{"id":5586,"date":"2015-11-19T11:46:53","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T18:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wyonation.com\/?p=5586"},"modified":"2015-11-19T11:51:48","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T18:51:48","slug":"university-san-diego-safety-amone-gragg-transfers-wyoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/university-san-diego-safety-amone-gragg-transfers-wyoming\/","title":{"rendered":"University of San Diego safety Amone Gragg transfers to Wyoming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/WyoNationRecruiting.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5024 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/WyoNationRecruiting-300x300.png\" alt=\"Wyoming basketball and wrestling inked new recruits today. \" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/WyoNationRecruiting-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/WyoNationRecruiting-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/WyoNationRecruiting.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys coaching staff has picked up a transfer in University of San Diego strong safety Amone Gragg.<\/p>\n<p>The 6&#8217;0&#8243;, 205-pound Bakersfield, California native will be walking-on to the football program and has the possibility of playing immediately pending a NCAA ruling.<\/p>\n<p>Gragg red-shirted last year and began the 2015 season with the team before electing to transfer from San Diego due to personal family problems and a tragic incident involving a family member.\u00a0 Due to this, Gragg may possibly be granted the ability to play next season.\u00a0 Regardless of the ruling, Gragg will be a sophomore when he finally steps onto the field for the Cowboys.<\/p>\n<p>He transferred to Wyoming over heavy interest from Pac-12 schools such as California and Oregon State. \u00a0 He visited Laramie on November 7th for the Border War against Colorado State.<\/p>\n<p>Gragg said he chose the Cowboys because he loved the family environment the coaching staff preached.<\/p>\n<p>Some worry the 1-10 season may hinder recruiting but so far the staff has found that there are plenty of kids looking beyond the win\/loss record.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m ready to become a part of something bigger and better than just a win\/lose column. The coaching staff has showed me nothing but the up most respect and the players have already welcomed me in,&#8221; said Gragg.<\/p>\n<p>The future Cowboy safety said, &#8220;I love the Mountain West Conference due to my family being near most of the other teams in our conference.\u00a0 I&#8217;m stoked to be given a opportunity by the staff to show the talent I have.\u00a0 It&#8217;s going to be a good year.\u00a0 Hopefully I can bring a spark and help turn things around next season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hudl.com\/athlete\/1813687\/highlights\/112337376\/v2\" target=\"_blank\">Amone Gragg senior season hudl highlights<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Cowboys coaching staff has picked up a transfer in University of San Diego strong safety Amone Gragg. The 6&#8217;0&#8243;, 205-pound Bakersfield, California native will be walking-on to the football program and has the possibility of playing immediately pending a NCAA ruling. Gragg red-shirted last year and began the 2015 season with the team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[739,796,795,166,793,794,731],"class_list":["post-5586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wyoblog","tag-2016-recruiting-class","tag-amone-gragg","tag-bakerfield","tag-california","tag-san-diego-transfer","tag-strong-safety","tag-wyoming-football-recruiting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}