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Isaiah Bond, DB/WR Buford, GA Offered

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24/7canes said:
Not sure if you guys are serious or not . His tape looks dam good. Hes running by dudes, hes making contested catches and he shows some good balance after the catch.
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Can already tell they going be like “we need to lock up only S fla kids”
 
I'm assuming he's a CB for us. He's listed as 6' on MaxPreps and on 247. He has good length and long arms. He has good speed for his age. Track times are 11.45 and 22.27. His team is one of the best in the state of Georgia, and he's playing against top competition in practice and on Friday nights. He tackles well, but hard to know what he is in coverage because they played off the receiver in those highlights. He made tackles, but again those are highlights. I couldn't find his stats. Not disappointed in the offer.
 
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You can expect a commit from this kid some time over the Spring - Summer...

The question will become will he stick once crootin’ season heats up & the SEC comes knocking.

Especially once things open back up completely & visits are allowed come June, man the free for all that’s coming on the trail is gonna be pandemonium, only the strongest of crooters will survive.

But allow me to reiterate for yall that seem to catch daily amnesia on here, early commitments = Monopoly money; all that matters is NLI signatures in Dec & February.
 
Liberty City El said:
You can expect a commit from this kid some time over the Spring - Summer...

The question will become will he stick once crootin’ season heats up & the SEC comes knocking.

Especially once things open back up completely & visits are allowed come June, man the free for all that’s coming on the trail is gonna be pandemonium, only the strongest of crooters will survive.

But allow me to reiterate for yall that seem to catch daily amnesia on here, early commitments = Monopoly money; all that matters is NLI signatures in Dec & February.
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I wish it were that simple. For programs that aren’t solid but want to recruit about their weight class, *perceived* momentum matters a lot in building a recruiting class. Alabama doesn’t have to worry about not taking commitments because they have nothing to prove to recruits. Bags and titles speak for themselves. For us, we gotta show them the program is heading up and that means both on field and off. Without that, we win’t like NSD, imo.

Not saying it’s panic time at all. Expect commitments between now and June. But we need them to get and hold the bigger fish we wanna grab.
 
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I agree @Liberty City El , this summer will be wild with schools pressuring kids for visits. Especially if there are limits to the numbers on campus AND if there are no camps.... Imagine what the incentive$ will be to the blue chip kids????

It does seem like Bond is favoring the Canes at this point. From reading his comments to the various site reporters, he seems like a pretty level-headed kid who has a long term attitude about football/recruiting. It also appears like he is getting good guidance from the 7v7 coach - Willie Lee - and that being a part of that team involves more than just tournaments and football. Very little has been said anywhere about his family. I assume Jess Simpson is on that-

Will he ultimately blow up and be a major target for the SEC? Hard to know. They've offered him but it seems like he's more of a Plan B for them right now. He's going to another camp in Atlanta today; a solid performance there will certainly bring more attention to him. He told Ivins that UGA and Bama have talked to him about playing defense.

I wonder how much of a factor UGA will be given the history with Buford- there hasn't exactly been a strong relationship between the two. Buford kids have generally gone elsewhere. Not sure if that has changed at all.. One factor working in our favor there is Jess Simpson.

I do think the relationship he's developed with Jacurri Brown will be a big factor here. He told Ivins last night that he is thinking he will commit within a month. He has no other visits scheduled at this point but obviously that could change.

This is what Jacurri Brown told Gaby at 247 about Bond: (they met in person for the first time last weekend and connected right away)

“He’s a real good dude. Down to earth, fast as ****. He’s funny, bruh. Real funny. We kind of got the same mentality - working hard. We want to go somewhere and change it around, win some natty’s. That’s somebody with a like mindset. Especially with him - he’s fast and can catch,” Brown said.

Brown and Bond walked around the campus by themselves and also hung out with Thomas Davis and Jake Garcia in their dorm room on Friday night.
 
Liberty City El said:
Smoke & mirrors are still smoke & mirrors even if they make you think you see something else.

Momentum is a myth in recruiting when it comes to verbals, because verbals are just that, verbals.

I’m not saying you don’t take any early commits, nor am i saying they don’t help somewhat, I’m saying for fans to keep in perspective & context that early verbals are just as real as Monopoly money, meaning they’re not real at all because they’re not & anybody who’s been a Miami fan for longer than 2 seasons should know that from firsthand experience lol. No other fan base has had to find out the hard way that a kid committed in March don’t mean he’ll sign in December more than us.

Obviously, Miami has had good classes in the last few years so it’s not something to worry about & I’m not trying to get people to worry about it, just reminding folks who seemingly forget annually that early commitments are not binding & they can change at moment, we’ve already had a de-commit from this class & could have another on the horizon & that as we begin to fill up the class with commits between now & the summer that some of those kids won’t make the final cut come December, it literally happens every class yet some people are still shocked by it lol.

Somehow everything I say always gets misinterpreted even when I’m overly clear about what I’m saying lol, but all I’m saying is, yes early commits are fun & they’re a good “look” for the program, but that doesn’t mean the prospect will actually be in the class, be excited about the commit but keep it in the back of your mind that many unforeseen things take place in the months that go by from verbal commit to NSD.

And I’m not even specifying what I’m saying to Bond in particular, I’m talking in general, it applies to every recruit, even the most diehard steadfast committed kids.
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You and me generally agree on stuff and Im not sure theres a lot of disagreement here, just consider this a recruiting topic worth commenting on. Building a recruiting class is some art, some science, some luck, some marketing. Early commitments don’t guarantee you anything, not those kids for sure. That doesn’t mean, though, that nothing matters until nsd. How you get there determines what you get when it rolls around.

I think momentum matters when we are trying to convince kids to get on board who have the option to go to programs that pay more, win more, or both. It doesn’t matter in march. It does matter once summer circuit rolls around. It matters to have a core group of kids other kids respect who are about our program and its trajectory and hype it. Conversely, having no buzz means less media hype in the summer, and it can become self-fulfilling. Kids whese days want to go where other kids want to go.

This is all separate from evals. And the staff has to build their personal relationships. But imo our best classes have had core groups that were on board and vocal/visible throughout the recruiting cycle. It shouldn’t surprise anyone because this is how you build grass roots marketing campaigns In other walks of life also. We have time but imo if we have a slow/weak summer recruiting-wise, I’d temper expectations for nsd.
 
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