'15 CA WR Equanimeous St. Brown (Notre Dame Signed NLI)

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Thanks for the laugh! One of my favorite movie lines.

"How's your mother?"

"She's tired from fckin my fatha."
 
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Biggins talked to him last night as well. It was his mom's first time meeting BK and she really liked him. Would be shocked if it isn't ND.
 
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Quote from Rivals from Kelly's in-home:

Dad: "The visit went very well." "It just seems like the brand of Notre Dame is very powerful. I went to a lot of schools, and don't get me wrong Stanford has a strong brand, but I think last night - what I realized - and I think everyone else did, is just how powerful Notre Dame is with everything."


"The coaches were just talking about a lot of different subjects and then they all of the sudden they were saying how they were impressed with Osiris," "They said, 'We're going to offer you to.'

"I thought, wait you're going to offer him, or you are now?

"And then they said, 'No we're going to offer him right now' - I just said oh my God."
 
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ESPN's Erik McKinney just published an article on Equanimeous titled "Well-traveled, multilingual star":

Equanimeous St. Brown is the nation's No. 61 overall prospect, a top-10 prospect in California and the No. 9 wide receiver in the country. He racked up more than two dozen offers during his recruitment and stands poised to make a signing day decision among Notre Dame, Stanford, UCLA, USC and Utah.

The wide receiver caught 74 passes for 1,210 yards and 10 touchdowns in a run-first offense during his junior and senior seasons on his way to an invitation to the Under Armour All-America Game. And while much of that success stems from a terrific work ethic, none of it would have been possible without a very specific big toe.

The tall and rangy Equanimeous St. Brown is a well-rounded potential playmaker for whichever school lands him.
It's not a toe that helps support St. Brown's imposing 6-foot-5, 205-pound frame, or even a big toe on the foot of his father, John Brown, a two-time Mr. Universe and three-time Mr. World champion. Instead, it's the very specific toe of St. Brown's mother, German-born Miriam Brown.

After deciding to give up some of his jet-setting life as a bodybuilder and settling down, Brown put his naturally mathematical mind to work. Brown knew he wanted his children to be athletes -- specifically football players -- and the woman he married needed to be able to provide them. Eventually, he zeroed in on a woman he met at FIBO, an international trade show for fitness, wellness and health, in Cologne, Germany.

"People laugh at me, and she probably gets a little mad," Brown said. "I met her and looked at her big toe. I thought, wow, she has big toes, big knees and she's tall. ... She's also very smart. That's the big thing, very smart. And I knew she would give me the kids I wanted."

Brown was certainly right about that, as Equanimeous is the oldest of three football-playing St. Brown children, leading the way for younger brothers Osiris and Amon-Ra -- both named for Egyptian gods.

Of course, if you weren't already curious about the name Equanimeous, listing those three names together usually brings immediate questions.

"I called him Equanimeous because a friend of mine wrote a book and a character was named Equanimeous," Brown said, adding that a strong, unique name was important to him.

Like most people who hear the name Equanimeous for the first time, Miriam Brown was taken back initially.

"I was in shock," she said. "In Germany, you can't just name your kid anything. It has to be an approved name. There is a book that you can pick from, so Equanimeous is a made-up word for me. My parents, everybody was in shock."

Miriam said her father carried around a piece of paper in his pocket with his three grandchildrens' names written on it so that he could provide an answer when friends asked him their names.

"I got used to it [with the next two], but Equanimeous, the first one, I was crying saying we can't name him that," Miriam Brown said. "What is that?"

And with that, Equanimeous Tristan Imhotep J. St. Brown was born. Well, almost.

John Brown decided that the surname Brown alone wouldn't look good on the back of a jersey. Instead, it would need to be Von Brown or St. Brown.

"I didn't know if you could do that, legally, just change the name," Brown said. "I got away with it. And I did the same thing with the next two."

In the 2015, 2017 and 2018 classes, the St. Brown boys will not only be three of the top prospects in the country, they'll also be three of the more interesting and well-rounded people.

Osiris Adrian Amon-Ra J. St. Brown already has scholarship offers from Illinois, Texas Tech, Utah and Washington State after his sophomore season. Amon-Ra Julian Heru J. St. Brown holds offers from Utah and Washington State as just a freshman. And all three brothers can tell you about the offers in three different languages.

Although their mother might have acquiesced on the first names, she was unrelenting that they only speak German to her -- a request that all three still uphold.

The boys grew up attending a private school in Southern California that spoke only French, then spent seven months with their mother living in Paris. And every summer, the four of them spent four months in Germany with her family.

"It was important to me that they grew up bicultural," Miriam Brown said. "And it's very important to be in that country, to eat the food, to speak the language."

"At first it wasn't a big deal because I thought that was regular," Osiris said. "That was until I found out that nobody else does that."

