‘27 CT DE Mekai Brown (USC Verbal)

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Big visit first visit this weekend. My guess is this brings us even with u$c and osu.

Interested to see if we pull even or quickly resonate and close the deal here. I've not heard how much nil is a factor with his recruitment, which is always a battle with premier dlinemen.
 
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allenm5333 said:
USC pays a ton in order to keep them from taking other OVs. Sucks
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Bowden likely said get your visits in now because once you commit, no more are allowed. That's why he moved his ND visit up from the spring game to this weekend that just passed.

Brown was quite complimentary of the culture at ND, especially for everything outside of football. Going to an elite New England prep school, I think he would have an easy adjustment academically/culturally to being a student at ND.
 
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Good get for USC if they land him. ND's board is increasingly shrinking in terms of the top flight DE's, of which they have as options to land.

If we remove Mekai Brown from the equation, remaining difference makers at DE are basically limited to 4 options...

Abram Sesay
Aidan O'Neil
KJ Green (SEC lean)
Marcus Fakatou

Beyond that you have the following "project" options...

Santana Harvey (SEC lean)
Ifeanyi Emedobi
Esa Wittingburg

Note that David Folorunsho and Alifeleti Tuihalamaka are not DE's at the next level. Both will play 3 tech.

In order to have not "failed" along the DL in this cycle ND has to go 2 for 4 among their remaining 4 difference makers on the edge. After that, they'll try to land a "project" to bolster the numbers. Anything short of 2 for 4 among the top group is a step back from last year's combo of Dunham and Ewetade.
 
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I get offensive guys will always go to USC but I can’t be wasted caring about a defensive player joining a lame duck Lincoln Riley and out of retirement Gary Patterson defense over almost everyone in the country.

Enjoy your promised starting spot and check.
 
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irishandy said:
If ND stays on this kid I wonder if he would be a flip candidate.

More like, they'll send 6-6 teams to bowls.

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The problem with late cycle flips is schools (USC in particular) now structure the NIL contracts in a way where HS players are getting paid a year before they arrive on campus.

If you flip you then have to not only reimburse USC for what you already took from them ($$) but you also have to pay a contract termination fee.

So a kid like that might have to cut a 6 figure check to switch schools.

I suspect a lot of HS kids, who don't come from money, blow through that money quickly and can't just come up with $125, 000 on the spur of the moment.

So basically a lot of these kids get trapped when they pledge to a school and take money early.
 
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Cpnd1 said:




These fuckers talking shit after we’ve kicked their ass for a decade and then decide not to play us. Pray we meet them in the playoffs
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I want to know if Freeman hated Bowden before he left or if the hate developed with petty stuff like this.
 
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It’s funny they ripped off a video from BEFORE Freeman took them to the national championship. Because ripping off any content from the last 2 years would have included playoff highlights lol
 
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