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Welcome to The Scouting Spotlight This account will be dedicated to scouting football recruits from both the high school and transfer portal ranks The focus will be evaluating talent in a consistent and comprehensive manner from both video and in-person scouting
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NDSU will likely finish this year 10-2 with losses to two of the top G6 teams in the entire nation by a combined 11 points Moving from FCS to G6 and immediately becoming a top 5 team at that level is a very successful season for the Bison…
North Dakota State. Regular team in the FCS semifinals or national title game, most seasons in the last many years. Eyes adore money, move up to FBS football. Now have 2 defeats and out of any CFP convo. If they were in the FCS they would still be chasing a national title.
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Dave Doeren averaged 8 wins per year since 2020 (6 years) with no investment Interesting decision from NC State to not invest into the program and then wonder why it was falling behind in the ACC Surely, hiring another coach and not investing into him will be the solution!
BREAKING: NC State has fired head coach Dave Doeren, the school has announced. on3.com/news/nc-state-parts-…
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Not going at Jesse Legree whatsoever at all… … but holding a HS signing day type of announcement — in October — to share that you will be back with the same college you are currently at for the next season perfectly encapsulates where we are at with CFB. Wild, wild times.
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Jake Wilson (89) is CLUTCH! After converting 4th-and-long to get in the red zone, he works up the seam for the game-tying TD on 3rd-and-goal This score forced OT, where Wyoming picked up an impressive road win
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Wyoming tight end Jake Wilson (89) converts a HUGE 4th-and-9 here With his team down seven in the fourth quarter, he finds the soft spot to convert Holds a near identical profile to current top draft prospect DJ Vonnahme with frame, movement and track times 👀
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I am trying to watch and evaluate some of the players in the Wyoming offense SJSU edge Jeremiah Tuiileila (45) is making that rather difficult so far He leads the nation in pass rush win rate
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3rd and long is a very dangerous situation when facing the SJSU defense Facing one of the top mid major right tackles, Jeremiah Tuiileila (45) converts speed to power, earning a red zone sack
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There’s also less pressure to be PERFECT right away, which is something that is ultimately killing these five star QBs I don’t think it’s a coincidence that most of the top recent cfb QBs have begun at programs not expecting to win the CFP (Cal, Tulane, UIW, UNT, D2, etc)
"One agent reps a current Group of Six starter, who was a backup at an SEC school in 2025. They said getting in-game tape now outweighs waiting out the chance to start in the Power Four." Have stressed this over the last 18 months as a growing trend when talking to QB prospects and their team (family, trainers, agents) I believe it's a good thing for the sport and QB development, but it makes stacking depth at the position harder than ever
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University of Maryland is a public university. There’s nothing wrong with these students standing in a public place. They were not causing any harm or trying to breach the facility. Great job in your reporting efforts Nolan & Jude.
For @testudotimes, @JudeWilkenfeld and I were outside Jones-Hill House trying to get players to comment. An athletics staffer took pictures of us, and a police dispatch was called for suspicious activity; a cop and 2 cop cars pulled up, and officers ID’d us and asked us to leave.
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This seems like the best opportunity for Charles Huff to make the jump to P4 A string of hires that I could see resulting from the hiring of Huff this offseason… Maryland: Charles Huff Memphis: Jerry Mack Kennesaw State: Joel Taylor
Sources: Maryland coach Mike Locksley has been dismissed. Maryland dropped to 2-5 on Saturday after a last-second loss to Rutgers. Locksley is 39-54 overall at Maryland, including his interim stint in 2015. Maryland is on a bye this week.
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247/On3 ranking + positional value are the only established reference points to use for agents representing HS recruits Right or wrong, a bump in the recruiting rankings translates to a bump in NIL
Right or wrong. Several GMs/coaches have confirmed to me that all agents begin their base starting salary points with: “My client is rated “X” let’s start the bidding at “Y””
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Every other level beside FBS consists of programs on a generally equal level The FBS is split into two sublevels of resources: Power Four and Group of Six 24 team playoff works at FCS for 128 teams with similar resources, while FBS has 138 teams in multiple separate tiers
It’s a “tournament sport” at every other level of college football and has been for decades. So why is it so much of an issue at its top level?
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Elon RB Kamerin McDowell-Moore (22) has been making his own case for the best true freshman in college football This week against Stanford, he accounted for 180 yards and a TD He now has over 1,000 rushing yards
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Obviously, this is something that Cam Ward needs to clean up for the NFL level However, the quick game has always been an huge issue for Ward and Brian Daboll continues to emphasize it 😒
Back to back plays… Jesus
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This is exactly why 95% of college ADs are about to cut NIL funding for hoops There’s are ~10 programs that land the versatile high-level bigs and six of them have proper coach/scouting/structure Others fight for S16/E8 and that can be done with a top coach, portal & analytics
Duke is treating Tennessee like a mid major
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Tough blow for an Ohio State program that is in the championship picture…
BREAKING: Ohio State QB Julian Sayin is out indefinitely, per Ryan Day. True freshman Luke Fahey is the guy moving forward and will make his first career start at USC next weekend.
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North Dakota State linebacker Donovan Woolen (1) is a very intriguing prospect Junior with elite frame (6’4/230), and the athleticism to track down ball carriers Showed strong upside in coverage in the slot last season before moving inside this year, where he has 51 tackles
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Coaches won’t name names because they’re tampering too, so just stop talking about it.
NEW: Nebraska's Matt Rhule claims SEC programs are tampering with QB Anthony Colandrea after being asked about the support around him: "I don’t think that’s a good narrative for us to have out there that he doesn’t have enough support (around him). I don’t think that’s good for our players. And not good because he’s already got SEC schools calling him. I don’t want Nebraska people to start saying that, because that’s happened before here. We don’t need that now here." (via @HuskerOnline) on3.com/news/matt-rhule-batt…
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Tarleton State is making it hard for Group of Six conference commissioners to ignore them as they look to jump to FBS
For the first time in program history, your Tarleton State Texans are the No. 1 ranked team in the nation 🔥
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San Diego State corner Mike Lindsay (27) shows nice awareness to work back and intercept this pass in the end zone The Idaho State transfer has been strong in coverage this year and helped fill a void after SDSU sent a corner to the NFL
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