4-star DE Ishmael speaks on recent UM commitment

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2021 Columbus (FL) 4-star DE Jabari Ishmael recently committed to the Miami Hurricanes, joining what has been a barrage of local talent this cycle that has elected to stay home at UM for school.

“It just felt amazing to finally commit, and the coaches were very excited for me too,” Ishmael said. “Miami is just home to me, I grew up here.”

The 6-5 210 pound prospect chose the Canes over other schools in his top 3 that included Oregon and FSU, which were two programs he planned to visit before making a decision ahead of his senior season. However, the coronavirus shutdowns threw a wrench into those plans, making visits impossible, and ultimately, Ishamel went with what he considered the most comfortable option in UM.

“I made the decision when I realized I couldn’t visit other schools, I didn’t want to wait anymore,” Ishmael said. “I grew up around Miami football and the campus so I’m already really familiar with everything and everyone.”

An interesting part of Ishmael’s story includes his father Victor being a longtime S&C assistant at Miami (16 years), which almost certainly played a part in his decision.

Victor’s reaction to Jabari’s decision to join him at UM?

“[His reaction] was pretty normal,” Ishamel said. “He gave me a thumbs up.”

Ishmael had been seen as a key priority in this class from the beginning for both head coach Manny Diaz and DL coach Todd Stroud, as Miami has been recruiting Ishamel since his freshman year of high school. Looking into the future, the staff envisions an impactful role for the Columbus star in Miami’s aggressive defense.

“The coaches have told me that they see me as a rush end and a speed chaser,” Ishmael said. “I am a fast-twitch athlete that can find the ball carrier and I can get to the quarterback.”

The Hurricanes have continued to add to a 2021 class that is considered a top 10 haul by both 247Sports and Rivals. While Ishmael does have a strong bond with Columbus teammate and Miami OL commit Ryan Rodriguez, he admits he still does not know most of his classmates that well just yet.

“I haven’t really met any of the other commits, but I’m excited to,” Ishmael said. “Also, I can’t wait to get to Miami and learn from the players that are already there.”

As a junior in 2019, Ishmael helped the Explorers to a state title and was named second team All-Dade after posting a line of 46 tackles, 8 TFL, 3 sacks, 1 FR, and 1 PBU.

 
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It seems like every class we get one of these edge rushers who is just a quiet, no drama killer that flies below the radar and is underrated as a result.

Joe Jackson, Jon Garvin, Jahfari Harvey, Quentin William, Ishmael...don't remember a peep from any of them once they committed, and not much beforehand either.
 
It seems like every class we get one of these edge rushers who is just a quiet, no drama killer that flies below the radar and is underrated as a result.

Joe Jackson, Jon Garvin, Jahfari Harvey, Quentin William, Ishmael...don't remember a peep from any of them once they committed, and not much beforehand either.
And all of those guys with the exception of maybe J.J. are all super twitchy athletes . For instance Q.Williams's SPARQ score was through the roof similar to guys like Sam Brooks.
 
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Sorry to derail this thread further but the higher ups need to start vetting these mods. A year or 2 ago a mod went to like my previous 25 posts to downvote each of them bc I downvoted 1 of his, literally. And now we got RVA acting like 1 of my jilted exes. He’s out here chasing me around the board calling me super slurper(a popular nickname on the RVA family tree) among other things while furiously tagging and quoting me. All bc I disliked him trying to stop someone from making positive posts about the Canes...on a Canes message board.

It’s probably not a good idea to have vindictive children moderating a sports message board, just saying.

Ok now I’m done.

Back to your originally scheduled programming of arguing about Jonathan Patke’s value to special teams.
 
Sorry to derail this thread further but the higher ups need to start vetting these mods. A year or 2 ago a mod went to like my previous 25 posts to downvote each of them bc I downvoted 1 of his, literally. And now we got RVA acting like 1 of my jilted exes. He’s out here chasing me around the board calling me super slurper(a popular nickname on the RVA family tree) among other things while furiously tagging and quoting me. All bc I disliked him trying to stop someone from making positive posts about the Canes...on a Canes message board.

