April Master Verbal Breakdown

April Master Verbal Breakdown

April was a light month for verbals, pulling in only 87 commits from a total of 39 different club teams. Impact Gold reported the most commits during April

May 6, 2016 by Sarah Hoffman
April Master Verbal Breakdown
April was a light month for verbals, pulling in only 87 commits from a total of 39 different club teams. Impact Gold reported the most commits during April with a staggering 24, followed by Scrap Yard Dawgs' 14 and Ohio Outlaws with five. Impact Gold's 24 commits ran the gamut with commits to three of the five power conferences, all the way to NAIA and D2 schools.

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April was a light month for verbals, pulling in only 87 commits from a total of 39 different club teams. Impact Gold reported the most commits during April with a staggering 24, followed by Scrap Yard Dawgs' 14 and Ohio Outlaws with five. Impact Gold's 24 commits ran the gamut with commits to three of the five power conferences, all the way to NAIA and D2 schools.

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The wide spread seen in the Impact's 24 commits is representative of the entire Master Verbal list. Of the 87 commits during the month of April, 76% will be attending a D1 schools, while only 32% will be attending a school in the Big 5 Conferences.

Mississippi State secured the most commits of any Big 5 school with three, while both Oregon State and Oklahoma State nailed down two commits each. Outside of the Big 5 schools, Eastern Michigan and West Texas A&M University led the way with two commits each. 

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The SEC again led with the most commits from the Big 5 Conferences with eight, followed by 6 from the Pac-12, five from the Big 12 and Big Ten, and four from the ACC. Overall, 30 different conferences were represented by April's commits and the Southland conference pulled the most commits with 11. 

An overwhelming majority of April's commits came from the class of 2017, with 54 of the 87 commits being juniors. Interestingly enough, all 24 of the Impact Gold's commits were from the 2017 class. The freshman class of 2019 was the next largest in commits with 14 and the class of 2018 reported 10 commits. The senior class of 2016 and the class of 2020 accounted for a combined 10% of the commits in April.