[bigsmooth]

looks like coach bennett has put together another strong class.


Football Announces 2006 Signing Class

CONWAY, SC – Coastal Carolina University has signed 15 to National Letters of Intent to play football for the Chanticleers next fall, head coach David Bennett announced today. This is the fifth recruiting class for Bennett and the Chants, who are two-time defending Big South Conference champions. Coastal is 25-8 in its three years of play in Division I-AA, including an 8-4 mark in league play.

Of the signees, Coastal remained in the southeast, signing five each from South Carolina and North Carolina, four from Georgia and one from Florida.

Coastal Carolina's 2006 Football Signing Class


Name Pos Ht. Wt. Hometown/High School (Previous)
Jamar Anderson WR 6-0 185 Welford, S.C./Byrnes
Eric Brown, Jr. DB 5-10 180 Winston-Salem, N.C./Carver
Stephen Culbertson DB 6-1 187 Belton, S.C/Belton-Honea
Dominique Davenport DB 5-11 185 Bonaire, Ga./Warner Robins
Justin Durham Spec. 5-10 165 Lexington, N.C./North Davidson
Scott Fambrough TE 6-3 220 Dunwoody, Ga./Greater Atlanta Christian
Sean Fortson Ath. 6-1 180 Kannapolis, N.C./A.L. Brown
Kerebi Gause DL 6-0 260 Conway, S.C./Conway (Georgia Military College)
Racheed Gause RB/LB 5-11 225 Conway, S.C./Conway
Mark Jones OL 6-4 295 Port Orange, Fla./Spruce Creek
David Nixon OL 6-2 265 Clayton, N.C./Clayton
Phillip Oboh DE 6-2 220 Greensboro, N.C./Dudley
Mario Tynes DB 5-11 170 Stone Mountain, Ga./Stephenson
Brandon Whitley WR 6-4 190 Hepzibah, Ga./Glenn Hills
Alex Wolfe OL 6-5 260 Conway, S.C./Conway


Signees by State:
South Carolina (5): Anderson, Culbertson, K. Gause, R. Gause, Wolfe
North Carolina (5): Brown, Durham, Fortson, Nixon, Oboh
Georgia (4): Davenport, Fambrough, Tynes, Whitley
Florida (1): Jones

Jamar Anderson WR 6-0 185 Welford, S.C./Byrnes

Led the state with 103 receptions for 1,839 yards and 21 touchdowns, earning Associated Press and High School Sports Report Class AAAA All-State honoree... Helped Byrnes win its fourth straight Class 4A, Division II title this year and a 58-2 record during his four years... Was on the victorious North team in the SCADA North/South All-Star Game... Selected Coastal over The Citadel...


Eric Brown, Jr. DB 5-10 180 Winston-Salem, N.C./Carver

Was a four-year starter for the Yellow Jackets... Earned Piedmont Triad 3-A All-Conference honors his junior and senior years... Rated as the top defensive player in his conference by the NC Prep Sports Report and named one of the players to watch by the News-Record.... Ran a 4.38 40-yard dash in the 2005 Shrine Bowl Combine at Jamestown with a 30-inch vertical jump... Helped Carver to the 2002 state title.


Stephen Culbertson DB 6-1 187 Belton, S.C/Belton-Honea

Two-year starter at Belton-Honea... Was a key part of the Bears 15-0 season his junior year and their 2004 Class AAA championship... Had nine interceptions at free safety in 2004, helping the defense limit opponents to just 5.3 points per game... Also played wide receiver during high school, posting six catches for 146 yards and one touchdown his senior season.


Dominique Davenport DB 5-11 185 Bonaire, Ga./Warner Robins

Was a three-year letterwinner at Warner Robins, finishing as No. 4 on the career interceptions chart with 12... For his career, recorded 162 tackles, five tackles-for-loss, two fumble recoveries and one touchdown... Also had 55 rushes for 317 yards and 14 receptions for 288 yards and five combined touchdowns... As a senior recorded 60 tackles, five interceptions, one fumble recovery and one touchdown, earning Honorable Mention All-State honors from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution... Was also honored as First Team All-Middle Georgia and All-Houston County... Selected to play in the Georgia All-Star game and earned the Team's MVP award... Also averaged 36 yards per punt his final season... Selected to the 2005 Preseason Academic All-State team... Was a key part of the 2004 squad that won the Regional 3-AAAA and State AAAA titles, as he was named All-State that year by the Georgia Sports Writers Association after posting 92 tackles and seven interceptions.


