Cornell Football Recruits '29

[Ken711]

Nice film breakdown on Josiah Allen RB from Georgia added to the list today.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXPZd6RbZXM[/video]

[Swampy]

Nice film breakdown on Josiah Wheeler RB from Georgia added to the list today.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXPZd6RbZXM[/video]

Wow! It's easy to see why he had 11 offers! LGR!!

[Ken711]

New commit added to list.

[Ken711]

Another big time pick up from Florida.  Cornell has more recruits from talent rich Floria this year than I can ever remember in past years combined.

Dalten Phelan LB 6'2" 225 Orlando, FL.  Offers:  Air Force. Army, Bucknell, Columbia, Dartmouth, Eastern Illinois, Georgetown, Marshall, Navy, North Carolina A&T and Penn

[billhoward]

Another big time pick up from Florida.  Cornell has more recruits from talent rich Floria this year than I can ever remember in past years combined. Dalten Phelan LB 6'2" 225 Orlando, FL.  Offers:  Air Force. Army, Bucknell, Columbia, Dartmouth, Eastern Illinois, Georgetown, Marshall, Navy, North Carolina A&T and Penn

What about any news of Cornell stealing the players with offers from William & Mary and from Lafayette, top 20 FCS schools with academic underpinningS? Or from the big time FBS schools (a la Michigan) with academic underpinnings? (Um, found Michigan, Notre Dame, USC, Penn State, Ohio State, also Tulane, where you could get a very good education, but I don't think the players have to follow that must-go-to-class track. Maybe at Tulane, top 25 D1 FBS HM.) So we're grabbing some players from schools at our aspired football level but not taking pro prospects away from the tippy top schools. Hey, anything is an improvement. Dare we hope to finish sixth?

[Ken711]

Another big time pick up from Florida.  Cornell has more recruits from talent rich Floria this year than I can ever remember in past years combined. Dalten Phelan LB 6'2" 225 Orlando, FL.  Offers:  Air Force. Army, Bucknell, Columbia, Dartmouth, Eastern Illinois, Georgetown, Marshall, Navy, North Carolina A&T and Penn

What about any news of Cornell stealing the players with offers from William & Mary and from Lafayette, top 20 FCS schools with academic underpinningS? Or from the big time FBS schools (a la Michigan) with academic underpinnings? (Um, found Michigan, Notre Dame, USC, Penn State, Ohio State, also Tulane, where you could get a very good education, but I don't think the players have to follow that must-go-to-class track. Maybe at Tulane, top 25 D1 FBS HM.) So we're grabbing some players from schools at our aspired football level but not taking pro prospects away from the tippy top schools. Hey, anything is an improvement. Dare we hope to finish sixth?

Harvard, Yale and Princeton occasionally get recruits who also have FBS offers, but rarely if ever from the top FBS schools you mentioned.  Baby steps Bill, baby steps.

[scoop85]

Another big time pick up from Florida.  Cornell has more recruits from talent rich Floria this year than I can ever remember in past years combined. Dalten Phelan LB 6'2" 225 Orlando, FL.  Offers:  Air Force. Army, Bucknell, Columbia, Dartmouth, Eastern Illinois, Georgetown, Marshall, Navy, North Carolina A&T and Penn

What about any news of Cornell stealing the players with offers from William & Mary and from Lafayette, top 20 FCS schools with academic underpinningS? Or from the big time FBS schools (a la Michigan) with academic underpinnings? (Um, found Michigan, Notre Dame, USC, Penn State, Ohio State, also Tulane, where you could get a very good education, but I don't think the players have to follow that must-go-to-class track. Maybe at Tulane, top 25 D1 FBS HM.) So we're grabbing some players from schools at our aspired football level but not taking pro prospects away from the tippy top schools. Hey, anything is an improvement. Dare we hope to finish sixth?

Harvard, Yale and Princeton occasionally get recruits who also have FBS offers, but rarely if ever from the top FBS schools you mentioned.  Baby steps Bill, baby steps.

And now the QB is added to the class, and on paper he looks like a good one. Ryan Downes, 6-4, 215lbs from Venice, Florida. He held offers from Kansas, Indiana, Marshall, Penn, and Brown.

[billhoward]

And if we win a recruit away from Yale-Harvard-Princeton-Penn, it's one less player who's going to beat us, and might beat them.

