Bobby
Couple of recruiting notes:
- Alabama RB Ezavier Crowell is slated to make his decision tomorrow. Texas remains highly involved as of late yesterday. It will be Texas or Alabama. I know conventional wisdom says Alabama here for an Alabama product, but it said the same for Justus Terry and Georgia a year ago. This recruitment has a somewhat similar feel to me, just earlier in the process.
- I reported yesterday that North Shore defensive back Chace Calicut may be trending toward Georgia. That remains the case. But Texas continues to recruit him and recruit him hard.
There have been a couple of different times in this recruitment where Calicut was on the precipice of announcing a decision for multiple schools. That means that not only has he been torn about this decision but that he has also been susceptible to various pitches. We see that all the time in recruiting.
We’ll see what pitch and program wins out. Georgia recruiting him as a corner may sound nice to his ears, but if his true calling is as a safety, that year at corner would do nothing but put him a year behind in his development at safety.
Again, I think there’s some recruiting left to do here. We’ll find out which way the decision cuts on Friday.
- Texas and Michigan appear to be the teams standing out for New Jersey defensive tackle Damari Simeon. Simeon is ranked one of the nation’s top five defensive tackles and his relationship with Texas DL coach Kenny Baker has been outstanding. I lean Texas at this moment, but like others, this decision hangs in the balance until Friday.
- Malakai Lee, the huge offensive lineman from Hawaii, is set to announce on Friday. This is one of those recruitments where we don’t think any school knows where he’s going, at least not at this time.
In other words, he’s not tipping his hand in the slightest, not to reporters and not to colleges.
I will add this.
Based on feedback from multiple college programs, we can throw the recruiting rankings out with Lee. The various services all have him outside the top 100 in the country. There’s not a school out there that views him as anything less than a top 50 prospect in the country. He’s that talented.