National Signing Day for College Football

National Signing Day for College FootballToday, February 7th, is the first day in college football that recruits can send in their letter-of-intents to the school that they plan to play for in 2007. As of 6:30 PM, USC currently has the #1 recruiting class in the country, followed by BCS Champion Florida, Texas, South Carolina, and Tennessee. What does this mean for the University of Connecticut football program? Well, they ended up with the 82nd best recruiting class in the country and were the 7th best out of 8 in the Big East. Latest Update: The top 5 now is Florida, LSU, USC, Texas and Tennessee. UCONN ended up with the 55th best class in the country. To see where your team is ranked, click here. Head Coach Randy Edsall announced that he has received 25 letters of intent from his recruiting efforts for the 2007 season. There are also 4 other recruits, (Tyler Lorenzen, Aaron Bagsby, Jarell Miller, Corey Stringer), who are already enrolled at UCONN and are eligible to participate in spring practice. Here is what Edsall had to say about his incoming class:

“I am very pleased with the efforts of our coaches, players and support staff in helping to land what I consider to be a very fine recruiting class for the University of Connecticut football program. This class fills our needs with student-athletes who fit in with our system. These young men bring a lot of athleticism, character, leadership and speed to our team.”

Of the twenty five signees, only 2 of them are from the state of Connecticut, WR James Nixon (brother of WR Brandon McLean), and DE Marcus Campbell of Bloomfield. Here is a look at the rest of your future Huskies:

PLAYER

POS.

HT.

WT.

HOMETOWN / HIGH SCHOOL
Agbor, Harris

DB

5-11

180

Mesquite, Texas / Horn
Apostolakos, Yianni

TE

6-5

235

Pittsford, N.Y. / Pittsford Mendon
Bardzak, Gary

OL

6-2

290

Mar Lin, Pa. / Pottsville
Campbell, Marcus

DE

6-4

220

Bloomfield, Conn. / Bloomfield
Dabney, Kijuan

DB

6-1

190

Houston, Texas / Yates
Endres, Cody

QB

6-4

214

Washington, Pa. / Trinity
Frey, Robbie

TB

6-0

190

Lehighton, Pa. / Lehighton
Howard, Jasper

ATH

5-10

168

Miami, Fla. / Miami Edison
Jean-Louis, Jonathan

DB

5-11

190

Cambridge, Mass. / Arlington Catholic
Johnson, A.J.

TE

6-4

242

Fort Lauderdale, Fla. / Cardinal Gibbons
Lloyd, Jr., Greg

OLB

6-1

220

Clermont, Fla. / East Ridge
Marck, C.J.

LB

6-0

230

Newtown, Pa. / Pennsbury
Martin, Twyon

DT

6-2

265

Parkland, Fla. / Stoneman Douglas
Moore, Isiah

WR

6-0

190

Cambridge, Mass. / Proctor Academy
Moore, Kashif

WR

5-10

180

Burlington, N.J. / Burlington Township
Nixon, James

DB

6-0

185

New Haven, Conn. / Bridgeton Academy
Petrus, Muhammad

OL

6-2

285

St. Laurent, Que. / Vanier Prep
Reyes, Kendall

DE

6-4

235

Nashua, N.H. / Nashua North
Russell, Danny

DT

6-2

240

Ponte Vedra, Fla. / Nease
Ryan, Mike

OL

6-5

305

Tamaqua, Pa. / Marian Catholic
Schultz, Scott

DT

6-3

267

Wayne, N.J. / Wayne Hills
Sherman, Anthony

FB

5-11

225

North Attleboro, Mass. / North Attleboro
Teggart, Dave

PK

6-0

205

Northborough, Mass. / Algonquin Reg.
Wilburn, Gary

CB

5-11

185

Washington, Ga. / Washington-Wilkes
Wylie, Kelmetrus

RB

6-0

200

Washington, Ga. / Washington-Wilkes

*This information comes from the UCONN website. According to Scouts, Inc rankings on espn.com (you have to be an ESPN insider to access the link), Danny Russell and James Nixon received the highest grades of all the recruits (77). Dixon was originally a part of the 2006 recruiting class but didn’t qualify academically and went to prep school. Here is a link to the PDF file.

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