Baylor Hires Temple Coach Matt Rhule

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4* DE Justin Harris (East Ascension, La) 6-6 250 has closed his recruitment with a Final Four of Baylor, LSU, Ole Miss and Purdue.

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Justin Harris, East Ascension, Strong-Side Defensive End

Offers from: UCF, Kansas, La Tech, Miss St, Rutgers and others.

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Justin Harris, the 4* DE out of Louisiana was a Temple target. Originally scheduled an OV to Temple this weekend, he scrapped those plans after the coaching change. Don't know much about him other than he was a huge Tiger lean up until the country bumpkin took over after Les Miles. Don't think he ever officially has been offered by LSU. Solid relationship with Robinson and Cooper. Baylor offered and he decommits from UCF. Think you guys are certainly in it. Ole Miss is the biggest concern without an LSU offer. He'll commit on the spot with an LSU offer IMO.
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Chose Baylor over LSU and A un M.

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Baylor football: How Matt Rhule rebuilt recruiting class | SI.com


Starting from nothing: How Matt Rhule rebuilt Baylor's recruiting class from scratch

Pete Thamel
PETE THAMEL

Wednesday February 1st, 2017

When Rhule was hired on Dec. 6, Baylor had one committed recruit, an interim coaching staff rebelling against the university and a new coach with no ties to the state of Texas. “It was like we were dropped off in a foreign country,” says Evan Cooper, Baylor’s director of player personnel who came with Rhule from Temple.

What happened over the next two months is the most remarkable story of National Signing Day 2017. Baylor signed four players in December and 23 more freshmen on Wednesday. Bears officials worried this fall about roster numbers dipping into the 50s as Baylor rebuilt. Instead, with 27 new bodies recruited in less than two months under Rhule Baylor projects to be near the maximum of 85 scholarships this fall.
 
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Updated:

247 -- #30 -- 27 commits
Rivals -- #34 -- 27 commits
Scout -- #36 -- 28 commits (includes Carruthers)
ESPN -- #39 -- 27 commits
247 Composite -- #39
 
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Updated:

247 -- #30 -- 27 commits
Rivals -- #34 -- 27 commits
Scout -- #36 -- 28 commits (includes Carruthers)
ESPN -- #39 -- 27 commits
247 Composite -- #39
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What's the difference between 247 and 247 Composite?
 
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2015 Russell Athletic Bowl MVP Johnny Jefferson (299 yards rushing) is denied permission to return to the team for the 2017 season per KWTX TV. Jefferson spent the 2016 season in drug rehab in Pennsylvania due to addiction to pain killers. Jefferson is now seeking to transfer per his twitter account.
 
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will5 said:
What's the difference between 247 and 247 Composite?
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Comosite is supposedly an average of all the major recruiting services. 247 is just the opinion of that site.
 
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Matt Rhule, Baylor come back east to offer two of Philadelphia's top prospects | PennLive.com
Matt Rhule, Baylor come back east to offer two of Philadelphia's top prospects


Daniel Gallen | dgallen@pennlive.com By Daniel Gallen | dgallen@pennlive.com
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on February 02, 2017 at 8:58 AM

Wednesday was all about the Class of 2017 on National Signing Day, but the old cliche that recruiting never stops is well-worn and true. So it wasn't surprising to see some of the Philadelphia area's top recruits in the Class of 2018 pick up some big-time offers. It was a familiar face reaching out, too.

Baylor -- which is now led by former Temple boss Matt Rhule -- reached out and offered Imhotep Charter safety Isheem Young and Archbishop Wood tight end Kyle Pitts on Wednesday morning.



Young is the top junior in the Philadelphia area, while Pitts is No. 2 or No. 3, depending on the recruiting service.

Young visited Penn State last weekend, a couple days after he picked up an offer from national champion Clemson. According to 247Sports, the four-star holds offers from 24 schools, and that list is filled with bluebloods like Alabama, Ohio State and Florida State. He's the No. 4 player in Pennsylvania, No. 5 safety nationally and No. 55 overall prospect in his class.

Pitts' recruitment has picked up in recent weeks. The three-star now holds 12 offers, according to 247Sports, and has been offered by UCLA, Oklahoma, Miami (Fla.) and Tennessee in the new year. He's the No. 13 player in Pennsylvania, No. 14 tight end in the country and No. 373 overall prospect.
 
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Any word on staff?
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Our Daily Bears is reporting that Matt Rhule has completed his staff with the addition of Temple University QB Coach Glenn Thomas.

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Thomas spent three seasons as the Falcons quarterbacks coach after four seasons as the team’s offensive assistant. During his tenure in Atlanta, the Falcons offense was its most productive in franchise history, and quarterback Matt Ryan soared to new levels each season.

During the three seasons where Thomas guided Ryan, the Philadelphia native and former first round pick out of Boston College threw for more than 4,500 and 26 touchdowns in each season, earning Pro Bowl honors in 2013 and 2015. Ryan cemented himself as the best quarterback in franchise history, supplanting Steve Bartkowski with 28,166 career passing yards and 181 touchdowns. It was under Thomas, however, that Ryan set career and franchise single-season highs in passing yards (4,719), touchdown passes (32) and completion percentage (68.6) in 2012.



