APAs the headline says, that’s a wrap folks. National Signing Day 2012 — or “Singing Day”, which might be my favorite typo ever — is almost officially in the books, with but a few stragglers left who haven’t yet put pen to Letter of Intent paper.
Below you’ll find all of our updates throughout the day, and don’t forget Ben’s muy bueno recap of all the highs and lows from today’s signing action.
If you’d like to see where your school stands in the final team rankings, or where a signee ranked nationally coming into signing day, we’ve provided some links below.
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11:41 p.m. ET — Here are the complete recruiting classes from Florida State, Washington State, USF, Illinois, Missouri, Wake Forest, Iowa, Texas Tech, Iowa State, Kansas State, Arizona State, Utah and Cal.
8:16 p.m. ET — Penn State, Stanford, LSU, Washington State, USF, Illinois and Cincinnati have announced their complete 2012 recruiting classes.
7:47 p.m. ET — 247Sports.com is projecting that Alabama will claim the No. 1 recruiting class in its team rankings.
6:59 p.m. ET — Minnesota, Virginia Tech, Baylor, Georgia Tech, Virginia, Clemson and Ohio State have announced their complete 2012 recruiting classes.
6:07 p.m. ET — Georgia, Florida, Arkansas and Alabama have announced their complete 2012 recruiting classes.
5:06 p.m. ET — Notre Dame, Nebraska, Maryland, Rutgers, Wisconsin, BYU and North Carolina have announced their complete 2012 recruiting classes.
4:49 p.m. ET — Stanford keeps on rolling with another huge pickup at the offensive line position with the signature of Kyle Murphy out of San Clemente HS (CA). Murphy is the No. 19 overall prospect according to Rivals.com and the No. 11 prospect according to 247Sports.com.
3:14 p.m. ET — Pittsburgh, Boise State, Purdue, North Carolina State, Syracuse and Kentucky have all announced their full 2012 recruiting classes.
3:00 p.m. ET — Cornerback Ronald Darby will go to Florida State. Darby is the 16th overall athlete in the country according to 247Sports. Another huge pickup for Jimbo Fisher‘s class.
2:52 p.m. ET — Hang on just a minute with the Josh Harvey-Clemons commitment to Georgia. While it could be nothing more than a minor hiccup or detail of which we’re unaware, coach Mark Richt said he still has not received Harvey-Clemons’ signature. Harvey-Clemons was one of the first major commitments of the day when he picked the Bulldogs.
1:40 p.m. ET — Don’t overlook Stanford during today’s signing day frenzy. The Cardinal just picked up offensive lineman Andrus Peat from Tempe, AZ. Peat is the No. 32 overall recruit according to Rivals.com. Read more about Stanford’s signing day HERE.
1:32 p.m. ET — Well, so much for that update regarding the team rankings a short time ago. Scout.com has updated its team rankings and, as a result, have Texas leapfrogging Alabama into the top spot. Thus, the Longhorns are now the No. 1 team according to Scout and 247Sports, while the Tide maintains its hold on Rivals’ top spot.
1:22 p.m. ET — Five-star wide receiver Nelson Agholor announced for USC over Florida, Florida State, Notre Dame and Oklahoma.
12:59 p.m. ET — Committed to Wisconsin since June of last year, Cleveland Heights (Oh.) High School offensive tackle Kyle Dodson announced that he is signing with Urban Meyer and Ohio State. Dodson was a consensus four-star recruit.
12:49 p.m. ET — With signing day inching past the halfway point, Alabama (Rivals, Scout) and Texas (247Sports) are still ranked where they were at the start of the day: No. 1. Barring some type of unexpected development, it appears that’s the direction the final rankings are headed.
12:46 p.m. ET — Northwestern announces its 2012 recruiting class.
12:18 p.m. ET — Indiana announced a 25-player-strong recruiting class.
12:14 p.m. ET — In perhaps the most shocking flip of the day, four-star wide receiver Deontay Greenberry switched his verbal commitment to Notre Dame to a Letter of Intent signing with Houston.
11:57 a.m. ET — USC signed defensive end Leonard Williams from Daytona Beach, FL. Williams is the No. 47 overall prospect according to 247Sports and No. 53 overall prospect according to Rivals.com
11:40 a.m. ET — Texas A&M picked up a nice WR commit in Thomas Johnson, listed as the No. 34 overall recruit by Rivals and No. 44 overall recruit by 247Sports. Johnson is part of a Texas A&M class that is quickly assembling some top in-state talent.
