Brian Smith breaks down which Miami prospects he is most excited to see at the Junior Day recruiting event and the Battle 7 on 7 tournament.
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00:00 There are so many kids I was trying to narrow it down under
00:02 20. My criteria was basically because so many kids from the
00:07 West Coast and like Alabama and different states are coming.
00:10 Some of the kids that I wouldn't normally see or wouldn't normally
00:13 get to visit to you. So first on my list is a kid that I know
00:16 well, KJ Lacey from Sarawan just outside of Mobile. He's committed
00:20 to Texas, but Alabama was after him and then the whole Saban
00:23 thing happened. He's a big time quarterback prospect. I don't
00:27 know if KJ is really that interested in Miami or not. So
00:30 I'm really intrigued because he's an elite kid. If anything
00:32 did go wrong with nickel, that would be a kid I'm sure they
00:34 would turn to. He's one of the top players in the country.
00:36 James Simon running back out of the state of Louisiana. Elite
00:41 elite player. He's only visited a handful of schools he's really
00:44 interested in, but Miami has both coordinators from that
00:47 state. So anytime I see a Louisiana prospect, I know
00:50 there's a connection. I mean, AJ is from northern part of the
00:53 state to where he's this kid's from in northern Louisiana. I'm
00:56 curious about that. This kid's got a chance to be an NFL
00:58 player. Love him. Maybe the most intriguing would be Marco
01:02 Jones. He's from Danville, California, just outside of San
01:05 Francisco. He's the rare six five kid that can play line
01:08 backer and play in space. He has an offer from pretty much every
01:12 school in the country. Really good kid. I heard him on a
01:14 podcast recently. Wide open list. So Miami's as good a bet
01:19 as anybody. He could go to SC, you could go to Michigan, you
01:22 go to Miami, wherever. Locally, Chris Ewald, the corner we've
01:26 talked about him before on this show. If there's a defensive
01:29 player in South Florida that I think Miami has to get in this
01:32 recruiting class, it's Chris. He was committed to Michigan. He's
01:36 at Chaminade, but he's a top notch corner. Miami has to get
01:40 more elite corners consistently. And that's the same thing that
01:43 every school does. And this kid's right down the road from
01:45 you. This would be a very important get. And I'll finish
01:48 up with Cortez Mills. He's a kid that's from Homestead. He is a
01:53 burner. You'd like to keep those kids at home as well. You know,
01:56 Miami Central, Homestead, Miami Killian, whatever it is. Those
01:59 are some of the kids I'm interested in. Anytime you get
02:01 speed, I'm automatically interested.