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Agreed. Jeudy had to double down on his pledge to Bama in mid December of 2016 since he was enrolling early. That opened up the door for Thomas and Miami to focus more on him since they knew Harley was eventually going to flip from WV.

Had grade issues. Missed classes, grades weren’t good, and he got suspended. Some schools cooled on him.

Sorry guys if I’m overly passionate about the East St Louis program. Being from Chicago, I’ve always been intrigued by them since 2007. They’d come up north to play schools near my neighborhood so I’ve followed them closely since then.

The top 4 guys to come out of ESL in the last decade were Hawthorne, Thomas, Terry Beckner, and Kraig Appleton. Appleton left Wisconsin after his first or second year, Hawthorne should have played WR, Beckner has been injured most of his career and Jeff is doing great here. Hawthorne was...

He pulled Terry Beckner who was a top 5 player in the country coming out of high school.

He was tight with Ray Estes who actually was committed to Missouri. Sorry I said Illinois in a previous post. Estes was their qb and flipped to Minnesota. Illinois is always a player for East St Louis kids along with Missouri.

Never in a million years I thought Miami would get involved. I’ve followed him since freshman year and I knew he was gonna be a stud. Kept saying who the **** is this Jeff Thomas guy? He’s putting up crazy numbers and looks legit. Knew he was gonna be a top 50 guy and SEC bound or Osu bound.

Bama, OSU, Illinois, Louisville, and Missouri were the top teams then Osu and Bama faded. He wasn’t interested as much in Missouri. Illinois has a lot of East St Louis connections and I think the qb committed there and then bailed and ended up at Minnesota.

Kool and Dugans. Kool was obviously at Missouri before Miami and had a lot of East St Louis kids on the team. Dugans did his thing and closed. Idk if it was Dugans or Richt but when Jeff was going through that rough patch where he wasn’t going to class, got suspended and all that, a lot of...