Top recruit: “There’s nothing on God’s green earth that will change my mind about …”
Shamire DeVne committed to Georgia Tech over FSU, among others. He is ranked as the nation's No. 11 OT by Scout (AJC)
Georgia Tech’s top football recruit for 2013 has won rave reviews after a sizzling summer.
Shamire DeVine, who committed to Georgia Tech over Florida State and others, is ranked as the state’s top prospect along the offensive line by Scout.com’s Chad Simmons — who also thought the 6-foot-7, 350-pounder from Tri-Cities High School was the best offensive tackle earlier this month at The Opening, which featured around 150 of the nation’s top players.
“He just keeps getting better and better; there’s no doubt he’s separated himself, in my opinion, as the top offensive lineman in Georgia,” Simmons said. “Georgia Tech is getting a heck of an offensive lineman with so much upside. He’s still underdeveloped physically, from a strength standpoint. He can get so much stronger in the upper and lower body. He may end up playing in college at 365 pounds.
“At The Opening, he was pushing people off the ball. His slide-kick has gotten so much better, as far as pass protection. He’s playing with much more of a better balance. He’s not lunging out and trying to hit people. He’s just a raw kid that gets better every time I see him.”
DeVine is part of a “package deal” that has committed to Georgia Tech, along with his Tri-Cities teammate and good friend, offensive lineman Jeremi Hall. Both are rated as 4-star recruits, and some of Devine’s other football scholarship offers were UGA, Florida, Southern Cal and Tennessee.
He’s ranked as the nation’s No. 11 offensive tackle by Scout.
DeVine caused some Georgia Tech fans to panic when he showed up at a Tennessee prospect camp this summer. “I was there to support my teammates who went there to try to earn scholarships,” he said.
Last week, DeVine made an appearance at Georgia Tech’s summer camp. “I didn’t participate but I went up there to meet our new quarterback [Damon Mitchell]. I like him. He was cool.”
Where do things stand between DeVine and Georgia Tech? “I’m 100 percent with Georgia Tech, but I want to go see the rest of the country.”
Does that mean DeVine plans to visit other schools? “I don’t know yet. I will have to talk that out with my future head coach [Paul Johnson].”
Where else would DeVine want to visit? “I want to go to Hawaii, California and New York – all the scenery places. But I’m 100-percent committed to Georgia Tech. There’s nothing on God’s green earth that will change my mind about that, besides them dropping me. That’s it. I love it there.”
Troy commit Joshua Anderson (AJC)
NOTE: South Paulding fullback Josh Anderson committed to Troy during his visit on Wednesday.
RECRUITING REWIND
- “There’s nothing on God’s green earth that will change my mind about …”
- Commit! UGA beats out Alabama for Brookwood LB
- Florida QB to play at Georgia State
- QB commits to Tech
- DID YOU SEE what Reuben Foster did out of loyalty to Auburn??
- UGA picks up 2 commitments at “Dawg Night”
LATEST RECRUITING NEWS
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- Robert Nkemdiche: Just trying to help a teammate
- Ex-UGA 5-star commit names … Alabama as his new leader
- ANOTHER ONE of Nkemdiche’s teammates is headed to CLEMSON
BEST OF THE REST
- Robert Nkemdiche to Clemson … Did that really happen?
- HEARTBREAKER: UGA’s top recruit de-commits from the Bulldogs
- Top Alabama recruit shoots down … the UGA rumors
- Hmmm … Florida and UGA agree to NOT host recruits for annual showdown
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Tokyo jacket
July 19th, 2012
9:27 am
Misinformed, that is a fantastic point. People are arguing – and I mean not just GT fans, but the media at large – that GT’s recently recruited O-linemen may actually be better than the starters we’ll have this year, they just don’t have the man-strength/experience/familiarity with the system yet. When this year’s rsFR are rsJRs, GT’s O-line will do some fantastic things, especially with a strong running/passing QB behind them.
GYSB
July 19th, 2012
9:28 am
It’s the green (money) on God’s earth that will lead him to Trooper Taylor and the ‘Barn.
GFY
July 19th, 2012
9:30 am
Tokyo Blazer:
Is this the same passing qb the Yellow Fellow’s had last year? LMAO…..he couldn’t hit water from a boat throwing the football.
KD
July 19th, 2012
9:47 am
Hawaii,California,New York, sounds to like the kid and his family just want to take vacations at the colleges expense.How is the family of this kid going to watch him play every other weekend when they are at home, the travel expenses will be incredible.
Rick James
July 19th, 2012
9:59 am
Nice pick up for Tech..But like CPJ says,if you’re visiting other schools you’re not commited. Which to me is insane when talking about 17 year olds.Best of luck.