PERSONAL
Year Coaching: 19th
Year Coaching College: 12th
Year Coaching at Temple: 2nd
Year at current position: 1st
College: Texas Tech ‘98
B.A. in Exercise and Sports Science
Midwestern State ‘ 04
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Hometown: Eastland, TX
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Family: Wife – Felicia
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Temple University (2015- present)
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Baylor head coach to lead clinic at LHS

Fri Feb 3, 2017

New Baylor head coach Matt Rhule and members of the Bears staff will be in East Texas in the coming weeks.

Longview athletic director and head football coach John King announced Friday that Rhule as well as offensive line coach George Deleone and defensive assistant Fran Brown will speak at the East Texas Coaches Association Mini Clinic, set for Wednesday, Feb. 15 at the Longview High School Turf Room.

The clinic will begin at 6 p.m. and is free to ETCA member schools.

Rhule took over in Baylor in early December and wrapped up a furious push to National Signing Day last week, reeling in 27 signees. The Bears had one commit when Rhule took over in December.
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This could prove huge for recruiting. That part of East Texas ( Longview, Marshall and Tyler areas) has more quality D1 talent than most states do. Another 42 miles east of Marshall gets them into the talent rich I-20 Shreveport area.
 
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CB/WR Jackson Gleeson - Mansfield HS - 6'1, 160

Blessed to say that I've received an offer in football from Baylor! pic.twitter.com/HBRDmeGn7O

— Jackson (@jgleeson22) February 15, 2017

Jackson Gleeson, Mansfield, Wide Receiver

Gleeson is built more like Jeremy Wariner than a football player. Ran 21.18 200m last weekend. Probably a candidate for the Track Team.
dudes got some wheels

40 Yard Dash: 4.38
100 Meter Dash: 10.38
400 Meter Dash: 47.34
 
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4* DE Justin Harris (East Ascension, La) 6-6 250 has closed his recruitment with a Final Four of Baylor, LSU, Ole Miss and Purdue.

https://mobile.twitter.com/i_BallHard21?ref_src=twsrc^tfw

Justin Harris, East Ascension, Strong-Side Defensive End

Offers from: UCF, Kansas, La Tech, Miss St, Rutgers and others.

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Justin Harris, the 4* DE out of Louisiana was a Temple target. Originally scheduled an OV to Temple this weekend, he scrapped those plans after the coaching change. Don't know much about him other than he was a huge Tiger lean up until the country bumpkin took over after Les Miles. Don't think he ever officially has been offered by LSU. Solid relationship with Robinson and Cooper. Baylor offered and he decommits from UCF. Think you guys are certainly in it. Ole Miss is the biggest concern without an LSU offer. He'll commit on the spot with an LSU offer IMO.
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Colt Barber‏ @Colt_Barber
2017 OLB/DE signee Justin Harris recruiting teammate and 2018 OL Cameron Wire to join him at Baylor.


Cameron Wire, East Ascension, Offensive Tackle

3* OT 6'6" 260

Offers (17) from: Arkansas, Houston, Iowa St, Kansas, Missouri, Okie St, Texas Tech, Wake Forest and others.

I like the inroads this new staff is making into Louisiana.
 
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Colt Barber‏ @Colt_Barber
2017 OLB/DE signee Justin Harris recruiting teammate and 2018 OL Cameron Wire to join him at Baylor.


Cameron Wire, East Ascension, Offensive Tackle

3* OT 6'6" 260

Offers (17) from: Arkansas, Houston, Iowa St, Kansas, Missouri, Okie St, Texas Tech, Wake Forest and others.

I like the inroads this new staff is making into Louisiana.
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Stay positive. About all you can do at this point. Did you all show Ken Starr the door? For your sake, I hope so. Otherwise, I could see SMU climbing out of the crater before you guys do.
 
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How Matt Rhule built a Baylor recruiting class from scratch

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Max Olson-ESPN

Link-http://www.espn.com/college-football/recruiting/story/_/id/18632268

One day after helping pull off one unbelievable recruiting class, Evan Cooper finally got to fly home to Philadelphia to see his 4-year-old son for the first time in 2017. When you're scrambling the way Baylor's new director of player personnel had to, you have no choice -- you uproot your life and figure out the rest later.

"I've been roughing it out of a hotel in Waco," Cooper said. "That's just how it goes. We had to start from scratch. My fiancée is a trooper, man. She deserves an award. I might have to get her a plaque."

Cooper, like his boss Matt Rhule, left Temple for Baylor at the start of December and planned to make a big splash despite no real experience in the state of Texas. Baylor's 2017 class went from one commit to 29 signees in just five weeks. The new staff was trying to sell a university that continues to face scrutiny over the way it handled sexual assault allegations in the Art Briles era.

"We hit the ground running," Cooper said, "and we watched pretty much every high school senior in the state of Texas."

That was step one in an operation that started from scratch out of a windowless conference room next to Baylor athletic director Mack Rhoades' office. They put recruits' names on a whiteboard and sorted them by those they would or would not pursue.

