On3: Nyckoles Harbor is set to announce his commitment on February 1st

Submitted by Ezekiels Creatures on January 30th, 2023 at 6:57 PM

 

https://twitter.com/On3Recruits/status/1620105752269688833

 

Apparently South Carolina is the leader (South Carolina.... 🤷‍♀️).

 

I personally have zero confidence he chooses Michigan.

 

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JBLPSYCHED

January 30th, 2023 at 8:12 PM ^

Recruiting is indeed dumb, but the whims and fancys of 17-18 year old young men who are lionized for highly specialized skills that are in great demand but often do not translate into lasting careers are even dumber. And the whims and fancys of the parents of said young men are probably even dumbest.

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schreibee

January 30th, 2023 at 7:19 PM ^

You may not consider this a good reason, but we can recognize that he might - apparently his girlfriend either attends or has accepted an offer to attend S. Carolina.

According to a pay site, not sure which posted that tidbit. 

Not that it's a foregone conclusion, as he's clearly been taking his time and weighing his options - but S. Car people on these boards have acted as if it is for months now 🤷‍♂️

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denardogasm

January 30th, 2023 at 11:07 PM ^

The Olympics thing is a great dream and all, but is it really likely? In today's landscape it sure seems like you have to fully commit to your event to compete. Devon Allen is the best recent example of a track star playing football to my knowledge, but be focused more on track and wasn't that special on the field.  It worked out because he's one of the best hurdlers in the world.

How do his high school times even compare to those of Olympic sprinters when they were teenagers?  Seems much more likely Harbor will succeed on the football field than the track just looking at his body. He's basically DK Metcalf, who got lit up when he went against real sprinters a couple years ago as I recall, albeit without the same level of training on starts, technique, etc. This guy is already basically as big as Metcalf by measurables as a teenager and without the Greek god body. He's gonna fill out a lot. He's sure to gain 20 pounds of muscle with training and that extra weight will probably push him out of the Olympics.  Someone trending towards being a TE or DE on the football field doesn't strike me as being a big threat to the podium at the olympic trials.  A threat to get in the endzone? Good God yes.  He could be Megatron 2.0.  Good for the kid for having goals and chasing them but it seems like a bad reason to choose a school to me.

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ak47

January 31st, 2023 at 10:25 AM ^

He's absolutely not. Only 4 us men qualify for the olympics in the 200 and Harbor's best time wouldn't even qualify him to run at the US trials let alone qualify. From what I can tell he ran a 20.79 in the 200m. 4th place at trials ran 19.9. He is going to have to take a full second off his time in the next year in a sport where hundredths of a second are good gains. It would be shocking for him to qualify

 

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ak47

January 31st, 2023 at 1:49 PM ^

Well one of the guys was 17 when he put up his time at the trials but Knighton is a freak.

And sure Harbor can improve his time but he also ran slower than the top 20 guys at NCAA championships this year. Harbor has put up times that imply he absolutely could make the Olympics in his life. It is extremely unlikely he drops the time necessary to make the 24 Olympic team. For example, Noah Lyles one of the fastest in the world at 25 was running the 200 at 20.04 when he was 18. Not only did he not make the 2016 olympics as an 18 year old, as a professional for the last 7 years he has dropped that time from 20.04 to 19.31. Harbor would have to drop a huge amount of time in 18 months, more than Lyles has as a professional in 7 years, and leapfrog probably 30 guys who have put up faster times than him and are still running professionally to make the 24 olympics

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ak47

January 31st, 2023 at 1:45 PM ^

Kerley was a 400m specialist in college. And even ignoring that it still took him three years of training post college to get his time down at the 100m level. I'm not arguing Harbor could never make the Olympics, I'm arguing its extremely unlikely he is dropping a second off his time in the 18 months between now and US trials for 24. 

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gte896u

January 31st, 2023 at 2:50 PM ^

You keep harping on next year, but age 19 is not yet a sprinter's prime window.

 

He has 5 years to get that time down, not 1 year.  I dont understand why you speak so definitively about this, because it doesn't seem like you know what you're talking about.

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WeimyWoodson

January 31st, 2023 at 9:05 AM ^

I do not think it is realistic for him to make the Olympic team for 2024, even if he dedicated himself entirely to track for the next 18 months, let alone trying to mix in football. Just a hunch, but if he decides he wants to do both track and football, I think he will be a "bust" as a 5*. That doesn't mean he won't have a solid college career in track or that he has a 0% chance of doing well in football, but he will end up hindering himself and be caught in the middle. Might not see much of anything special in college football. Maybe the pros work out because then the track dream is over, and he'll have to focus 100% on football.  

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Romeo50

January 30th, 2023 at 7:12 PM ^

Good luck to him, whatever. If you don't focus on this sport you will not have success. I hope he doesn't spread himself too thin. Coach up who wants to be at UM and continue to make it an attractive environment and spring pad for whatever future a student chooses. 

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