Riley Nicholson just committed on Twitter

http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/recruiting/player-Riley-Nicholson-127174

[Edited on July 18, 2014 at 1:24 PM. Reason : 3 star OLB]

7/18/2014 1:21:27 PM

Quote :

"Riley Nicholson @Rileynicholson5 · 27m Officially committed to NC State! Blessed beyond belief ! ???? #ACC #Pack15"

[Edited on July 18, 2014 at 1:29 PM. Reason : ^ Came here to post that. ]

7/18/2014 1:29:38 PM

^

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"As a junior, Nicholson recorded 100 tackles, 58 solo, 17 tackles for loss, six forced fumbles and five pass-breakups. He picked the Wolfpack after considering offers from West Virginia, Georgia Tech, Purdue, Cincinnati, Iowa State, Indiana, Minnesota, Rutgers, Wake Forest, South Florida, and Central Florida among others."

7/18/2014 3:46:32 PM

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"Ryan Bartow ? @ RyanBartow 15h # Bolt: Four-star RB Johnny Frasier visiting # SouthCarolina this weekend & # NCState Wednesday via @ TheBigSpur247. http://southcarolina.247sports.com/Bolt/Top-running-back-schedules-visit-29747403"

7/22/2014 12:30:38 PM

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"James Smith-Williams @jacsw3 · 8h Blessed to announce my commitment to NC State University!"

Runs a 4.5 40 and has a 3.94 GPA (took AP courses and tutored at a middle school).



[Edited on July 23, 2014 at 1:35 AM. Reason : .]

7/23/2014 1:35:37 AM

supposedly got an offer from Yale

7/23/2014 9:23:57 AM

Got 5-star long snapper Tyler Griffiths from Charlotte area:

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" Tyler Griffiths @Tag_96 · 23h Proud to announce my commitment to NC state #GoPack #CodeRed ?????????? http://instagram.com/p/q62S7_y-PO/"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66oSFPeEx4Q&feature=youtu.be

7/27/2014 10:35:57 AM

A 5-star long snapper? According to who?

7/27/2014 11:59:40 AM

7/27/2014 12:01:33 PM

^ to be completely fair ... wtf makes you a 5* long snapper ...

7/27/2014 12:16:29 PM

LONGSNAPPER U

7/27/2014 12:34:47 PM

5* longsnapper lololol. I'm pretty sure he wasn't ranked...like at all. He did have an offer from Louisville so that's cool I guess.

7/27/2014 12:42:23 PM

5 star = camo state hat + t shirt tucked into gym shorts

7/27/2014 4:59:57 PM

https://ncstate.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1662556

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"Long snapper Tyler Griffiths from Monroe (N.C.) Sun Valley announced his commitment to NC State today at Chris Rubio's North Carolina long snapping camp, which was held at Hough High School. The guru ranks the senior as a five-star snapper and the ninth-best in the class of 2015. The 6-foot-2, 230-pound Griffiths chose NC State over a scholarship offer from Louisville, while Virginia and North Carolina were among the other schools interested. He won the Wolfpack's long snapping competition at their summer camp and was offered preferred walk-on status by head coach Dave Doeren afterwards. He picked up a tender from the Cardinals soon after, and when he returned to NCSU for a visit in July, the Wolfpack took Griffiths by surprise and upgraded their offer to a full scholarship. He was on campus again on Friday for the Pack's camp at Carter-Finley Stadium with several other recruits and big-time targets. Griffiths also knows current Pack long snapper Scott Thompson, who enters his senior campaign as a three-year starter and was a first-team All-America selection according to Phil Steele in 2013. Thompson has actually trained the senior previously and knows him through Rubio's camps. "

7/28/2014 12:49:51 PM

Wtf. So there's at least 8 other 5* long snappers in the nation? Or is that 5* distinction a positional ranking?

Edit: Oh wait, that's saying a guy named Chris Rubio ranked him a 5*. So it's not like a recruiting service...Rivals, Scout, etc ranked him that.

Not to take away from Griffiths...but it just seems a bit ridiculous to call him, or any long snapper, a 5*.

[Edited on July 28, 2014 at 12:58 PM. Reason : d]

7/28/2014 12:56:44 PM

Dude

7/28/2014 1:00:47 PM

Hopefully we'll never heard this dude's name again.

7/28/2014 1:03:57 PM

^Why do you say that? Danny Young was one of the most popular players at State. He made a shitload of tackles down field.

7/28/2014 11:04:50 PM

You get his point. Stop it.

And don't make Danny Young out to be someone he wasn't from a popularity standpoint.

7/28/2014 11:28:23 PM

Having a good long snapper is critical in Dave doerens offense

8/1/2014 5:13:24 PM

8/5/2014 11:09:58 AM

he has to be able to deliver pinpoint snaps to our punter who was recruited for his fake punt ability and not his actual punting ability

8/5/2014 11:36:40 AM

http://northcarolinastate.scout.com/story/1435471-tight-race-for-mcgirt?s=178&p=1

8/20/2014 9:53:47 AM

...and he will return from UGA/Clempson a Bulldog commit, methinks

8/20/2014 11:12:56 PM

When is the Red light going to be on again?

