With 18 commits, after a slow start, Coach Major Applewhite and his staff picked up steam lately with the summer camps.
Today's recruiting highlight is Peyton Sawyer out of League City's Clear Springs High School. A three star recruit in 247sports.com Composite rankings, the 2016 junior was All-District as a wide receiver and return specialist.
His stat line included a total of 48 receptions with 10 TDs and 848 yards receiving along with one punt return and six kickoff returns for TDs.
He entertained offers from Houston, committed to Tulsa, Tulane, Arizona St, Texas St. and Texas Tech. After decommitting from Tulsa, Sawyer committed to the Cougars on June 23, 2017.
My observations based on his Hudle highlights
Kid has wheels to burn. Without watching to much Clear Springs highlights, it seems they run a pro set offense with QB under center. Sawyer lines up on the outside with and without a slot receiver. He does great on yards after catch. He is dangerous in open field and hard to bring down. On a couple of highlights, he's gone in motion and caught on the fly and is off to the races.
On kickoff returns, teams intentionally kick away from him short and opposite side of the field. How does the coaching staff counter that? Pretty simple, the kickoff receiver hands off to Sawyer and he does his damage.
Coach Applewhite and staff picked up a gem in Sawyer. To me Sawyer is flying under the radar with only Arizona St. and Texas Tech of the P5 breed sniffing around. Tulsa came and offered first and he committed right away. Once other offers came in, he decommitted from the Golden Hurricane. It remains to be seen if other P5 offers come his away and if the Coogs can hold on.
Below is the video of highlights I reviewed for this post. Enjoy! EDIT: For some reason the vidoe doesn't show completely on screen. Click on the Peyton Sawyer highlights for a better view.
Coogs on the Web
I trying to promote the Houston Cougars in anyway I can. As such, I present links to other Coogs on the web trying to accomplish the same things. As such, I like to promote others trying to do Coog things on the web. So be sure to click on the links below.
The Shock the World podcast is starting a five part series on the upcoming 2017 football season. This episode is dedicated to the offense.
Another Cougar podcast are the great guys over at Scott and Holman Pawdcast. They take a look at the Year in Review, MLB Draft of Coogs and football recruiting.
Another site I like to promote is SB Nation's Underdog Dynasty. While SB Nation has sites dedicated to all the P5 schools, a few P5 conferences and even G5 conferences, the AAC gets short changed. Only UConn, Cincy, USF and UCF have devoted sites. Underdog Dynasty tries to fill the gap in football. So I give them a big thumbs up.
My goal is to eventually have a Coog dedicated site to pull all the HTOWN TAKEOVER links and resources in one place.
Cardiac Coogs, where are you? You've gone dormant.
Go Coogs!
Today's recruiting highlight is Peyton Sawyer out of League City's Clear Springs High School. A three star recruit in 247sports.com Composite rankings, the 2016 junior was All-District as a wide receiver and return specialist.
His stat line included a total of 48 receptions with 10 TDs and 848 yards receiving along with one punt return and six kickoff returns for TDs.
He entertained offers from Houston, committed to Tulsa, Tulane, Arizona St, Texas St. and Texas Tech. After decommitting from Tulsa, Sawyer committed to the Cougars on June 23, 2017.
My observations based on his Hudle highlights
Kid has wheels to burn. Without watching to much Clear Springs highlights, it seems they run a pro set offense with QB under center. Sawyer lines up on the outside with and without a slot receiver. He does great on yards after catch. He is dangerous in open field and hard to bring down. On a couple of highlights, he's gone in motion and caught on the fly and is off to the races.
On kickoff returns, teams intentionally kick away from him short and opposite side of the field. How does the coaching staff counter that? Pretty simple, the kickoff receiver hands off to Sawyer and he does his damage.
Coach Applewhite and staff picked up a gem in Sawyer. To me Sawyer is flying under the radar with only Arizona St. and Texas Tech of the P5 breed sniffing around. Tulsa came and offered first and he committed right away. Once other offers came in, he decommitted from the Golden Hurricane. It remains to be seen if other P5 offers come his away and if the Coogs can hold on.
Below is the video of highlights I reviewed for this post. Enjoy! EDIT: For some reason the vidoe doesn't show completely on screen. Click on the Peyton Sawyer highlights for a better view.
Coogs on the Web
I trying to promote the Houston Cougars in anyway I can. As such, I present links to other Coogs on the web trying to accomplish the same things. As such, I like to promote others trying to do Coog things on the web. So be sure to click on the links below.
The Shock the World podcast is starting a five part series on the upcoming 2017 football season. This episode is dedicated to the offense.
Another Cougar podcast are the great guys over at Scott and Holman Pawdcast. They take a look at the Year in Review, MLB Draft of Coogs and football recruiting.
Another site I like to promote is SB Nation's Underdog Dynasty. While SB Nation has sites dedicated to all the P5 schools, a few P5 conferences and even G5 conferences, the AAC gets short changed. Only UConn, Cincy, USF and UCF have devoted sites. Underdog Dynasty tries to fill the gap in football. So I give them a big thumbs up.
My goal is to eventually have a Coog dedicated site to pull all the HTOWN TAKEOVER links and resources in one place.
Cardiac Coogs, where are you? You've gone dormant.
Go Coogs!
