Paramus Catholic pipeline
We seem to be attempting to build a pipeline to Paramus Catholic. Per twitter, Michigan has offered 2016 WR Donald Stewart and 2017 LB Drew Singleton.
Donald Stewart is a 3* WR with offers from BC, Syracuse, and about half of the B1G. Michigan is the biggest offer.
Drew Singleton is a 4* OLB with early offers from Rutgers and Michigan, as well as interest from Miami (YTM), Nebraska, and UNC.
You may remember Paramus as the school that we snagged Jabrill Peppers and Juwan Bushell-Beatty from. We are obviously in on Rashan Gary, another top, top recruit. We also have an offer in to 2017 4* DT Corey Bolds. What you may not know is that a 3* DT named Kwanii Figueroa committed to EMU this year, so that saturates the AA area with even more New Jersey transplants.
Paramus puts out 3-4 3* or higher guys on a pretty consistent basis, so even though we've talked about it on this blog before, it bears repeating that establishing a pipeline to this school would be a huge win for recruiting.
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Big gulps huh?...well see ya later
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The Knowledge?
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We can thank Chris Partridge for this. Even the Paramus Twitter account said something along the lines of "Thanks Coach C. Partridge for taking care of his players @ Paramus Catholic." It appears as if as long as Partridge is here and Jabrill is in the building, there will be a strong relationship between Michigan and Paramus Catholic. (For those of you who live in a cave, Chris Partridge is the former head coach at Paramus Catholic.)
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credit for. The pipeline was established by them. Gary was already looking at Michigan when Harbaugh was hired. Harbaugh stregthened it by bringing in Partridge.
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Remember, we hired Chris Partridge from Paramus Catholic this year.
In more news, Mike Zordich is on the west coast today visiting elite players from the LA area, Loyolla HS, Gardena Serra etc.
April 15th, 2015 at 11:09 AM ^
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I will be a pipeline to chicken and Christmas ornaments, as I live in Frankenmuth. Not sure that helps football at all, but I would enjoy working for Jim Harbaugh.
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April 15th, 2015 at 11:15 AM ^
Yeah, the spring evaluation period has begun, so there is probably going to be a flurry of new offers to go along with these two Paramus Catholic kids.
April 15th, 2015 at 10:52 AM ^
Greg Mattison is visiting Paramus today.
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April 15th, 2015 at 11:06 AM ^
Not likely since Wilcher showed his true colors. First he feigns disgust and a lack of respect due to the Weber situation, but after a visit, he an Urbz have made up and all is well again.
April 15th, 2015 at 11:30 AM ^
While I agree with you, Wilcher could have easily toned down his rhetoric when this first happened, especially knowing how these things work. It really made him look like a pathetic kiss ass
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As much as I hate Ohio State it would be unwise for any coach to cut ties with the defending national champions.
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...and King. They've got a ton of good prospects these days, too.
April 15th, 2015 at 11:54 AM ^
Harrison? Any good players in their system.
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Aside from Khalid Kareem in 2016, there's not a ton of talent for a couple years, as far as I know. The next biggest recruit will probably be a wide receiver/safety/linebacker prospect named Ovie Oghoufo in the 2018 class.
Ummmm...yeah, I'm sure it's athletically related. Donnie Corley went from Wyandotte to Detroit King. Martell Pettaway and Kyonta Stallworth went from St. Clair Shores to Detroit King. Lavert Hill went from Cass Tech to King, which seems like a lateral move at best. Those guys are all 3- or 4-star kids who transferred in the span of about a year.
Something is going on there. The only one that doesn't seem questionable is Lavert Hill.
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I lived in Paramus through my teens and live about 20 minutes away now. They're the "new money" of North Jersey HS football powers. All of a sudden a few years ago star players who lived nowhere near there started transferring in. It's something Don Bosco has done a lo of as well. PC doing it has drawn more ire though. A lot of people wonder what they're doing and think the shoe has to drop at some point. I think PC doing raised more tempers because Partridge's personality rubbed people the wrong way. With him gone now I'm curious to see if they continue to bring in these outside players as much.
well taken. I'm also curious to se how UM keeps the pipeline flowing not just from PC, but all of North Jersey.
But parochial schools have been "raising tempers" recruiting high school players for years. It's just that some people in this part of the state got their noses out of joint with Peppers and others, ergo the big deal made out of this situation. As another Jersey boy, Bill Parcells, used to say - losers always have excuses and that's what blew up the PC thing. Don Bosco lost Peppers when he tranferred.
You'll recall before the population shifts - Jersey Shore and Bergen County - parochial schools in Bergen weren't even a twinkle in the eye of Jersey high school sports writers. But have since become some of the leading football powerhouse programs in the nation - not just PC, but Don Bosco, St. Josephs, Bergen Catholic, St. Paul's (it's running back just committed to OSU) to name some and are constantly ranked among the top 25 by USA Today. The power schools in North Jersey were around the Newark area prior to the shift. In fact, the conference in which I played high school sports was called the Big Ten out of deference to the collegiate level conference. I always wanted to go to UM, but was too stupid - fortunately our two sons, inherited their mother's brain and graduted from UM.
Al that said, to only focus on PC as THE pipeline for North Jersey talent would be very short-sighted; analogous to solely recruiting out of Cass Tech, while ignoring the remainder of the Detroit Metro Area. Partridge and Michigan should know this; if not then Michigan's looking at North Jersey recruting through rose-colored glasses and did not get full value with his hire.
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"so that saturates the AA area with even more New Jersey transplants"
even more is right, and you don't even need to be talking football
April 15th, 2015 at 11:36 AM ^
What can you tell me about his speed? 247 gives him a 4 in that category, but he does get 9s in both hands and ball skills.
He's clearly not elite-he doesn't run away from kids, but what he lacks in raw speed, he makes up for in length. His film showcases a lot of his stutter/stop and go routes, where once the db shows a little bite, his long stride allows him a couple steps into the open field. I would give Stewart more like a 6 or 7: he isn't caught-from-behind slow, but he doesn't create a ton of separation either. However, hands and ball skills are appropriately rated at 9, which is a glimpse of what could be if he were a tad faster. Overall, I think he's underranked as is.
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April 15th, 2015 at 12:07 PM ^
Both the 2017 kids are power 5 kids but neither are exceptional(at this juncture, they're still young) and I doubt they would have offers this soon from UM if they went to a different school.
Well, Singleton is #135 and Bolds is #178 in the initial 247 Sports ranking, so those are some pretty high rankings. I don't really buy that those offers were made just because of their Paramus Catholic connection.
They're not going to offer just anyone that goes to that school. I'm saying this early in the process you usually only offer elite players. Now the staff could veiw them as such, from my prospective they aren't. Just my 2 cents.