A Monumental Weekend Coming for Toledo Football

Toledo commit, Neru N'Shaka highlights
the visitors on official visits this weekend.

By: Zach Harig -- January 14, 2016
Now that the recruiting dead period is over, coaches are now available to meet with recruits face-to-face again, whether that be via in-home visits or official college campus visits. For Toledo, this weekend will be extremely important for the 2016 recruiting class. Nineteen recruits are slatted to visit Northwest Ohio on the January 15th weekend. Of those nineteen, at least twelve are committed to The University of Toledo. Aside from that, The Sunshine State will be well-represented in the Glass City this weekend with five recruits out of the state of Florida.


Desmond Phillips, a 3-star athlete that is an early enrollee this semester with the Rockets, could also help sway Florida-natives towards the Rockets since he is already on campus as a Miami native.

TOLEDO COMMITS VISITING:
- WR Obi Anunike (Lewis Center, Ohio / 6'4", 205 pounds) -- COMMITTED 6/27/2015
- DB Justin Clark (West Bloomfield, Mich. / 5'10", 165 pounds) -- COMMITTED 6/30/2015
- LB Ron George (Pittsburgh, Penn. / 6'2", 200 pounds) -- COMMITTED 12/25/2015
- DT David Hood (Miami, Fla. / 6'1", 265 pounds) -- COMMITTED 5/26/2015
- DB Jamal Hudson (Miami, Fla. / 6'0", 185 pounds) -- COMMITTED 12/31/2015
- RB Ronnie Jones (Pittsburgh, Penn. / 6'1", 185 pounds) -- COMMITTED 3/28/2015
- DB Alonzo McCoy (Redford, Mich. / 5'10", 180 pounds) -- COMMITTED 3/21/2015
- WR Neru N'Shaka (Hallandale, Fla. / 5'10", 180 pounds) -- COMMITTED 12/19/2015
- TE Nate Swart (Washington, Penn. / 6'5", 225 pounds) -- COMMITTED 3/27/2015
- DB Jordan Williams (Pfleugerville, Texas / 5'10", 175 pounds) -- COMMITTED 7/24/2015
- DB Dedarallo Blue (Seffner, Fla. / 5'9", 180 pounds) -- COMMITTED 1/8/2015
- RB Shakif Seymour (Cleveland, Ohio / 6'0", 205 pounds) -- COMMITTED 5/22/2015
- OG Luke Doerger (Cincinnati, Ohio / 6'3", 300 pounds) -- COMMITTED 7/23/2015
- RB/FB Willie Ross (Ravenna, Ohio / 6'2", 245 pounds) -- COMMITTED 5/7/2015
- DB Zach Ford (Cleveland, Ohio / 6'3", 180 pounds) -- COMMITTED 6/30/2015
- TE Keidren Davis (Grand Rapids, Mich. / 6'5", 215 pounds) -- COMMITTED 6/27/2015

UNCOMMITTED RECRUITS VISITING:
- ATH Marquis Smith (Ypsilanti, Mich. / 6'0", 170 pounds) -- Considering: Toledo, Cincinnati, Iowa State, Syracuse, Kansas.
- WR Calvin Jackson (Pampano Beach, Fla. / 5'9", 160 pounds) -- Considering: Toledo, Iowa State, Bowling Green, Florida Atlantic, Florida International

TOLEDO COMMITS NOT VISITING THIS WEEKEND:
- WR Jalen Martin (Harper Woods, Mich. / 6'3", 200 pounds) -- Iowa State visit this weekend, will likely visit Toledo officially on 1/22 or 1/29.
- ATH Billy Kisner (Pittsburgh, Penn. / 6'0", 200 pounds) -- Appointments this weekend, will visit 1/29/2016.
- ATH James Jackson (Pittsburgh, Penn. / 6'2", 175 pounds)
- DL Edrick Mathews (Detroit, Mich. / 6'4", 270 pounds)

TOLEDO COMMITS ALREADY ON CAMPUS:
- DE Tuzar Skipper (Bronx, NY (JUCO) / 6'4", 245 pounds) -- Signed Letter of Intent with Toledo.
- ATH Desmond Phillips (Miami, Fla. / 6'1", 190 pounds) -- Enrolled Early

Dedarallo Blue (Seffner, Fla.) chose
Toledo over Iowa State.

As you can see, there's a lot to take in with official visits this upcoming weekend. The Toledo staff will be looking for a couple of more commitments, as will the current Toledo commits.

"There will be a few other guys that are uncommitted that I'll be after this weekend," outside linebacker, Ron George stated, "Tymar Sutton and Aaron Mathews are two guys I'm after specifically though."

"I'm very excited about this weekend," runningback commit, Shakif Seymour, told me, "I get to see the other boys that are committed and I get to see the coaches which is always fun."

Especially for the Florida natives and Jordan Williams, of Texas, this is the first time they really get a glimpse of Toledo. Even someone like Alonzo McCoy, who is only about an hour from the Glass City, said he's excited to get acclimated to his new home, "I'm most excited to be able to hang with my new family and to get a few for my new home at Toledo."

Jason Candle is off to an extremely
hot start on the recruiting trail.

Toledo's 2016 class has a lot of pride between the current commits, especially when it comes to the Midnight Blue & Gold. "Get ready to win this MAC Championship," defensive back, Alonzo McCoy added in my interview with him. Ron George also added, "Our class can't wait to get up there and get straight to business. Our goal is the MAC Championship and anything less than that is unacceptable. Speaking for myself, I know I've been putting in work this off-season and I can't wait to get up there and leave it all out on the field."

There will also be a few more visitors this weekend from the preferred walk-on commits. Guys like Toledo Central Catholic punter, Zach Hoover, "Since I'm a preferred walk-on, I can't really do much because they can't pay for anything but I'll probably meet up with the guys since I live here."

With National Signing Day less than three weeks away, this weekend will be extremely monumental for the Rockets recruiting class. Currently, the Rockets have the second-best recruiting class in the Mid-American Conference, only behind the Broncos of Western Michigan, but that could likely change before National Signing Day with the few uncommitted recruits visiting Toledo this weekend.

What a start to Jason Candle's tenure at Toledo, huh? In just the first month, Candle has hit the ground running as far as recruiting is concerned and even managed to steal a couple of recruits from the jaws of Iowa State and former head coach, Matt Campbell. One recruit that chose Toledo over the Cyclones was cornerback, Dedarallo Blue who is a three-star by most agencies and will be on campus this weekend for his official visit. The Candle tenure is already lit.


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