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4-star OT Neal on UM: "It's almost one of those perfect fits to be honest"

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legit question, I love Neal but what should his college playing weight be, I do understand he is 6,9 should it be closer to say 330-340?
 
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Admittedly, the "They're making things hard on me" comment sounded kind of ominous to me, until I read:

"But there’s still time for other schools, I still have to see what’s up.”

That, to me, sounds like a kid leaning to us yet saying there's still time for other schools to change his mind. Overall, a very positive, encouraging interview for us..
 
Stefan Adams said:
Working mostly at left tackle, IMG Academy (FL) 4-star OT Evan Neal put on a clinic on Day 3 of the Opening Finals with his performance in the OL/DL session. Arguably UM’s top target overall in the 2019 cycle, Neal didn’t lose a rep and was dominating some of the best D-Linemen in the country.

“Oh yeah, I feel like I had a pretty good performance, always have room to improvement,” Neal said on his day in Frisco. “That’s why I’m ready to take a shower, get into the film room, and see what I did wrong to correct it.”

A few weeks back, Neal visited Coral Gables with many members of his immediate family and detailed what it is about the Canes that has him interested being a part of the U.

“It was amazing man, they threw everything at me. They’re making the decision hard on me,” Neal said. “I’ve been to Miami a lot, I grew up a Miami fan. Miami will be a real good fit for me, close to home, good program, good head coach. Great academic program as well, it’s a place where I can live and be comfortable at. Beautiful campus, the nicest campus in college football. Miami’s right on the beach, I mean come on.”

And Neal is certainly a priority to the Canes. In fact, he says he’s in touch with Mark Richt more than any other head coach in the nation.

“Coach Richt texts me almost every day,” Neal said. “From a head coach, I get the most text messages from him. Out of all the head coaches, nobody talks to me more than coach Richt.”

Neal, who is 6’7.5” and 361 pounds, has no other visits planned as of now, but as an early enrollee, knows his decision window is fast-approaching.

“I don’t know exactly when I’m going to be making a decision, but I do know that I’m going to be early enrolling, so before December,” Neal said.

Although he declined to name an official leader or top groups, Neal’s final comments on Miami sum up why some consider him a Miami-lean to this point.

“It’s almost one of those perfect fits to be honest,” Neal said on UM. “But there’s still time for other schools, I still have to see what’s up.”
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Beautiful campus, the nicest campus in college football. Miami’s right on the beach, I mean come on.”

You are starting to hear this more and more. When Tyrique Stevenson was asked in an interview who had the nicest facilities and campus he’s visited the first school that popped out of his mouth was Miami. Schools really not going to be able to negatively recruit the school once the housing upgrade is completed and ipf is done
 
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Pickle Richt said:
"They're making the decision hard on me"

That sounds like someone committed or heavily leaning somewhere else. That's a strange thing to say for someone who's supposed to be leaning our way.
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I picked that up too. Translation. Bama or somebody else is offering bags but I love Miami.
 
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Cuban-Cane said:
Why the dislike on this post? I swear we have some gator fans on here or something.
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Yeah not that I care but people be doing that to me on some of my posts too which be positive most of the time. It’s strange for sure lol
 
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gacaneaddict said:
I think you could make an argument he is the best player in America for this cycle.
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When you are shutting down multiple Des ranked in the top 5 players in the country as well as top 100 De’s in general you defintiely do. He was that much better than all of the other 5 star OTs. He was stonewalling top 5 players in the country. It was very impressive man
 
brock said:
Yeah not that I care but people be doing that to me on some of my posts too which be positive most of the time. It’s strange for sure lol
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Sometimes people hit the wrong icon when scrolling on a phone. I know it’s happened to me.
 
Kid is a top 5 prospect in the country and would be best player we have signed in a while IMO. 3 year starter, we cannot fvck this up.
 
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