Tokyo jacket
July 19th, 2012
10:02 am
GFY, I don’t know if you’re a Dawg fan or not, but Vad Lee did with the AP Player of the Year in North Carolina over Christian Lemay. So, yeah, I’d say he can hit the broad side of a barn. With 300+ pound linemen and a QB who accounted for nearly 5,000 yards his senior year, look for a lot more passing from GT starting in 2013 with Days starting at RB.
Son of Sammy Davis Jr, Jr
July 19th, 2012
10:07 am
Maybe his mind will change after he’s been robbed at gun point on Tech’s campus, the most dangerious college campus in the nation.
Teddy Roosevelt
July 19th, 2012
10:08 am
But I thought CPJ couldn’t recruit?
Teddy Roosevelt
July 19th, 2012
10:12 am
Georgia State – Every student’s backup safety school
old dog
July 19th, 2012
10:16 am
Wish we had this kid coming….o-line has been our achilles heel the past few years……congrats, Teckies.
Ramblnwrek
July 19th, 2012
10:22 am
MISINFORMED
Is he stoned in that pic?
July 19th, 2012
10:26 am
If I was Hawaii or any other school…I’d say enjoy your committment to Tech, but there’s not a free vacation on our dime for ya.
Another sense of entitlement for these bozos.
Is he stoned in that pic?
July 19th, 2012
10:27 am
smile and open your eyes dude
GFY
July 19th, 2012
10:35 am
Tokyo:
High school? Come on…..Nesbitt was a great qb (not passing wise) at Greene County. As soon as qb ends up at Tech he can’t pass…..last good passing qb was Godsey. Passing is not in the cards for Tech with current coach and don’t give me baloney about setting up pass with the run.
GT = Wide Receiver U
July 19th, 2012
10:39 am
that sounds you heard?…….WnE’s head exploding.
kingster
July 19th, 2012
10:40 am
Paul Johnson and Georgia Tech, you have a number one class A recruit and a fine young Man
Tokyo jacket
July 19th, 2012
10:41 am
GFY, only time will tell. We can argue until the cows come home. If you’ve actually seen his videos, Vad Lee throws an amazing deep post (leads the WR, throws to the outside shoulder, etc), which is where about 50% of Tech’s throws go. If you’re just a biased fan that says “tech can’t pass” because we have “a high school offense,” then nothing will change your mind except seeing it with your own eyes. Bottom line in my opinion though, the pieces are coming together.
Flo - Ri - Duh
July 19th, 2012
10:44 am
DeVine will need to lose about 30 lbs. but he should be the best OL at Tech in years. His buddy Hall needs to lose about 50 lbs. Weight watchers has two new members. Maybe Hall can play DT ’cause they can score 30 and still lose with the “D” they had last year.
sleeze
July 19th, 2012
10:46 am
sleeze
July 19th, 2012
7:10 am
Funny. Because there’s no where on the GT Tech campus that resembles God’s green earth..
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Funny. Because you’ve never been on the GT campus.
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High Tech, You’re darn right I haven’t been on GT’s campus lately. I have no desire to get robbed, stabbed, or held at gunpoint..
kingster
July 19th, 2012
10:49 am
Whats wrong with you UGA fans, because your recruits are not as sound and speak of intelligent way you see fault in TECH’s recruit, I feel sorry for you guys, UGA need to find kids with type of intelligent, maybe they will have all their recruits enroll on time, maybe have all their team starters play in all the games. UGA have hater fans, but you have Saint MR as the coach, good and bad don’t mix and some of their 2013 recruits see that.
GTBob
July 19th, 2012
10:50 am
High Tech, You’re darn right I haven’t been on GT’s campus lately. I have no desire to get robbed, stabbed, or held at gunpoint..
I never realized that UGA fans were such cowards. They saw in the paper that someone got robbed and now they are hiding in their bedroom with their blankey. Poor little things.
kingster
July 19th, 2012
10:54 am
Is he stoned in that pic @ 10:26, thats just one pic,he could have been blinking his eyes, but you would know about stoned, how many UGA players have been caught on a drug test in the last 3 years, you got starters right now who have been caught, be careful when you open your mouth STUPID!
Brainiac (CMR/UGA Fan For Life)
July 19th, 2012
10:54 am
@ GSU Stud:
Not that anybody is impressed by your contributions on here but since we are faced with 2 GSUs Georgia Southern/Georgia State(also 2 USCs = South Carolina = USCe/Southern Cal = USCw) please identify yourselves with GSUs for Georgia Southern and GSUn for Georgia State.