Justin Durham Spec. 5-10 165 Lexington, N.C./North Davidson

Had 24 PATs and eight field goals for 48 points his senior year, earning All-County and All-Central Piedmont 4A accolades... Posted two 45-yard field goals his senior season... Was a perfect 22-for-22 on PATs as a junior... For his career, hit on 46 of 49 career PATs and was 9-for-16 on field goals.


Scott Fambrough TE 6-3 220 Dunwoody, Ga./Greater Atlanta Christian

Named Class AA First Team All-State by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution after recording 34 catches for 490 yards and six touchdowns... Honorable Mention Class AA All-State selection by the Georgia Sports Writers Association... Earned First Team All-County honors as well... Played on the defensive side of the ball as well, recording 58 tackles... Also was a pitcher and outfielder for the Spartans...


Sean Fortson Ath. 6-1 180 Kannapolis, N.C./A.L. Brown

Led the Wonders to a 13-2 overall record, the No. 4 seed and the state semifinals in the N.C. 3-AA State playoffs... Led an offense that combined for almost 300 yards per game... Had 126 rushes for 840 yards (6.7 yards per carry) and 11 touchdowns, along with throwing 52-for-98 for 675 yards and seven touchdowns... Had a season best game in the 19-14 home win over Concord when he rushed for 169 yards and all three touchdowns... Also returned nine kickoffs for 267 yards, averaging 29.7 yards per return... Threw for more than 1,000 yards his junior season...


Kerebi Gause DL 6-0 260 Conway, S.C./Conway (Georgia Military College)

Spent the last two seasons at Georgia Military College and will have two years of eligibility remaining... Helped the Bulldogs to a 9-2 mark, a win in the Golden Isles Bowl and their 2005 NJCAA National Runner-Up finish... Was a 2003 WPDE All-Zone selection The Sun News "Toast of the Coast" Defensive Player of the Year and a 2003 Shrine Bowl selection after recording 94 tackles, six sacks and forced two fumbles, recovered another fumble and had a pass breakup his senior year at Conway... Also piled up over 900 yards and 11 TD's for head coach Chuck Jordan... Was a three-year starter, leading the Tigers to three state finals...


Racheed Gause RB/LB 5-11 225 Conway, S.C./Conway

Class AAAA All-State selection by the High School Sports Report and an Honorable Mention All-State pick by The State... 2005 WPDE-TV Zoneman finalist, finishing as runner-up in the voting... Selected to represent South Carolina in the Shrine Bowl of the Carolinas... Rated 22nd in the state by the Herald-Journal and 16th by the High School Sports Report... Rushed for 918 yards on 142 carries (6.5 yards per carry) and 11 touchdowns... Also recorded 26 tackles on defense... His brother Andre and cousin George both played at South Carolina.


Mark Jones OL 6-4 295 Port Orange, Fla./Spruce Creek

Three-year letterwinner and two-year starter at Spruce Creek... Named First Team All-Area, All-Conference and All-District his senior season, playing at right guard for the second consecutive year... Graded out at 90 percent for the 2005 football season... As a junior helped lead the team to an 8-3 mark and the third round of the State 5A Playoffs for the first time in school history... Played defensive line as a sophomore... Also is was a starter on the basketball squad...


David Nixon OL 6-2 265 Clayton, N.C./Clayton

Helped lead the Comets to a 9-5 mark in their first season in Class 4A his senior year, including a runner-up finish in the Greater Neuse River 4A Conference and two wins in the state playoffs... Was a two-year starter at offensive tackle.


Phillip Oboh DE 6-2 220 Greensboro, N.C./Dudley

Two-year starter and three-year letterwinner at Dudley... Named All-Conference and Conference Defensive Player of the Year after recording 101.5 tackles, 27 tackles for loss, nine sacks and 11 hurries his senior year... Added two pass breakups, six forced fumbles, three fumble recoveries and one blocked kick... Also had 10 catches for 99 yards and three touchdowns as a tight end.


