Joel Goodson
- how was I to know, she was with the Russians too?
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Joel Goodson
- how was I to know, she was with the Russians too?
3 star DT/N | 6’3” 315 | c/o 2027 #1 DL in AR | Valley View High School | 3.4 GPA | 20 D1 offers
Jonesboro, AR
Simeon kid gets a Miami offer
Wagner kid is in our back yard. Obviously we have to go after him. But there are way to many kids his size that move way better who don’t cost what that kid thinks he’s worth. We don’t need him and we won’t over pay for him. I’m not going to give qualifying information on why or why not on every player but some kids are a dime a dozen due to position, size, and abundance. Some are not therefore worth more. That is where our money will go. If Wagner wants to play here in front of friends and family he needs to accept the fact that his a little fish in a big pond.
Joel Goodson
- how was I to know, she was with the Russians too?
3 star C/O 2027 : CRCP | 6’3 | 220lb | Linebacker
St Louis
People don’t realize how loaded the 27 instate class is. Here are some kids with p4 offers who aren’t even ranked yet
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Corey Randolph, Simeon , Defensive Line
FOOTBALL 2025: Two-way player as a junior. Got snaps on the OL and DL. Credited with 16 tackles (2 TFL) on defense in 9 games, per MaxPreps.
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Joshua Shaw Jr., Immaculate Conception , Offensive Line
Joshua Shaw Jr. is a 6-3, 300-pound Offensive Line from Elmhurst, IL.
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Dylan Mota, St. Patrick , Offensive Line
Dylan Mota is a 6-8, 280-pound Offensive Line from Chicago, IL.
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James Johnson, Belleville East , Safety
Multi-sport athlete that also plays basketball. –––– FOOTBALL 2025: Two-way player as a junior. Got snaps at SAF and WR. Totaled 39 tackles, 5 INT, 1 PBU and...
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Joel Goodson
- how was I to know, she was with the Russians too?
missing on ESL's Lofton wasn't great (duh), but this seems like a excellent pivot:
Joel Goodson
- how was I to know, she was with the Russians too?
highly rated OL:
mhuml32
Gesture of Northern Aggression
People don’t realize how loaded the 27 instate class is. Here are some kids with p4 offers who aren’t even ranked yet
Corey Randolph, Simeon , Defensive Line
FOOTBALL 2025: Two-way player as a junior. Got snaps on the OL and DL. Credited with 16 tackles (2 TFL) on defense in 9 games, per MaxPreps.
Joshua Shaw Jr., Immaculate Conception , Offensive Line
Joshua Shaw Jr. is a 6-3, 300-pound Offensive Line from Elmhurst, IL.
Dylan Mota, St. Patrick , Offensive Line
Dylan Mota is a 6-8, 280-pound Offensive Line from Chicago, IL.
James Johnson, Belleville East , Safety
Multi-sport athlete that also plays basketball. –––– FOOTBALL 2025: Two-way player as a junior. Got snaps at SAF and WR. Totaled 39 tackles, 5 INT, 1 PBU and...
This is normal for 247. For comparison, Parker Crim, Kaedyn Cobbs, Kayden Bennett, Will Vala, and Tony Balanganayi all had P4 offers and none were given composite rankings until April or later. Next month will be 247's first attempt at ranking the full 2027 class.
Joel Goodson
- how was I to know, she was with the Russians too?
would be very nice to break the ice at Nazareth:
What I’m saying is there will be 60 kids in this class that have p4 offers. This is an extremely strong in state class even if players like Trae Taylor and Austin Coles transferred out of stat
mhuml32
Gesture of Northern Aggression
I agree that it's a strong class. When I saw your initial comment it's triggered questions about the 2027 and/or the 2026 class. I'm wondering if the 2027 class is truly an outlier or that recruiting has fundamentally changed. For example, your statement would also apply to the 2026 class; I pulled up a random recruit around #60 for in-state rankings (Rico Schrieber) and he has 11 offers from P4 programs. That's a crazy amount, almost a quarter of all P4 programs have offered the 60th best prep player in Illinois. That seems very different than the in-state recruiting landscape before COVID, but let's make a comparison. I pulled up the 2019 class and found the same-ranked player (Mehki Miller #62) from that class and he had zero P5 offers and only two FBS offers.
Going off of this (limited comparison), the 2027 class is similar to 2026. So either the prep talent has substantially increased in recent years or P4 schools are changing how they are recruiting.
Joel Goodson
- how was I to know, she was with the Russians too?
3 star OT|Perrysburg Highschool C/O 2027|6'5 290 OT
Perrysburg, OH
I think 2026 and 2027 are historically good classes especially when you factor in the p4 played that transferred out of state. With the transfer portal schools for the most part will be taking fewer high school kids and focusing on transfers.
Have we offered the any of these linemanPeople don’t realize how loaded the 27 instate class is. Here are some kids with p4 offers who aren’t even ranked yet
Corey Randolph, Simeon , Defensive Line
FOOTBALL 2025: Two-way player as a junior. Got snaps on the OL and DL. Credited with 16 tackles (2 TFL) on defense in 9 games, per MaxPreps.
Joshua Shaw Jr., Immaculate Conception , Offensive Line
Joshua Shaw Jr. is a 6-3, 300-pound Offensive Line from Elmhurst, IL.
