Corey Adams is Ready to Rep His Home State as a Sun Devil. Now What?
Meet Mr. Corey Adams. The large young fellow pictured below will be lining up next to Lawrence Guy on ASU’s defensive front for the next three or so seasons. Here’s a look at where Adams’s commitment leaves the Sun Devils with regards to recruiting.
Dennis Erickson hauled in perhaps the biggest catch of the recruiting season yesterday when he secured a verbal commitment from five-star defensive tackle Corey Adams of Scottsdale Saguaro.
Adams turned down offers from Ohio State, USC and others to join Saguaro classmates Kody Koebensky and Max Smith in representing their hometown school. If you doubt that the hulking 6-foot-3, 277-pound Adams is a big catch, we offer the photo above as Exhibit A and the video below as Exhibit B.
And we love Adams’s Grand Canyon State pride. Quoth Adams in the Arizona Republic: “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.”
So where does this leave ASU in the scholarship department? Well, ASU starts with 85 scholarships, and 62 scholarship players from last year’s team are due to return next fall.
- Junior college transfers DE Dean DeLeone and DB LeQuan Lewis and high schoolers QB Brock Osweiler and S Matthew Tucker have already signed and will enroll this spring. (We took a stab at placing them on the depth chart last week.)
- Walk-ons RB James Morrison, DB Pierre Singfield and SN Thomas Ohmart are expected to earn scholarships.
- And 2008 signees WR Kemonte Bateman, who was academically ineligible, and WR Allante Battle, who’s in school on a track scholarship, will count against the final tally.
That leaves about 14 scholarships. Adams’s pledge pushed the number of unsigned Class of 2009 commitments to 13, including 10 from Arizona.
The top local target for the final spot is Phoenix Desert Vista DE Devon Kennard, though he is reportedly leaning away from ASU and toward California, Texas or USC.
Another option is Vontaze Burfict, a linebacker from the Corona Centennial pipeline that has already placed three alums at ASU. A five-star recruit considered by some an academic risk, he’s verbally committed to USC but expected to visit Tempe this weekend.
Either (or both) would look great alongside Adams on the ASU defense. We welcome Adams on board — and wish him luck in convincing Kennard to join him.
Class of 2009
Adams’s commitment pushed the number of unsigned Class of 2009 commitments to 13. All verbal commitments are nonbinding until the Feb. 4 national letter of intent signing day.
| Name | Position | Hometown |
| Corey Adams | DT | Scottsdale, AZ |
| Chris Coyle | TE | Westlake Village, CA |
| J.J. Holliday | WR | Tucson, AZ |
| Osahon Irabor | DB | Upland, CA |
| Anthony Jones | LB | Chandler, AZ |
| Kody Koebensky | OL | Scottsdale, AZ |
| Shane McCullen | ATH | Apache Junction, AZ |
| Jamal Miles | RB | Peoria, AZ |
| Anthony Rose | LB | Tempe, AZ |
| Max Smith | TE | Scottsdale, AZ |
| Will Sutton | DT | Corona, CA |
| Fred Thornton | OG | Phoenix, AZ |
| Marcus Washington | RB | Phoenix, AZ |
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The fact that ASU is chasing so many recruits even though there might only be one scholie left to give tells us two things: 1) some guys from last season aren’t coming back; 2) some of the current recruits aren’t that solid.
Getting Adams was huge
@David, I couldn’t agree more. The most common name you hear floated as a transfer is Chasen Stangel, who we only gave a 10% chance of starting at QB next year. http://www.echofromthebuttes.com/2008/12/11/replacing-rudy-carpenter-part-i-the-underdogs/
The other possibility is one of the current commits greyshirts — he doesn’t sign in February, pays his own way in the fall, and then goes on scholarship in the spring. This is what Kemonte Bateman did this fall.
Still a long way to signing day.
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