Expert Perspective: Travis Shaw Commitment a Massive Win for UNC
GREENSBORO, N.C. --- Class of 2022 five-star defensive lineman Travis Shaw committed to North Carolina on Saturday evening in a ceremony at Grimsley High Schoolhouse. It is a massive recruiting win for the Tar Heels, who now add the No. 4 overall player in the nation to its 2022 recruiting class.
Shaw is the No. 2 defensive lineman in the grade and the No. ane role player in the land, according to the 247Sports Composite rankings.
The Tar Heels vanquish heavyweight finalists Clemson and Georgia for Shaw. The elite defensive lineman had offers from across the country including Alabama, Florida State, LSU, Oklahoma, Oregon, Penn Land, Tennessee, USC, and many more than.
Inside Carolina'southward Don Callahan and Ross Martin conducted a breaking news version of their podcast, The Scoop, to discuss what Shaw's commitment to UNC means for the Tar Heels. Beating Clemson for an elite recruiting target was huge as head jitney Mack Brown and defensive coordinator Jay Bateman go along to stack big and talented defensive linemen on the roster. Callahan also goes in-depth on Shaw's recruitment and summer visits, and why the Greensboro native ultimately picked the Tar Heels. Callahan closes with a look at what type of thespian Shaw is and what he will bring to North Carolina's defensive line. Read their practiced perspective below ...
Don Callahan: "This is huge on and so many different levels. Plain, you're calculation one of the all-time defensive linemen in the nation to UNC'southward delivery list, and eventually their roster, simply as well you lot're beating Clemson, which has been an accent of North Carolina'south in this state and overall when it comes to recruiting. If yous desire to say North Carolina beat out Clemson for Tony Grimes, I'm not going to argue with y'all. I recollect Clemson kind of dropped the ball early and wasn't a gene later on. This one, Clemson was definitely a factor to the very end. Clemson and Georgia, and the fact that Due north Carolina beat those 2 programs for this five-star guy, is absolutely huge.
"Also, in historical rankings Marvin Austin slightly edges Shaw as UNC'south highest-ranked all-fourth dimension commitment. Plain, that could change between now and signing day based off a lot of different things. But that shows how this is one of Due north Carolina's summit recruits ever in the internet era."
Ross Martin: "That's the big affair, UNC went caput-to-head with Clemson, which is a national power and one of the best football recruiting programs in the country, and Georgia and every other program that tried to get in there for Shaw. And they landed Travis Shaw -- 6-pes-five, listed at 310, maybe bigger than that. And they snag Shaw from down the road at Grimsley High School in Greensboro, N Carolina."
"I call back information technology'due south important that they landed the in-state guy, the best histrion in the land. That's ever huge for appearances. That'south what Mack Brown has tried to practise since he got back so they're continuing to lock down these borders. They've missed out on some of the state's pinnacle recruits in by seasons. Now, they have the top recruit in Travis Shaw."
Callahan: "If you expect at what N Carolina has done along the defensive line since Mack Brown became head double-decker again, it'southward been super impressive. You've seen some of that come to fruition on the actual roster. Nosotros'll run across a lot of those guys this football game season, but this continues that with getting Shaw. And actually, even though all those guys -- Jahvaree Ritzie, Keeshawn Silver, those are really really expert players -- Shaw is better than all those guys as a prospect and that's merely the upside that he has.
"(Shaw) definitely has first-round potential, NFL Draft first-round potential, then to get a guy like him and keep that cord of elite, I feel like is an understatement, defensive linemen to the roster is impressive."
Martin:"UNC is stacking defensive linemen. You look back to what they did with Myles Potato, Kedrick Bingley-Jones, Clyde Pinder, that grade, and then meridian that with Keeshawn Silver and Jahvaree Ritzie, who I think will have an impact equally true freshmen this season and certainly lay the groundwork for a very talented defensive line for many years to come. I call up Ritzie and Keeshawn have a risk to be superstars. Ritzie volition have more of an impact as a freshman than we expect.
"And and so y'all land the biggest one yet, a massive actor in Travis Shaw. It'south huge and that'southward what you want to do, stack really talented 4 or 5-star players at that position as it's one of the most important positions in football."
Travis Shaw (center) posing with UNC'due south defensive linemen on a campus visit (@thetravisshaw_)
Callahan: "A lot of things happened in June, which is the case for the 2022 recruits. And then midway through June, he took a visit to Clemson, and then he started to prepare official visits - one to North Carolina, i to Georgia. In the middle of setting that up, he decided, 'You know what? I know what schools I similar. I'm down to these three schools: Northward Carolina, Georgia, and Clemson.' And and so he was going to proceed as such - he wanted to get it done during the summer, but wasn't certain if he was going to exist able to.
