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2026 Karon Maycock 3* LB from Central

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tweener i would only take as a safety and i dont know the last time he has played safety.


he has good upper body but lower half looks skinny n narrow.

Similar build to Pruitt but not sure if he has much more growth....hes smart locking in fsu early good for them.
 
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gogeta4 said:
there is Jordan Campbell, A kid in Palm Beach, Derek Cooper if he wants but aint much guys here you right.
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Jordan Campbell is a microcosm of why the LB position down here is caca.

Any high school team down here who's got a 6'1"-6'2" 210lb-220lb kid on their defense is automatically putting him at edge rusher.

In many cases (like ours at WHS)...
Schools don't even have true DE's on their team, so they have to put a LB body at that edge spot. My edge guy (Rush OLB) last season was a 6'0"-6'1" 225lb kid. The year before we had to use a 6'1" 195lb kid at that spot.
 

Miami (May 30 - June 1), Penn State (June 6-8), Alabama (June 13-15) and FSU (June 20-22) have official visits set up with Maycock for this upcoming summer.

He also intends on getting to Missouri (March 7), Alabama (March 24) and Syracuse (April 4-6) during the spring.
 
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One9 said:

Miami (May 30 - June 1), Penn State (June 6-8), Alabama (June 13-15) and FSU (June 20-22) have official visits set up with Maycock for this upcoming summer.

He also intends on getting to Missouri (March 7), Alabama (March 24) and Syracuse (April 4-6) during the spring.
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That pretty much says if you have another trash season i Have other options . I don’t want him he’s too small for lb . We need kids like Wiley not some db at lb . Fcking studs not dbs avoiding contact at lb .
 
Coach Macho said:
Jordan Campbell is a microcosm of why the LB position down here is caca.

Any high school team down here who's got a 6'1"-6'2" 210lb-220lb kid on their defense is automatically putting him at edge rusher.

In many cases (like ours at WHS)...
Schools don't even have true DE's on their team, so they have to put a LB body at that edge spot. My edge guy (Rush OLB) last season was a 6'0"-6'1" 225lb kid. The year before we had to use a 6'1" 195lb kid at that spot.
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Coach,

It seems like the talent here has fallen off the last couple of years. Am I wrong about this? If its true, why do you think that is?
 
ChinstrapCane said:
Coach,

It seems like the talent here has fallen off the last couple of years. Am I wrong about this? If its true, why do you think that is?
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At LB perhaps, but I still see a ton of talent at the skill positions.
We generally don't have the body types down here for positions like LB, DT and OL.

Most of the LB's down here are kids that are around 5'10"-6'0" and roughly 190lbs-200lbs.
Colleges are generally looking for 6'1" minimum and the frame to hold 230lbs.
My LB this past season was Miami Herald's Defensive Players Of The Year...but at only 6'0" 190lbs...he couldn't retain any of his P4 offers. All the ACC schools dropped him, UConn dropped him cause they refused to take an LB under 200lbs. Now he's headed to Presbyterian College.

We have a lot of great football players down here...but many of them simply don't fit the "physical traits" criteria for the next level. They're just as talented as anybody in the country, but they don't have the measureables for the next level. When we played Milton, they LOOKED far better than us. Physical traits all over their roster. They weren't necessarily more TALENTED though, and we won 14-10. Most of that Milton team is headed to P4. The kids that beat them that night are headed to small schools (NAIA, D2, D3)...or in some cases...Broward Community College.
So was there a talent discrepancy, or a physical traits discrepancy?

Regarding OL and DL, many of our kids there are under-developed and overweight. Most high schools (minus the privates and few Dade County powers) even have the body types to field a decent line on either side of the ball. They're basically relegated to putting their "fat kids" at those spots. In Broward the private schools basically have a monopoly on OL talent, and even those schools aren't sending a ton of OL to big college programs. Kids who are 6'4"-6'5" and athletic don't exactly grow on trees down here. Plenty of 6'1"-6'4" knock-kneed fat kids though, and that's generally who's playing OL at most high school programs in South Florida.

DL is another spot where the privates have a pretty good strangle hold on the local talent. Plenty of next-level DL talent at schools like Heritage, STA and Chaminade. Then there's a massive drop-off when you look at the publics, where everybody's DT's are 5'10"-6'1" chunky kids and everybody's DE's are basically LB bodies. The story is a little different in Dade where public schools like Central, Norland and Northwestern are loaded with legit DL bodies/talent.

LB is a very frustrating position for me, as a former LB myself and having coached defense for 18 years, trying to find real MODERN-TYPE Linebackers down here is a headache. Nobody wants to play the **** position. The kids that are 6'2" 215lbs would rather play Edge and get sacks. The kids who are 6'0"-6'1" 190lbs-195lbs would rather play Safety and try to get INT's.
Nobody wants to get their a$s in that box and do the dirty work. I got a kid right now who's 6'0"-6'1" 192lbs and is adamant about playing Safety. I could easily develop him into an All-State/All-County LB like I did with the last 2 kids, and probably get him into a D1 school, but he'd rather be a large/slow Safety than a small/fast LB. (scouts want to see him in the box, by the way)
Keep in mind, most of the best LB's in the NFL right now fall around 6'0"-6'1" 225lbs give or take.

Talked to a recruiting staff member from Miami recently and he eluded to this same issue (with South Florida kids). Kids don't wanna play the LB position, and many high school coaches don't develop or "personnel" the position for the next level. DC's down here are very prehistoric in their thinking. So when they assemble their defensive roster, all they're looking for at Linebacker is a "banger", a head cracker, someone who hits. But keep in mind, that's not how the game is played today. We don't play in a phone booth like we did in the 90's when many of these coaches were playing. So they're basically fielding and developing their LB units like we're still in the 90's. In other words, they're putting chunky kids who will hit you in a phone booth at LB. And their kids who would more appropriately fill the role of a MODERN LINEBACKER (long, athletic, can run and cover), they're putting at Edge.

So what do you think that's doing to LB development in South Florida? Absolutely killing it.
The scouts will come down here, they'll see your 6'2" 215lb DE, and they wanna offer him at LB.
But...the kid has no LB tape! He's been playing the edge for 3 years! They wanna see him in space.
Now...that kid who probably could've been developed into a legit D1 Linebacker is gonna struggle to find himself a college that's willing to take a chance on him. He'll probably end-up signing to a much smaller school as an undersized DE instead.
This same thing doesn't happen as much in states like Georgia and Texas, where they have REAL DE's and LB's.

So I don't think it's a TALENT issue down here as much as it's a TRAITS issue.
Our kids are talented as ****, many of them just don't translate to the next level (due to traits).
 
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