http://www.stltoday.com/sports/high-school/football/super-30/post-dispatch-super/collection_ef91baca-cea2-11e0-ade7-0019bb30f31a.html Post-Dispatch's Super 30 - 2. Vincent Valentine, Edwardsville, 6-4, 315, DT, Uncommitted - A Post-Dispatch All-Metro first-team selection, Valentine was the target of blocking schemes all season, but he still finished with 29 tackles (including eight for loss), three sacks, one interception and one fumble recovery. Valentine had scholarship offers from several BCS conference schools. He has narrowed his choices to Nebraska, Florida and Illinois, and he is expected to announce his choice on Signing Day. 11. Lamontiez Ivy, East St. Louis, 6-3, 220, QB-ATH, Uncommitted - Originally No. 8 on the Super 30 list, Ivy completed 50.2 percent of his passes (119 of 237) for 1,836 yards, with 15 touchdowns and three interceptions. He ran for 349 yards and six scores in leading the Flyers to a 9-3 record and a share of the Southwestern Conference championship. According to Rivals.com, Ivy has scholarship offers from Illinois and Kansas, though both offers were reported before coaching changes at those schools. 14. Keith Jones, McCluer North, 6-2, 275, DT Uncommitted - A Post-Dispatch All-Metro first-team selection, Jones was a Suburban North all-conference first-team selection on offense and defense. He was also the league's lineman of the year. Jones finished with 50 tackles, including 19 for loss, with a team-high 13 sacks, one interception (which he returned for a touchdown) and one fumble recovery. Jones narrowed his college decision to five schools -- Marshall, Kansas, Tennessee-Martin, Grambling State and Murray State -- and was taking official visits to each of those schools in January 15. Chase Allen, Belleville East, 6-3, 221, LB, Uncommitted - A Post-Dispatch All-Metro first-team selection, Allen was a do-everything player as a linebacker, running back and wildcat quarterback. He originally was No. 20 on the Super 30 list. A big, physical linebacker with speed, Allen led Belleville East with 107 tackles, including nine for loss, with five interceptions, two sacks and a fumble recovery. He had 514 total yards and 10 touchdowns, including two on returns.
We abandoned st.louis for memphis and based on the amt of top 30 players we were getting and how many were busts I favored that move.
18. Lamore Wise, Miller Career, 6-0, 203, LB, Uncommitted - Originally No. 12 on the Super 30 list, Wise is a physical linebacker who was a big playmaker on both sides of the ball. He had 134 tackles, nine sacks, three fumble recoveries and one interception, and he added 1,358 total yards, 14 touchdowns and 13 two-point conversions 19. Trevor McDonagh, St. Louis U. High, 6-3, 198, QB, Uncommitted - Originally No. 14 on the Super 30 list, McDonagh picked up an early scholarship offer from Central Michigan after his strong junior season. As a senior, the strong-armed quarterback completed 58.4 percent of his passes (195 of 334) for 3,440 yards, with 29 touchdowns and 10 interceptions. He also scored seven touchdowns as the Junior Billikens went 9-4 and advanced to the state semifinals. McDonagh was still working through the recruiting process in January and had scheduled visits to Penn and Columbia 20. Paul McRoberts, Soldan, 6-3, 185, WR Uncommitted - The Public High League small-schools offensive player of the year and a Post-Dispatch All-Metro first-team selection, McRoberts is an outstanding athlete who could play football or basketball in college. He had 64 catches for 1,607 yards, an average of 25.1 per reception, and 23 touchdowns. McRoberts ran for two scores, threw a touchdown pass and accounted for 26 touchdowns. Soldan basketball coach and athletics director Justin Tatum said McRoberts has received a lot of interest for football and basketball. Tatum thinks his standout two-sport athlete should pursue football, because the senior is good enough to one day play in the NFL. 21. Dalton Demos, CBC, 6-5, 185, QB Uncommitted - Originally No. 15 on the Super 30 list, Demos had a strong junior season as a first-year varsity starter. He followed that with a great senior season in which he led CBC to a 13-1 record, a runner-up finish in Class 6 and a second straight Metro Catholic Conference championship.Demos completed 53 percent of his passes (165 of 311) for 2,764 yards, with 34 touchdowns and 15 interceptions. He ran for 257 yards and four scores and caught a 56-yard touchdown pass.Demos has received scholarship offers from Murray State and Missouri State, and he took an official visit to Miami-Ohio in January. 23. Kyle Echols, Fort Zumwalt West, 6-1, 180, WR Uncommitted - Originally No. 17 on the Super 30 list, Echols had 49 catches for 927 yards and 13 touchdowns. He picked up an early offer from Eastern Illinois and, according to Jaguars coach Paul Day, he also is considering Coastal Carolina and Missouri State.
