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Wise Owl
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Sixteen area athletes were selected to the Class 3A All-State football team released by the Florida Sports Writers Association on Wednesday.
The three schools represented were regional finalist North Marion, which landed nine players on the teams, West Port with four and Dunnellon with three.
The Colts placed four players on the first team with wideout/tight end Sterlin James (41 catches, 675 yards, 12 TDs) and lineman Kevin Evans (6-foot-4, 280) on offense and linebacker Will Roundtree (162 tackles) and cornerback Cortez Allen (44 tackles, INT) making it on defense.
The Colts also had quarterback Mike Brinkley (Jr., 2,288 yards, 33 TDs), wide receiver Sean Mackey (Sr., 43 catches, 678 yards, 9 TDs) and senior defensive tackle Walter Cabarris (65 tackles, 5 sacks) named to the third team. Senior cornerback Corey Smith (44 tackles, 2 INTs) and sophomore fee safety Albert Gary (87 tackles, 6 INTs) were honorable mention selections.
West Port linebacker Carlos Burrows (Sr., 91 tackles, 19 TFL) was named to the second team defense, while wideout Dominic McDonald (Sr., 45 catches, 809 yards, 5 TDs) and defensive back Biron Nabritt (Sr., 48 tackles, 2 INTs) were third-team selections.
Junior defensive end Chris Guthrie (66 tackles, 16 TFL, 14 sacks) was listed as an honorable mention.
Dunnellon placed three players on the honorable mention list, led by senior running back Rodney Jones, who had his season cut short due to a knee injury.
Jones, who is a Florida Atlantic University commitment, posted 969 rushing yards, 129 receiving and scored 19 touchdowns in eight games. Senior offensive lineman Rusty Leone and junior linebacker Andrew Barrett (108 tackles, INT) were the other two Tigers to make the team.
http://www.ocala.com/a…S/201190408/1005/sports01
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Wise Owl
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A few things to remember:
FAU is still young and looking to "recruit from the big boys" in Fla and out of state schools. That process will take time. That is a major step in itself. So the second tier Mid Major schools NIU,East Carolina,Toledo etc. have the advantage with being more established.
The major PLUS for FAU? The recruits are looking at early playing time. We had a very young team last year who did OK on the field. They are all (most) coming back! That's a good thing for FAU but bad for recruits looking for early playing time. We are just looking to plug holes and not rebuild entire teams. Therefore you won't see a lot of commitments. The numbers aren't needed. They just go and take their shot at being on TV and waiting their turn somewhere else.
Plus there will be some schollys set aside for spring walk-ons. All teams do it.
Rutgers went through it (growing pains while plugging holes) and now look at the players they' re getting from Florida! USF went through similar growing pains when they lost some veterans and went through rebuilding. Recruited players saw that they couldn't just show up and get a spot like they could have a few years earlier. Now that USF is winning, the recruits are willing to wait their turns. It goes in cycles until you get settled in.
BTW..our record have nothing to do with recruiting. If anything is hindering major players from committing it's the ……..all together now…On campus stadium issue.
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If we did something like that down here we could use it to also add to the attendance by getting the name of FAU out.
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Exit39 said
If they could break ground by next fall we would have amazing recruiting classes in all sports.
Long before that I hope we hear definte news that it will happen. Even stake off the ground where the stadium will be. Is it going where the PBCC classrooms are?
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