It’s probably not a good idea to have vindictive children moderating a sports message board, just saying.

Ok now I’m done.

Back to your originally scheduled programming of arguing about Jonathan Patke’s value to special teams.
Curious why you picked this particular thread that's been inactive for 6 months for your PSA. It would seem that if you actually wanted the "higher up" or mods to respond, you'd start a new thread and/or tag them. Just seems like an odd choice to me.

And yes, notwithstanding our phenomenal kicking, Patke's return and coverage units were all subpar last season.
 
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Sorry to derail this thread further but the higher ups need to start vetting these mods. A year or 2 ago a mod went to like my previous 25 posts to downvote each of them bc I downvoted 1 of his, literally. And now we got RVA acting like 1 of my jilted exes. He’s out here chasing me around the board calling me super slurper(a popular nickname on the RVA family tree) among other things while furiously tagging and quoting me. All bc I disliked him trying to stop someone from making positive posts about the Canes...on a Canes message board.

It’s probably not a good idea to have vindictive children moderating a sports message board, just saying.

Ok now I’m done.

Back to your originally scheduled programming of arguing about Jonathan Patke’s value to special teams.
Aren't u a slurpers though u down me all the time
 
Sorry to derail this thread further but the higher ups need to start vetting these mods. A year or 2 ago a mod went to like my previous 25 posts to downvote each of them bc I downvoted 1 of his, literally. And now we got RVA acting like 1 of my jilted exes. He’s out here chasing me around the board calling me super slurper(a popular nickname on the RVA family tree) among other things while furiously tagging and quoting me. All bc I disliked him trying to stop someone from making positive posts about the Canes...on a Canes message board.

It’s probably not a good idea to have vindictive children moderating a sports message board, just saying.

Ok now I’m done.

Back to your originally scheduled programming of arguing about Jonathan Patke’s value to special teams.
Posters that downvote all your posts like that should be banned and so should mods alike. That’s childish behavior. That being said, pull out your tampon. RVA is one of the best things to happen to this board. He’s fair and sees both sides. He also busts his **** to make the best thread on any board ever in Gator Tears.
 
Curious why you picked this particular thread that's been inactive for 6 months for your PSA. It would seem that if you actually wanted the "higher up" or mods to respond, you'd start a new thread and/or tag them. Just seems like an odd choice to me.

And yes, notwithstanding our phenomenal kicking, Patke's return and coverage units were all subpar last season.
Because @canesthing3 is mad because I said he shamed other posters if they don’t 100% tow the Pro-Manny line and he took exception to it and now I’ve quoted numerous amounts of his posts where he’s doing just that. His posting history is littered with it.
 
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Curious why you picked this particular thread that's been inactive for 6 months for your PSA. It would seem that if you actually wanted the "higher up" or mods to respond, you'd start a new thread and/or tag them. Just seems like an odd choice to me.

And yes, notwithstanding our phenomenal kicking, Patke's return and coverage units were all subpar last season.
Tell him the truth and you’re a hater and a ****** fan. And watch out for the crew too.
 
@Dwinstitles this is what I’m talking about. All he does is attack the board for not towing the line. Literally the majority of his posts are a shot at us for being ****** fans for having different and more critical opinions than this guy and his Super Slurper compatriots.

@The Franchise, check it out - more shaming.

LFG! Where all the whiny bïtches that said it wouldn’t happen?

All I gotta say is if Manny moves on from Rumph, Patke and Baker, while bringing in T-Rob for God’s sake and whoever else, I don’t want to hear him ever being compared to Fat Al again.

Lol y’all hate Manny so much y’all won’t even let the man work. This time last month y’all said we wouldn’t move on from Rumph and if we did, we’d fück the hire up. Now we sitting here with T-Rob coaching our DBs. Let shït play out.