11:12 a.m. ET — Florida State commit Dante Fowler Jr has done the signing day flip, going with the Gators instead. 247Sports had the St. Petersburg, Fla. DE/LB rated as the No. 15 player in the country, and was No. 28 according to Rivals.
11:07 a.m. ET — Kwon Alexander, the No. 9 outside linebacker according to 247Sports, is “taking his talents” to LSU over Alabama and Auburn. Alexander said he knew he would commit to the Tigers for the past two weeks.
10:25 a.m. ET — the No. 1 overall recruit in the country according to Rivals.com, wide receiver Dorial Green-Beckham, has decided to stay in-state and attend Missouri. Green-Beckham is rated the No. 2 overall prospect according to 247Sports.
10:07 a.m. ET — Defensive tackle Eddie Goldman chose Florida State over schools like Alabama and Auburn. The five-star defensive tackle is rated the No. 14 overall recruit by 247Sports and No. 7 by Rivals. Jimbo Fisher continues to put together an amazing defensive line group.
10:00 a.m. ET — Tracy Howard from Miramar (FL), the top cornerback in the country according to Rivals.com and the No. 13 overall prospect, committed to Miami over Florida and Florida State.
9:25 a.m. ET — Linebacker from Valdosta (GA) Josh Harvey-Clemons chose to stay in-state and attend Georgia. He is the No. 32 overall recruit according to 247Sports and No. 31 recruit according to Rivals.
9:11 a.m. ET — Aledo (TX) RB Johnathan Gray has committed to Texas. Gray has been verbally committed to the Longhorns for a while now, but this is still a huge get for UT. Gray is the No. 9 overall prospect according to 247Sports and No. 5 prospect according to Rivals.
9:09 a.m. ET — Defensive end Mario Edwards has, as expected, signed with Florida State. Edwards had downgraded his commitment to a soft verbal in the months leading up to signing day, but reaffirmed his commitment to the Seminoles. Edwards is the No. 1 recruit in the nation according to 247Sports and No. 3 overall according to Rivals.
8:26 a.m. ET — Wide receiver Cordarrelle Patterson – the No. 1 JUCO prospect according to 247Sports, No. 4 according to Rivals.com — selected Tennessee over Georgia, LSU and Ole Miss.
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(Rankings reflect overall position)
1/31 – Darius Hamilton, DE Don Bosco Prep (NJ); No. 11, Rivals; No. 20, Scout; No. 23, 247Sports; committed to Rutgers.
1/31 – Shaq Thompson, DB Grant Union (CA); No. 4, Rivals; No. 3, Scout; No. 6, 247Sports; committed to Washington.
1/30 – Zach Banner, OL Lakewood HS (WA); No. 16, Rivals; No. 72, Scout; No. 110, 247Sports; committed to USC.
1/29 — Arik Armstead, DT Pleasant Grove (CA); No. 61, Rivals; No. 2, Scout; No. 4, 247Sports; committed to Oregon.
Been waiting for this day, and can’t wait to see the outcome. People bragging about the “maybe” future.
GO HOGS
Sirius Satellite radio channel 91 on college sports national recruiting day special, ESPNU on national signing day coverage on the big flat HD screen, rivals,scout,24/7 and espn recruiting nation all online and on favorites bar and sporting news 2012 recruting news magazine on the couch. Iphone and Nook fired up. Ready to go. Yee Haaa.
Psychiatrist appointment cancelled for today.
One of the best days (and most frustrating) of the year for college football fans. It is amazing that the “picking of a hat on a table” can cause so much jubilation or angst among the college fb faithful
Roll Tide
MIZ-DGB!
well… good luck to all your teams
WHAT?!?! No Terps so far? Shocked, shocked I say……..
I am surprised that ESPN hasn’t come right out and say “all the best players are signing with the SEC, our favorite entity to suck up to”
Someone should show a graphic of the graduation rates of those “superior” SEC schools compared to those of northern and western schools.
