Surviving "Paradise"

Gotta love Bleacherreport.  They have come out with the college football post signing day top twenty five (I kid you not)!  For better or worse, here it is: 1 Alabama (no surprise), 2 Oregon (yes!), 3 Stanford (again, yes!), 4 Texas A & M, 5 Georgia, 6 Ohio State, 7 Notre Dame, 8 Florida, 9 South Carolina (how about the ole ball coach!), 10 Louisville, 11 LSU (not quite as lofty as usual), 12 Clemson, 13 FSU, 14 Texas, 15 Oklahoma, 16 Oregon State, 17 Northwestern (becoming quite the national powerhouse?), 18 Boise State, 19 USC (in spite of Lane Kiffin and the NCAA sanctions?), 20 Wisconsin, 21 Nebraska, 22 Ole Miss (guess that happens when you sign the #1 recruit along with two others in the top twenty!),  23 TCU, 24 Michigan State and 25 Michigan.

I won’t bring it up again, just thought we would have some fun with it!

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Georgia Tech’s 2013 recruiting class did not crack the top forty, it did not bring razzle dazzle and all kinds of ESPN coverage. Still, it should be a solid class that  CPJ has recruited to fill his needs for the “system” at the flats.  Bleacherreport has very kindly given it a “D”.  Gee, thanks for that.  Anyhow, two notables are OT Shamire DeVine and RB Donavan Wilson.  Georgia Tech has always done a very good job of taking two and three star recruits and coaching them up to 3.5 and better athletes.  Let’s hope the Jackets got what they will need to get it going next year and in the years to come.

Meanwhile, the other team in Georgia, the dawgs, well, they are once again ranked as a top ten recruiting class (they almost always are).

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Robert Nkemdiche, the #1 high school recruit in the nation announced this morning he would indeed be following his older brother to play for the Ole Miss Rebels.  Happy day for them, Nkemdiche is 6’5″ and weighs in at 260 lbs., choosing them over LSU and Florida.  There is no drama when you do what momma wants!  His mom really wanted him to be at Ole Miss with his brother.  Nkemdiche had been a bit torn, very recently making another visit to LSU but in the end, he made his mom happy along with a whole bunch of Ole Miss fans.  He will be a huge star there (his brother had a big year this past year as well).

The top ten recruiting classes are shifting a bit, UGA moving up a notch and Ole Miss jumping into the top ten after Nkemdiche’s confirmation.  This should shift some throughout the day so we will check back later to see how it all shakes out!

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