Patience of toddlers around here.

I’m seeing posts bashing pretty much any potential DC that’s brought up on here. You don’t want Baker and you don’t want Manny calling plays either, not sure why on the latter.

What realistic option are y’all hoping for then? Seriously. Because I’m not seeing this option that is universally loved on here or even close to it.

So who does the CIS braintrust want Manny to hire? I can already sense that he’s going to be crucified on here no matter what he does.

Odd. If you read this board you’d think we were the worst team in the history of college football. But somehow we ended the season ranked for just the 4th time in the last 15(!) years.

It didn’t end how we wanted but we took a step forward this season. Need to take another step forward next season.

I bet every other team’s fans on this list think their team should be ranked higher or are happy where they are at. Only Miami “fans” would argue their team is ranked too high. I’m sure y’all are miffed that we finished this season ranked as well.

Part of that is bc this board is filled with fake fans and another part is that we have a bunch of miserable fans that like to focus on the negative and desperately want to be proven right about Manny and his staff.

What the “Miami is ranked too high” crowd always forgets is that other teams have holes as well and routinely lose their best players, it’s not just us. (we actually have some of our better players deciding to return this time) They seems to always think there are at least 25 teams, not named Miami, that have 2 deeps loaded with proven talent when that just isn’t the case.

There are very few, if any, complete teams outside of the top group on that list. We can beat any of the rest, and who even knows what the top teams will look like 8 months from now. Quit being such mopey püssies.

Exhibit A of why this board is allowed to be such a cesspool. Outside of a couple of them, the mods mope around here this bïtch too.

With friends like these..

Anyways, I guess I just don’t see how you can talk about recurring and themes when a staff has just completed it’s 2nd season.

Especially considering the 1st season largely consisted of despicable Ls to subpar P5s and G5s bc of a terrible O, while this year the Ls were to 3 ranked teams bc of poor D. Sure they were mostly ugly losses but I’m not catching your themes. Unless it’s progress, since we at least beat the teams that we definitely should have, fought in the bowl game and finished ranked. Of course it’s not though, bc this board expects to finish undefeated yearly while also regularly decrying the team’s overall talent level. Shît never makes sense on here so whatever fits today’s agenda.

But sure man, “once again” we suck. Fire everybody and consider folding the program. The landscape of college football is LOADED with dominant programs and we are so desperately behind them all that we can’t hope to compete moving forward.

Our “fans” prove their stupidity on a daily basis. Why should that have been us?

We just finished the season ranked for the 4th time in 15 years but that was supposed to be us not Alabama.

The unrealistic expectations have to stop.

The fact that there were so many threads jerking Bama off that they had to be consolidated just shows how pathetic this fanbase and board is.

Hey Miami “fans” I’m sure there’s plenty of room in Bama’s fanbase, feel free to jump ship. I promise you won’t be missed.
 
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Sorry to derail this thread further but the higher ups need to start vetting these mods. A year or 2 ago a mod went to like my previous 25 posts to downvote each of them bc I downvoted 1 of his, literally. And now we got RVA acting like 1 of my jilted exes. He’s out here chasing me around the board calling me super slurper(a popular nickname on the RVA family tree) among other things while furiously tagging and quoting me. All bc I disliked him trying to stop someone from making positive posts about the Canes...on a Canes message board.

It’s probably not a good idea to have vindictive children moderating a sports message board, just saying.

Ok now I’m done.

Back to your originally scheduled programming of arguing about Jonathan Patke’s value to special teams.
Please stop. Just let it go.
 
@Dwinstitles this is what I’m talking about. All he does is attack the board for not towing the line. Literally the majority of his posts are a shot at us for being ****** fans for having different and more critical opinions that this guy and his Super Slurper compatriots.

@The Franchise, check it out - more shaming.
And we are the bad guys? We just demand excellence

I don't pay this dude no mind I prolly even liked some post of his but he down votes mine alot lol. All good though
 
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