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Several visits are on the docket for Somerset (Wis.) High School tight end Gaelin Elmore, and a decision will likely come soon after. "I'm going to visit Michigan State, Indiana, Wisconsin [and] Ohio State in the same road trip," Elmore said. "I d...

Blog | May 22, 2013

LSU and Ohio State were the top two for ESPN 150 wide receiver Saeed Blacknall. Now the two are bookends for the Manalapan (N.J.) High School star's top five. The 6-foot-3, 205-pound Blacknall released a top five Tuesday night. LSU remains at the ...

Blog | May 21, 2013

It was a Thursday night in late April and Alex Bookser (Pittsburgh/Mount Lebanon) was watching the NFL draft. A 6-foot-6, 295-pound prospect, Bookser is being recruited as a lineman on both sides of the ball. Bookser was an offensive lineman by th...

Blog | May 20, 2013

Quips go to Pitt. That is the expression in Western Pennsylvania. The elite prospects from talent-rich Aliquippa (Pa.) High almost exclusively go to nearby Pittsburgh to star for the Panthers. Jonathan Baldwin, Tommie Campbell and Darrelle Revis a...

Blog | May 18, 2013

The hottest team in the Big Ten right now isn't Michigan or Ohio State or Penn State or any of the traditional power schools in the conference. It's Northwestern and coach Pat Fitzgerald. Jacksonville (Ill.) High offensive tackle Blake Hance is th...

Blog | May 16, 2013

Inspired by Florida's "#ComePlayWRFortheJoker" campaign">Florida's "#ComePlayWRFortheJoker" campaign, our recruiting writers looked at other ways schools can sell themselves on the trail. Here's a look at recruiting pitches for the Big Ten: Illino...

Blog | May 10, 2013

JERSEY CITY, N.J. -- A month ago, Jonathan Hilliman released a top 10. He is slowly whittling his list to a final school. "It's coming down to seven. I dropped some schools," Hilliman said. "We narrowed it down so we could go out and see these pla...

Blog | May 08, 2013

Curtis Samuel (Brooklyn, N.Y./Erasmus Hall) is confident he will make an impact on either side of the field, but the four-star athlete does have a desire to play his college football on one side in particular. "I prefer the offensive side of the b...

Blog | May 06, 2013

The order of the top group for four-star Quenton Nelson (Red Bank, N.J./Red Bank Catholic) open to interpretation. The 6-foot-5, 285-pound offensive lineman listed a top five of Notre Dame, Boston College, Ohio State, Rutgers and Penn State. And i...

Blog | May 01, 2013

Thomas Holley's recruitment has been a lot like his most recent visit. The ESPN 150 defensive tackle out of Brooklyn (N.Y.) Abraham Lincoln was at Penn State for the annual spring game, which was hampered by every weather condition imaginable. ...

Blog | May 01, 2013

MANALAPAN, N.J. -- Four-star wide receiver Saeed Blacknall (Manalapan, N.J./Manalapan) already has more than 20 offers, so if he is going to camp for an offer, he says it better be worth it. That school would have to jump one of his early top two....

Blog | May 01, 2013

By mid-July, one of the top players in the country will have a pretty good idea as to where he will be playing his college football in 2014. Paramus (N.J.) Catholic cornerback Jabrill Peppers, No. 2 in the ESPN 150, will visit Stanford in July. Fo...

Blog | April 24, 2013

Hinsdale (Ill.) Central tight end Ian Bunting listed a top three at the end of February, but that group dissipated nearly as quickly as it was created as several big offers over the next 72 hours made him open it back up. After visits to several o...

Blog | April 22, 2013

When the SEC comes calling, recruits tend to listen. It is no different with ESPN Watch List linebacker Clifton Garrett (Plainfield, Ill./Plainfield South). Garrett will visit Alabama and LSU on consecutive days next weekend, checking out the Crim...

Blog | April 12, 2013

Basketball brought Thomas Holley (Brooklyn, N.Y./Abraham Lincoln) to California first. Football could bring him back. The 6-foot-4, 285-pound defensive tackle has seen his stock skyrocket since December, and USC became one of the latest schools to...

Blog | April 11, 2013

This past weekend, Garrett Dickerson (Oradell, N.J./Bergen Catholic) sat in on a sleep study at Stanford. Now the Cardinal coaches are hoping Dickerson puts his recruitment to bed. While the 6-foot-4, 240-pound ESPN Watch List tight end is not rea...

Blog | April 10, 2013