I think they should say, “go to an SEC school and have a 30% chance of graduating from college but hey at least you can say you played in the SEC”
Interesting how almost every update is for just ONE conference:
11:12 – Florida (SEC)
11:07 – LSU (SEC)
10:25 – Mizzou (SEC)
10:07 – FSU
10:00 – Miami
9:25 – Georgia (SEC)
9:11 – Texas
9:09 – FSU
8:26 – Tennessee (SEC)
9 updates, 5 of them are SEC updates.
|Apparently there are NO signees anywhere in the entire continental United States except for the southeast.
Come on NBC and CFB, if you are going to continue to be yet another network that is bought and paid for by the SEC, then I will never visit this site again.
ESPN, CBS, ABC, now NBC.
Thank God FOX is the one network that I can count on to not air the SEC rhetoric.
dryzzt23, graduation rates are nice and all, but they don’t necessarily reflect academic superiority. Indeed, schools that funnel athletes into jock (or joke?) majors like criminal justice, communications, kinesiology (granted, it’s a legitimate and challenging major at some schools, and glorified P.E. at others), general studies, sociology, community sciences, etc. These programs are streamlined to require the bare minimum of academic effort and presence on the part of the players, thereby allowing more time for football, tweeting, and getting arrested. Now this is *not* meant to be an indictment of the University of Alabama in particular, but rather of the general tendency of many schools to funnel their players into these majors. Here are the Tide footballers who made the all-SEC honor roll for this past semester:
John Baites – Football – General Business
Mark Barron – Football – Pre-Business
Undra Billingsley – Football – Consumer Affairs
David Blalock – Football – Accounting
Chris Bonds – Football – Exercise Science
Hardie Buck – Football – Marketing
Nate Carlson – Football – Public Relations
Levi Cook – Football – General Business
DJ Fluker – Football – Health Studies
Cade Foster – Football – Finance
Brandon Gibson – Football – Sports Management
Darius Hanks – Football – Human Environmental Science
Ben Howell – Football – General Business
Aaron Joiner – Football – Pre Med/General Business
Barrett Jones – Football – Accounting
Harrison Jones – Football – Pre-Business
Phelon Jones – Football – Human Environmental Science
Sam Kearns – Football – Health Studies
Arie Kouandjio – Football – Pre-Business
Chad Lindsey – Football – Communication Studies
Wilson Love – Football – Pre-Business
Will Lowery – Football – Finance
Marquis Maze – Football – Human Environmental Science
Nathan McAlister – Football – General Business
William Ming – Football – Finance
Kevin Norwood – Football – Health Studies
Morgan Ogilvie – Football – Finance
Nick Perry – Football – Pre-Business
Trent Richardson – Football – Human Environmental Science
Jeremy Shelley – Football – General Business
Brad Smelley – Football – Marketing
Parker Stinnett – Football – Marketing
Nick Tinker – Football – Pre Med/Health Studies
Brian Vogler – Football – Pre-Business
DeAndrew White – Football – Undecided
Jay Williams – Football – Pre-Business
Jesse Williams – Football – Human Environmental Science
Kellen Williams – Football – History
If you go through the list for guys with even slightly challenging or useful majors, like Will Lowery, David Blalock, and Morgan Ogilvie, you’ll notice that they’re almost always walk-ons. Graduation rates are useful in some ways when analyzing academic rigor and commitment, but not without also considering academic majors and other factors.
Wait, “walk-ons”? Don’t you mean “oversignees” that UofA and LSU have collected over the last 5 years? Your schools always sign 30+ players every class yet the limit for a team is 85 scholarship players. This is SEC cheating at its core yet the NCAA turns a blind eye.
Most of the walkons that you listed have very generalized easy majors, except for the finance and pre-med people. If you have to reach so far to pull out the majors of your non-scholarship players then your actual scholarship players must have a pretty pathetic course of “study”
That greenberry flip bothers me. Word is that he told ND last night that he was solid ND….and then in the morning he quietly sends his LI to …..Houston?
dryzzt23, did you think I was arguing in favor of the SEC? I don’t know why you used “your schools” when talking to me.
You might try reading a little more carefully. I was specifically saying that just about the only players with respectable majors were walk-ons, many of them not even lettermen.
