'18 CA S D'Angelo McKenzie (Offer)

[BobbyMac]

Safety
San Jose, CA
Valley Christian HS

Measurements:
Height: 6-0
Weight: 180

Rankings 4-6-17:

247 Comp: ..... ..... #60 S ..... #714 OA ..... .8496 rating
247: ............... ..... #49 S ..... #579 OA ...... 86
Scout: ............ ..... #36 CB
Rivals: ............
ESPN: ............. NR

Rankings 7-5-17:

247 Comp: ..... ..... #65 S ..... #803 OA ..... .8496 rating
247: ............... ..... #55 S ..... #636 OA ...... 86
Scout: ............ ..... #29 CB
Rivals: ............ ........................................... 5.6
ESPN: ............. NR

Offers:
Notre Dame
Arizona
ASU
UCLA
Utah
Wazzu ............ Signed ESP
Ore St
Hawaii
SDSU
SJSU
Wyoming

Media Links:

Twitter = @d_young_king

https://www.hudl.com/profile/6317527/dangelo-mckenzie/videos

Highlights:

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[BobbyMac]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">All glory to God truly blessed to say I have received an offer from Norte Dame&#55356;&#57152;&#55356;&#57152;<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/goirish?src=hash">#goirish</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/BrandonHuffman">@BrandonHuffman</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/DMATHLETIX">@DMATHLETIX</a> <a href="https://t.co/bjChMYHB7P">pic.twitter.com/bjChMYHB7P</a></p>— D'Angelo Mckenzie™ (@d_young_king) <a href="https://twitter.com/d_young_king/status/850183592831352832">April 7, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[Me2SouthBend]

Norte? Jeez.

 

[Rogue219]

I think this closes the book on the Greg Newsome Caper.

 

[KizerWilhelm]

Norte? Jeez.

Norte Dame is located in Sur Bend.

 

[Big23Head]

Talks with UCLA quite a bit. Polian keeps in touch for ND, feels like a wait and see

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">San Jose Valley Christian three-star DB D'Angelo McKenzie up to double digit offers, but has a few standout schools: <a href="https://t.co/VWlZomADHD">https://t.co/VWlZomADHD</a> <a href="https://t.co/4TgbzcRK73">pic.twitter.com/4TgbzcRK73</a></p>— Blair Angulo (@bangulo) <a href="https://twitter.com/bangulo/status/859058834077237248">May 1, 2017</a></blockquote>
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[BobbyMac]

I hear from outside the Gug that McKenzie is going to visit and that Polian is all over him.

I just don't understand the desire for more safeties. Not even if they knew someone was leaving.

And film for film along with testing #'s, I'd take Moala in a heartbeat over everyone else ND has sniffed.

 

[tko]

I hear from outside the Gug that McKenzie is going to visit and that Polian is all over him.

I just don't understand the desire for more safeties. Not even if they knew someone was leaving.

And film for film along with testing #'s, I'd take Moala in a heartbeat over everyone else ND has sniffed.

We still haven't offered?

 

[dwshade]

When it comes to safeties I have complete faith in Elko. He knows exactly what he's looking for.

 

[BobbyMac]

We still haven't offered?

Yeah, they offered after a strong showing at Invasion BUT he didn't commit on the spot so maybe they just "kinda offered"

 

[BobbyMac]

Visiting M 7-10 per 247 timeline.

Wonder if they think he can play CB? Here's his Opening testing:

5-11 179lbs

4.69 = 40

4.38 = Shuttle

37.0 = PB

33.4 = Vert

Total = 91.74

 

[BobbyMac]

Crap.

He better be able to play Corner cuz Wiltfong & Loy just CB'd him to the Irish.

Here's your... Who's Next?

 

[koonja]

Visiting M 7-10 per 247 timeline.

Wonder if they think he can play CB? Here's his Opening testing:

5-11 179lbs

4.69 = 40

4.38 = Shuttle

37.0 = PB

33.4 = Vert

Total = 91.74

Woof.

 

[Henges24]

Great, your typical slow ND CB.

 

[dwshade]

Great, your typical slow ND CB.

Nothing slow about Crawford, Watkins, Pride, Vaughn and Love. No clue what you're talking about. Scout lists McKenzie as a CB. And they rate him as the 4th best CB in the West. Greg Biggins (Scout) does as good job as anyone covering the west coast.

 

[BobbyMac]

Measurables are almost identical to Julian Love's.

 

[zelezo vlk]

Measurables are almost identical to Julian Love's.

The kid who couldn't even beat a BC commit with a voting bot to get into the Army All American game? Pass

 

[Big23Head]

FWIW, everything I've read has said safety

 

[Big23Head]

($) McKenzie will visit with committing in mind

 

[BeauBenken]

FWIW, everything I've read has said safety

Yes, ISD crew believes he's a FS and that they like our chances. As long as he likes campus, feels comfortable, and the staff lets him, there's a solid chance at a commitment during or following his visit.

https://irishsportsdaily.com/s/3031/mckenzie-looking-forward-to-big-visit-to-notre-dame

 

[BobbyMac]

Yippee! Another safety!

