Latwan lists top 3 of WV, MSU, UGA
per ESPN, Latwan Anderson just listed a top 3 of West Virginia, MSU and Georgia, with WVU out in front of the others. http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/recruiting/tracker/player?page=onthetrail…
August 10th, 2009 at 11:48 AM ^
already here.
Cullen Christian, Brandon Ifill, Rashad Knight, Tony Grimes, Bobby Swigert all on deck.
Again, Anderson's at an Ohio State feeder school and doesn't have an Ohio State offer despite being "top 50." Makes me wonder.
August 10th, 2009 at 12:04 PM ^
You are forgetting the big names mentioning us as of late. I believe we got an official visit from Marquis Flowers, it's behind paywall, but I think this is the case. Interest from Sean Parker, Dietrich Riley, and Josh Shaw.
August 10th, 2009 at 12:25 PM ^
yes.
I agree.
I read somewhere else that Joshua Shaw has Ohio State as a solid #1 now, but that is before official visits. We'll see what happens. Bottom line - there are a lot of quality CB/S prospects we're angling after.
August 10th, 2009 at 1:50 PM ^
Flowers has said he plans to visit ND and Michigan for officials at a minimum.
August 10th, 2009 at 1:55 PM ^
Good to hear. Still need to pick up one FS in this class; Marvin Robinson should fit in nicely as a SS/OLB player.
August 10th, 2009 at 12:26 PM ^
Has Swigert been offered? or just interested
August 10th, 2009 at 12:29 PM ^
Both, offered and interested.
August 10th, 2009 at 11:49 AM ^
Well crap. Hopefully we can come through with one of our other targets.
August 10th, 2009 at 11:54 AM ^
BlockM, we've got a lot of others on the board who we are first choice for, and remember, Quentin Washington, Craig Roh, (I think) Denard Robinson and Anthony LaLota weren't even on the board at this point last year.
August 10th, 2009 at 12:04 PM ^
Yeah, that was more of a "well, I would have liked to have this kid but I'm sure we can get someone else" type of post. I need to work on better representing my emotions over the internet.
August 10th, 2009 at 1:31 PM ^
Exactly. I think that recruiting this year is a lot more fluid (for better or worse) than it was last year or in previous years. We could have a solid amount of decommits if our record is as bad as last year's but on the flip side I think if we're 7 wins or above this year (maybe even just .500) than we'll be on a few high recruits radars that we weren't last year. I think we need to hope that A) We don't suck. B) If we do suck we don't suck too bad. C) If we suck really bad every recruit closes his eyes, sticks his fingers in his ears, and screams LALALALALA, I CAN'T HEAR YOU OR SEE YOU SO THIS ISN'T HAPPENING. Any one of those options and our recruiting will be better than people expect for this year.
August 10th, 2009 at 12:06 PM ^
I was never high on LaTwan's character, he is really that stupid. I was negged last time, but a 13 on the ACT is REEEEEEALLLY bad and he had behavioral issues to the point OSU didn't offer...
August 10th, 2009 at 12:12 PM ^
You get a 12 on your ACT if you get 25% right(so just guessing and not reading the question gives you a 12). So a 13 really, really sucks. He's not going to MSU. It'll be WV.
August 10th, 2009 at 12:14 PM ^
You are in the bottom 10% of the country
http://www.actstudent.org/scores/norms1.html
August 10th, 2009 at 12:24 PM ^
Isn't the ACT score only used if a college applicant is looking to attend an in-state college, while the SAT is used for an out-of-state college? If so, this may explain why OSU failed to make the top 3.
August 10th, 2009 at 12:26 PM ^
You could be right. I don't think the Bucknuts even bothered to offer him a scholarship.
August 10th, 2009 at 1:06 PM ^
The ACT is equivalent to the SAT. Universities take both tests and do not descriminate based on out-of-state and in-state applicants. I am an out-of-state student and I submitted my ACT score to Michigan. on a side note, a 13 is what noel devine got on his ACT. just an interesting frame of reference.
August 11th, 2009 at 10:36 AM ^
Thanks.
August 10th, 2009 at 12:25 PM ^
estimating probabilities EVER. Just because you have a one in four chance of getting something right,it doesn't mean you will get 25% right if you guess every answer.
Setup atleast 10 questions and randomly select answers and see how many you get right.
August 10th, 2009 at 12:31 PM ^
I got 9! I don't understand math, does this make me a genius?!
August 10th, 2009 at 12:43 PM ^
Lol speaking of probabilities, one kid from my HS got a 6% on a 50 question Scantron vocab test. Had he filled out the exact same bubble for the entire test he would have gotten an 8%. That is my favorite ultimate stupidity fail ever.
August 10th, 2009 at 12:45 PM ^
He is not far off though, the ACT is out of five possible answers. If you guess them all you are going to average 20%, so basically it is slightly above guessing.
August 10th, 2009 at 1:47 PM ^
are on the ACT?
August 10th, 2009 at 3:13 PM ^
I forgot the ACT is sometimes out of 5 questions-maybe it was just one or two sections out of 5. If you guess on all without looking at the question, you should be able to get around a 20% (which is a 12). That's pathetic. Even if you are really dumb you should be able to eliminate some of the answers, and should be able to get at least 1 out of 3.
August 10th, 2009 at 12:50 PM ^
There are 4 possibilities (A - D) on the ACT Reading, English, and Science portions of the exam. There are 5 possibilities (A - E) on the ACT Math exam.
Also, even if you guessed on all the questions and you somehow got 25% correct, you still would not get a 12 overall. The test adjusts your score based on if it detects you are guessing. It also uses a special top-secret, multi-parameter based scoring model that gives less credit for easier questions and more for harder questions, but this is not determined until after all of the exams are scored. So each question is not worth the same amount of points.
I am an 11th grade Math teacher and also the ACT Testing Supervisor for my district.
August 10th, 2009 at 1:19 PM ^
Ha, are you sure this ultra complicated model, isn't just simply ranking the difficulty of the questions? As far as adjusting the score to guessing goes it isn't quite fair on the off chance the pattern matches with someone who wasn't guessing on the ones correct. Even with guessing the score will be 20-25%, on a scale this large it is still lying in the bottom 5% of each category, which could very well be people who are guessing.
August 10th, 2009 at 1:29 PM ^
I meant to say it is a complicated model to predict beforehand and to replicate. The questions are not pre-ranked based upon difficulty and no one knows which questions will be assigned more (or less points) until after the test is scored.
I give a practice test to the students in my district and it is almost impossible to get an reliable and accurate predictor as to what the actual ACT scores will be because we do not know how the scoring distributions will come out.
Thanks for letting me vent OT...
August 10th, 2009 at 12:39 PM ^
fickle mistress :p
August 10th, 2009 at 1:11 PM ^
While its dissapointing that he dropped us we are still out for other big name defensive backs so I'm not that concerned.
August 10th, 2009 at 2:03 PM ^
and articles I read I am not sure this is a bad thing. He definitely has talent but he seems like a bit of a jack ass. Also, as many have stated, we are in the drivers seat for some top notch DB's still.
Finally, I would have to say that if OSU hasn't even offered this guy he must have some other issues as well.
August 11th, 2009 at 11:00 AM ^
Not that he's going to UM, but I'm sure his top 3, 5, 12, 86, whatever, will change again. It always does.