re: Latest on Drake Davis is he's headed to IMG Academy in FL

There's some videos of him up from the 7 on 7 championship at IMG this weekend. Unreal talent.

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If he's good enough he will get offered at the July camp. Simple as that.

We got a couple freaks already committed though and Brandon Martin could come in in January too. All of these guys are 6'4+ with crazy athleticism.

Like I said, all these guys we have are big and can run and can catch. If Davis proves he has the hands, he will get offered. If not, we have guys as good or better already on board

His knock has been his hands

Is Sullivan staying at WR or are those DE talks for real?

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What about the football people? This is what I mostly care about. The guys that got there on scholarships and not having to drop college level payout just to go to school. These seem like the truly talented kids. Having no idea about anything else, but I'm guessing that nearly all of the people that had to pay, had rich parents and meh talent.

I was looking at its football recruits and it's crazy how much talent they have on roster. It gets talent like Junipero Serra, Long Beach Poly, St Thomas Aquinas, etc, pull in yearly (and you can't tell me those guys don't "recruit").

I didn't think people that followed recruiting would ever believe that everybody that went there got D1 scholarships. I mean it's an Academy for rich people and/or talented people. Similar to those arts and dance type schools for high school kids.

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The guys that got there on scholarships and not having to drop college level payout just to go to school. These seem like the truly talented kids. Having no idea about anything else, but I'm guessing that nearly all of the people that had to pay, had rich parents and meh talent.

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Not necessarily on the meh talent part, pretty much every single person that goes there has a lot of physical talent because there are thousands of people from across the world (it's not just an american school) that want to go there so they can cherry pick the ones that they want. The thing that separates the good from the elite is that the good ones aren't as polished yet, but I can guarantee that every single person in that school is a physical prototype for their position and is bigger, faster, stronger, and smarter than 99% of athletes across the country. Granted I went there almost 10 years ago but it doesn't really seem like anything's changed on that front

What's going to separate IMG football players like Savion Smith from our normal 5* recruits is their intangibles. IMG is putting in work and recruiting kids and getting an insane amount of talent collected but would you consider a 3* defensive end who's 6'4", 240, runs a 4.8 40, is stronger/works harder than anyone else in the gym, hasn't spent all of high school drinking/doing drugs, knows how to compose himself in front of a camera, and has spent 4 years in an ultra competitive environment playing against basically SEC level competition to be a "normal" 3 star prospect? I wouldn't, and that's basically what IMG is composed of. Some of their guys might be rated low because their game composure or coordination or something isn't quite there yet but every single person that makes it there is perfect physically and has rare intangibles, and those are the guys that turn into high draft picks later on moreso than a kid that's a lazy but ultra talented frickup who's going to screw up your team chemistry when he comes in. Basically any prospect that we sign from there is as close to a "sure thing" as you can get IMO

Also IMG was set to cost Drake 70k for just the 1 year according to his mom. But of course that whole fee is waived along with boarding being free also. So IMG is a very expensive school... But almost all the football players either don't have to pay or are on a majority scholarship where the price is very reasonable.

My oldest played with Drake for 4 years. He will NEVER step foot on a college football field other than on a recruiting visit.