Valentine Won’t Visit Miami This Weekend; LSU Commitment Imminent
Posted by: Brandon Odoi in Football Recruiting 1 hour ago 0 188 Views
(Miami, Fl) The annual battles to win recruits, turn to war’s at the end of January every year. This year is no different as 2014 DT Travonte Valentine has decided that he will not take an official visit to Miami this weekend, virtually sealing his impending commitment to LSU on National Signing Day next Wednesday.
Shortly after an in-home visit with LSU coaches, the Miami target and former verbal commitment Valentine told a source informing CaneINsider that he will not visit Miami this weekend for an official visit as previously planned.
“Coach Miles just left with Corey Raymond,” he told a source. “It went great,” Valentine said of the in-home visit.
Valentine, fresh off an official visit to Baton Rouge this past weekend hosted Tigers’ head coach Les Miles and defensive backs coach Corey Raymond in his mother’s Brevard County home Wednesday evening. Valentine, when asked, said the difference between LSU and Miami was the family feel.
“LSU felt like home, chillin with my homeboys [John] Battle, Rashard Robinson and [Maquedius] Bain,” he said. Battle is a South Florida native who has verbally committed to be a part of the Bayou Bengals 2014 recruiting class out of Hallandale High School. Robinson and Bain are also native South Floridians who are freshman members of the LSU squad.
Though not originally from South Florida, Valentine has developed relationships with those players and in the end, they were too good to pass up.
“I’m wearing No.50,” Valentine told a source of his decision to play at LSU.
Tra Valentine Valentine Wont Visit Miami This Weekend; LSU Commitment Imminent
Travonte Valentine, via Mike Tunsil on Facebook
It’s the number he selected to play with at LSU and the number he donned while on his official visit last week.
A separate source told CaneINsider earlier in the week that Valentine silently committed to play for the Tigers in mid-November. After backing away from his verbal commitment to the Hurricanes during the first of the year while playing in the U.S. Army All-American game in San Antonio, TX, Valentine has given Miami a chance but the Hurricanes had too much ground to make up as of now. In the world of recruiting its hard to rule any possibilities out. Every situation is fluid till the ink dries on the paper.
Valentine will make his decision public on February 5th, national signing day during a televised announcement at his high school, Champagnat Catholic.