Saguaro Defensive Lineman Corey Adams Commits To ASU

by Cory Williams on Jan 14, 2009 12:20 PM MST in ASU Football Comment 5 comments

According to ESPN Insider, Corey Adams is a 83-rated defensive lineman.

Well-built and pretty fundamentally sound, Adams is a very good prospect. With additional bulk and fine-tuning, he can grow into a very good college player.

This is a huge land for Dennis Erickson, and it proves that ASU is still improving their recruiting rather than taking a step back after a disappointing 5-7 season.

Hopefully this leads to a large influx of Arizona-based players sticking around and competing at their home college.

Adams, who played most of the 2008 Class 4A Division I state championship season playing on an injured ankle, said by committing now, his hope is that other top Arizona players will follow him this year and in the future.

"He wants to be an ambassador to Arizona and try to get all of the best Arizona kids to come to ASU," Saguaro coach John Sanders said.

Adams, a run-stopper who has athleticism to sack quarterbacks (the school credited him with more than 20 his junior season), joins two good friends at Saguaro, offensive guard Kody Koebensky and tight end Max Smith, who have committed to ASU.

Even though they have discussed continuing their football careers together, Adams said his friends didn't influence his decision.

"It would be cool to let everyone know what we have in our backyard, and hopefully we can put ASU on the map with all the other big schools in the country," he said.

This is just the boost we needed. Now if we could only get Devon Kennard to commit...

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you are welcome

for the heads up :)

Burfict would be a big steal also (if he qualifies).

"He will not coddle them. Nolan Ryan doesn’t coddle." - Jeff Passan

by Dirk Diggler on Jan 14, 2009 1:13 PM MST reply actions 0 recs

you are

the man, Dirk! In your honor, we are now House of Diggler.

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by Cory Williams on Jan 14, 2009 2:32 PM MST up reply actions 0 recs

i talked to my buddy who does recruiting for the team

He says Kennard and Adams have been talking about going somewhere together — so that’s probably what that meant when Adams’ coach said he wants to get other guys to come here.

He also said originally he thought we had a better shot to get Kennard than Adams, so there is that.

"He will not coddle them. Nolan Ryan doesn’t coddle." - Jeff Passan

by Dirk Diggler on Jan 14, 2009 6:52 PM MST up reply actions 0 recs

This kid immediately makes the recruiting class significantly better, and will probably see time on the field in ’09. The fact that his signing could be a windfall for further top recruits is an even bigger deal.

It is a very real possibility that we sign both Kennard and Burfict (#1 ILB, 85 rating) who will be visiting Tempe this weekend. For the record Kennard is the #1 DE (86).

A lot of this is wishful thinking, but if it does happen to pan out our D could be beastly in the foreseeable future.

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by ASUBoyd on Jan 15, 2009 11:54 AM MST up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah getting those 3 might push us to a top 2 or 3 class in the Pac 10

But, Burfict is a long shot to qualify according to what I’ve heard. He’s taking some BYU correspondence classes (you can read about this in Meat Market by Bruce Feldman if you are curious how they work), but he’s having to bust his ass. One thing that ASU has over alot of other schools (like USC) is that if you’re borderline academically we try really really hard to get you in by giving you an academic plan. Most schools just let the kid do his thing and hope for the best. Jean Boyd is one of the best around at helping those kids do what they need to do to get in.

I’ve also heard that there could be another big time recruit (possibly a WR) in the works. That one I don’t have one great authority, so take it with a grain of salt.

"He will not coddle them. Nolan Ryan doesn’t coddle." - Jeff Passan

by Dirk Diggler on Jan 15, 2009 1:52 PM MST up reply actions 0 recs