McKees Rocks, Pa. -- All along
Deaysean Rippy planned to be a January enrollee, but now it appears the Sto-Rox (McKees Rocks, Pa.) linebacker will wait until the summer to enroll in a program.Rippy, a 6-foot-2, 210-pound four-star recruit, is able to enroll early if he chooses a school between now and the spring semester deadline, but after talking with him on Wednesday it is clear he is still wide open."It's really slim," Rippy said of enrolling early. "I'm still on the path to [enroll early], so it's still an option. The thing is picking a school, hurrying up and getting the papers done."Rippy could send his papers in to a number of schools so if he does decide before the spring semester he can enroll, but he doesn't even have a top 10, let alone a top five."Kind of everybody," Rippy said of his top schools. "Everyone's starting to play that pro-style defense. Pitt is one of them; Maryland, Syracuse, USC, Illinois, Iowa, Arizona State. It's kind of a mixture of everybody."Right on the edge of the city of Pittsburgh, Rippy has been asked a lot about the Panthers' move to the ACC. He said he doesn't think it will change anything."It's like Alabama going to the Pac-12 or somewhere else; they're still Alabama," he said. "By Pitt moving to the ACC, they're still Pitt."They get more bigger recruits, but I can tell you they'll definitely get a lot of good competition out there."