Owls land all of their commitments and even add a few
By Marcus Nelson
At Owl Access we do more before 11 a.m. than most people do all day.
OK, that may not be true every day, but today it is.
Today we have been to three high schools and have made phone calls to every FAU commitment to confirm there was no last-minute changing of the minds.
The result is that we can confirm all of FAU’s commitments have indeed signed with FAU or intend to do so shortly.
The only player who spurned the Owls was Roosevelt Donaldson (DL, Miami-Southridge) who told us last night he was 50-50 between Western Michigan and FAU. We left him on our list of commitments, but it’s pretty obvious the Owls’ coaching staff had moved on as they landed Trevon Coley of Miramar (pictured) and Isaac Edwards of Tampa Jesuit - and James Mathis of Lowndes (Ga.) came in late.
Mathis and WR Chris Gilchrist of Carter Oak (Calif.) were pleasant surprises on National Signing Day.
Another curveball this morning, although not entirely unexpected, is that WR Mikey Bullard of Forest Hill won’t sign a standard NLI today, but instead will sign to defer his enrollment to January 2013 and come in as a “grey-shirt.”
Next on the agenda is a 3 p.m. press conference with new Owls coach Carl Pelini as he disects the recruiting class.