Dylan Mota, St. Patrick , Offensive Line
Dylan Mota is a 6-8, 280-pound Offensive Line from Chicago, IL.
James Johnson, Belleville East , Safety
Multi-sport athlete that also plays basketball. –––– FOOTBALL 2025: Two-way player as a junior. Got snaps at SAF and WR. Totaled 39 tackles, 5 INT, 1 PBU and...
Joel Goodson
- how was I to know, she was with the Russians too?
and there it is:
O/U on announcement? 24 hours?
O/U on announcement? 24 hours?
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imo, i’m under on the 24 hrs
a little story about taking the offer in front of you:
my youngest son, who is now 31, was then a college Sr at Okla St earning his Environmental Science degree in spring 2017, and was 3-4 months from graduation. He knew he needed a Masters to really be marketable to corporate employers. Illinois St had/has a program in Hydrology , and that was the sub-discipline he wanted to get his Masters in. Oddly, UI , while it has Geology, had ceded the Hydrology studies program to ISU, I guess so they didnt compete on that.
He goes to Bloomington on winter break for the interview, as he was still a state resident and had that connection to ISU. He also had applied to OkSt, Kansas and Stanford (shooting for the stars). On the visit, the program head prof makes him the fully paid tuition offer with some stipend for food/rent for being a TA/RA. He had not yet even heard a peep outta Stanford, and only knew that while he had almost a sure thing staying a OkSt, and an excellent shot at something from KU, but no other offers yet. my son asked the prof if he could think about it for a few days. The guy says yea, but Im likely going to make offers starting tomorrow to other qualified candidates, and the first 6 that accept we will honor. After that, no promises that the offer holds.
My son calls me up , excited about the news of the offer. We had helped him all thru undergrad as he had about a 1/3 partial schollie under a T Boone Pickens program in Geology, so he had zero student loan debt, and didnt want to start . I told him straight out, this is your chance to lock in your Masters FREE. He walked right back into the profs office and accepted the offer. A year and a half later, January 2019, he's interviewing for a job with the head of the hydrology practice at a multi-national environmental science consulting outfit, with offices all over the country and the world , and that head guy was a Masters Grad from the ISU program 15 years earlier. That prof had set up the interview ! He's still at that outfit today, 6 years later
Sometimes the best offer is the one right in front of you , and you cant let fancier sounding places cloud up your thinking.
my youngest son, who is now 31, was then a college Sr at Okla St earning his Environmental Science degree in spring 2017, and was 3-4 months from graduation. He knew he needed a Masters to really be marketable to corporate employers. Illinois St had/has a program in Hydrology , and that was the sub-discipline he wanted to get his Masters in. Oddly, UI , while it has Geology, had ceded the Hydrology studies program to ISU, I guess so they didnt compete on that.
He goes to Bloomington on winter break for the interview, as he was still a state resident and had that connection to ISU. He also had applied to OkSt, Kansas and Stanford (shooting for the stars). On the visit, the program head prof makes him the fully paid tuition offer with some stipend for food/rent for being a TA/RA. He had not yet even heard a peep outta Stanford, and only knew that while he had almost a sure thing staying a OkSt, and an excellent shot at something from KU, but no other offers yet. my son asked the prof if he could think about it for a few days. The guy says yea, but Im likely going to make offers starting tomorrow to other qualified candidates, and the first 6 that accept we will honor. After that, no promises that the offer holds.
My son calls me up , excited about the news of the offer. We had helped him all thru undergrad as he had about a 1/3 partial schollie under a T Boone Pickens program in Geology, so he had zero student loan debt, and didnt want to start . I told him straight out, this is your chance to lock in your Masters FREE. He walked right back into the profs office and accepted the offer. A year and a half later, January 2019, he's interviewing for a job with the head of the hydrology practice at a multi-national environmental science consulting outfit, with offices all over the country and the world , and that head guy was a Masters Grad from the ISU program 15 years earlier. That prof had set up the interview ! He's still at that outfit today, 6 years later
Sometimes the best offer is the one right in front of you , and you cant let fancier sounding places cloud up your thinking.
Ditto here, same reasoning, same result :
Daughter goes to visit Iowa for biostatistics and gets offered full tuition + stipend that was more than she spent for room and board.
UIC has biostatistics but I don't think they have the resources or the program to offer much. Way late in the game, her #1 Columbia, offered but not much $. She had already accepted the Iowa offer and stayed with it.
She graduated money ahead and ultimately accepted a job on a recommendation from an internship boss.
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Joel Goodson
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4 star EDGE/DT '27 NAVY ALL-AMERICAN|2x 1st TEAM A-D|LCHS 6'4 270lb
Houston
Joel Goodson
- how was I to know, she was with the Russians too?
3 star Edge | 2027 | Lake Oswego HS | 6’6” 250lb | 3.82 gpa | Oregon 6A 1st Team All-State DL | TRL Defensive Lineman OTY
Lake Oswego, OR
Another Chicago kid reclassifying. he’s a young kid that just turned 17. Should be one to follow to see how he develops. We had him on campus last fall
MSU football to reportedly host 4-star EDGE for visit next month
Michigan State football will reportedly host a top 400 prospect for an unofficial visit next month
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