Wise High athlete commits to Terps
A familiar face will accompany Maryland safety commitment and Wise High senior Titus Till to College Park next season.
Rahsaan Moore, another Pumas standout, committed to Maryland on Monday.
Moore, a 6-foot-2, 235-pound defensive end, tight end and fullback, picked the Terps over offers from New Mexico, Delaware State, James Madison, Liberty, Old Dominion, Richmond, Towson and William & Mary.
“He’s a great all-around football player,” said Wise coach DaLawn Parrish. “He understands the game. He reads plays very well and diagnoses them. He knows where he needs to be. He’s very physically strong with his hands. He’s just a dominating player. And he runs very well for his size. At one combine this summer he ran a 4.58 [40] and at a couple colleges he ran a 4.62 and 4.66.”
Moore, as well as Till, have been instrumental in Wise’s 9-0 start this season, which includes eight consecutive shutouts.
“He’s been very important [in our success this year],” Parrish said. “He’s been here and played varsity here three years now and he’s an exceptional leader. He does all the right things in the classroom and he’s tremendous.”
The Maryland staff first noticed Moore last year but wanted to see him play this season before deciding to offer. Once the Terps offer came, there was little doubt in Parrish’s mind what Moore would do.
“He told me he always wanted to play for Maryland,” Parrish said. “That’s all it took -- for them to offer. He knew what he was going to do.”
Check back with Recruiting Report later this week for more on Moore’s commitment.
Comments
Now we're competing against Towson, W & M, Liberty and Richmond for recruits??? This program is really going down fast. Congrats to Rahsaan but if we want to compete we need to go after kids the bigger programs don't have room for. Promise them a starting role when FSU or VT can only offer 3rd string
Posted by: Jack | November 3, 2009 12:18 PM
I just laugh when the recruit choose's Md over schools like Deleware St, old dominion,Liberty, and james Madison. It's never schools like Notre dame, michigan, fla, texas, okla, ohio st. Now you know why this program has become a joke because we are taking D3 players instead of top recruits. Way to go Ralph Way to go.How sad.
Posted by: blancione | November 3, 2009 1:41 PM
It's great that we beat out those other football college powerhouses for this recruit....Good God are we a joke!
Posted by: Rob | November 3, 2009 1:59 PM
New Mexico, Delaware State, James Madison, Liberty, Old Dominion, Richmond, Towson and William & Mary
Nice!!! Way to compete Ralph.
Go get em fella, hey are these schools the regional rivals you want to pack on the schedule?
You MIGHT even get to a winning record and another Bubba's chicken shack bowl in Altoona, PA or is it the Ralph Fridgeathon chicken bowl right here in CP?
Think about it... Fridgeathon...-it will be cold in late December right here in CP and every fan can get a chicken drumstick to hold up at kickoff while they freeze their tails off....
Eat more chicken like the fridge....
This could be a wild sellout...
Posted by: Jo | November 3, 2009 2:15 PM
Is this disturbing in any way to you, Matt, that we are signing players whose only competition, from a recruiting standpoint, are Div I-AA (FBS) teams? It seems that I am reading about this more often than not. Thoughts?
Posted by: Sean | November 3, 2009 4:42 PM
Next year we will be competing again William and Mary for recruits and losing.
How about instead of hitting the sled the players hit Ralph in his golf cart. Have to think that would strengthen this team. Somehow the chicken grease from Ralph's fingers has been getting on the football this season.
Time to clean house. Ralph, all assistants, and his bucket of chicken must go!!!
Posted by: Rob | November 3, 2009 4:43 PM
Not to disagree with the geniuses who have already posted but I believe D'Qwell Jackson was a 2* nobody recruit. Until he got on the field and killed everything in site and currently starts in the NFL. Calm down.
At the moment Wise's defense has 8 (yes 8) consecutive shutouts in a top league. Obviously someone on the team can play D fellas.
