'15 JUCO DB Zavian Bingham (Mississippi)

[BillySee58]

5'10" 185 cornerback from Southwest Mississippi CC. Played at Mississippi Gulf Coast CC in 2012, and sat out last year due to academics. Currently committed to MTSU. Also holds offers from Troy, Wake Forest, Utah State, and La Tech. We have offered. Originally from Mississippi. Will have two years to play two seasons (will come in as a redshirt junior).

High school highlights:

http://www.hudl.com/athlete/595071/zavian-bingham

https://sports.yahoo.com/footballrecruiting/football/recruiting/player-Zavian-Bingham-148825

http://247sports.com/Player/Zavian-Bingham-31620

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/football/recruiting/player/_/id/188618/zavian-bingham

http://northtexas.scout.com/a.z?s=353&p=8&c=1&nid=7790804

Edited July 31, 2014 by BillySee58

[BillySee58]

Has decommitted from MTSU. Has also picked up a Cal offer.

[Danish43]

Has decommitted from MTSU. Has also picked up a Cal offer.

You have to be really smart to get an offer from Wake Forest. They don't just take anybody outside of athletics.

[GrayEagle]

If he had academic issues what's he doing getting an offer from Cal? Michigan, Virginia and Berkeley are perhaps the three top state universities for academics.

[NT03]

**BIG NEWS** coming out of Southwest Mississippi (JUCO). Corner Zavian Bingham tells me he has given a verbal to North Texas.

— Brad Hoiseth (@BradHoiseth)

July 21, 2014

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[UNT90]

Is this the sane cat? If so, looks like we flipped him from an MTSU commit.

http://247sports.com/Player/Zavian-Bingham-31620

Here are his high school track stats:

http://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/Athlete.aspx?AID=1227237

Edited July 21, 2014 by UNT90

[Harry]

[Harry]

Bingham is now considered one of the nation's top JUCO cornerbacks and has verbally committed to Middle Tennessee State University. His other offers from Division I schools were Troy and Utah State.

read more: http://www.sunherald.com/2014/03/22/5435854/former-mgccc-cb-zavian-bingham.html

Read more here: http://www.sunherald.com/2014/03/22/5435854/former-mgccc-cb-zavian-bingham.html#storylink=cpy

[Harry]

juco stats: http://stats.njcaa.org/sports/fball/2012-13/players/zavianbinghamzq48?view=splits

track article: http://stats.njcaa.org/sports/fball/2012-13/players/zavianbinghamzq48?view=splits

[UNT90]

http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/recruiting/player-Zavian-Bingham-148825

Also shows offers from Cal and Iowa St.

Nice.

Rivals also shows committed to UNT.

[BillySee58]

**BIG NEWS** coming out of Southwest Mississippi (JUCO). Corner Zavian Bingham tells me he has given a verbal to North Texas.

— Brad Hoiseth (@BradHoiseth)

July 21, 2014

Committed

[Charlie NT 73]

Add offers from Wake Forest and La Tech too.

Bingham is at Southwest Mississippi College (JUCO) according to the articles posted,

May be or maybe not a concern-

There was a mention about academic problems in one article I read. That is the reason

Bingham is at Southwest. Plans to graduate Dec 2014

[Harry]

100 meter dash state champ -- guy brings about a lot of speed.

[BillySee58]

Sorry, I didn't check to see there was another commit thread on this kid. I just googled his thread and saw no one had bumped it. But here, has stuff in there. It looks like he'll have 2 to play 2, so he'll come in here as a redshirt junior. Seems like he's already used his redshirt.

[outoftown]

So this seems to be a really good pickup.

Also if I count correctly, this is already the 4th DB in this class. I would take it we are done with that position for the season?

[BillySee58]

So this seems to be a really good pickup.

Also if I count correctly, this is already the 4th DB in this class. I would take it we are done with that position for the season?

Good question. Maybe not. We only have 1 true safety in this class in Cade Erwin. Preston is big enough to potentially play safety and Brooks played free safety last season for his high school, but for now they are CBs. Bingham seems like a CB as well. So we are likely done at corner, but potentially could have another spot open for a safety or another corner if we move Preston or Brooks to safety.

In 2015 (when this class arrives) we will have just 4 safeties returning from this season's roster, at the most. Assuming everyone returns. Freddie Warner, Mathew Dash, John Shilleci, and Kishawn McClain. Warner and Dash will be seniors that year, so we need Erwin and another young safety to give us depth at safety for the 2015 season and beyond.

[Harry]

I think with James Jones graduating this gives them some more experience. This kid looks like a very good player. Our secondary looks pretty solid next season with Buyers and Whitfield returning in 2015. Just need a safety to emerge, ie Kishawn McClain.

[Harry]

UNT picked up a commitment from JUCO cornerback Zavian Bingham of Southwest Mississippi this morning.

Bigham is a pretty good prospect and committed to UNTs Conference USA rival Middle Tennessee earlier this year before switching his commitment.

Here are a few of his highlights from Hudl

- See more at: http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2014/07/unt-lands-juco-corner.html/#sthash.K4JLhADH.dpuf

[Mean Green 93-98]

That's a speedy guy. Welcome to Mean Green Nation, Zavian!

[Brett Vito]

Updated with comment from Bingham

[BillySee58]

http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2014/07/unt-lands-juco-corner.html/#sthash.K4JLhADH.dpuf

"I talked to the coach and he told me about all the available SPOTS that are going to be available when I come in," Bingham said. At his speed he is a tailor-made corner. But he said the coaches talked to him about spots, plural. Maybe reading too much into that quote, but I wonder if that means he'll be given a chance at safety as well.

There's only going to be one open spot at corner after this season. But there are two total spots in the secondary opening up with Jones and Lairamie Lee being seniors. Or maybe move Buyers to safety after the season, opening up two spots at corner for next year. We'll see, but I'm just very curious at seeing how our coaches handle our safety situation going forward.

[DeepGreen]

Switched from MUTS. I like that.

[Green Crazy]

I love it!

[emmitt01]

His greatest asset is his speed,” Southwest defensive backs coach Donald Dykes said. “The first time I clocked him I saw him run a 4.36. That is something you can’t coach. In terms of football, he has a lot to learn, but he can run.”

Happy about the speed, but I hope he works out whatever technique flaws there are.

[Mean Green 93-98]

His greatest asset is his speed,” Southwest defensive backs coach Donald Dykes said. “The first time I clocked him I saw him run a 4.36. That is something you can’t coach. In terms of football, he has a lot to learn, but he can run.”

Happy about the speed, but I hope he works out whatever technique flaws there are.

I hope it's technique flaws and not attitude flaws.