But summer football camps soon replaced those summer trips to Europe, as the St. Brown boys chased their dreams of becoming professional football players. Led by Brown's expertise and training regimen built by his experience as a bodybuilder, the three brothers are physically advanced well beyond their peers. Each began lifting weights at 5 years old, and likely would have started sooner if it were up to them.

Brown told his sons early on that he would be both father and coach during their prep careers.

"I try to keep a good balance because I don't want to end up like Marinovich and that situation," Brown said, referencing the turbulent relationship between father Marv and son Todd Marinovich, often cited as the ultimate warning for overbearing sports fathers. "I told them a lot of people aren't going to understand me. But I was a five-time world champion in an individual sport. ... All I know is how to be the best in the world at being one guy."

Brown said he feels the talk about a potential Marinovich situation from other parents, and he understands it. But his sons are all on the same page.

"I don't think he's steered us down the wrong path, and that's why I am where I am right now," Equanimeous said. "It's a lot thanks to him. He's a smart guy, and we're going to keep doing what he says and keep working hard."

"My dad asked us what we wanted to be, and we all told him we want to be football players," Amon-Ra said.

The bond the brothers have formed could lead to great news for one program when it comes time for Equanimeous to announce his college destination on signing day.

"We're really tight," Equanimeous said of the brothers. "We do a lot of things together. We've been sharing the same room together since we were younger. We tell each other everything and don't have secrets."

That's potentially a big deal for whichever school earns Equanimeous' signature on signing day.

"I always pay attention to the schools he likes," Osiris said. "Depending on where he goes, it would definitely make a big impact [on my decision]. We would all like to go to school together."
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Wow. I think the St. Brown boys will fit in at ND just fine.
 
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ESPN's Erik McKinney just published an article on Equanimeous titled "Well-traveled, multilingual star":



Wow. I think the St. Brown boys will fit in at ND just fine.
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Whoa. ESB just moved to the top of my list. I imagine he and Corey Robinson will get along just fine. Incredibly interesting family life, I wish I'd have had such an immersive upbringing.

Sidenote, why isn't immersive considered a word? I thought it would've populated any forum spell checkers. Where'd we get this board....the toilet store?
 
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This may have been discussed before, but why is there such a large disparity between St. Brown's 247 Composite ranking and 247 ranking?
 
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#1rish said:
This may have been discussed before, but why is there such a large disparity between St. Brown's 247 Composite ranking and 247 ranking?
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Because he is ranked much higher on other sites than 24/7. They dropped him after a disappointing senior season.
 
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#1rish said:
This may have been discussed before, but why is there such a large disparity between St. Brown's 247 Composite ranking and 247 ranking?
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ESB seems to be a nd kid with a lot of upside, but Soso put up more stats in one week than ESB did all year(half joking).
 
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koonja said:
Quote from Rivals from Kelly's in-home:

Dad: "The visit went very well." "It just seems like the brand of Notre Dame is very powerful. I went to a lot of schools, and don't get me wrong Stanford has a strong brand, but I think last night - what I realized - and I think everyone else did, is just how powerful Notre Dame is with everything."


"The coaches were just talking about a lot of different subjects and then they all of the sudden they were saying how they were impressed with Osiris," "They said, 'We're going to offer you to.'

"I thought, wait you're going to offer him, or you are now?

"And then they said, 'No we're going to offer him right now' - I just said oh my God."
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In Kelly and this coaching staff I trust!
 
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koonja said:
"The coaches were just talking about a lot of different subjects and then they all of the sudden they were saying how they were impressed with Osiris," "They said, 'We're going to offer you to.'

"I thought, wait you're going to offer him, or you are now?

"And then they said, 'No we're going to offer him right now' - I just said oh my God."
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Obvs the Class of 2017 has a long way to go, but Oriris is a top 100 player?
Osiris St. Brown
Normally I'm not wild about moves like that (offering a younger sibling to help close the deal with a guy you want now). But if he's actually that good I guess it makes sense. And I see Wiltfong has put in a CB!
 
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Obvs the Class of 2017 has a long way to go, but Oriris is a top 100 player?
Osiris St. Brown
Normally I'm not wild about moves like that (offering a younger sibling to help close the deal with a guy you want now). But if he's actually that good I guess it makes sense. And I see Wiltfong has put in a CB!
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He's supposed to be better than ESB
 
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Brian Kelly’s NSD presser now scheduled for 3:15, approximately 15 minutes after the announcement of Equanimeous St. Brown.</p>— Irish Illustrated (@PeteSampson_) <a href="https://twitter.com/PeteSampson_/status/562299767502274561">February 2, 2015</a></blockquote>
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The anticipation is killing me!

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yankeeND said:
The anticipation is killing me!

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I'm surprised to say, but I'm not worried at all about this one.
Probably means he's going to Houston.
 
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