2025 Duke Football Recruiting

I'm copying and pasting Jason's excellent news into the 2025 recruiting thread:

JasonEvans said:
Duke has landed a commitment from 6-3 WR Gerritt Kemp (from Hebron Christian, a school in one of the outer Atlanta suburbs). He is rated as a 3 star prospect and the 90th best WR in the class of 2025... but I think offers are a far more interesting way to look at a player versus rankings.

He has offers from -- Georgia, LSU, Tennessee, Ole Miss, Kentucky, Michigan State, NWestern, Indiana, as well as ACC schools Virginia, Ga Tech, NC State, and Wake Forest. He took visits to Duke, NCSU, Mich St, and Ole Miss.

I'm gonna say it... this is a big time get for Manny Diaz. Honestly, Duke isn't often fishing in the same waters as SEC and Big Ten powers.

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Another commit from a few days ago: 3-Star Safety Maliki Wright from Orlando, FL. Offers from Illinois, Iowa St., Mizzou, NC State and Vandy. 6'0", 180, No. 78 Safety in the class.
 
chrishoke said:
Thanks Bob. That brings us to 18 commits for 2025. My untrained eye says that we are recruiting at least at the level we did last year if not a little bit better.
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If Rivals and 247 have anything to contribute (I really don't know), they seem to suggest quite a bit better. Go Manny!
 
https://247sports.com/Player/evan-scott-46144535/

https://247sports.com/Player/jamin-brown-46143989/

Total of 4 committed to Duke yesterday.

Evan Scott, hailing from Augusta, Ga, is an offensive lineman prospect at 6’4”, 295 pounds. His offers include App State, Arkansas State, USF, Coastal Carolina and others.

Jamin Brown is an offensive lineman prospect coming in at 6’ 4”, 285. He’s from Gadsden Alabama. His offers include Ga Tech, Memphis, Kentucky and Baylor.

Happy belated Father’s Day Manny Diaz
 
Mike Petrik said:
If Rivals and 247 have anything to contribute (I really don't know), they seem to suggest quite a bit better. Go Manny!
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I'm not sure how you're figuring that. The average ranking according to 247:
2023 -- 85.64
2024 -- 86.65
2025 -- 86.32

Yes, we're ahead of some other schools in a sense because we have more recruits committed. Duke always seems to get earlier commits than most schools. Other schools will catch up to and surpass Duke as they gather commits.

Rankings by Rivals and 247 are of limited value but I'd still rather have kids they rank as 4* and 5* than 3* ranked kids but we're not getting those 4*'s much less 5*'s.
 
Manny (and many other coaches) scoff at rankings from web sites, but people like to persist. I see his (and their) point: skilled (and highly paid) coaches, who often get to watch the kids in camps, are far superior judges of talent than interweb guys, they just are. Especially when it comes to football, since the top players rarely face off with each as hoop kids routinely do at summer events, tournaments, et.
 
While I'd love to see some 4 star commits, Duke's success has always been based on getting 3 star players who can be coached up. I think of it as comparing Duke basketball, which only recruits 4 and 5 star players, some of whom turn out to be overrated, to Big East schools, who find lower ranked players who develop into really good college players by their junior years. We may never be Alabama in football, but perhaps we can be equivalent to Creighton or Villanova in basketball.
 
budwom said:
Manny (and many other coaches) scoff at rankings from web sites, but people like to persist. I see his (and their) point: skilled (and highly paid) coaches, who often get to watch the kids in camps, are far superior judges of talent than interweb guys, they just are. Especially when it comes to football, since the top players rarely face off with each as hoop kids routinely do at summer events, tournaments, et.
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and yet, the schools that get the 4 and 5 star players are those that dominate the titles, the rankings, etc....
 
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