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Nation's #1 TE Delp intrigued by UM tight end tradition

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TRick72 said:
If he’s really looking at TE production then there’s about 11 teams he can eliminate from that list. Unless he wants to split about 20-30 catches a year with the other glorified “pass catching” blockers on the team. As far as academics go, if that’s really a criteria for him he can knock off another 7 teams.
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Stop using logic, recruits dont!
 
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If he makes the trip to the Gables then we're in the game...although I haven't heard much about any of our TE targets.....CMD and Co are very quiet this cycle, possibly because evals are tougher than ever for '22 kids due to the pandemic.
 
He’s close with the UGA QB commit

add in that he’s a GA kid that UGA is coming hard for and this ones pretty simple to figure out
 
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htownkidd said:
I swear if another top TE goes to UGA to rot .....

Kid is the goods. We probably won’t have much of a shot at the end of the day but the kid is well aware of what we have produced and the TE tradition so we do have that going for us. I hope they don’t throw in the towel on him early because if we produce at the TE spot again, could be one to watch.


With his receiving ability, especially lining up out wide and then showing some giddyup in the open field once he gets the rock, he looks ALOT like a guy we have on our team looked in HS.
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Agreed if another TE picks UGA or bama I’ll never understand how dumb people can be you’ll never go in round 1 going to those type of teams
 
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Stefan Adams said:
2022 West Forsyth (GA) 4-star TE Oscar Delp was recently ranked as the top tight end in the country by the 247Sports Composite last week, and the 6’5” 220-pound prospect gave his thoughts on how his talent is viewed by the recruiting industry and how the rankings motivate him to take his game to the next level.

“I just use [the rankings] as fuel and to make me want to get better,” Delp said. “When I was ranked before I think I was 13 or somewhere around there and I just knew there were kids ranked higher than me that I was better than, I just had to prove it. And in this last ranking, luckily I came out as the number one tight end in the country. It’s cool seeing that, that your hard work pays off and people see it. Now it just makes me want to jump higher nationally overall and just keep on grinding.”

It didn’t take long for Delp’s week to get even better, as he also landed an offer from the Miami Hurricanes on Friday, something many tight end recruits covet. With Miami TE coach Stephen Field out of town, the bid came from UM offensive analyst Kyle Cooper.

“[Cooper] told me they’ve been looking at me for awhile and he sent me some things that they wrote up about me when they were looking at my film,” Delp said. “He was just telling me how it’s ‘Tight End U’ there, that it’s an amazing school, and an awesome place – the weather is great there and you can’t complain being in Miami.”

While Delp expects to get on a call with Field and the rest of Miami’s offensive staff this week to follow up on his offer, he says he is already well-aware of the tight end tradition in Coral Gables.

“The history of the tight end position there – they’ve been putting them in the league and they’re about to put another in the league this year,” Delp said of UM. “They love using the tight end and throwing them the ball, and I think it’s an offense I can definitely fit in.”

Miami’s claim to ‘Tight End U’ isn’t just a vague notion for the West Forsyth star – Delp watched multiple Miami games last season and says he could envision himself in the UM offense.

“They loved moving Brevin Jordan around to different spots and making mismatches,” Delp said. “That’s kind of how I play my game and how I’m utilized best. It’s not just a blocking tight end school, they put them all over the field and throw them the ball.”

Ultimately, is a school’s history of tight end production a major factor for Delp in choosing a college?

“Definitely. Every tight end wants to see a school that produces tight ends and uses them the way they want to be used,” he said.

Although Delp admits he has a lot of interest in the Hurricanes, it certainly won’t be an easy task to sway the nation’s #1 tight end with options all across the country. A week before UM offered him, Delp made his first cut of the process, narrowing down his list to 13 schools – Clemson, Michigan, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, OU, LSU, USC, Auburn, UNC, South Carolina, Stanford, and Northwestern.

“Right now, I just released a top 13 to cut down my schools a little bit and focus on the schools I can envision myself at,” Delp said. “My next step is to get out to some of these schools and see everywhere in person before I make a decision.”

Does Delp consider his top 13 open for outside schools to hop in?

