JaReylan McCoy is down to 6 colleges.
McCoy, the No. 9-ranked defensive finish within the Rivals250 for subsequent yr’s recruiting class out of Tupelo (Miss.) Excessive College, trimmed his record of contenders once more as his junior season kicked off on Friday.
Kentucky, LSU, Tennessee, Oregon, Oklahoma and USC made the lower.
“These are the faculties which have proven probably the most love since I dropped the highest 10,” McCoy instructed Rivals. “These locations are ones I can see myself at — that recruited me not solely as a participant however as an individual, too.”
On LSU: “It is good to be at a program like that. It was loopy when LSU bought concerned. It made me really feel like a neighborhood hero from Mississippi for folks to lookup at somebody like Odell Beckham Jr. or Malik Nabers that got here from LSU. Seeing what their program is like is loopy … We get on the telephone and we discuss life, our favourite meals, something however soccer. They’re gonna be my mother and father at a university so I’ve to have the ability to speak to them, have exterior relationships with out soccer, and LSU might be the largest one … we discuss every thing.”
On USC: “USC is USC. That ‘V’ doesn’t suggest ‘victory’ for no purpose. Coach (Eric) Henderson, Coach (Anthony) Jones, Coach (D’Anton) Lynn. They textual content me each different day sending me messages, checking on me, and sending motivation. That performs an enormous half in our relationship. They suppose I generally is a large a part of the workforce. Even Lincoln Riley texts me each likelihood he will get to be part of USC soccer, and that performs an enormous position, too. The highest guys play at USC, so I really feel like a neighborhood how they’ve supplied me. It seems like I’ve achieved one thing being from a small metropolis.”
On Oregon: “Oregon is simply Oregon. They’ve all the time been considered one of my dream colleges since I used to be little. From the DL coach, to the CB coach, to the RB coach, even the OL coach who would not like DL hits me as much as test on me, see how I am doing, how the varsity yr is, and test on the household. They’re fairly excessive on my radar. The entire gamers there have a successful mentality; there is not any slack. They arrive out with the identical vitality because the coaches do in observe. If you’re all on the identical web page, it is onerous to get beat.”
On Kentucky: “Coach Vince Marrows hits me up daily earlier than observe and Kentucky is enjoying an enormous position in what I am searching for — for out of doors of soccer. They have been on my radar since I bought the supply. I like the way in which their defensive linemen are actual defensive linemen. They’re all the way down to play. They have some canines at Kentucky.”
On Tennessee: “The conversations we’ve everyday, from Coach Chop (Levorn Harbin) to Coach Mack (Scanlon) or Coach (Liam) Ray, them teaching me up and serving to me be higher, exhibiting me for this reason you ought to be right here — that performs an enormous position in getting guys to the league. I might see myself there in Rocky High. If you go, you would not suppose it is Tennessee. It is completely different. After I first went it was loopy — the climate, folks, all people respects all people. I’ve good bonds there.”
On Oklahoma: “Coach (Todd) Bates is on prime of it. He is been on it. He simply retains it actual. In the event you do one thing improper, he’ll let you know to maintain your head up and repair it. He exhibits me how I could be completely different, be higher, and he’ll be actual with you. He is all the time in teaching mode and that is a great way to recruit gamers. Bates and the entire workers — from the safeties coach to the SAMs coach, all of them have been exhibiting nothing however love since I bought the supply. They love my potential there they usually suppose they will add extra and assist my craft. