Samson Okunlola commits to Miami

[jakeman1]

Tackle or guard?

He played guard at Alabama.

 

[Jesscane]

Has Cormani weighed in on the Samson commit? Would love to see a congratulatory post from him

 

[Cane6]

 

[423Hurricane]

One of, if not the best, commitment ceremonies I’ve ever seen.

 

[canecrazy23]

The happiest RB in America tonight is a dude named Citizen. The Second happiest RB is a dude named Chaney…

Well considering Citizen won't be available at the start of the season I'm going to say Chaney and Parrish are the happy ones right now.

 

[Hurricane23]

Tackle or guard?

Guard

 

[Hurricane23]

While technically incorrect, as we have signed a 5 star (#1 OT) in the past out of MN (and many other studs on the OL) your point is directionally correct. This class is loaded with players highly likely to have a major impact in CFB. Especially excited about the massive upgrade in the trenches. Mario wants both lines (OL & DL) to just manhandle opponents and this class is a great step in that direction. While recruiting is an inexact science, the probability is very high that players like Samson, Francis, Cormani, Wayne, Collins, and many others in this class will succeed at the highest level. This class is loaded with studs.

Welcome to the U, Samson! Can't wait to see you dominating in orange & green. Canes fans around the world will be rooting for you big time.

We never signed 2 in one class

 

[Hurricane23]

Starting O-line combos? Based on my little knowledge of Oline I’d go with

Samson, Cooper, Rivers, Francis, Zion

Samson, Rivers, Cooper, Cohen, Zion/Francis

 

[canesbaby]

Well considering Citizen won't be available at the start of the season I'm going to say Chaney and Parrish are the happy ones right now.

didn't he tear his ACL in August? that means he's going to be 13+ months out before he's ready to see the field again? something happen with his recovery?

 

[SWFLHurricane]

That 08 class was top heavy and just had lots of commits if I remember correctly.

LBer heavy..

 

[SWFLHurricane]

Cohen is visiting this weekend, the bama starting guard transfer. He will most certainly start for us if it goes well over the next few days

CANE

 

[CanesNation26]

This was Mario walking into Samson’s house on Tuesday night

 

[Yoyo82]

Would be sweet if the Rock shouted him out with his pancake pic.

 

[JamesQuall]

I don’t wanna start to ruin the happiness we have of getting these guys. But we’ve seen so many 5 stars lately not pan out here. So maybe I’m still shook from all the flops that I can’t handle any more.

This the type of OL you try your best to have as ready as possible for day 1 next season and suffer the growing pains to get them to be an elite 3 year unit with continuity. The type of OL that ESPN telecasts drool over how many combined starts they have together.

What 5 stars have we had that haven’t worked out??? Lingard and who else? We don’t recruit enough 5 stars for this to be true.

Taylor is doing great and Williams while not setting the world on fire and has flaws is fine.

 

[AUcane]

Samson, Rivers, Cooper, Cohen, Zion/Francis

Who plays center? Clarke or someone else ?

 

[canecrazy23]

didn't he tear his ACL in August? that means he's going to be 13+ months out before he's ready to see the field again? something happen with his recovery?

There was talk of him not being ready until late September.

 

[bobbydigius]

That 08 class was too heavy and ain’t had no real foundation. They had like 7 LBs 7 WR and 2 Oline

That class had multiple issues. It did in fact have a bunch of top tier talent but the bottom half wasn’t even G5 worthy was the first issue. It should have been a 16-18 person class. Some of the reaches were beyond reaches. Then as you stated there was no balance. Also this was the beginning of Radio playing favorites with school’s SFLA. Lastly, the top tier guys never stood a chance as the program itself was a joke at that time. Kids didn’t stand a chance to get developed, I’d say IMG had a better foundation today as a program than Miami in 07.

 

[Hurricane23]

Who plays center? Clarke or someone else ?

I’d say Cooper or Clarke, you could also move Rivers to center, Francis at guard, pancake and Zion the tackles

 

[Hurricane23]

Who plays center? Clarke or someone else ?

LT: pancake LG:Cohen C:Rivers RG: Francis RT: Zion….that’s a possible line up too

 

[AUcane]

I’d say Cooper or Clarke, you could also move Rivers to center, Francis at guard, pancake and Zion the tackles

Rivers to center has been bandied about since he was our emergency center late in the season. Not sure if he can play the spot but it would be ideal in order to keep cooper and Francis at guards.