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Friday, January 17, 2014

Tulane picks up commitment from Scotlandville running back Dontrell Hilliard

http://www.nola.com/recruiting/index.ssf/2014/01/tulane_picks_up_commitment_fro_2.html

http://sportsnola.com/sports/tulane/603718-recruiting-scotlandvilles-dontrelll-hilliard-commits-to-tulane.html

http://www.theneworleansadvocate.com/sports/8123442-171/scotlandvilles-dontrell-hilliard-commits-to

Thursday, January 16, 2014

Future List: 2015 + 2016 Tulane Football Recruiting Offers, last updated 01/21/2014

2015 Tulane Football Recruiting Offer List: (31)
Information gathered from sources & the recruiting services 24/7, ESPN, Rivals, Scout/FoxNext.

OFFENSE (17)

QB

RUNNING BACK (6)
**** David Ducre - RB - 6-0/220 - Mandeville, LA (Lakeshore) Twitter Link
*** Lanard Fournette - RB - 5-10/185 - New Orleans, LA (St. Aug) Twitter Link
Will Scott - RB - 5-10/205 - Destrehan, LA (Destrehan)
Nigel Anderson - RB - 6-0/190 - Reserve, LA (East St. John) Twitter Link
*** Grant Burguillos - OL - 6-5/280 - Mandeville, LA (Mandeville) Twitter Link
Drew Fenske - OL - 6-0/255 - Monroe, LA (Ouachita) - Twitter Link

WIDE RECEIVER (9)
***** Tyron Johnson - WR - 6-1/185 - New Orleans, LA (Warren Easton) Twitter Link

**** Jazz Ferguson - WR - 6-5/205 - St. Francisville, LA (West Feliciana) Twitter Link
*** Alfred Smith - WR - 5-10/185 - Destrehan, LA (Destrehan) Twitter Link

**** Stanley Morgan - WR - 6-1/180 - New Orleans, LA (St. Aug) Twitter Link
*** Darrell Clark - WR - 5-10/175 - New Orleans, LA (Warren Easton)
*** Kirk Merritt - WR - 5-11/195 - Destrehan, LA (Destrehan) Twitter Link
**** Michael Chigbu - WR - 6-2/205 - New Orleans, LA (Holy Cross) Twitter Link
Deondre Farrier - WR - 6-2/190 - Orlando, FL
Jahrvis Davenport - WR - 5-10/175 - Tampa, FL Twitter Link

TIGHT END (1)
*** Jake Bargas - TE - 6-4/225 - Boca Raton, FL Twitter Link

OFFENSIVE LINE (1)
**** Sam Madden - OL - 6-7/328 - Barnegat, N.J.

DEFENSE (10)

DEFENSIVE LINE (1)
*** Isaiah Washington - DE - 6-4/240 - New Orleans, LA (Karr)

LINEBACKER (1)
*** Keaton Anderson - LB - 6-1/215 - Florence, AL Twitter Link

SECONDARY (8)
*** Hunter Dale - S - 6-0/185 - New Orleans, LA (John Curtis) Twitter Link
**** Xavier Lewis - CB - 6-0/180 - Reserve, LA (East St. John) Twitter Link
*** Henry Black - CB - 5-10/165 - Shreveport, LA (Woodlawn) Twitter Link
Donte Jackson - CB - 5-11/175 - Jefferson, LA (Riverdale) Twitter Link
*** Deshawn Raymond - CB - 6-1/175 - Metairie, LA (East Jeff) Twitter Link
Brandon Scott - DB - 6-0/180 - Destrehan, LA (Destrehan)
Dwaine Thomas - S/LB - 6-2/190 - Boutte, LA (Hahnville)
**** Maurice Smitherman - 5-10/165 - Adamsville, AL Twitter Link

ATHLETE (4)
# 1 - Kendall Bussey Jr - ATH - 5-9/195 - New Orleans, LA (Newman) - TULANE Twitter Link
**** Deshawn Capers-Smith - ATH - 5-10/175 - New Orleans, LA (Warren Easton) Twitter Link
**** Derrick Dillon - ATH - 5-11/165 - Franklinton, LA (Pine) Twitter Link
**** Jacques Patrick - RB/WR - 6-1/210 - Orlando, FL Twitter Link

SPECIAL TEAMS

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2016 Tulane Football Recruiting Offer List: (5)
Information gathered from sources & the recruiting services 24/7, ESPN, Rivals, Scout/FoxNext.

OFFENSE (3)

QUARTERBACK

RUNNING BACK (1)
Tre Turner - RB - 5-10/184 - New Orleans, LA (Holy Cross) Twitter Link

WIDE RECEIVER (1)
**** Mykel Jones - WR - 6-0/185 - Patterson, LA (Patterson)

TIGHT END (1)
Jamal Pettigrew - TE - 6-4/206 - New Orleans, LA (St. Aug)

OFFENSIVE LINE

DEFENSE (2)

DEFENSIVE LINE (1)
**** Glen Logan - DL - 6-4/270 - Destrehan, LA (Destrehan) Twitter Link

LINEBACKER

SECONDARY (1)
Jermarius Jordan - DB - 5-10/170 - Hoover, AL Twitter Link

SPECIAL TEAMS

ATHLETE

Really no way to bump things in a blog so once this gets too far down I will re-post it as a new post and delete the older one.

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Terren Encalade talks Tulane

http://lafootballmagazine.com/categoryblog/1345-recruit-spotlight-high-school-class-of-2014

Skinner Update Tuesday night

TUESDAY MORNING

Skinner told me in person on more than one occasion during football season that he was enrolling in January at Tulane. Most recently in late December and early January those plans had not changed. If there is some sort of hold up or change of plans I am pretty confident it is not on Skinners behalf.

I would not worry about it until next week. That said, we have had a couple players set to become members of the team that were here in town and even in classes already yet they were not "official" so that means Tulane cannot comment on them publicly per the rules.

Most if not all of the coaching staff is out of town until tonight or tomorrow at the AFCA conference. If their are any hold ups I would guess CJ or someone will be loudly knocking on doors when he returns.

BELOW ADDED TUESDAY NIGHT

Skinner is all Tulane but something out of his control and Tulane's control came up and he will likely not be able to enroll until May. He stands by his commitment and the staff is treating him like a 2014 commitment and will come in the summer with everyone else if everything works out as it is expected.

Tyler Gilbert and Taurean Nixon all had things that needed to get worked out and everything ended up working out fine eventually. Frustrating yes. Breathe.