Taylor Mays and Mark Sanchez are returning to USC, supposed to have a joint press conference sometime today to make it official. Pitt RB Lesean McCoy is now leaning towards going pro. http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3820039&campaign=rss&source=ESPNHeadlines
Glenn Coffee declares for the draft http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2009/01/alabama_rb_glen_coffee_to_ente.html
Mays returning? Wow. I suppose they're thinking National Championship up there. Seems to me that they're about the only team that could compete with Florida who might have 19 of 22 starters coming back. USC will still have Sanchez and that good group of wideouts and Joe McKnight and Brown, Adams, Smith and O'Dowd up front and Everson Griffen off the edge. The key will be replacing Cushing, Matthews and Maualuga, but Smith, Morgan, Kaveinga and especially Chris Galippo as well as the true freshmen Simmons and Burfict.
I'd be shocked if Gerald McCoy enters. I'm not sure where projects in round 1 or early round 2. Right now he isn't big enough to play nose, I could be wrong about that.
Another article pointing toward Pitt's McCoy going pro. http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfoot/news/news.aspx?id=4202219
Just getting caught up Andrew Means WR Indiana http://blogs.heraldtimesonline.com/iusp/?p=2836 Paul Kruger DE Utah http://www.standard.net/live/news/161077/ PFW also has Richard Quinn TE from UNC declaring but I cant find any info on that.
Alen, sent you a PM on Verner's status since you've been pretty interested in him (maybe the only one around here).
Looks like Sean Smith is entering the draft. http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/draft09/news/story?id=3828057&campaign=rss&source=NCFHeadlines
Still waiting to hear from Jermaine Gresham, Jermaine Cunningham, Brandon Spikes, Brandon LaFell, Brandon Ghee, Sean Weatherspoon, Darrell Stuckey, and Kurt Coleman. FWIW Cody said he's staying in school.
With all the returnees, I see no way that Hughes makes it to 25. He's going to perform very well in Indianapolis, so I see no way, no how he gets to us.
Good for Rolle. Boomer, What Round you have Williams going? I didn't see much of Texas Tech besides Crabtree