Spring Signing day 2025

[RaiderDoug]

Not much talk about signing day 2025 on here, but here's the link to GBR showing all our new signees (more added as the day goes on).

Middle Tennessee State University Athletics - Official Athletics Website

The official athletics website for the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders

goblueraiders.com

A couple of thoughts:

The WR look like a solid group. We signed 9 OLs. With OL's, you never know, but throw enough of them at the wall and certainly a couple will stick.

We have 12 new defensive back 7 guys (3 linebackers and 9 DBs), which was my biggest concern in 2024. Looks like Mason and crew agreed.

Still looks a little light on DL - but this guy looks like he could be a player at our level (I haven't seen him on many of the lists yet):

Mathias Malaki-Donaldson - Football - Middle Tennessee State University Athletics

Mathias Malaki-Donaldson (31) Outside Linebacker - 2024 (r-Sophomore at Mt. SAC) • Played in 11 games • Registered 24 tackles, including 5.5 TFLs, 3.5 sacks and

goblueraiders.com

 

[RaiderDoug]

I browsed around Rivals and some TOS sites, and by all accounts, this appears to be a really good class for us.

We're up there in the top 3 of the conference. There's so much fluidity with the portal and who knows exactly how accurate some of those lists are and at our level, who knows how much these guys are properly evaluated (relative to the big dogs that sign in the P2 conferences) - so take this with a grain of salt - but all things considered, this marks a solid talent infusion based on the recruiting websites.

At least with almost all of these guys, they have profiles and other peer-level offers and such.

Also, we hit Tennessee hard. I'm not the guy that says sign the local kid so we can sell a few tickets to his family - but Tennessee talent has gotten so much better and for most of the last regime, we just ignored it.

From what I gather - we signed 5 of the top 50 instate players. When's the last time we did that?

 

[ewglenn]

We’ve got one signing today (not publicly committed yet).

 

[MTBig Blue]

I've seen several players saying they have "signed" or "committed" today. I am assuming those are walkons.

 

[Shayne_Pickering]

I've seen several players saying they have "signed" or "committed" today. I am assuming those are walkons.

Yes. Elijah Hunter Jr and Garrett Austin are the two on scholarship

 

[MTLynn]

 

[Shayne_Pickering]

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Haven’t watched that video, but the answer to the question is yes. Going to be more “private” scrimmages for fans if anything to be honest

 

[MTLynn]