“Miami or any other school can definitely get into my top group, but I’m not sure if I’m going to cut it down publicly again,” Delp said. “If I find out where I want to go and know where home is, I think I might commit next. Or if I feel like I need to cut it down again, I’ll cut it down again, but I’m really not sure when. I’ve thought, generally, I’m probably going to decide after May. If [visits] open up like we’re hoping, it could be sometime over the summer, or maybe during the season. I know I’m going to be enrolling early in college so it’s going to have to be sometime before the early signing period.”

As Delp said, the next step of his process is to go on some visits and see where he feels a connection, although he hasn’t been able to set dates yet due to the NCAA extending the dead period through May. Once he is able to take visits, though, Delp says he will have a better idea of where he can see himself for the next four years and will be another step closer to a decision.

“I definitely have a list of schools I want to see,” Delp said. “I want to get out to Georgia, Florida, Clemson, Miami, Southern California, North Carolina, and Michigan once I can. Some of the things I’m looking for in a school include how they use the tight end position, like throwing them the ball. The academics is another big thing for me – ‘It’s a 40 year decision not a 4 year decision’ is what my parents are always saying. Then how I feel overall being at the school and how I fit in in the environment of the school in general.”

As a junior in 2020, Delp recorded 43 catches for 730 yards and 9 TD’s for a 9-4 Wolverines team.

“I think I had a pretty strong season this year - I got hurt right before the playoffs so I only got to play 9 games. Over the offseason, I improved on my route running and my speed, getting in and out of breaks. I think it really showed on the field this year.”

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All due respect, how often does Miami hear this about some high-level kid they're looking into—only to have said kid not even have Miami in his top five, or the Canes at best the first team to get punted during the three-card monte hat choosing process.

Would love to see this happen, but kids like this haven't wound up at Miami in some time. There are better and more big time programs vying for his services.
 
HighSeas said:
That's how I felt about Darnell Washington, Isaac Nauta, Nick O'Leary and many other top TEs.

This kid, on the other hand, has great acceleration, stop-start quickness, and he will step onto the field as a true Fr with some of the best route running and zone awareness of any TE in college football.

Now from Miami's perspective a lot of his skillset would go to waste with the simplified route tree in Lashlee's offense. We don't need a TE who can move all over the formation and run option routes and the like as much as we need physical specimens who can get vertical and run after catch. If I were him I'd go to a pro-style team that uses multiple TEs.
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CaneThang2020 said:
If he makes the trip to the Gables then we're in the game...although I haven't heard much about any of our TE targets.....CMD and Co are very quiet this cycle, possibly because evals are tougher than ever for '22 kids due to the pandemic.
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We have offered so many te's this cycle. And they are from all over the country.

I really like the Nebraska te's and would take one of them (we offered two of them). Pretty much its going to be just 1 to add with Russel Maryland's kid.
 
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gogeta4 said:
We have offered so many te's this cycle. And they are from all over the country.

I really like the Nebraska te's and would take one of them (we offered two of them). Pretty much its going to be just 1 to add with Russel Maryland's kid.
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Fields is supposed to be the recruiting ACE and we are legit TEU. I expect us to get whoever are top f*cking targets are at TE. I'm going to be ****ed if we end up with anything less. Hartley landed Brevin and Mallory in the same class. Fields has no excuse.
 
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zanecane said:
Fields is supposed to be the recruiting ACE and we are legit TEU. I expect us to get whoever are top f*cking targets are at TE. I'm going to be ****ed if we end up with anything less. Hartley landed Brevin and Mallory in the same class. Fields has no excuse.
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lol...Pipe down...you realize we literally landed our top 2 targets at TE last class right.

TE recruiting is the LEAST of our worries. We will be turning away 4 star TE's. Fields has a bunch of offers out..its basically whos going ot jump in the boat at this point. Again Hurrice Legend Russel Maryland's son is a te prospect in this class out of a tx power house program. Our recruiting at TE this year will not be local.
 
gogeta4 said:
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Compare the TE draft record of Stanford, ND or Iowa to tempo spread schools from the Malzahn or Briles tree. It's night and day. If you're a Zach Ertz type you should go to a school that uses that player archetype (move TE) accordingly.

It's a pretty simple concept if you understand schemes and how roles are defined within them. Fit matters.
 
I was kind of surprised that he didn’t have ND or Iowa in his group. If I was a TE I know I would give those schools a hard look along with Miami.
 
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