MOBILE, Ala. – University of South Alabama head football coach Joey Jones announced on Wednesday that 10 individuals — nine from high schools and one junior-college transfer — signed National Letters-of-Intent and will join the program for the 2017 season.
Each of the nine prep student-athletes received at least two stars from one of the four national recruiting services, including five of those who are considered three-star recruits. The Jaguars' 2017 recruiting class features three members from Mobile, while all nine high school individuals helped their teams to the state playoffs last fall.
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"Overall when you look at the quality of this class — we don't have big numbers because of the 14 blueshirts we took last summer — it is way up there; I was told we were No.