2022 Commitments

[Affirm]

FWIW, a lot of our coaches started following Derek Kyler, QB from Ivy League Champ Darmouth, on twitter. He announced an intent to grad transfer on Dec. 1.

Kyler threw for nearly 2000 yards with a 70% completion percentage and 17 TDs against 1 Int.

May mean something. May mean nothing. Usually odd when a starting QB at a school we never play is followed by a lot of our coaches.

I like the idea of a Dartmouth grad attending graduate school at Furman and playing football for Furman. Our coaches are working very hard to make our program the best.

[FU3]

I highly doubt that almost all our coaching staff would begin following a player on Twitter if there wasn’t some mutual interest.

[The Jackal]

FWIW, a lot of our coaches started following Derek Kyler, QB from Ivy League Champ Darmouth, on twitter. He announced an intent to grad transfer on Dec. 1.

Kyler threw for nearly 2000 yards with a 70% completion percentage and 17 TDs against 1 Int.

May mean something. May mean nothing. Usually odd when a starting QB at a school we never play is followed by a lot of our coaches.

I very highly doubt a Dartmouth grad would choose to attend grad school at Furman. Our coaches are wasting their time to follow this player. My opinion.

Astro has taken this to a science, but it's not uncommon for our younger position coaches and recruiting coordinator to follow a lot of players in the casting of a wide net. There are a ton of high school kids followed by one coach.

When you see half a dozen Furman coaches following one kid, especially a transfer student, that typically indicates there's serious interest between the two sides.

[Furmanoid]

If he comes to FU it will be interesting to see what graduate work he pursues. He’s a government major who wants to do finance. I guess they’ll cobble together some sort of independent study for him.

Ivy people go all over for grad school. Not sure most would want to go anywhere too hard. Dartmouth has been in goof off mode since Covid started. I know a girl there who hasn’t actually spent much time there since Freshman year. Sounds like she just signs up for classes and they send her grades. But it’s OK because they are so superior that they don’t actually have to learn anything.

[AstroDin]

^^^ I have a lot of respect for Buddy Teevens at Dartmouth.
I've kept an eye on him since he became the head coach in 2005.
I always thought if Furman went out of the family Teevens would be worth a look.
At 65 I'm guessing he'll wrap his career there.
BTW… Furman and Dartmouth butt heads recruiting quite a bit.

Not sure which schools were in the final mix for Jayquan Smith.
Smith had 13 offers from Richmond to SIU and several FBS schools.
My gut tells me it came down to Furman and Yale.

[Furmanoid]

Didn’t Dartmouth do something crazy like eliminating all contact in practice? I think I heard that the coach decided to try and drastically reduce injuries, and it worked. We only ever hear about pretty bad injuries but lots of guys are probably feeling kinda beat up every Saturday. So if you show up with everybody feeling great, I see how that might work.

[The Jackal]

Didn’t Dartmouth do something crazy like eliminating all contact in practice? I think I heard that the coach decided to try and drastically reduce injuries, and it worked. We only ever hear about pretty bad injuries but lots of guys are probably feeling kinda beat up every Saturday. So if you show up with everybody feeling great, I see how that might work.

Not sure it's "crazy," but it was certainly thinking outside the box.

They do all the drills, they just don't tackle one another. They tackle dummies, rolling balls, bring guys down to a mat, that sort of thing. It is sort of dumb that so many players are injured in practices against their own teammates and not against the opponents. There's also plenty of evidence that many football long term head injuries are the results of prolonged long term volume of hits (practice) as opposed to any single series of hits in a game.

I'm pretty sure that since Dartmouth instituted that practice philosophy (2018?) they've finished with 8+ wins every season and two conference titles.

[youwouldno]

While one can't read too much into every twitter follow, a quick scan shows that Furman coaches are following a wide range of potential transfers . . . FBS, FCS, Juco, grad transfers, regular transfers, etc., basically across the country, offense and defense, even some kickers I think.

Maybe the staff has been granted more leniency when it comes to taking transfers?

[Furmanoid]

Did we have a policy against transfers or was their just coach speak to that effect? Our maybe most dependable basketball player is a transfer. I think coming up with a good approach to portal usage may be the key to success going forward.

[youwouldno]

Did we have a policy against transfers or was their just coach speak to that effect? Our maybe most dependable basketball player is a transfer. I think coming up with a good approach to portal usage may be the key to success going forward.

Well Furman programs have always taken transfers to a limited extent - but it has been intimated by JD, CCH/other coaches, posters here, etc. that it's difficult to admit transfers compared to other SoCon programs, even accounting for Furman's typical academic standards.

It was a topic that JD spent some time discussing on his most recent interview with Dan, several weeks back. He didn't actually declare that anything had changed, but he did suggest that steps should be taken by the University to help even the playing field, to the extent possible.

[The Jackal]

Obi Olawole and the Buford Wolves (we have a bunch of Buford players) are moving on to the state title game (again).

Olawole had 1 catch for 35 yards and a rush for 9. https://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/sport ... c6a07.html

He was Buford's second leading receiver last night. It should be noted that Buford's offense has a number of guys with major P5 offers.

Honestly, Olawole is one guy I'm really hoping is in the barn during early signing day. He and Josh Harris could be a terrifying WR tandem over the next few years.

[rudyscribe]

Olawole caught a long TD pass to tie the score and the PAT gave Buford a 21-20 lead with 2:55 left in Georgia Class 6A state finals. Langston Hughes High drove inside the 20, but missed a late FGA and Buford held on to win. Olawole couldn't hold on to a potential TD pass in the first half.

[The Jackal]

Olawole caught a long TD pass to tie the score and the PAT gave Buford a 21-20 lead with 2:55 left in Georgia Class 6A state finals. Langston Hughes High drove inside the 20, but missed a late FGA and Buford held on to win. Olawole couldn't hold on to a potential TD pass in the first half.

[rudyscribe]

Glad The Jackal knew how to post video.

[The Jackal]

Glad The Jackal knew how to post video.

I'm not good at much, but I can post twitter videos.