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Monty Madaris and Demetrius Cox have both committed to MSU.  More to come later.

I thought I would get a basketball post up tonight, but I do not think that will happen with these two commits.  I will mention a few things though.  See you later!

UPDATE TIME:

Drinking a Daisy Cutter, watching reruns of Parks and Recreation on Netflix, cooking flank steak, tweeting.  Typical Monday night.  MSU received 2 very good commitments within 24 hours.  The first was Monty Madaris the second was Demetrious Cox.  I will likely misspell Demetrious a lot.   From my last post:  

Demetrious Cox is someone I have though would go green for a long time.  Though I would not be surprised if he goes to Penn State.  Absolutely no way he goes to OSU.  J Monty Madaris is another 4 star WR and I have been saying that he would go green for about 7 months now.  The transfer of DeAnthony Arnett makes things more interesting.   I have heard that he Madaris would play safety and is open to that.  I am still going to say that he goes green but with Arnett and Burbridge in there, I would not be surprised if he goes to Cincy.  (at least he didn't go to Cincy!) Onto the numbers!

Monty (wtf is that short for Montgomery? or is he just Monty????)  All of the services we use here list Monty at 6-2 190.  So it has good size already.  Love getting a 6-2 receiver. ESPN and Scout list him at a **** while Rivals has him at a ***, which is 21st in the state in 54th for his position.  ESPN has him at 13th in the state and 36th at his position and an 80 overall which makes him our highest rated ESPN recruit.  While Scout has him at 26th for the WR position.  Monty had offers from some big names in the college football world, including BC, Nebraska, Illinois, Cincy, UConn, Florida State, and Michigan.  ESPN finds that he has strong hands, can get the ball in traffic, has great route running and can get yards after catch.  The yards after catch is what ESPN is highest about saying he is often used in the wildcat due to his ability to escape.  With that, this is a great addition to what has to be one of the better WR recruiting classes in the big for the last decade. (the Manningham class for UM was very good as well)    Which is interesting considering this tweet I received. 

"Steven"

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@ztj521 @JimComparoni LOL he is a 3 star...generic WR"  WOW.  Let's be honest Steve, you would like this commit.

Demetrious Cox is generally listed at about 6-1 190.  He plays QB for his high school and projects as a safety or DB prospect.  ESPN rates him at 11th in the state and 28th at his position which is ATH - as well as a 79 overall.  Rivals has him at a 10th in the state and 13th at position - which is safety.  Scout has him as an 8th at position - safety - and a ****.  ESPN and Rivals also list Cox as a ****.  ESPN loves his speed and ability to hit the outside.  With that, they love his smoothness running with the ball and in general rate him as more of a WR.  Scout also loves Cox's ability to run sideline to sideline and vision on the field.  Overall, this seems to be a great commit with offers from schools such as: Arkansas, ND, Ohio State, Penn State, Pitt and Wisconsin.  I will add that anytime you can get a recruit holding offers from schools like PSU, ND and OSU it looks better for other commits. Especially when they kid is from (western) Pennsylvania.  

Here is video of Demetrious committing to MSU. 

MSU plays Illinois tomorrow in a B1G showdown.  I love this Illinois team.  I think that Meyers Leonard is an absolute beast and Payne/Nix combo will need to bring their A game to lock him down defensively.  Which is the key to this MSU victory.  MSU will need to shut down and inside out game for Illinois and guard against the hot shooter for Illinois.  I have actually watched a few of the Illini games this year, ones they have won, and they always seem to have a hot guard in all of their games.  Orange Crush will be rocking and I would not be surprised if MSU lost this game.  With Travis Trice liekly out, Kearny and Byrd will need to step up.  More importantly, Appling will need to play major minutes.  Keith cannot get tired at this end of this game, or Draymond needs to take over some PG duty.  I see another big game from Dawson as well as Byrd hitting a couple big shots.   Call it 75-67 MSU.