Mario Tynes DB 5-11 170 Stone Mountain, Ga./Stephenson

Named Honorable Mention All-Dekalb County and All-Area his senior season after helping the Jaguars to the Class AAAAA semifinals... Had 99 tackles, four interceptions, three fumble recoveries, two forced fumbles, six pass breakups, one touchdown and one safety caused as a senior... Recorded 90 tackles, two interceptions, three fumble recoveries and five pass breakups as junior for Stephenson, earning All-Area Honorable Mention and the team's Defensive Back of the Year accolades... Had 75 tackles, three interceptions, four fumble recoveries and one touchdown his sophomore for the Jaguars to garner All-County honors... A three-year letterwinner in track as a sprinter... Also was the most valuable sprinter on the track team each of those three seasons... Named to the Honor Roll...


Brandon Whitley WR 6-4 190 Hepzibah, Ga./Glenn Hills

Named Honorable Mention All-Area by the Augusta Chronicle... As a junior helped the squad to an 8-3 record, including a 5-1 region record, and a berth in the state playoffs for the first time since 1986... Also a two-year starter on the Spartans' basketball team, leading them to the state playoffs last season as their second leading scorer...


Alex Wolfe OL 6-5 260 Conway, S.C./Conway

Shrine Bowl selection to play for South Carolina... Named to WPDE-TV's All-Zone Team as well as the Zone Scholar-Athlete... South Carolina Associated Press All-State selection and a member of the High School Sports Report’s All-Class AAAA team.













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[prototype]

WOW - this looks like the weakest recruiting class in the league. 7 of the 15 recruits 6' or under - what sport are they recruiting for Field Hockey? A kicker who has 9 careers field goals? Let's average that out - 4 years of high school - 9 Field Goals - 2.25 per season - oh yeah - this kids ready to kick in college. POLISHED. But watch out they have an Athelete on the board - you know what that means - he's not great at any particular position and his dad gives big money to the school. When they start mentioning that his team averages over 300 yards per game, you know the only thing this guy does for his team is run out water during timeouts.

Disappointing Class - The coach must of not pushed their only sellable point - The Beach. We'll maybe he did, aren't surfers short??

[Sly Fox]

Easy now, Vince Young was considered an athlete coming out of high school and he did OK at the quarterback position for Texas. It generally just means the player is versatile enough to move wherever the need may be.

CCU did very well with this class. They are doing a great job of working the local schools and there is plenty of talent down in SC.

[prototype]

What fun is it not to rag on the other teams recruiting classes? I can't believe you pulled out the Vince Young Comparison. Vince Young is big and put up amazing numbers in High School.

[Sly Fox]

Just keeping it real. Until we starting beating CCU is tough for me to run smack at them. And considering the fact that they are likely to be invited to the SoCon soon I want them to feel so comfortable in the Big South they won't want to leave.

Oh yeah, they have some cool posters who drop by our boards.

[prototype]

Let em go. I'm so sick of everyone protecting them and treating them different. The only reason the SoCon would want them is because they are located at Myrtle Beach. Their Athletic Program is not historically as strong as Liberty's. They will get swallowed up in the SoCon! baseball and Soccer - that's what CCU is good at. They would be the VMI of the SoCon. The BSC treats them different - just last year they agreed to play a Thursday night game here at Liberty during AD meetings, they backed-out because they didn't want to travel during the week. If it was any other school in the big south they would have made them stick to their verbal agreement - I got news for the BSC - it's Liberty that is the bread and butter of the BSC and it's Liberty they should worry about keeping.

I know I’m opening up this can AGAIN, but it's true - Liberty has been the most consistent athletic program in the BSC and has brought the most National attention to the BSC. And don't argue this again - we have more athletes in the NFL, NBA, WNBA, USA Track, and I believe Baseball - though not many in the past 5 years. Don't forget about Sid Bream, Tomlin, etc... We have one of the best distance runners to ever compete in college. We are the only school that Nationally televises Volleyball, and Men's and Women's Basketball Games to over 6.5 million people every game (Do you think that helps push the Big South Conference - you know how much the Big South pays for each one of those games and to have their name all over the broadcast - $0.00).