8/21/2014 12:41:39 PM

Hopefully on August 29th when Darian Roseboro commits. *hopefully*

8/21/2014 11:28:59 PM

Big recruting weekend. Biggest in history...
http://www.statefansnation.com/2014/08/biggest-recruiting-weekend-nc-state-football-history/

8/25/2014 9:29:51 AM

lot of buzz right now that consensus four-star (and top 50 to ~150 overall) DL Darian Roseboro will pick us when he announces Friday afternoon. not getting my hopes up yet (what up Amile Jefferson) but he'd be the first big name in our 2015 class and hopefully would get the ball rolling in terms of picking up some other top in-state recruits

[Edited on August 27, 2014 at 6:16 PM. Reason : a]

8/27/2014 6:15:35 PM

Yeah, apparently every recruiting guru in the Southeast is now predicting him to NC State saying that things have changed in recent weeks when everyone thought he was Michigan's. Apparently he also tweeted that it would take a lot to get him out of North Carolina and that family is big to him.

8/27/2014 8:50:35 PM

He's announcing today at 2:30....
I'm bumping to watch the hissy-fits when he commits to the Wolverines. Or the celebration.
http://insider.espn.go.com/blog/ncfrecruiting/on-the-trail/post?id=58016

8/29/2014 10:00:37 AM

I usually don't get too into football recruiting...just too many guys to follow and remember. And we usually don't recruit particularly well. But, yeah, from everything I'm seeing on twitter it seems like we're in really good position with Roseboro. Fingers crossed.

8/29/2014 10:08:48 AM

Quote :

" Biggest in history..."

8/29/2014 1:32:53 PM

(it was a joke, and almost a direct quote from the article)

[Edited on August 29, 2014 at 1:58 PM. Reason : V yeah, quite a hyperbole by sfn. although it could be a pretty important weekend]

8/29/2014 1:35:22 PM

yes, that was more directed at sfn than you.

8/29/2014 1:54:39 PM

the just said something about Tennessee coming on $trong late


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8/29/2014 2:35:56 PM

Michigan

fuck

8/29/2014 2:47:37 PM

well i'll be a sob. good luck to him.

[Edited on August 29, 2014 at 2:50 PM. Reason : ]

8/29/2014 2:50:18 PM

8/29/2014 2:51:22 PM

Guess he didn't want to play in front of his family at every game...that or they're about to get a lot of flier miles.

8/29/2014 2:51:35 PM

Yeah, apparently every recruiting guru in the Southeast needs to be fired.

[Edited on August 29, 2014 at 2:52 PM. Reason : doh!]

8/29/2014 2:51:50 PM

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"Guess he didn't want to play in front of his family at every game...that or they're about to get a lot of flier miles."

Yeah playing at Michigan in the Big House is a tough draw.

8/29/2014 2:56:16 PM

Did you guys really expect anything else to happen? Once you just accept the fact this is how things go you will be much happier I promise!

8/29/2014 3:20:52 PM

or expect the worse, accept the best. like when Street committed last year, which was a bigger commitment than roseboro would have been.

8/29/2014 3:25:21 PM

^^I've gotten to that point, and am a much happier person.

I do, however, want a statistical breakdown of NC State's changes with a recruit (football or b-ball) who holds a presser with multiple schools in the running (hats/helmets/sweaters/etc.). It must be something like 10%.

[Edited on August 29, 2014 at 3:26 PM. Reason : ^^]

8/29/2014 3:26:01 PM

^^ depending on what site you're looking at Roseboro is rated higher.

This would have been pretty big for two reasons...1) he's likely the best player in the State and 2) it might have got the ball rolling with other guys.

We've got an extremely mediocre recruiting class going on right now and we need to throw a couple studs in there. Hopefully we can come hot out of the gate and show these recruits that we're trending upwards. I wasn't expecting to sign a bunch of top guys, but we don't even have a couple right now.

I think Roseboro is pretty solid to Michigan, but maybe they'll shit the bed this year, Hoke will get fired, and he'll reconsider. Go for a game up there in November and have your country balls shrivel up when you step off the bus and maybe you'll decide to stay in-state.

8/29/2014 5:04:14 PM

i wouldn't commit to a coach who hasn't won an acc game yet either

[Edited on August 29, 2014 at 6:14 PM. Reason : hmmm michigan or losing to wake forest]

8/29/2014 6:13:37 PM

^^you're right, i was thinking that some sites had Street as a 5*.

I was thinking we may get this one, and it would have been pretty big, but oh well, I knew it was possible we wouldn't. Yep, another case of not getting excited until the deal is done.

8/29/2014 6:55:55 PM

Remeber that guy Kyrin Priester who verballed to us twice last year,then decomitted and went to Clemson? Apparently he's been kicked off Clemson after the first game.

9/4/2014 4:57:31 PM

Guessing no recruiting news thus far

9/7/2014 10:22:18 PM

he also talked shit about state to other recruits after dumping us for Clemson. Glad it worked out so well for the kid. he gets a big ha ha from me.

9/7/2014 11:41:25 PM