Chad Kelly has accelerated the time table for his decision, and will announce his college choice Thursday. The quarterback told The Fizz he was expecting to make a decision by the end of the month. His coach Dennis Gilbert told The Fizz Kelly wanted to make the decision early so that he could focus on his senior year at St. Joe’s. It looks like that announcement will come even earlier than originally thought, and that probably isn’t good news for Syracuse.
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Kelly could not be reached for comment, presumably because he is currently in the middle of his final round of visits. The quarterback spent the day in Tuscaloosa with Nick Saban on Monday, and is visiting Clemson today and work out at Dabo Swinney Football Camp on Wednesday.
When I talked to Chad last weekend, it sounded like his plan was to get through all of his visits, and then sit back and evaluate each school and weigh the pros and cons of each against each other.
“We’re going down to Alabama next week to check them out, and then the next day we’re gonna check out Clemson.  So we’re gonna have to wait and see; probably a decision within a month, but I think I’m gonna go back and see if we can get another Syracuse visit to check even some more things out, but with my family.  So we’ll see what happens.”
Announcing his decision the day after his visit to Clemson doesn’t afford him a lot of time to get to CNY another time. Forgoing that deliberation time most likely points to one of two things, neither of which are good for the Orange: either Clemson really was the favorite all along, or the Alabama visit knocked Kelly’s socks off.  He was impressed enough by his visit with the Tide to take to Twitter saying:
“Bama wow wow wow, can’t wait to work out in the morning.”
Obviously, there‚Äôs not a whole lot to that tweet, but ‚Äúwow wow wow‚Äù just might say it all. After Kelly’s rave review for SU during his visit, it sounds like ‘Bama did not disappoint either.
It‚Äôs plausible that nothing has drastically changed and Kelly just had a revelation of sorts and realized where he wants to go. That would be the optimistic outlook keeping SU in the race. However, it seems that one of these schools has impressed Kelly enough to forgo visiting with the Orange one more time, as was his plan as recently as last weekend. Maybe that someone was the recruiting maestro Saban, but if so it seems odd Kelly would continue to Clemson’s camp the day before announcing his choice.
During his visit to SU Kelly told The Fizz that Doug Marrone and the Orange were “high on the list for sure,” and they are certainly one of the finalists heading into Thursday. He’s also said that he’s looking for the best “family atmosphere” and has developed a strong relationship withe the SU coaching staff.
“Coach Marrone, Coach Hackett, I probably have the best relationship with them out of any of the coaches I’ve talked to. Coach Hackett, he’s awesome man; making me laugh all the time and everything. He took great care of us today, Coach Marrone did too. It was just great.”
On Thursday, one lucky school will get a commitment from ESPN’s fifth-ranked quarterback of the 2012 class. If the Orange is the choice Kelly will become Marrone’s biggest signing to date by far. But given that this announcement is coming the day after Dabo Swinney Football Camp, it seems more likely that Kelly will go down as another near miss for The Dougie. They say timing is everything, but it doesn’t look like time is on Marrone’s side this time.
Posted: Steve Neikam
176 responses to “Bad News That SU Recruit Chad Kelly Will Announce Decision Thursday?”
What we have seen so far is that relationships with coaching staffs appear to be over-rated. Kids are making decisions on other things…like anything else we want in life, you can’t overlook the Wow factor. Alabama is big time, Nick Saban can produce the WOW factor on demand, Clemson, not in the same league as Bama, but if you have ever been down there, from a football standpoint- Facilities, stadium, Fan Support(Something foreign at the Cuse), there is a lot to make you go WOW. Now, lets look at the Cuse and it’s WOW factor: the Dome? It can be a wow for some, but it has lost much of it’s wow factor over time.
I hope this Kelly kid is impressed by more than a fancy dog and pony show or else the Cuse is done.
doesn’t mean that relationship with coaches is overrated
all it means is that syracuse is way behind in everyother way, which is completely true.
the clemson coach is likely to be fired at the end of the season.
NCAA death penalty is to SMU like GROB was to ‘Cuse…..
If Kelly turns us down……. then we should be all over Devin Fuller, the QB from NJ. I know some have been posting that most are recruiting him as an athlete,but scout has him as a top 10 QB, not DB or athlete and some of the top schools in the country are recruiting him as a QB….. he is listed at only 6-0, but he is fast and we could use a dual threat type mobile QB……. Go Cuse
Unfortunately, Kelly will likely never see the field if he goes to Alabama as a quarterback. I live in the south and read SEC propaganda all football season. By the time he finishes his redshirt season, Bama will be have another couple of top quarterbacks to compete with him. If he isn’t the second coming of Peyton Manning, he’ll have a tough time getting on the field. Cuse would have been perfect for him. The QB competition would not have been quite as high and he could have been on the field much quicker.
What is wrong with these kids. He could be a hero in central and western new York in stead of a number at Alabama. I mean an SU QB with a degree from Newhouse could get any job they want if fball doesn’t pan out.
dr bill…fuller isn’t a qb he’s a db
thats where everyone is recruiting him
Matt……. check out scout. Fuller himself says he has reduced his list to 15… 11 schools that want him at QB and 4 schools that want him as an athlete/DB. Then check out the schools that are recruiting him as a QB.There are a bunch of schools out there with better programs than SU, who think he can play QB. I hope SU knows more than they do.
dr bill all i can say is mark my words, he is a big time ‘athlete’, not a qb.
jc being the hero sounds great but if he struggles people will be all over messageboards taking personal shots at him and his family, not all roses.
Kelly is history. He will not wear our orange!! But he’ll learn that southern cooking might not be all its meant to be!! Its alot different there than here. So don’t be surprised that he’ll transfer some where else after a year or two!!
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