Back up Rovers
JOK 6-2 205 Fr.
Robert Regan 6-3 203 Jr. (Walk On)
D.J. Morgan 6-2 208 So.

Strong Safety
Jalen Elliott 6-1 208 So.
Devin Studstill 6-0 198 So.
Isaiah Robertson 6-2 208 Fr.
Ashton White 5-10 197 Jr.

Free Safety
Nick Coleman 6-0 187 Jr.
Nicco Fertitta 5-9 179 Jr.
JGH 6-1 205 Fr.
Alohi Gilman 6-0 205 So. (maybe eligible in '17)

2018:
Derrik Allen 6-2 211 '18 (FS, SS, Rover, Who knows)

 

[zelezo vlk]

Yippee! Another safety!

Back up Rovers
JOK 6-2 205 Fr.
Robert Regan 6-3 203 Jr. (Walk On)
D.J. Morgan 6-2 208 So.

Strong Safety
Jalen Elliott 6-1 208 So.
Devin Studstill 6-0 198 So.
Isaiah Robertson 6-2 208 Fr.
Ashton White 5-10 197 Jr.

Free Safety
Nick Coleman 6-0 187 Jr.
Nicco Fertitta 5-9 179 Jr.
JGH 6-1 205 Fr.
Alohi Gilman 6-0 205 So. (maybe eligible in '17)

2018:
Derrik Allen 6-2 211 '18 (FS, SS, Rover, Who knows)

Mike Elko finally doing what Stanford tried a few years ago: form an all safety defense

 

[BobbyMac]

...and they just offered hometown badass Paul Moala last month and he's sitting with 5 CB's. Was that one of those *wink wink* offers?

They must know some guys are leaving or something.

Seems like just yesterday we were stressing about not having enough safeties and having to start a true freshman. Now they have a 5 Deep.

Hopefully they can fix the CB roster just as fast.

 

[GBdomer]

Just throwing shit at the wall at this point in the secondary. If we didn't have Derrick Allen I would have shown Todd Lyght the door at this point

 

[dwshade]

Discussed on II podcast today that they may hold off on taking another safety for now until they get a better idea of how the numbers pan out for the class.

 

[GBdomer]

Discussed on II podcast today that they may hold off on taking another safety for now until they get a better idea of how the numbers pan out for the class.

I would approve of this.

It seems after the "locks" and the decommitments which sucked, and also some of the misses that we had in spring. it's time to reevaluate the board and get a better feel for where we are standing in this class.

 

[dwshade]

Just throwing shit at the wall at this point in the secondary. If we didn't have Derrick Allen I would have shown Todd Lyght the door at this point

We have Gilman and Allen. Pretty damn good for this class. Hardly throwing
"shit at the wall" in the secondary. Absurdly stupid comment.

 

[GBdomer]

We have Gilman and Allen. Pretty damn good for this class. Hardly throwing
"shit at the wall" in the secondary. Absurdly stupid comment.

We haven't landed a corner in two years lol

We got Allen yes, which I'm thrilled about and Gillman who can hopefully help this year. but safety wasn't really an issue so please let's not take two players who we have and try to make up for the lack of depth we have (at corner) and the piss poor recruiting we have done over the last two years. I will never get over the fact that we lost Thomas Graham because of Todd Lyght so yes, maybe I'm a little bitter but IMO it's "throwing shit at the wall"

 

[dwshade]

We haven't landed a corner in two years lol

We got Allen yes, which I'm thrilled about and Gillman who can hopefully help this year. but safety wasn't really an issue so please let's not take two players who we have and try to make up for the lack of depth we have (at corner) and the piss poor recruiting we have done over the last two years. I will never get over the fact that we lost Thomas Graham because of Todd Lyght so yes, maybe I'm a little bitter but IMO it's "throwing shit at the wall"

All I know is Lyght did an outstanding job coaching three freshman CB's last year. And the two Georgia CB's visiting this month can play. And Lyght is a big reason for their interest.

 

[GBdomer]

All I know is Lyght did an outstanding job coaching three freshman CB's last year. And the two Georgia CB's visiting this month can play. And Lyght is a big reason for their interest.

Yes, he did a good job with Love, Vaughn and I'm drawing a blank on the third.

Who are the two Georgia players coming this month? Allen buddy and who else?

This is his job to get kids on campus and land players he has gotten a lot of corners on campus but doesn't land them so I can't give him kudos for this. He's recruiting has been god awful and I have talked to two mods on ND sites who have stated his recruiting is God awful, terrible. He botched a top 100 corner who we had silently committed for months in one night heck in 5 minutes. You can preach Lyght all you want and you might think he's good at what he does but he has really shown me nothing on the field or in recruiting. Time to make some plays in the back end and start landing some corners.

I honestly believe his seat is extremely hot and I think everyone who covers ND football and most of the fans know it