Larry Blustein joins Alex Donno to discuss a standout performance from Miami quarterback Luke Nickel at the Battle 7 on 7 tournament.
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00:00 You look at a guy like Luke Nickel, who's just going to be a senior this coming year,
00:06 a class of 2025 kid, excuse me, from state champion Milton, they'll be down here the
00:12 first week of the season to play American Heritage. So that's going to be a get a chance
00:17 to see him again. But I'll tell you what, I was so impressed with him. And I watched him last year,
00:22 and I've watched him on film. And I'll tell you, he just in a short seven, eight months,
00:28 this is somebody who's really, I think he's emerged as one of the top five quarterbacks
00:33 in the country. I mean, he's a big time kid makes all the throws got good size,
00:37 especially yesterday against every competition. And I watched him in all three of the games that
00:43 they played. Yeah, a different level kid. His emotion is the same, which I love, you know,
00:51 doesn't get too high, doesn't get too low, and doesn't get upset at himself. And when you have
00:56 somebody like a Cam Newton right there at your side, and he was, you know, every time they,
01:00 you know, in that setting, if you've never been a seven on seven, your coach can stand basically
01:05 right next to you. So you know, he was telling him and I overheard some of the things that
01:10 Cam was telling him and, you know, just, you know, put your shoulder this way, or when you're
01:16 throwing to this guy or that guy, and I'll tell you what, how cool is that to be able to get like
01:21 one on one coaching from Cam Newton when you're out there. It's crazy. And Nickel, Luke Nickel,
01:27 who blue is talking about this, probably most of you already know 2025 quarterback committed to
01:32 Miami. And obviously Miami, this is another, you know, almost 11 months that you have to keep him
01:38 locked in before he can sign a national letter of intent. But it seems blue that Luke Nickel is
01:42 about, he's about as high on Miami as anybody could be at this point. He was wearing the U.M.
01:47 shoes. He was wearing a U.M. chain yesterday. So Miami's doing everything they can to keep him
01:52 locked in. No doubt. And, you know, he seems like that type of guy. And I know Georgia and schools
01:58 like that are going to put, especially now that he, you know, last year, okay, he was just a guy
02:03 out of Alpharetta, but now he's a little bit more than that. And I know they're going to put the
02:07 hard press on him rightfully so. But I think that he loves the environment, you know, getting a
02:12 chance to talk to him yesterday, you know, in between. And the games were the greatest thing is
02:18 there's no wasted time. You go from one game to the next, to the next. So you could get in and
02:23 out and, you know, battle those. And now all the tournaments are like that, but, you know, you have
02:28 very, you know, very little time to, you know, to talk. But, you know, during when we were going
02:33 field to field, like, cause we had him on our six ring Kane show about a month ago. And, you know,
02:40 I went and we talked about that and yeah, great, great head on his shoulders. He's excited about
02:45 coming back to Florida. He wants to redeem what they did. You know, that was their only loss last
02:50 year to Western. And yeah, no, good, good dude. You know, I mean really a very intelligent young
02:57 man, but well-spoken, you could tell he's a leader.