Guys, this stuff is beyond real!"—Key also showed the players gallon jugs of "negatively charged" water, which he claimed would afford them better hydration because it adheres like a magnet to the body's cells. Then he held up a canister containing a powder additive, to be mixed in water or juice, that he said had put muscle mass on a woman who was in a coma, and an oscillating "beam ray" lightbulb that could "knock out" the swine flu virus in 90 minutes. Finally, he pulled out a bottle of deer-antler spray (which also comes in pill form). Adrian Hubbard, a linebacker sitting on one of the queen beds, said he already had some, but Key explained its benefits for the others.
"You're familiar with HGH, correct?" asked Key, referring to human growth hormone. "It's converted in the liver to IGF-1." IGF-1, or insulinlike growth factor, is a natural, anabolic hormone that stimulates muscle growth. "We have deer that we harvest out of New Zealand," Key said. "Their antlers are the fastest-growing substance on planet earth ... because of the high concentration of IGF-1. We've been able to freeze-dry that out, extract it, put it in a sublingual spray that you shake for 20 seconds and then spray three [times] under your tongue.... This stuff has been around for almost 1,000 years, this is stuff from the Chinese."
IGF-1 is also a substance banned by the NCAA and by every major pro league. Alleging that the NFL warned players away from S.W.A.T.S.'s spray because it's a threat to "Big Pharma," Key boasted that S.W.A.T.S. is "the most controversial supplement company on Earth."
And so on the eve of facing LSU in the biggest game of their careers, a clutch of Alabama players huddled around Key, an aggressive pitchman who once was arrested for trespassing after giving chips and the beam-ray treatment to an LSU player in his hotel room at the 2010 Senior Bowl. (The charges were dropped, but he was banned from the hotel for life.) Neither Key nor S.W.A.T.S.'s owner, Mitch Ross, an erstwhile male stripper and admitted former steroid dealer, has a college degree in science. No matter. Unbeknownst to Crimson Tide coaches, S.W.A.T.S. had an audience with players on the No. 2 team in college football, a gathering that Key taped with a pen camera and showed to SI. He handed out some of the company's products gratis—"It should never come up, but I'll go to the grave saying you bought this," Key told them—and one, linebacker Alex Watkins, six months later gave a video testimonial on YouTube citing the boost he got from the chips, water and deer-antler pills during Bama's 21--0 BCS title victory.
It was a good night for S.W.A.T.S. in its ongoing quest: to land the sort of high-profile endorsement that could propel a two-man company—even one that has been shunned, shuttered and successfully sued for $5.4 million, as S.W.A.T.S. has—into serious profitability.
----------------------------The room belonged to Christopher Key, who was in town to demonstrate the wares of S.W.A.T.S.—Sports with Alternatives to Steroids—a two-man company run out of the back of a gym near Birmingham. Stocky and genial, with short black hair carefully curled at his forehead, Key began by telling the players that there would be thousands of cellphones in the Superdome the following night and that frequencies from those phones would be swirling through their bodies. "They're going to affect you guys very negatively," Key said rapidly and with a twang. "We figured out a way to manipulate that so that you aren't affected ... [to] give you strength, give you balance, give you flexibility and help with pain."
Key asked 6' 6", 304-pound defensive end Quinton Dial to hold one arm out to his side and to keep the arm up when Key tried to push it down. Dial, who towered over the 5' 8" Key, did so easily. "Now I'm going to do nothing different," Key told the players. "But I'm going to take two fingers, and I'm going to take his cellphone, and I'm going to just put it up against [Dial's] chest." He turned back to Dial. "Take a deep breath, man up to me, O.K.? ... Two fingers, everything you got on three, O.K.? One, two...."
This time, while holding the phone to Dial's chest, Key easily forced the player's arm down to his side. Dial smirked, bemused. "What happened," Key said, "was the frequencies from the phone, as soon as they came into your energy field, they zapped ya, like a Taser."
And then Key passed out his remedy for the frequencies: stickers, which he calls chips, bearing holograms of a pyramid. Key told the players that on game day they should place the chips on three acupuncture points—one on the inside of each wrist before they tape their arms (the chips also come embedded in bracelets), and one over the heart. "It's going to help your heart have so much more energy," he said. "Come the fourth quarter, you guys will not be gassed at all."
Like the star of an infomercial flush with catchphrases—"Guys, this stuff is beyond real!"—Key also showed the players gallon jugs of "negatively charged" water, which he claimed would afford them better hydration because it adheres like a magnet to the body's cells. Then he held up a canister containing a powder additive, to be mixed in water or juice, that he said had put muscle mass on a woman who was in a coma, and an oscillating "beam ray" lightbulb that could "knock out" the swine flu virus in 90 minutes. Finally, he pulled out a bottle of deer-antler spray (which also comes in pill form). Adrian Hubbard, a linebacker sitting on one of the queen beds, said he already had some, but Key explained its benefits for the others.
