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2029 Sekou Toure, ATH, Pleasantville New Jersey (Now, Miami, FL @ Columbus)

Handsome Squidbum said:
Mendoza?

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Oil???
 
gogeta4 said:
definitely gonna be a backer next level
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nvm did he say class of 29.....hes already taller than his bro Mohammed.

depending on growth which he willd o kid may end up a DE as well...this is a freak type prospect im sure Heatherman wants. Kid appears to be 6'4 210 right now as a soph?.

James Williams comps i know are coming but this kid appears to have been playing backer for a long time and James always played db and wr even throughout optomist ball
 

4-star EDGE Sekou Toure​

The No. 1 edge and No. 11 prospect overall out of Pleasantville (NJ) Columbus looks forward to setting up his trips.

“The schools I’m feeling a strong connection with early on are Miami, Alabama, Texas A&M and Penn State. Those are just the schools I talk to the most right now. I’m still building connections with others.”

Toure has yet to set up game visits.
 
cookies said:
This narrative might pop up again in the future so putting it out there in one post from how i recall. The search function is really Heaven Sent. The one thing i do find kinda odd is it don’t remember this many cis posters hating on Beck, but the evidence is the evidence. Would be funny to bump but nah lol.

Before reading below, the key thing is to remember that baby Mendoza didn’t get a lot of college offers despite being better than his older brother at Columbus. He committed to JMU, and flipped to IU when Cig & crew got the job. The family obviously had a ton of trust in that staff and if you’re not going to get to compete for a starting spot, better to have your brother do it than anybody else.

We were probably the one school who could’ve made a run at it if we tried, but we didn’t try lol. We went all-in on Mateer, Milroe, Ewers, and Beck. Other than that, i fully expect by the time he sat out the SMU game, he knew he was going to transfer, and IU was his top choice. No way tampering and other discussions weren’t going on beforehand. UGA would’ve been super risky.

He said he almost committed to UGA but not sure how much Smart prioritized him either. Beck hadn’t even declared at that point.



It wasn’t guaranteed that Mendoza was going to transfer. . . Although there were rumors and speculation given the ties as soon as we played them.

An important aspect of the saga is the blue-chip qb JWS; who flipped from Cal to Oregon a week before Mendoza entered the portal. Lot of rumors speculating around but the gist of it is that Mendoza communicated with JKS right before he flipped; differences in the rumor mill on how explicit or discouraging the communication was from Mendoza’s side. JWS enrolled at Cal after a month at Oregon and after Mendoza was already at IU. The end of the Wilcox era was dysfunctional to say the least.

Apparently Mendoza was still upset that Wilcox brought in a transfer qb after Mendoza had been the starter for eight games in ‘23 and whatever promises or pitches were given to the transfer QB who Mendoza beat out. Important to note that he didn’t play in the final game for Cal against SMU yet many people felt he wasn’t actually sick. Also some talk that Mendoza gave his input on the hiring of the new OC then still dipped to the portal two days after the OC was hired. Committed to IU on December 23rd.

The reason he didn’t come to Miami had very little to do with the previous staff or holding any grudges from what i can remember. Mendoza talked about never throwing the upside down U etc right before the Cal game and how much respect he had for Miami still and so forth. Mario and Mirabal obviously have a longstanding relationship with the family but i don’t think we ever in the potential plans come December. We offered but didn’t pursue him that hard because we were waiting on Beck, who was injured December 7th, prior to Mendoza even announcing he was transferring,

Beck declared for the NFL draft on December 28th, five days after his surgery and five days before UGA played ND in the playoffs. Entered the portal January 9th.

Here is D$ talking about Beck on December 20th before Mendoza committed to IU. He obviously had a personal tie to the school already, and Dawson mentioned he talked to Monken a lot prior to Beck transferring.




We were also briefly linked to Quinn Ewers however he kept his name in the draft. Look at the names D$ mentioned, we were clearly thinking above and beyond & passed on him as the option for our QB. We were looking for a one and done to the NFL guy; which Mendoza was not projected to be at this point. Mateer was another option we were heavily invested in. Don’t think it had anything to do with Miami being distracted by bowl prep; we just had many other priorities for a signal caller.
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even though Mendoza ended up being the superior qb to Beck, I also wonder if he would have won the opener against ND. If Miami loses to ND plus the inevitable inexplicable midseason loss to a mediocre team, we don’t make the playoffs (not going to get the spot over ND even if we both have 2 losses). Nothing at all against Mendoza, he is clearly the better Qb over an entire season, but Beck wasn’t asked to do anything in the opener except take care of the ball. Defense did the rest. I would have been nervous that Mendoza in the opener in his hometown against ND could have pressed a little too much since he doesn’t know what kind of team he has and thinks he has to make plays to win. So maybe Mendoza was the obvious choice if picking a QB for the full season and the championship, but Beck was the right choice for the opener. And without the W in the opener, we don’t make the playoffs.
 
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