Thanks in advance for your USUAL co-operation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HighTech
July 19th, 2012
10:54 am
Son of Sammy Davis Jr, Jr
July 19th, 2012
10:07 am
Maybe his mind will change after he’s been robbed at gun point on Tech’s campus, the most dangerious college campus in the nation.
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Not sure about dangerious, but Tech is not even the most dangerous campus in Georgia, much less the nation.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/09/14/most-dangerous-college-campuses-ranked.html
Schools ranked more dangerous than Georgia Tech include Michigan, Wake Forest, Tulane, Cal-Berkeley, VPISU, Vandy, Miami, USCw, Emory, and Stanford. Some of the schools listed surprised me.
Rick James
July 19th, 2012
10:55 am
I just cant for the life of me understand how anybody can find humor in whats happening to to students around the Tech campus.I’m a huge Georgia fan but this has nothing to do with the football field…
HighTech
July 19th, 2012
10:56 am
Here is a more up to date ranking:
http://elitedaily.com/elite/slideshows/dangerous-colleges/?slide=10
kingster
July 19th, 2012
10:57 am
Rick James , Paul Johnson has level off on his stance about visiting other schools, all he ask is for the recruit to come and talk to him about it, he not as hard as you have made it out to be, but I would not expect you and your kind to understand with all the negative stuff UGA has partner.
HighTech
July 19th, 2012
10:59 am
sleeze
July 19th, 2012
10:46 am
sleeze
July 19th, 2012
7:10 am
Funny. Because there’s no where on the GT Tech campus that resembles God’s green earth..
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Funny. Because you’ve never been on the GT campus.
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High Tech, You’re darn right I haven’t been on GT’s campus lately. I have no desire to get robbed, stabbed, or held at gunpoint..
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So, first you lie and then you say you lie because you are afraid. Sleeze is a good name for you.
Coach
July 19th, 2012
11:03 am
DeVine, you are a class act. Go Jackets!!!
new-bee
July 19th, 2012
11:04 am
haters need something to talk and hate about y not shamire devine ? if u dont have any haters you not good enough .” he to heavy , he didnt pick the right school , he looks high ,he commited to early ,he aint good enough, he aint commited .dont take visits,visit.” hate on haters he should stop talking to reporters. he has enough just trying to complete each step in his young life to make it to the next.
@tokyo Jacket,
July 19th, 2012
11:05 am
Enter your comments here
Brainiac (CMR/UGA Fan For Life)
July 19th, 2012
11:05 am
@ Kingster:
Go easy son. Your handle is infringing on the “Handle Rights” for this blog!!!!
As you should already know, “Kingdaddy” has exclusive rights to “King Anything” on here and we would not want you to be siphoning off some of Kingdaddy’s clear, concise and educational contributions and presenting them as your own!!!!!!!!
That possibly won’t be a factor though because your spelling, composition and grammar is pathetic but a huge majority on here is ENGLISH LITERATE!!!!!!!!!!
Who was your English teacher or did you attend GT English classes???
Crimson Crush
July 19th, 2012
11:10 am
@Tokyo
People hear “option” and “pass” goes right out the window in their (uninformed) minds . Paul Johnson’s offense has always had more of a passing element to it than the power running option offenses had .
A person SMART enough to know......
July 19th, 2012
11:13 am
Rick James
July 19th, 2012
9:59 am
Nice pick up for Tech..But like CPJ says,if you’re visiting other schools you’re not commited. Which to me is insane when talking about 17 year olds.Best of luck.
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You don’t keep up. Johnson has NO PROBLEM with kids taking visits if the kids keeps him informed and doesn’t do it behind his back or a few weeks before Signing Day.
Brainiac (CMR/UGA Fan For Life)
July 19th, 2012
11:13 am
@ Kingster:
Are you really that bad in ENGLISH or does your computer have the “hiccups/hickcoughs”. My only other guess would be perhaps your computer speaks in a foreign language!!!!!!
Crimson Crush
July 19th, 2012
11:15 am
we would not want you to be siphoning off some of Kingdaddy’s clear, concise and educational contributions and presenting them as your own!!!!!!!!
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I agree wholeheartedly … one kingdaddy on the recruiting blog is enough LOL
Brainiac (CMR/UGA Fan For Life)
July 19th, 2012
11:16 am
@ Smart:
Great pickup for the Jackets. Lets just hope he doesn’t live on Mary Wanna and haul around illegal weapons.
Fan
July 19th, 2012
11:21 am
GTBob,
Just b/c someone doesn’t want to get stabbed doesn’t make them a coward. I travel to Tech for the monthly swing dance, and the campus is much more sketch than UGA’s. There’s a reason they have 3-5 cops assigned to the BP gas station right by campus every night.
Brainiac (CMR/UGA Fan For Life)
July 19th, 2012
11:23 am
@ Crimson Crush:
How are things in Bama Land????