"Then, he comes out of June having taken those visits and he goes into July. And you have that last calendar week of July where you could take visits. He started off with Clemson's All-In Cookout. And so, the final mean solar day before the dead catamenia, Georgia and North Carolina had cookouts of their own. He chose N Carolina. He told me subsequently on it was because of proximity. I'1000 sure the fact that maybe he was leaning that direction or maybe his family was leaning that direction, might have factored into that a petty bit. Merely that, in hindsight, was the blow that gave North Carolina this delivery ultimately, because from what he said afterwards, he convened with his family members, and they talked things over, and then they but realized, 'Hey, Northward Carolina is the spot' and that led to him scheduling the announcement ceremony."
Callahan: "What's also important to point out is we had this massive dead period that was 14 months. Prior to that dead period, he visited both Clemson and Georgia, but he made countless trips to N Carolina just to hang out. And I think obviously those visits laid the groundwork for him to experience comfortable at Due north Carolina and helped afterwards on. They were kind of the torso blows early in a boxing match. They set up that knockout punch, which was the Carolina Cookout."
Martin: "And this goes back to how close Greensboro is to Chapel Hill. I make that drive all the time. It'south a one-hour drive from downtown Greensboro to downtown Chapel Loma. It'southward like shooting fish in a barrel. Information technology'south an piece of cake twenty-four hour period trip and that familiarity and being able to visit campus multiple times obviously played a role in his recruitment; a family situation where his mom and family unit and friends and coaches tin can brand that trip a niggling bit easier than say a Georgia or a Clemson. And so UNC'south power to get him on campus so many times certainly played a role and that'southward why you lot want to go on kids in state. It'south easier to recruit kids that are in-state and, like Mack Dark-brown says, players are more probable to commit to in-state schools and be more than comfortable if they commit to in-state schools."
Callahan: "I just think it was his family felt comfortable. I interviewed him just earlier he announced the date for his ceremony. We talked a agglomeration. We probably talked for near xv minutes, but the quote that I was able to pull out that I felt was the nigh telling was he said he felt comfortable at all 3 schools, but his family only felt comfy at one. And, evidently, information technology'due south a lot easier for his family to go to the Carolina Cookout. I heard that many family members, not just his mom and uncle and siblings, but a lot of family members came with him. And I think that played a office. They felt comfortable there and they expressed that to him when they reconvened after all those visits to talk over what direction they wanted to go with his recruitment."
Travis Shaw during his final visit to UNC for the Carolina Cookout. (Photo: @thetravisshaw_)
Callahan: "Lonnie Galloway and Tim Cantankerous kind of teamed up for this. Cross is probably the leader. Galloway is the area recruiter. Expanse recruiters can typically do dissimilar things, merely he was definitely involved. Merely I hateful, really, Jay Bateman was involved. Mack Brownish was involved in this. This was an all-easily-on-deck sort of situation for obvious reasons."
Callahan: "He'due south a confusing nose tackle in North Carolina's system. He's a plug-and-play guy considering he already has the size. Obviously, he'due south going to progress more, once he gets better conditioned, loses some of that baby fat. Simply I think he's so talented that even before his torso completely transforms, he's going to play. So I expect him to play equally a true freshman.
"And, ultimately, he's going to be that disruptive forcefulness upwards the center that'due south going to be very hard for offenses. You're gonna have to double squad him, at to the lowest degree, if you are the offensive coordinator. And the matter nearly him is that he's a very large human beingness. Nosotros talked about him beingness 6-foot-5, 310 pounds. That's what he's listed. And that's probably the last fourth dimension he was measured, which is probably two years ago. So we're probably talking about someone who's, I would say he's over 330, to exist honest, only he has an extensive basketball background, which we've seen in the past that allows fifty-fifty big guys like him to develop and showcase unbelievable feet. So he'south super light on his feet despite his size. Y'all combine that nimbleness with that size and that power and it is just unreal.
"And the beauty of him is there are a lot of defensive line prospects that take that combination, that accept the size, accept the nimbleness, but they haven't performed to their capabilities yet at the high school level. You throw in his movie or you get to one of his games. We've seen information technology. They went to the state title with him on the defensive line. And he definitely plays like a superstar, which is a huge particular that needs to exist mentioned."
Travis Shaw (Photo: Jim Hawkins/Inside Carolina, 247Sports)
Martin: "I've seen him play a couple times. I've seen him in person. Massive. Super big lower section, and he's long. He's 6-foot-five, 6-pes-half-dozen. He is a massive human, as y'all said. He played a lot on the edge this season for Grimsley. The state champion Grimsley Whirlies, because I think they wanted him to be able to get to the quarterback more and have more disruptive power on the edge, but yous run across him every bit a olfactory organ, which makes sense. He's gonna slim down. He'southward gonna trim some of that fat, put on a lot of muscle. Can you imagine what UNC strength and conditioning coach Brian Hess tin do with that body? It's gonna be incredible when he's actually in a collegiate forcefulness workout program. He'south going to be so potent and so massive in that location."
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