Jim Baxter

Founder of SCVarsity.com, and The Southern PIgskin Report. Former publisher with Rivals.com and Nationally published recruiting anlayst witih 30 years of experience in the industry. His work has appeared in publications such as Athlon, Sporting News, The Recruiting News and Deep South Recruiting. He is the author of the best selling book, The Book On Evaluating Football Players.

Under The Radar: RB Jonah Norris, Lexington

The Lexington Wildcats have an unheralded weapon in their backfield in Class of 2023 RB Jonah Norris. The 5-10, 200lbs rising senior has good speed and vision but due to some hampering injuries, has limited film and exposure. When he was on the field, he was stellar, With 4.5 speed …

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Dutch Fork LB Poised for Big Season

Class of 2024 LB Chandler Perry of Dutch Fork had a big season as a junior and is ready to repeat that performance in 2022z As a junior, the 5-8, 200lbs linebacker collected 141 tackles, 15 for loss, 4 sacks, 4 FF and an interception. He finished as the 5A …

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Midlands QB Picks Up Offer

Class of 2023 Brookland-Cayce Quarterback Tanner Statin (6-2,210) picked up an offer from Elon on Sunday. The two year starter for the Bearcats had 2963 yards passing, 663 rushing yards, 22 passing TD/ 6 rushing TDs in his junior season. Elon is Staton’s first Division I offer and has several …

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TWO FOR TUESDAY

Each Tuesday, Midlands Prep Sports highlights two players on the rise on our watch list. Markel townsend, RB, AC Fflora: (5-8, 175) This Class of 2023 athlete had a strong junior season, carrying the ball 180 times for 1,565 yards and had 250 yards receiving for a total of 23 …

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Gamecocks Land A Top Target

A second official visitor from this past weekend at USC has come forward with a public commitment announcement. LB Grayson “Pup” Howard (6-3 223) of Jacksonville joins WR CJ Adams of Mableton, GA as weekend visitors who committed to Shane Beamer. Beamer put out a pair of commitment alerts on …

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Midlands TOP 25 PLAYERS for Class of 2023

by Jim Baxter The Class of 2023 is a strong class in the Midlands and we will see more than two dozen rising seniors playing football somewhere on Saturdays at the next level. Here are SCVARSITY’S TOP 25 PLAYERS from the Midlands for the Class of 2023. RANK LAST NAME …

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Gamecocks Land OL Commitment

Snow College OT Isaiah Jatta (6-6-310) of San Diego committed to USC on Friday, adding a key piece to the Gamecocks’ 2023 class. Jatta chose Carolina from a list of FBS offers that included Kansas, Eastern Michigan, Fresno State, Kent State, and Utah State. He received an offer from USC …

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Tigers Continue To Raid Peach State, Land 14th 2023 Commitment

Clemson’s raid of talent across the state of Georgia continued Wednesday night with a commitment from DT Stephiylan Green (6-4 275) of Rome. His commitment comes a day after College Park defensive end AJ Hoffler committed to the Tigers. Green is the seventh Georgia resident to commit to Dabo Swinney for his …

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Clemson Lands 2023 DE

Clemson Tuesday publicly landed another top prospect from the state of Georgia when DE AJ Hoffler (6-5 240) of College Park announced his commitment to the Tigers. The recruiting battle for Hoffler basically boiled down to the Tigers and Ohio State. Clemson, however, was his only official visit which he …

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Recruiting Notebook Jam Packed

The commitments continued to roll in for USC and Clemson last week, especially the Gamecocks as Shane Beamer sent out eight commitment alerts since last Sunday, and six prospects with public with commitments. The Tigers added more commitments from prospects who were in for the June 3rd official visit weekend. …

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