24. Stefan Sansone, St. Louis U. High, 6-1, 180, WR, Uncommitted - Originally No. 18 on the Super 30 list, Sansone followed a 1,000-yard receiving season with a strong senior campaign. He had 56 catches for 1,026 yards, an average of 18.3 per reception, and 16 touchdowns. He added three scores on returns for a total of 19 touchdowns. In three varsity seasons, Sansone had 141 catches for 2,397 yards and 33 touchdowns. He has a scholarship offer from Southeast Missouri State. 25. Austin Black, Warrenton, 6-1, 240, LB, Uncommitted - Originally No. 16 on the Super 30 list, Black had an outstanding junior season before missing time as a senior because of injuries and illness. He had 108 tackles, one sack and one interception. He also rushed for 542 yards and five touchdowns. Black is one of the stronger athletes at the high school level. While he is capable of playing several positions in college, because of his size and athleticism he could blossom as a defensive lineman. 26. Ray Harris, Fort Zumwalt West, 5-9, 200, RB Uncommitted - A Post-Dispatch All-Metro first-team selection for the second consecutive season, Harris picked up an early offer from Northern Iowa. He had 906 yards rushing and 27 touchdowns, 704 yards receiving and seven scores. He racked up 1,610 total yards and 34 touchdowns and finished his four-year varsity career with 4,832 total yards and 74 touchdowns. Harris was originally No. 21 on the Super 30 list. 27. Eric Siebenshuh, Francis Howell, 6-4, 205, QB Uncommitted - Originally No. 29 on the Super 30 list, Siebenshuh showed potential as back-up quarterback his junior year and had a breakout senior season. He completed 59.9 percent of his passes (182 of 304) for 2,987 yards, with 32 touchdowns and 12 interceptions, and he ran for 80 yards and five scores. Siebenshuh received a scholarship offer from Tennessee-Martin and, as of late January, was considering several options 28. Ejay Johnson, O'Fallon, 5-10, 185, RB Uncommitted - Originally No. 25 on the Super 30 list, Johnson has been one of the area's more productive running backs the past two seasons. He racked up 1,475 total yards (1,344 rushing) and 30 touchdowns this fall. Johnson is expected to make recruiting visits to Tennessee-Martin and Illinois State in late January. 30. Zach Hirth, Eureka 6-3, 180, LS Uncommitted - An Under Armour All-America Game selection, Hirth is rated by ESPN.com as the second-best long snapper in the senior class.
I don't agree with that thinking... St Louis is within the state of MISSOURI and our coaching staff should be hitting the area hard making connections with coaches (and getting furture recruits to the MSU football camp), snagging the top 2/3 of the recruits, and drumming up financial/alumni/fan support for the program and school. The aforementioned recruits are thinking about FCS schools (in red bold) but MSU is only on two of the kids short list... and I'm pissed about it!!! This year's list has commitments to Oklahoma, OSU, Mizz-SEC door mats, Michigan, Northwestern, Indiana, and MSU should be in the hunt because the campus is only 3 hours away!!!! Wisconsin grabbed Monty Ball from the STL (a heisman candidate as a sophomore), and if an east STL kid named DeAndre Smith wasn't recruited by SMS the program might have been cut by now. I would really hope Coach Allen and his staff are recruiting like their jobs depended on it because his coaching seat should be on FIRE!!!!
I love u 42, but Quality Uncommitted High School players in STL + many of the above recruits listing schools at the FSC level + a possible MSU coach trolling this site + my disappointment for the lack of MSU recruitment from the STL area = my point of posting of these available players. I see alot of UT-Martin and even a UNI and SEMO. If MSU is looking to trim the football budget they might want to work harder at pick up kids from their own back yard (STL & KC). But one postive is there are no SIU commitments. I know its basketball season in Bear County but I'm heart and thoughts are always with the football Bears.... even though it breaks my heart most of the time!
Thank goodness Guttin doesn't stay away from the StL area. We need all the instate support we can get. Recruiting good StL kids gets us exsposure in the StL Today and then winning will get us more, but even more with local kids from StL.
Precisely...ANY kid with D1 scholarship offers, much less a simple letter of interest, will NOT be interested in MSU, without SERIOUS recruitment, and how would THAT conversation go?!? "Come to MSU, where we haven't sniffed the playoffs since, well, before you were BORN! But hey, you'll get a couple games against BCS conference teams, where you'll play in front of more people at just one of those game than ALL of MSU's home games. For the YEAR. And maybe we'll win enough games before my contract is up for MSU to renew it before your eligibility runs out, but that's if the team can at least get above .500 for more than 1 year in a row..." I want MSU to be successful, but I'm realistic. Getting quality kids to commit to MSU is going to take EFFORT. Considering TA has had the same problems on both sides of the ball for the last few years, with penalties, turnovers and bad play calling, he's "stealing money" from MSU and everybody knows it. They can't fire him, because of contractual obligations, which means they can't pay him to go away AND a new coach to fix the program. But anyway, I've seen several of the kids from the Illinois side play. Ejay Johnson is a "scat-back" type of player and Chase Allen played on both sides of the line of scrimmage. Either would be worth the effort, but I'm not holding my breath. TA doesn't have to time to truly develop talent at this stage of his career...