[SuperJon]

About the Thursday night game, I was told the reason it was changed was not because they didn't want to travel. The reason the game was a Thursday game to begin with was that hopefully someone would pick it up on tv (ESPNU, CSTV, something) and it didn't get picked up, so it moved to Saturday. I could be wrong, this is just what people at Coastal said when it happened.

[prototype]

TV or not we still marketed the game and they did not know we were going to lose TV at the point they were complaining.

[PAmedic]

PROTO I like you're style man! GO FLAMES!

I was impressed w/ the job CCU did w/ FB over the last 2 yrs, but there is no question in my mind with our size and resources- in a few years or less we will be the dominant force in our conf- as we should be. We have recruiting ability, media outlets and funding avenues far and away above what anyone else in the BSOUTH can offer and its about time that gets recognized.

We have the potential to be very very very good next year and for years to come.

[LuFBfan3]

The new board looks amazing-sorry I've been MIA for so long-no internet access + a move took up all my time.

As for the subject at hand-I think that we do have the potential to dominate our conference--but I also disagree that it's whatever if Coastal wants to leave. Good this year or not, they have been very impressive for being a 3 year old program. Obviously we're historically stronger because we've HAD a program historically. They just started and still have played very well and taken care of business which is clearly a lot less than we can say since they started. They brought the conference into the media by beating JMU, and the only thing we really got recognized for was our LOSING RECORD. I think it's beneficial for them to stay--if for nothing else but for us to dominate them I know we want to eventually get out of the BSC as well, but for right now we're here to stay and it does nothing but help out the conference for them to be in it. I also agree with Sly that until we put the numbers on the board that we're so very definitely going to be putting up this season-we really aren't in any position to talk down to Coastal!

Fall can't come fast enough, new recruiting class looks RIDICULOUS!

[Sly Fox]

Thanks for finding your way here. Now get registered.

I think we need to try and maintain a strong relationship with CCU no matter where either of us ends up moving in the long run.

[PAmedic]

By Phil Kornblut
After pondering several different options, QB Justin Cramer (6-2 210) of Summerville has decided to join David Bennett's program at Coastal Carolina. Cramer signed a letter of intent with Coastal according to his father. Cramer had also drawn interest from Newberry, Liberty, The Citadel, Charleston Southern, Central Florida and Gardner Webb. Last season Cramer passed for 2300 yards and 27 touchdowns. "He has a very good arm," Summerville coach John McKissick said about Cramer. He's a very smart kid who excels in the classroom. He loves the game and always wants to learn." Cramer was named to the 4A all state team last season.

[windwalker]

WOW - this looks like the weakest recruiting class in the league. 7 of the 15 recruits 6' or under - what sport are they recruiting for Field Hockey? A kicker who has 9 careers field goals? Let's average that out - 4 years of high school - 9 Field Goals - 2.25 per season - oh yeah - this kids ready to kick in college. POLISHED. But watch out they have an Athelete on the board - you know what that means - he's not great at any particular position and his dad gives big money to the school. When they start mentioning that his team averages over 300 yards per game, you know the only thing this guy does for his team is run out water during timeouts.

Disappointing Class - The coach must of not pushed their only sellable point - The Beach. We'll maybe he did, aren't surfers short??

Hmmmm and wasn't Liberty's recruiting class a new coach and AD??? LOL

[TallyW]

Yes. And 3 D1A transfers, the 16th ranked RB and many others. Enjoy that helmet avatar until the fall

Glad you're here. Thanks for registering.

[windwalker]

Just giving Prototype a little poopie!!! LOL

[PAmedic]

Just giving Prototype a little poopie!!! LOL

oh yes WW- its sounds MUCH better when you say it like that.

[Guest]

Yes. And 3 D1A transfers, the 16th ranked RB and many others. Enjoy that helmet avatar until the fall

You guys will be unstoppable next year. I've heard that the Big South already has the Liberty 2006 Football Champs trophy ordered.