When Rhule called to say he was taking the Baylor job, Cooper said he told him, "Put me on the flight with you." The former Temple defensive back calls Rhule a father figure and a mentor, the man who gave him his first sport coat as well as his first graduate assistant gig in 2013.

As the new guys in the state, Cooper and the Bears' recruiting staff knew they had to make a strong first impression on Texas high school coaches. Rhule's hiring of Cedar Hill's Joey McGuire, Cedar Ridge's Shawn Bell and San Antonio Reagan's David Wetzel straight from the high school ranks was essential to pulling off this class.

"If you write a story about this recruiting class," Cooper said, "those guys should be the headliners."

When the staff completed the list of kids they liked, they made sure to reach out to the high school coaches first. That was a must. Yes, they sent an endless amount of direct messages to recruits to gauge their interest, but they wanted the high school coaches to always know before they offered.

What exactly were they looking for? That's hard to say. Cooper wrestled with a question throughout this two-month recruiting spree: What is a Big 12 player? This staff was trying to project how kids would fit in a conference none of them had ever competed in before.

"The pressure of trying to figure out if that's a Big 12 guy or not was a little bit overwhelming," Cooper said. "How are we going to add players who are already as good or better than the guys we have at Baylor? The cupboard is not empty here, so I didn't want to go backwards."

Rhule put a ton of faith in Cooper and the rest of his staff to judge that to the best of their ability. Their core philosophy is no different today than at Temple: Find the guy who fits and develop him as a person and a player.

And then it was selling time. They came up with the #BaylorLit hashtag. They lit up McLane Stadium in neon green. Cooper sent out a D.J. Khaled-inspired Major Key Alert from his Twitter account each time a player committed to Baylor. The fan base ate it up.

Baylor's coaches built relationships as best they could, collecting as much background as possible from not just recruits' parents and coaches, but also their teachers and guidance counselors. For how little time they had, they tried to be thorough.

Rhule was direct with those parents when asked about the sexual assault scandal that ended the Briles era. Recent revelations are a continued reminder that the scandal is far from over. Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby told ESPN that he doesn't know if "anybody knows where the bottom of the barrel is," and the NCAA is still investigating.

"We've had real conversations, detailed, intimate personal conversations about the things that have happened and what we want to do now that we're here," Rhule told USA Today last week. "The thing I don't want to ever do is diminish the egregious nature of the things that happened.

"You want to be respectful of the victims. Just one woman getting assaulted is a really, really, really big deal. So we don't want to diminish that. But we really believe in Baylor. We believe in the kids we have on this team now. We believe in these recruits. So we move forward and we learn from the past."

The staff finished with 29 commitments, including three ESPN 300 standouts and 11 prospects who had previously been committed to Power 5 schools, plus transfers Anu Solomon (Arizona) and James Lockhart (Texas A&M). The Bears restocked up front with 14 new offensive or defensive linemen. There are some coveted kids in this group, some hard-earned victories.

Baylor also returned the roster to 85 scholarship players.

Three of Baylor's freshman midyear enrollees -- QB Charlie Brewer, RB Abram Smith and WR R.J. Sneed -- didn't meet Rhule in person until they moved into the dorms. That's a testament to the leap of faith some of these recruits made, and to the enthusiasm this new Baylor staff is generating.

Cooper came away impressed by his new recruits, his Baylor players who helped out on official visit weekends, and by the hospitality and professionalism of Texas high school coaches.

"It feels good to be done," Cooper said. "I think we signed a bunch of good players, high-character kids, guys we can develop."

After his quick trip back home and some house hunting in Waco, Cooper and the rest of Baylor's recruiters are back to the grind. They're assembling their 2018 board and getting rolling again, armed this time with a full 12 months to build relationships and maintain this momentum.

"A lot of other schools have a two-year head start on us," Cooper said. "I think it'll even out with the 2018 class, and we're excited about that."
 
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Im sure most of the recruits will transfer once the sanction hammer comes down. Penn St will look like child's play.
 
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Perfect Winter Day For This Event.

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Spoke with former Baylor QB Brad Goebel (Cuero,Tx/5 NFL seasons) today at the baseball game and he is expecting this kid to commit soon:

3* TE Bralen Taylor 6'7" 221 Cuero, Tx. Offers from: Baylor, UofH, The U, Okie Lite, Oregon, TCWho and UTSA.

Bralen Taylor, Cuero, Tight End

Bralen is the nephew of former Cuero/Baylor DB Trooper Taylor.
 
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BUBear said:
Spoke with former Baylor QB Brad Goebel (Cuero,Tx/5 NFL seasons) today at the baseball game and he is expecting this kid to commit soon:

3* TE Bralen Taylor 6'7" 221 Cuero, Tx. Offers from: Baylor, UofH, The U, Okie Lite, Oregon, TCWho and UTSA.

Bralen Taylor, Cuero, Tight End

Bralen is the nephew of former Cuero/Baylor DB Trooper Taylor.
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Why do you think anyone here cares?
 
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