"You're familiar with HGH, correct?" asked Key, referring to human growth hormone. "It's converted in the liver to IGF-1." IGF-1, or insulinlike growth factor, is a natural, anabolic hormone that stimulates muscle growth. "We have deer that we harvest out of New Zealand," Key said. "Their antlers are the fastest-growing substance on planet earth ... because of the high concentration of IGF-1. We've been able to freeze-dry that out, extract it, put it in a sublingual spray that you shake for 20 seconds and then spray three [times] under your tongue.... This stuff has been around for almost 1,000 years, this is stuff from the Chinese."
IGF-1 is also a substance banned by the NCAA and by every major pro league. Alleging that the NFL warned players away from S.W.A.T.S.'s spray because it's a threat to "Big Pharma," Key boasted that S.W.A.T.S. is "the most controversial supplement company on Earth."
And so on the eve of facing LSU in the biggest game of their careers, a clutch of Alabama players huddled around Key, an aggressive pitchman who once was arrested for trespassing after giving chips and the beam-ray treatment to an LSU player in his hotel room at the 2010 Senior Bowl. (The charges were dropped, but he was banned from the hotel for life.) Neither Key nor S.W.A.T.S.'s owner, Mitch Ross, an erstwhile male stripper and admitted former steroid dealer, has a college degree in science. No matter. Unbeknownst to Crimson Tide coaches, S.W.A.T.S. had an audience with players on the No. 2 team in college football, a gathering that Key taped with a pen camera and showed to SI. He handed out some of the company's products gratis—"It should never come up, but I'll go to the grave saying you bought this," Key told them—and one, linebacker Alex Watkins, six months later gave a video testimonial on YouTube citing the boost he got from the chips, water and deer-antler pills during Bama's 21--0 BCS title victory.
It was a good night for S.W.A.T.S. in its ongoing quest: to land the sort of high-profile endorsement that could propel a two-man company—even one that has been shunned, shuttered and successfully sued for $5.4 million, as S.W.A.T.S. has—into serious profitability.
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February 8, 2013
Rivals.com
Offensive Position Recruiting Rankings
QUARTERBACK
 Anthony Jennings
Hayden Rettig
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The Tigers brought in the nation's No. 3 pro-style quarterback and the No. 6 dual-threat quarterback. Both are four-stars and inside the top 150 prospects nationally, adding depth and elite talent to the most critical position on the field.
| Max Browne
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Browne went wire-to-wire as the nation's top quarterback in the 2013 class and proved his ranking time and again at events such as the Rivals100 Five-Star Challenge and the U.S. Army All-American Bowl where others were targeting his No. 1 status.
| Christian Hackenberg
Tyler Ferguson
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It is tough to measure the value of Hackenberg to Penn State's 2013 class. Not only is he the No. 2 quarterback in this class, he also stuck with the Nittany Lions after their sanctions were handed down. Ferguson comes from the JUCO ranks and gives Hackenberg time to develop.
| Kenny Hill
Kohl Stewart
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The only other school to land two four-star quarterbacks beside LSU. Stewart and Hill made their commitments before Johnny Manziel started a game, let alone won the Heisman, and both have ambitions to be his successor.
| Jeremy Johnson
Nick Marshall
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At 6-foot-6 and 215 pounds, Johnson might draw comparisons to former Auburn great Cam Newton, but he is much more of a pocket passer than the Heisman Trophy winner. Marshall is the No. 2 rated JUCO quarterback, and brings more of the dual-threat abilities.
RUNNING BACK
| Derrick Henry
Tyren Jones
Alvin Kamara
Altee Tenpenny
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The Crimson Tide brought in the nation's No. 2 running back class in 2012. This year they have the No. 1 class, and it is not even close. Four more four-star ball-carriers are headed to Tuscaloosa, including high school football's all-time leading career rusher, Henry.
| Ty Isaac
Justin Davis
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Isaac and Davis committed to the Trojans within days of each other and said at the time they looked forward to the competition. Both bring a little something different to the running back position, but as top 100 prospects are immensely talented.
| Eugene Brazley
Mark Dodson Jr.
Kalio Moore
Jordan Wilkins
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The Rebels brought in four backs in the 2013 class, three of whom are rated four-stars. The group is lead by Dodson, the nation's No. 6 all-purpose back, who at 5-foot-10 and 193 pounds has good size and is also an outstanding receiver out of the backfield.
| Greg Bryant
Tarean Folston
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Grabbing Bryant out of Florida was one of the Irish's greatest recruiting feats in a 2013 class that was full of wins for head coach Brian Kelly and his staff. They then complemented the five-star backfield by adding Folston a month before National Signing Day.
| Derrick Green
Deveon Smith
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The Wolverines are looking to get back to a power running game, and both Green and Smith are between-the-tackles runners who already weigh in at 220 pounds. Green is the nation's top running back prospect and should make an immediate impact in Ann Arbor.
