Geo & Ahmmon Scrimmage and Recruiting Buzz April 6, 2025

[lindend]

Plan to take large OL (~7 OL total)

Some names at the top of the OL board

• Jackson Cantwell
• Keenyi Pepe
• Tommy Tofi
• Canon Pickett
• Johnnie Jones
• Micah "Champion" Smith
• Ryan Miret
• Breck Kolojay

Derrek Cooper

• Loves where Miami is in the recruitment, very confident in his pick for Miami

Justice Fitzpatrick

• Likes where Miami is in the recruitment, has a pick in for Miami

Malik Morris

• LOT of Miami buzz after the pool party
• Aware of the Lakeland curse but Miami has real momentum
• Heatherman type of LB, he's directly involved in this recruitment
• UF feeling good here too

Adam Balogoun-Ali

• Miami is now aggressively recruiting him.

Jackson Cantwell

• Miami confident, watch out for Oregon and Michigan
• Michigan willing to drop major NIL

Keenyi Pepe

• Miami/USC battle
• Miami currently edging out U$C according to sources.

Breck Kolojay

• Miami has been recruiting him for 3+ years
• Miami feeling good
• UGA concerns
• If they get Keenyi Pepe, they will likely get Breck Kolojay

Tommy Tofi

• He's a + 1 recuit
• Highly valued

Immanuel Iheanacho

• No Traction

Somourian Wingo

• Miami/UF battle
• UF feeling good
• Spent 4-5 days on campus

Calvin Russell

• The Bball side of this recruitment is overplayed
• Calvin knows his future in football

Jasen “JRoc” Lopez

• Brayden "Quick6ix" Robinson likely at the top of the board
• Lopez right after him
• Legit Bball player
• Geo wants him in the class

Naeem Burroughs

• No traction
• UF was feeling good before he committed to Clemson. [Me talking: UF feels good about everyone at all times]

Ayden Pouncey

• Staff likes him a lot

 

[skeeter]

Geo has a long-time legendary rep for being overly optimistic. Just saying.

But most of this report is in line with others.

 

[Confidence1000]

 

[Confidence1000]

Get to whistlin bois

 

[Damiencane86]

Don't wanna lose Wingo to UF. Like the Robinson wr news. Love the Cooper news. Cantwell feels like he'll go to highest bidder. The OL board seems like more twists & turns are likely. Keep working

 

[Brains]

ARmmon Richards

 

[grover]

It was a quality podcast. People with a commute should put it on 1.5x and listen. 70-80% was on the current team plus probable portal adds. Great stuff.

@lindend thanks for the recruiting summary as always.

 

[Gi0logy]

Where are the DL prospects? Feel like there's not a ton of talk about that position group.

A lot of OL. A lot of WR. A lot of DBs. Not much on the DL.

 

[grover]

DL quality supposedly down this class. But I agree, haven't heard enough, especially DTs. Nice to be in it for a couple quality LBers including a kid from Lakeland, though.

 

[Damiencane86]

Where are the DL prospects? Feel like there's not a ton of talk about that position group.

A lot of OL. A lot of WR. A lot of DBs. Not much on the DL.

The only DT's I hear involved consistently are Johnson from Ft. Myers and Stancil from N. Carolina. The board seems very small at that spot right now.

 

[JHallCanes]

Balogoun-Ali is a **** of an athlete

Ties in to what has been said Heatherman prefers in LBs. Track kid that plays violent

His highlight film is blitzing making plays, pick 6s, and playing offense. Pretty impressive

 

[Fightinibis]

Where are the DL prospects? Feel like there's not a ton of talk about that position group.

A lot of OL. A lot of WR. A lot of DBs. Not much on the DL.

Never enough top end DT talk.

 

[Mikesmith29150]

Where are the DL prospects? Feel like there's not a ton of talk about that position group.

A lot of OL. A lot of WR. A lot of DBs. Not much on the DL.

I heard on a podcast that their were only 8-9 DT's this cycle that are tier one

 

[skeeter]

Where are the DL prospects? Feel like there's not a ton of talk about that position group.

A lot of OL. A lot of WR. A lot of DBs. Not much on the DL.

Ya it's definitely not quite as big a board as other positions…But DE names have definitely increased recently. DT still kind of a mystery other than the big names.

DT:
Top targets: Johnson, Cleveland, BPW, Geralds (DE/DT?), Lamar Brown (very doubtful)
Others: F.Wilson, Guervil (hasn't mentioned us as much, but now we have a teammate on the other side of the trench committed), Stancil, Wells

There are obviously other long shots like Winfield for Texas that have been mentioned but there doesn't seem to be traction so I didn't list. I would expect to see this list get a little bigger with D.Lewis getting established, maybe a Texas kid or two.

DE:
Top Targets: Kruel, Charles, A.Jones, Wilkes, K.Johnson, S.Scott, Charles, (falling into very doubtful category??, doesn't seem interested)
Others: Norman (maybe in top group, not sure?), Harvey, K.Webb, K.Wilson, P.Williams, Morrow

 

[Gables Cane]

It was a quality podcast. People with a commute should put it on 1.5x and listen. 70-80% was on the current team plus probable portal adds. Great stuff.

@lindend thanks for the recruiting summary as always.

It was indeed a great listen. Lots of insight and commentary (I dare say more insightful than other media outlets and boards).

Thanks for the reco.

 

[Cajuncane]

It was indeed a great listen. Lots of insight and commentary (I dare say more insightful than other media outlets and boards).

Thanks for the reco.

need to get Ray Lewis involved with the Lakeland LBer...

 

[flips]

Recruiting seems to be going really really well so far?

 

[Jassid82]

At this point in recruiting..if you cant get a high 4*-5* kid at DT...might as well just go to the portal for one. No point in getting projects at DT anymore. Those days are over. You see you dont hear Daylon Russells name at all. Not trying to shade the kid but I just think the days of getting developmental DTs out of HS are over. By the time they hopefully pop 3-4 years into development..you have recruited over them anyway.

 

[Memnon]

Per the quality/quantity of DT's this class discussion; That's a misnomer.

There are plenty of very good high caliber DT's this class.

The top programs will have absolutely no problem signing them this year & will develop them into NFL Day 1/2 picks 4 years from now, guarantee it.

DT recruiting is almost purely an eval game.

 

[gogeta4]

Per the quality/quantity of DT's this class discussion; That's a misnomer.

There are plenty of very good high caliber DT's this class.

The top programs will have absolutely no problem signing them this year & will develop them into NFL Day 1/2 picks 4 years from now, guarantee it.

DT recruiting is almost purely an eval game.

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