I posted what I did to show that even the graduation rates many of these schools do have are often meaningless, because they steer players into these jock majors and stick them in “directed readings” courses with four or five other football players so they can all get an easy “A” for little or no effort. I fully agree that it’s a pathetic course of study, and that’s why I thought I’d post about it. So why act like I’m confronting you?
What is PRE-business?
I am sitting back and enjoying my big glass of Urban Kool-aid!!! Nicely done! Kept all of our verbals, flipped Dobson back to Ohio State, picked up a very talented linebacker in Jamal Marcus, and we’re still in the running for Setfon Diggs and Devante Neal on the 10th. Gotta love it – from 25thish to top 5 in 60 days!!! Sip sip sip – ahhhhhh.
bagsy5 says:Feb 1, 2012 2:09 PM
What is PRE-business?
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Bartering?
Not sure he qualifies as a top recruit, but Scout’s #94 player (#8 outside linebacker) and Rivals’ #125 player (#8 outside linebacker), Torshiro Davis, apparently had second thoughts overnight. He switched from LSU to Texas, which was a surprise to almost everyone who follows Texas recruiting closely. He’s an outstanding kid with a nice first step, and probably looks to play a rush end (buck or WDE, as it were) at UT.
Darby and Greenberry will never be NFL players..Darby seems more interested in track, and Greenberry is going to a team that isnt very well known to produce NFL players..unless its the QB. good luck to both of them..I do have to say this though, Greenberry was a coward for telling ND coaches last night he was still signing, and then had his coach call ND this morning to tell them otherwise…BE A MAN.
it sounds/smells like dryzz23′s ready for his diaper to be changed.
You say the SEC is cheating!!!!! I say, your coaches and staffs touch kids and students who do not wish to be!!!!! Clean up your own back yard. Wisc, Pennst, and Syracuse show me y’all can all STFU. Instead of counting recruits, take some morals classes
Truly productive and huge victory at Michigan. Successfully recruited all but one commit. Great job!
Congrats Coach Hoke and staff.
Congrats Coach Meyer and staff.
Congrats Coach Saban and staff.
2012 is going to be an awesome season.
What is PRE-business?
That’s finding the weed and selling it later for a profit.
Really surprised with how well the Pac-12 recruited…It’s to be expected that USC/Oregon/Stanford bring in some quality classes. Stanford and USC brought in a stellar classes, as did a couple of other Pac-12 schools in Washington, Oregon and UCLA. Cal even kept together a decent class after getting raided the past few weeks…Overall, they had 11 teams in Rivals Top 50…not bad Pac.
Well, scanning this thread it’s become apparent any day that has dryzzt23 throwing tantrums like a four-year-old is a good day for SEC football.
ROLL TIDE!!!! (And congrats to the Mizzou Tigers, too!!)
@Deb
Looks like your Tide did pretty well. I hope in a year or two my Vols can get back in the running.
Texas recruits #1…. again, but what will show for it?
Hey Ben – no Michigan love?
#4 in successful recruiting… and nothing, nada, zip?
I’m terribly hurt and speechless….wordless
@pole – congrats on your class!!! I’m looking forward to watching them get run over during The Game this year!!! It is going to be one helluva game and can’t wait to travel back to OSU to attend in person! Now, if we can only fast forward to get the season started now!!!
@dickroy …
Saban is a whiz at recruiting–as virtually all the scorekeepers acknowledge. My alma mater Mizzou reeled in the catch of the day. And if the Steelers will ink a deal with Todd Haley as OC, I will be one HAPPY football fan!!!!! (But I can’t remember the last time our traditional Steelers went that far outside the box on anything, so I’m having a hard time typing with all my digits crossed
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I understand your Vols were tremendously successful yesterday, too. That’s a good sign for Dooley!
@polegojim …
Congrats on your recruiting class!! Hoke is continuing to pay dividends!!
@Deb
Yea, I like Haley too, but I don’t really think they will ink him. I hope Dooley turns the Vols around. I been worried with some of his assistant coaches skipping for other schools.
@Deb
And by the way, If our Steelers can draft two or three good offensive linemen I will be One HAPPY football fan too!!
Go Steelers
Go Vols (still love me?)
@dickroy …
Yes, o-line tops my wishlist, too–whether by draft or free-agent signing. I’m excited about the Myron Rolle signing. If he can work his way back during camp, he’d provide great depth at the safety position.
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