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State of SC has 0 athletes in Top 300 next year?
Jan 27, 2020, 8:16 AM
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Why is development so poor in this state? That could be the reason for U6C downfall as much as any other.
Georgia has 20+
North Carolina has 15+
Maryland has 10+
Thankfully Clemson can recruit nationwide as the local talent pool is poor right now.
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Dabo will still manage to find the 'Hunter Renfrows'
Jan 27, 2020, 8:19 AM
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of SC recruits next cycle. Tough luck for UofSC though. They'll pick up sloppy seconds/thirds in GA and FL after Clem/UGA/UF/FSU
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Yep - bad news for ..
Jan 27, 2020, 8:21 AM
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... SCar !! - ">
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This is why being able to recruit on a national level...
Jan 27, 2020, 8:43 AM
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is so critically important as opposed to relying on that one decent player to emerge from in-state once every five years who just happened to be raised a uof6c fan.
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Re: State of SC has 0 athletes in Top 300 next year?
Jan 27, 2020, 8:45 AM
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Video games take less effort....lol. I’m so grateful our recruiting is unbelievable period, imagine this staff with this talent.
The best is yet to come, let’s go Tigers!
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Re: State of SC has 0 athletes in Top 300 next year?
Jan 27, 2020, 8:52 AM
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What is your source? I hope it isn't a top 300 list regardless of position.
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Re: State of SC has 0 athletes in Top 300 next year?
Jan 27, 2020, 9:34 AM
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From 247 the best SC prospect is a 3 star DE sitting at 328
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Good year for the Coots to win the state, gives Muchamp
Jan 27, 2020, 8:55 AM
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something to crow about.
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It's been really bad lately
Jan 27, 2020, 8:58 AM
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Of course some of the state's top prospects have transferred to IMG and were reclassified as Florida prospects, but that was still just a handful of guys.
It doesn't seem like that long ago where all of the top 10 prospects in SC were worth recruiting to Clemson. Since then our standards have risen and the talent level in SC has fallen. Now there are maybe just a couple of guys each year really worthy of a Clemson scholarship offer (we have obviously still recruited walk-on types from SC), and SC has actually gotten their share of those (for various reasons).
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Re: State of SC has 0 athletes in Top 300 next year?
Jan 27, 2020, 9:05 AM
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It's why when I hear people harping about winning the "in-state" recruiting battle in South Carolina I chuckle.
SC typically only produces 5-6 Blue Chip type (4* or 5*) players per season. If you whittle-it down further to recruiting evaluations, position, grades, personality, culture, etc.. there aren't a whole bunch of in-state kids that Clemson wants.
Based on population growth alone it should cycle back up at some point, but we do seem to be bottoming out.
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Is it even 5-6?
Jan 27, 2020, 9:09 AM
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I feel like that was true maybe 5 years ago, but it doesn't seem like it's been more than 2 or 3 recently. 2017 was probably the last decent SC recruiting class.
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Sorry, it was 2018 with Kendrick, Joyner, Belk, etc
Jan 7, 2015, 1:03 AM
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2017 was not a good year in SC either.
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For 2020 we have the #1 class in the nation with 23 commits.
Jan 27, 2020, 9:25 AM
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Only two are from South Carolina. Three in 2019. Yeah the SC talent pool is obviously down but it's sure as h3ll not hurting us.
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Re: State of SC has 0 athletes in Top 300 next year?
Jan 27, 2020, 9:41 AM
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It can in part be attributed to the elimination of the "8 quarter rule" in South Carolina high school football.
That has severely hampered development of football players at the JV and B team level.
Kids are having to bump up to the next level team to sit the bench instead of being able to start on JV and provide depth on varsity in the same week. The get moved to varsity to be a back-up player before they are ready and then the coaches don't trust them to play because they aren't really ready.
Snowball effect that started several years ago and is really taking its toll now.
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My guess there are a few undervalued prospects.
Jan 27, 2020, 10:02 AM
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Perhaps our amps may identify them.
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Re: My guess there are a few undervalued prospects.
Jan 27, 2020, 10:05 AM
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I have talked to a few high school football coaches in my area and they have all said that '21 may be the worst class in recent memory.
You are right that there may be a couple of late bloomers, but this is definitely not some situation where the scouting services are overlooking kids from our state.
High school football in South Carolina is hurting and something needs to be done.
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Re: State of SC has 0 athletes in Top 300 next year?
Jan 27, 2020, 11:34 AM
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Without even looking, I would think half of the really great players in the country come from Florida, Texas, California and Georgia. Big states, in the south, with huge populations and many different schools.
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