Posted by: Settleten | November 3, 2009 5:11 PM
Remember a QB named Boomer Esiason per chance? Besides UM, the only D-1 program offered him coming out of East Islip High was St. Johns-- to play baseball. He only got a recruiting trip to College Park when the UM football staffer whose territory included Long Island saw him playing basketball against a kid UM was actively recruiting and Boomer was beating the kid's brains out.
By dent of the calculus many of you are crunching here, guess we should have let Boomer stay in NY and play baseball, and let some other combination of UM QB's collect those 17 school records Boomer accumulated over his career?
Posted by: Old Timer | November 3, 2009 6:04 PM
well as far as the Boomer guy goes, that was isolated. in fact, the D'Qwell (nice name yo) was isolated also and PS, he is on the worst team in football. 4.58-4.65 is a fairly slow time and this kid is undersized anyway. This program is for crap. Good bye Franklin also.
Posted by: cave | November 3, 2009 6:57 PM
Have to agree with Settleten. Juan Dixon was lightly recruited. So was Steve Slaton. Md did a really poor job in setting up its o-line and in giving the reserves meaningful minutes last year, but generally RF is above average in developing talent.
Posted by: CA Terp Fan | November 3, 2009 7:00 PM
Hey cave-
If Boomer "isolated", what does that say make an even older guy out of Delaware, Randy White? A heavy-hitting first basemen in high school, he was a fullback on the freshman squad before Jerry Claiborne arrived from Colorado (where he was D-coordinator), installed the wide-tackle 6, took one look at Randy "The Manster" White and advised- "Son, God but you on this Earth to be a D-lineman". Thirty pounds later and a ton of hours in the weight room and he made a pretty good one, huh?
Posted by: Old Timer | November 3, 2009 7:36 PM
Both sides here are wrong.
Yes, there aren't a lot of offers, but the kid's a sleeper and I have no problem taking his commitment at all.
As for the other side - I'm not so sure about Boomer and Randy White, but the rest is revisionist history.
Jackson definitely wasn't a nobody - he was three stars from one service, and had an offer from NCSt and serious interest from Florida and LSU.
Steve Slaton was also not lightly recruited - he was a universal three star and had at least five BCS offers.
You shouldn't freak out about Moore, and I actually like the pickup, but saying guys like Slaton and Jackson weren't highly recruited is just incorrect.
Posted by: Greg | November 3, 2009 8:38 PM
I agree with everyone who is stating that "what about so-and-so, who was only a 2-star recruit" -- sure, that happens. Problem is that, when the examples are Boomer and Randy White, you are not only going back almost 30 years (longer for White), but you are talking about different coaching staffs, different everything. And using Juan Dixon -- you are telling me that your apple tastes better than my orange....
The reality is that, if we continue to recruit only 2 star athletes, one is eventually going to break out. Does that make Fridge "a great developer of talent", or is that one player just outside the normal distribution?
Posted by: Sean | November 4, 2009 8:57 AM
Every program has some lower tier recruits blossom, but that does not mean you consistently recruit lower tier players. There is a reason why good programs recruit top talent. Are we missing the big picture here? Good players don't want to play for UMD, period! That falls on the coaching staff. Those people who use these examples and the "what ifs" need to stop setting the bar so low and believe that we deserve a much better product. You are enablers for a failing program.
Posted by: Rob | November 4, 2009 11:27 AM
You guys can thank Franklin for recruiting this Moore kid - not Friedgen.
Our recruiting is horrible becuase of Friedgen AND Franklin. They're not recruiters. That's the problem. If you look at all the best college football (or basketball) programs, the coaches are top recruiters. Urban Meyer, Rich Rodriguez, Jim Tressel, and the list goes on. Maryland needs a powerhouse recruiter. Until we get one, we're going to sit in the cellar in the ACC.
Posted by: Matt | November 4, 2009 1:09 PM
there are always some top players that are overlooked so i am fine with that ... just cant have an entire team of "sleepers". hateful season this year and not sure that ralph has anymore to offer us. i think he will get one more year. then will see what the future holds.
hate to say it but wish this year was over
Posted by: pepper | November 7, 2009 10:00 PM