Nice article from a local Jersey writer on TAC's commitment:
“When Miami first offered me, it kind of opened my eyes to what I wanted to be as a football player,” Austin-Cave said. “It was truly an honor to get an offer from that school and based on the history and past of producing great linebackers, that school, it gets all its recruits from down south, for them to offer me being from Jersey seeing what I can do all the way up here, that meant something to me.”
He still remembers seeing his parents after receiving the Hurricanes’ offer in February, and what it felt like to tell them the news.
“I’m making my folks proud,” he said. There were other selling points too. The school’s size was key, as there’s only 11,000 students at the university. “Probably an average of 20 kids a class, that’s important, to have relationships with the professors,” Austin-Cave said. “That’s going to be huge in the future. You never know where that person may come into your life down the line.”
Playing time was also a factor. The Hurricanes’ lost four senior linebackers from a year ago.
“They’re going to need guys this upcoming year,” he said. “There’s an opportunity for me to play; it’s up to me to put in that work day in and day out to get better, that’s all I really need in my life, an opportunity, and Miami gave me an opportunity to play football for them.”
It also didn’t hurt that Miami showed him a grand time when he made his official visit in early June. The school had a chauffeur pick his family up to go to the airport. There was five-star accommodations, five-star food and the beach was a stone’s throw away.
He came home from that visit thinking, “There’s not too many places like Miami,” he said.
