Alex Donno and Brian Smith discuss Miami's efforts to flip top recruit Jeremiah Smith from his commitment to Ohio State. Was the recent in home visit from Miami coaches successful?
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00:00 get this question from, from Mitchell and a couple of people were asking me this on
00:03 Twitter with the Kyle McCord with him leaving.
00:06 Does this change Jeremiah Smith's decision?
00:09 Now Brian, I don't think Jeremiah Smith particularly wanted to play with Kyle McCord.
00:14 If anything, I'm going to wait and see who Ohio state gets, right?
00:17 Like if JJ, if he's going to stay locked in with Ohio state or if he's going to consider
00:22 Florida state or Miami, and just so people know, if you stick around, I do have quotes
00:27 from Jeremiah's father after Miami's recent in-home visit with Jeremiah Smith.
00:32 But do you think that now Kyle McCord leaving, does this, does this in any way, how does
00:36 this affect Jeremiah Smith, if at all?
00:40 Well when you have a special recruit like that, and I know Ohio state thinks he's a
00:43 generational player, you're going to keep him in the loop.
00:47 So soon as Kyle had let them know or whatever he was going to do, I bet you Jeremiah knew
00:52 before Kyle hit send.
00:54 So that would be my guess.
00:56 I mean, if you have an elite recruit and they've had a long standing relationship with him,
01:00 there's going to be communication and I'm sure he's going to say, well, who's going
01:03 to be the quarterback?
01:04 Because why wouldn't he?
01:06 And they're probably going to tell him this is the guy we're going after.
01:09 So like you said, it depends on who they get to be continued.
01:13 So he wants to go there and be developed by that staff.
01:17 And I get it.
01:18 I mean, they'd done a tremendous job with the receivers, but you got to have somebody
01:22 to get you the football.
01:23 And I don't know which guy it's going to be.
01:25 They got some good young quarterbacks on the roster, but none of them are proven.
01:29 Are you going to tie yourself to that is the question.
01:32 And I get it.
01:33 But Miami's not exactly in a very profitable situation, a quarterback either.
01:38 So you got to look at it from both sides of the ledger.
01:41 So here's a, I want to read this excerpt from a story on Kane Sport about the recent visit.
01:46 Miami went in home with Jeremiah Smith.
01:48 It was Shannon Dawson, the offensive coordinator and my guy, Kevin Beard, the wide receivers
01:53 coach.
01:54 He has done an awesome job building relationships with top receivers around the country.
01:58 Here's what Kane Sport wrote about that recent visit.
02:03 Jeremiah Smith committed to Ohio state could return to Miami for another visit before signing
02:08 day after yesterday's in-home visit from the Hurricanes coaching staff.
02:11 His father, Christopher told Kane Sport, it's also been expected for the past several weeks,
02:17 Jeremiah and his father would likely return to Miami before signing day.
02:21 But that now seems increasingly likely quote from his father.
02:24 He definitely, he definitely may have another visit to Miami.
02:28 I don't know what to do with that.
02:30 He definitely might visit again.
02:31 They continue Miami's offensive coordinator, Shannon Dawson, the receivers coach, Kevin
02:35 Beard paid Jeremiah an in-home visit on Saturday evening, which marked the Smith's first in
02:41 home of the fall as Florida state continues to push and Ohio state looks to solidify its
02:46 standing with the country's top prospect.
02:48 Smith will take an official visit to Florida state this coming weekend and Seminoles head
02:52 coach Mike Norvell is expected to be at Jeremiah's practice on Monday.
02:56 So it's wild, Brian.
02:59 And I continue the sense that I get continues to be if he doesn't stick with Ohio state,
03:05 Florida state is probably the likely top flip option.
03:08 But can Miami over these next couple of weeks, can Miami gain some momentum and try to pass
03:13 Florida state in the race?
03:15 I always consider Miami in this and it's ironic you brought that up because I was thinking
03:18 about this earlier.
03:20 How do you label Miami with Jeremiah?
03:22 Cause it's been in and out more times than I can count in terms of where they are with
03:26 his recruitment.
03:28 And I'm just going to say fluid depending on their quarterback situation, much like
03:31 Ohio state, he's not going to go to Miami right now because he doesn't know what's
03:36 going to happen there.
03:37 He needs more information.
03:38 He's he already knows about Miami and the staff and he gets an on KB and all those guys
03:42 whose quarterback.
03:43 Copy.
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