The 6-foot-10 senior has narrowed his list to Vanderbilt, Wake Forest, Notre Dame, Georgetown, Duke and North Carolina.

Kelly has made official visits to Vanderbilt, Wake Forest and Notre Dame and had a quick visit to Duke, where coach Mike Krzyzewski offered a scholarship.

Kelly drove to Georgetown on Thursday night.

The family also has had in-home dinners with Vanderbilt, Duke, Notre Dame and Georgetown.

Wake Forest is scheduled to meet with the family in their home next week.

Doreen Kelly, Ryan's mother and the headmaster at Ravenscroft, said the meals were not fancy.

"Basically, the coaches can come eat whatever we're having that night," she said. "It is just an opportunity for the coaches to meet the entire family."

MIAMI'S 2008 CLASS LEADS ACC: Scout.com recently re-ranked the football recruiting classes of 2008, based on the players that actually enrolled. The ACC ended up with six teams in the top 25, with North Carolina moving from No. 30 to No. 24.

The Miami Hurricanes led the ACC in the rankings and was third overall in the country behind Notre Dame and Alabama.

Clemson's class moved up to No. 9 from No. 11. Other ACC teams in the top 25 are Florida State (No. 10 from No. 8); Virginia Tech (No. 23 from 20); and Boston College (No. 25 from 22).

DUKE GETS RECRUITS: Duke leads the Atlantic Coast Conference with the number of football recruits from the Class of 2009, according to Scout.com. The recruiting Web site has the Blue Devils with 23 commitments, nine from North Carolina.

Duke has the numbers, but other teams have higher rated players. Duke's highest rated recruit is Durham Hillside's Desmond Scott, who is a four-star.

Five-star players are among the top 50 prospects in the country.

The most impressive classes so far in the ACC are Florida State, Clemson and Miami, according to Rivals.com, another Web site.

All of Clemson's 12 commitments are three-star or higher.

Four Tigers commitments are ranked as four-star and two are five-star, although Rivals.com suggests five-star safety Craig Loston of Houston may switch.

The Miami class has 11 commitments, including five-star Bryce Brown, the top-ranked running back in the country.

Florida State has an imposing list of 18 players, including five-star tackle Jacobbi McDaniel.

All of the Seminoles' commitments are three-star or higher, and nine carry four stars.

Including defensive end Donte Moss of Jacksonville Northside, a North Carolina recruit, the league has commitments from five of the top 50 players.

The Scout.com totals for the other league teams are:

Boston College (four, none four- star or higher), Georgia Tech (11, three four-star), Maryland (19, two four-star), North Carolina (16, four four-star), N.C. State (nine, zero four-star), Virginia (19, zero four-star), Virginia Tech (13, one four-star) and Wake Forest (16, zero four-star).

But remember, Wake Forest won the 2006 ACC championship with a team made up of classes that had been ranked at the bottom of the league.

The 2007 All-ACC team had one five-star player, three four-star players, nine three-star players, eight two-star players and one one-star player.

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