Manny Diaz, Mike Rumph, and Ephraim Banda will fly up to Connecticut on Thursday to meet with Miami commit Josh Jobe prior to his Alabama visit this weekend.
This is the second time that Miami coaches have seen Jobe in the last week. Coach Banda spent nearly the entire day with Jobe last Friday. Mark Richt has still not used his in-home visit with Jobe, which I am told is because UM would like to get the very last crack at recruiting him if possible.
Jobe has indicated to Miami that there is a chance he even waits until February to sign between Bama and UM, which would make Richt’s in-home even more valuable.
I read this as Jobe being unwilling/unable to look Miami’s coaches in the eye and tell them he’s going to Bama. It’s a cowardly way of stringing them on just a little bit longer until he can get to Alabama this weekend, get him some white girl strange, collect some dough and find out how the drop system works, and get his ultimatums from Saban. I could be wrong, maybe he just wants to have his fun at Bama and then crawl back into bed with Miami, wreeking of booze and cigarettes and covered in glitter and crabs... But I don’t see it. There’s no way he visits Bama this weekend and doesn’t sign with them on the 20th.
That sentence right there just took my level of hope for getting Jobe from a weak 5% down to about 0.01%.