Nycholes Harbor article from South Carolina recruiting website

Malik McDowell too

Unpopular opinion: I never get this multi-sport thing that influences what colleges that great football recruits choose. Most of these guys never end up playing a second sport, and if they do, it’s not for long. As soon as they put on weight and muscle for football, they realize they can’t meaningfully compete in the other sport. Nor do they have the time I’d guess. Football is where they are going to make their money, but they still go ahead and pick a college for the wrong reason. It’s like picking Alabama because they are also interested in engineering. 🙄

And no doubt the head football coach leads them to believe they’re really going to support them playing in another sport besides football, when they know it’s not really going to happen. But they don’t care, they just want their commitment to the football team.

"That's her home," Harbor said. "She's always pro Michigan. Michigan this, Michigan that. But if another college could change her mind on Michigan, flip her, then they are probably going to get me. That's probably the biggest recruiting piece to me saga. Probably here.

That quote makes you think that it's a Michigan vs Oregon battle? Seems pretty clear Michigan is out. His heart isn't there. 

Sometimes I tell them the opposite of what I want. 

Depends on the child.  
 

I have three daughters, one thinks she knows what I want (hint she’s often wrong), so she chooses what she thinks is the opposite.  

Second could care less.

Third has me wrapped around her finger so I want what she wants.

Go figure. 

Not necessarily the kiss of death. Sometimes the opposite. Remember a few years back that DT from Texas? It may have been Jordan Elliott. He wanted to come here but mom brow beat him to stay home to UT. 

Agreed.. Feels like Davis wants that money. Based on nothing at all

I hate the dollar sign digs. NIL is real and legitimate.

If a kid has several good options, why shouldn't money be a significant factor in his final decision? Money is important.

And there's a difference between getting paid and becoming an Aggie Mercenary. Just like there's a difference between being ethical NIL and sitting on your hands out of principal.

He wants to be a tight end

I’d imagine because the best high school QBs want to go to schools that throw the ball more often. It sounds like if Ryan Day had wanted McCarthy he’d probably be there instead of Michigan. I’ve heard McCarthy mention that after he’d been recruited by Meyer, Day took over and decided to go “in another direction” at QB.

Signing a highly rated QB out of HS is not as important as it was before the portal.  It seems that ever year there is a highly rated QB that signed with USC in the portal, e.g., Jaxson Dart, Kedon Slovis, JT Daniels - and those are the ones that started in their freshmen years.  Jalen Hurts and Spencer Rattler are two more that entered the portal after losing QB competitions. Don't  be surprised if the loser of the QB competition at Texas, Quinn Ewers or Arch Manning is in the portal in a year from now.

Which is too bad because although the kid is very fast for his size, he doesn’t have NCAA-level elite sprinter speed, and that isn’t going to get any better as he gets bigger for football.

With the bags Oregon has been dropping lately and their combination of track and football, I think it could be hard to beat them when he visits. Looks like my Josh Conerly analogy could turn out to be way too accurate lol