{"id":30969,"date":"2016-01-29T11:16:38","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T16:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=30969"},"modified":"2016-01-29T12:37:10","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T17:37:10","slug":"crootapaloosa-2016-begins-rebels-final-push-to-signing-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/crootapaloosa-2016-begins-rebels-final-push-to-signing-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Crootapalooza 2016 Begins Rebels Final Push To Signing Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With less than a week to go until <strong>National Signing Day<\/strong> on February 3, the <strong>Ole Miss Rebels<\/strong> begin their final push to signing day by hosting \u00a0its largest group of blue chip recruits this last weekend. <strong>&#8220;Crootapalooza &#8217;16,&#8221;<\/strong> as our friends at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redcuprebellion.com\/2016\/1\/29\/10866560\/ole-miss-visit-list-january-29-2016-aj-brown-jeffery-simmons-terrell-hall-greg-little?_ga=1.81907606.1005329691.1449886594\" target=\"_blank\">Red Cup Rebellion<\/a> are calling it, is the latest installment of what has become an annual tradition in Oxford under head coach <strong>Hugh Freeze<\/strong>. According to RCR, there will be 24 recruits taking official visits to Oxford this weekend, including two five-star and 15 four-star prospects. Additionally, when you add in the number of unofficial visits to Oxford by other recruits this weekend, that number could grow even higher.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scout.com\/college\/ole-miss\/2016-football-visits\" target=\"_blank\">Ole Miss Spirit<\/a>, the recruits coming to Oxford on official visits this weekend include:<\/p>\n<p>Rankings listed here are according to the 247Sports composite, which is an average of all other recruiting services rankings.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>5-star <strong>Greg Little &#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0#1 ranked Offensive Tackle- Allen, Texas-\u00a0<em>Ole Miss Commit<\/em><\/li>\n<li>5-star <strong>Jeffery Simmons<\/strong> &#8211; #3 ranked Strong-Side Defensive End &#8211; Macon, Mississippi<\/li>\n<li>4-star <strong>David Laufatasaga<\/strong> &#8211; JUCO #2 ranked Outside Linebacker &#8211; Western Arizona &#8211;\u00a0<em>Ole Miss Commit<\/em><\/li>\n<li>4-star <strong>Octavious Cooley<\/strong> &#8211; #6 ranked Tight End &#8211; Laurel, Mississippi &#8211;\u00a0<em>Ole Miss Commit<\/em><\/li>\n<li>4-star <strong>Deyontay Anderson<\/strong> &#8211; #2 ranked Safety &#8211; Manvel, Texas<\/li>\n<li>4-star <strong>Nigel Knott<\/strong> &#8211; #7 ranked Cornerback &#8211; Madison, Mississippi<\/li>\n<li>4-star <strong>Terrell Hall<\/strong> &#8211; #5 ranked Weak-Side Defensive End &#8211; Washington, D.C.<\/li>\n<li>4-star <strong>Shyheim Carter<\/strong> &#8211; #9 ranked Cornerback &#8211; Kentwood, Louisiana<\/li>\n<li>4-star <strong>Carlos Becker<\/strong> &#8211; #15 ranked Cornerback &#8211; Kissimmee, Florida<\/li>\n<li>4-star <strong>DeKaylin Metcalf<\/strong> &#8211; #18 ranked Wide Receiver &#8211; Oxford, Mississippi &#8211;\u00a0<em>Ole Miss Commit<\/em><\/li>\n<li>4-star <strong>Jaylon Jones<\/strong> &#8211; #19 ranked Cornerback &#8211; Allen, Texas-\u00a0<em>Ole Miss Commit<\/em><\/li>\n<li>4-star <strong>D&#8217;Vaughn Pennamon<\/strong> &#8211; #9 ranked Running Back &#8211; Manvel, Texas-\u00a0<em>Ole Miss Commit<\/em><\/li>\n<li>4-star <strong>Mykel Jones<\/strong> &#8211; #48 ranked Wide Receiver &#8211; Patterson, Louisiana<\/li>\n<li>4-star <strong>Bryce Mathews<\/strong> &#8211; #23 ranked Offensive Tackle &#8211; Brentwood, Tennessee &#8211;\u00a0<em>Ole Miss Soft Commit<\/em><\/li>\n<li>4-star <strong>Kobe Jones<\/strong> &#8211; #28 ranked Defensive Tackle &#8211; Starkville, Mississippi<\/li>\n<li>4-star <strong>Jacob Mathis<\/strong> &#8211; #13 ranked Tight End &#8211; Tampa, Florida<\/li>\n<li>4-star <strong>A.J. Brown<\/strong> &#8211; #5 ranked Wide Receiver &#8211; Starkville, Mississippi<\/li>\n<li>3-star <strong>Keith Simms<\/strong> &#8211; #25 ranked Outside Linebacker &#8211; Bethesda, Maryland<\/li>\n<li>3-star <strong>Jarrion Street<\/strong> &#8211; #37 ranked Running Back &#8211; Trussville, Alabama-\u00a0<em>Ole Miss Commit<\/em><\/li>\n<li>3-star <strong>Jack DeFloor<\/strong> &#8211; #59 ranked Offensive Tackle &#8211; Calhoun, Georgia<\/li>\n<li>3-star <strong>Tariqious Tisdale<\/strong> &#8211; #53 ranked Weak Side Defensive End &#8211; Lexington, Tennessee &#8211;\u00a0<em>Ole Miss Commit<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information and updates about &#8220;Crootapalooza 2016&#8221; check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redcuprebellion.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">RedCupRebellion.com<\/a>, as they&#8217;re really much better at this type of stuff.<\/p>\n<p>National Signing Day is Wednesday, February 3 and will be covered in full for the 11th straight year by <strong>ESPNU<\/strong>. Check out their coverage schedule <a href=\"http:\/\/espnmediazone.com\/us\/press-releases\/2016\/01\/11th-annual-espnu-signing-day-coverage-visits-every-team-in-the-top-10-class-rankings-no-1-recruit-set-to-announce-commitment-live\/\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With less than a week to go until National Signing Day on February 3, the Ole Miss Rebels<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":30975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,6,1],"tags":[7692,41,5201,2885,7070,7681],"class_list":["post-30969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-athletics","category-ole-miss","category-uncategorized","tag-crootapalooza-16","tag-hugh-freeze","tag-national-signing-day","tag-recruiting","tag-red-cup-rebellion","tag-the-ole-miss-spirit"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Freeze_Presser.jpg?fit=2794%2C1915&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}