[George64]

I wonder how recent demonstrations at Columbia, Penn and Hahvad will impact their yields?  At Cornell, the egregiously offending student has pled guilty and the "exhilarated" faculty member took a leave of absence.  Students who originally sought an urban university, might have second thoughts.

As I speculated several months ago, maybe football players, along with other students, had second thoughts about Columbia and Penn, but apparently not Hahvad. It will be interesting to see how overall yields played out once the common data sets are published.

BTW, a federal judge on Monday sentenced Patrick Dai, who posted antisemitic threats, to 21 months in prison. He said that although Dai is troubled by mental health issues, he should stay imprisoned because of the violent nature of the cybercrime and the upheaval it caused on campus.

[CU2007]

Another big time pick up from Florida.  Cornell has more recruits from talent rich Floria this year than I can ever remember in past years combined. Dalten Phelan LB 6'2" 225 Orlando, FL.  Offers:  Air Force. Army, Bucknell, Columbia, Dartmouth, Eastern Illinois, Georgetown, Marshall, Navy, North Carolina A&T and Penn

What about any news of Cornell stealing the players with offers from William & Mary and from Lafayette, top 20 FCS schools with academic underpinningS? Or from the big time FBS schools (a la Michigan) with academic underpinnings? (Um, found Michigan, Notre Dame, USC, Penn State, Ohio State, also Tulane, where you could get a very good education, but I don't think the players have to follow that must-go-to-class track. Maybe at Tulane, top 25 D1 FBS HM.) So we're grabbing some players from schools at our aspired football level but not taking pro prospects away from the tippy top schools. Hey, anything is an improvement. Dare we hope to finish sixth?

Harvard, Yale and Princeton occasionally get recruits who also have FBS offers, but rarely if ever from the top FBS schools you mentioned.  Baby steps Bill, baby steps.

And now the QB is added to the class, and on paper he looks like a good one. Ryan Downes, 6-4, 215lbs from Venice, Florida. He held offers from Kansas, Indiana, Marshall, Penn, and Brown.

WOW. I Know Kansas and Indiana are not Oklahoma State and Penn State, but that's still a QB recruit with Big 12 and Big 10 offers. That must be basically unheard of at Cornell.

[Ken711]

Couple more recruits added.

[Ken711]

Saw article on one of Cornell's 2029 recruiting class that sounds promising.

Cornell commit John McAuliffe, Marist get past IC Catholic
Scoring points hasn't been a problem this season for Marist.

That trend continued in Week 5 as the Redhawks traveled to Elmhurst and defeated IC Catholic 34-26 in a CCL/ESCC crossover.

Through the first five games of the season, Marist, which improved to 4-1 overall, tallied 148 points, good enough for an average of 29.6 per outing.

Having a running back the caliber of John McAuliffe certainly helps.

The Cornell commit was at his best against the Knights, carrying 32 times for 211 yards and four touchdowns. The 6-foot, 200-pound senior added a fifth TD on a 41-yard pass from quarterback Jacob Ritter.

"John runs with a lot of heart and passion," Marist coach Mike Fitzgerald said. "He's our captain. The guys believe in him. He wants the ball in his hands in important situations.

"He runs hard, he's tough to bring down but he also has breakaway speed as well. And our O-line was a big part (of McAuliffe's success)."

https://southwestregionalpublishing.com/2024/09/30/cornell-commit-john-mcauliffe-marist-get-past-ic-catholic/

[Ken711]

List updated.

[Al DeFlorio]

And now the QB is added to the class, and on paper he looks like a good one. Ryan Downes, 6-4, 215lbs from Venice, Florida. He held offers from Kansas, Indiana, Marshall, Penn, and Brown.

More on Downes: https://www.si.com/high-school/florida/sarasota-booker-quarterback-ryan-downes-thankful-to-be-playing-football-01jdqf66zpyp

[CU2007]

And now the QB is added to the class, and on paper he looks like a good one. Ryan Downes, 6-4, 215lbs from Venice, Florida. He held offers from Kansas, Indiana, Marshall, Penn, and Brown.

More on Downes: https://www.si.com/high-school/florida/sarasota-booker-quarterback-ryan-downes-thankful-to-be-playing-football-01jdqf66zpyp

Indiana is a top-10 team in the country this year. What a get