ShrineDog Awards of 2016 Class: Recruiting Vavae Malepeai

Jason Fowler Recruiting

The anticipation of the ShrineDog Awards always makes me happy. If you’re not familiar with this FishDuck.com original award, you may get a better explanation from the first ShrineDogs article here. Another signing period is over, so that requires me to evaluate and analyze the talent that pledged for the next three to four years to their university of choice. Of …

FishDuck Recruiting: 2015 ShrineDog Awards — Part II

Jason Fowler FishWrap, FishWrap Archive

Here I am again with the second installment of the ShrineDog Awards for the football recruiting class of 2015. Part One took us to the University of Texas with PJ Locke, who flipped from Oregon. Part Two takes us to the state of Tennessee where the Grand Ole Opry takes a backseat to no one. The common tie between the first …

FishDuck Recruiting: 2015 ShrineDog Awards

Jason Fowler FishWrap, FishWrap Archive

Last year I introduced the ShrineDog Awards to the FishDuck public in an article here. This year, the ShrineDog is back with fresh faces that will make you laugh, cry, or simply scratch your head. Each year I look at the recruiting classes after all letters of intent have been faxed in to their designated universities. Most of the time, each school …

Introducing the Recruiting ShrineDog Awards of 2014

Jason Fowler FishWrap, FishWrap Archive

Have you ever looked through the list of signees of various schools after national LOI signing day and noticed that one special athlete who tends to be a last minute commit, and it doesn’t seem to really make sense why he would choose that particular university? Like that old Sesame Street song goes, “One of these things is not like the …