Looks like the COW COLLEGE allumni has once again outspent both Bama and UGA!!!!!!!!!!!
I personally don’t believe Foster will bring them another MNC though!!!!!!!!
Tell Blackout I said hello and would like to watch some more of that 77inch TV!!!!!!!!!!
@tokyo Jacket
July 19th, 2012
11:29 am
Lemay didn’t play his senior year in high school, and was still a higher rated Qb than Lee. many schools didn’t recruit Lee as a Qb but as an athlete he had 1 significant offer outside the ACC from South Carolina.Most every major program recruited Lemay .Lemay was the 6th rated qb nationally, Lee wasn’t rated nationally as a QB.
OldGold1964
July 19th, 2012
11:29 am
DeVine, welcome aboard. It seems apparent that the Georgia Institute of Technology is where you are supposed to be. You would not have the strong feeling of acceptance and comfort that you say you have if it were not meant to be,
Relax, son, and enjoy the here-and-now. There will be plenty of time to visit those other locations. (Hawaii, as gift to yourself for a job wel done. California, perhaps for a bowl appearance. New York, to attend some award ceremonies.)
Rick James
July 19th, 2012
11:31 am
@A person SMART enough to know……
You don’t keep up. Johnson has NO PROBLEM with kids taking visits if the kids keeps him informed and doesn’t do it behind his back or a few weeks before Signing Day
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My comment is not based on what I’ve read nor what you say..It’s based on what I and heard come out of Paul Johnson’s mouth..Even based on what you say it’s stupid policy.Behind his back? The kid has not signed anything he’s not property.A few weeks before signing day? Again,until he signs he should be free to visit whatever school he wants whenever he chooses.CPJ says that allowing a kid to visit other schools is like his wife dating other men.Those words came out of his mouth..Nice pickup,moronic attitude.
Fan
July 19th, 2012
11:31 am
@ High Tech,
Thanks for the links. I’m kind of surprised at some of the schools on there as well. But, it seems the trend is that the dangerous campuses tend to be in bigger city areas.
Brainiac (CMR/UGA Fan For Life)
July 19th, 2012
11:32 am
@ Tokyo Jacket:
Let’em throw it.UGA has some All-Americans in their secondary……………………………..IF WE CAN KEEP THEM ELLIGIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mr. SEC
July 19th, 2012
11:42 am
Trust nobody in what they say!
Brainiac (CMR/UGA Fan For Life)
July 19th, 2012
11:43 am
@ Rick James:
You are correct as usual but it appears that a large percent on here (including Brainiac and maybe you occasionally) take an attitude of “ANYTHING GOES” when berating others/their schools.
A huge percent of my stuff is BS and I try to be sensitive most of the time but the worst thing I remember seeing on here was somebody using the “Tuscaloosa Tornados” situation to make fun of Bama and it’s fans!!!!!!!!!!!
dingkaddy
July 19th, 2012
11:44 am
Looks like “a person Dumb enough” and kingdummy are going to join WnE and Thomas Brown in same-sex mixed marriage ceremony. Hopefully the Justice o the Peace will give them a 2-for-1 deal. All parties are registered at Blowe’s and Home-O Depot.
Moobs Johnson
July 19th, 2012
11:45 am
The question really is does he know how to cut block?
Rick James
July 19th, 2012
11:47 am
@kingster
Rick James , Paul Johnson has level off on his stance about visiting other schools, all he ask is for the recruit to come and talk to him about it, he not as hard as you have made it out to be, but I would not expect you and your kind to understand with all the negative stuff UGA has partner.
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You obviously think that anyone’s opinion that differs from yours is negativity.That and your use of the partner says a lot about your reasoning skills..I think this guy is a nice pickup for Tech and would rather see him play there if he chooses not to go to Georgia.CPJ’s stance on recruits visiting other schools is documented..Its his policy and he runs his program however he wants I just think its a bad way to deal with 17 year old kids who sometimes just want to enjoy the free trips.
Crimson Crush
July 19th, 2012
11:52 am
I wish I could remember who it was that brought up the “changes” to Tech’s offense .Change being used for lack of a better word … tweaks is probably more accurate but doesn’t convey why players like this are probably being sought out .
Tokyo seemed to think that MORE passing would be in the cards period . What I got from the poster I read several months back was that more of a power (running) element would be emphasized and THEN the natural passing elements of the CPJ offense would take over ( in each game ) .
Basically a move towards less reliance on speed and misdirection to set up the pass and a little more towards a “Here is EXACTLY where we are going … stop it if you can” Husker type of approach with the already existent parts of the offenses passing game thrown in . I have no idea if that is true but I would love to see it in action ….