WIDE RECEIVER
| Alvin Bailey
Ahmad Fulwood
Marqui Hawkins
Demarcus Robinson
Chris Thompson
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Florida landed the nation's top wide receiver group by bringing in five prospects at the position, three of whom are rated four-stars. Bailey is a playmaker with a nose for the end zone, while Robinson is one of the most gifted WRs in the country.
| Laquon Treadwell
Quincy Adeboyejo
Derrick Jones
Quadarias Mireles
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Treadwell shocked many when he spurned the big Midwest programs to sign with the Rebels, but Hugh Freeze's willingness to put the ball in the air was a big reason he won over the Chicago native. Adeboyejo used a big senior season to move into four-star territory.
| Paul Harris
Ryan Jenkins
Marquez North
Josh Smith
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| Sebastian Larue
Kyrion Parker
Jeremy Tabuyo
JaQuay Williams
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Williams was a Rivals100 prospect in the class of 2012. Now with a year of prep school under his belt, he should be ready to contribute immediately for the Aggies. It's easy to recruit wide receivers when you have a Heisman winner returning at quarterback, and three of A&M's new additions are four-star prospects.
| Earnest Robinson
Tony Stevens
Dominic Walker
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In Robinson and Stevens, Auburn has landed one of the best wide receiver tandems in the 2013 class. Add in the 6-foot-2, 195-pound Walker and the Tigers have three pass catchers who are well over 6-feet and will provide big targets for their quarterbacks.
TIGHT END
| O.J. Howard
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Howard has the most potential of any tight end to come out of the high school ranks since Martellus Bennett, and he walks into a great situation at Alabama. The Crimson Tide lost senior Michael Williams and return just eight career receptions at the position in 2013.
| Nathan Marcus
Mitchell Parsons
Brandon Vandenburg
Mack Weaver
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Tight end was obviously a position of focus for the Commodores in the 2013 class, as they brought in four prospects. Parsons is the lone four-star of the group. He can be an in-line tight end or split out as a receiver.
| Mike Heuerman
Jacob Matuska
Durham Smythe
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Notre Dame brought in three tight ends, though they plan to move Matuska to defensive end when he arrives. Heuerman and Smythe give them two talented, versatile additions at the position.
| DeSean Smith
Logan Stokes
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Smith locked up the No. 2 tight end ranking in the 2013 class after an impressive week at the U.S. Army All-American Bowl last month. He has an outstanding pair of hands and will be a threat in the passing game. Stokes comes from the JUCO ranks.
| Jake Butt
Khalid Hill
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In their transition from a spread to a pro-style offense, targeting tight end depth was a key for the Wolverines in 2013. Butt can handle blocking and receiving aspects of the position, while Hill could move into more of an H-back role.
OFFENSIVE LINE
| Kyle Bosch
David Dawson
Chris Fox
Patrick Kugler
Dan Samuelson
Scott Sypniewski
Logan Tuley-Tillman
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The Wolverines added their quarterback and running back of the future, and surrounded them with the nation's top offensive line group. Kugler is the highest-rated of the group and is expected to start off at the center position. Sypniewski was brought in as a long-snapper.
| Caleb Benenoch
Kenny Lacy
John Lopez
Poasi Moala
Christian Morris
Scott Qussenberry
Alex Redmond
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Six of the Bruins' seven offensive line signees are rated four-stars. The 6-foot-6, 293-pound Morris is the highest rated of the group. He is still raw, but has tremendous upside. Benenoch spurned all the top in-state programs to sign with UCLA.
| Hunter Bivin
Steve Elmer
Mike McGlinchey
Colin McGovern
John Montelus
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Notre Dame's No. 3 finish in the national recruiting rankings was aided, in no small part, by this group of offensive linemen. Elmer and McGlinchey are true offensive tackles. Bivin could play anywhere along the line and Montelus has the look of a future NFL offensive guard.
| Rami Hammad
Desmond Harrison
Darius James
Kent Perkins
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The Longhorns did not have many scholarships to work with, but they still had needs to address on the offensive line and met those by signing four prospects, three of whom are four-stars. Perkins is the gem of the group -- a powerful drive-blocker with good feet.
| Josh Boutte
Andy Dodd
K.J. Malone
Ethan Pocic
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The theme of this LSU offensive line group is strength. The 6-foot-7, 285-pound Pocic is one of the most physical offensive tackles in the class, and the 6-foot-5, 305-pound Boutte is the same at the guard position. Malone is the son of NBA Hall of Famer Karl Malone.
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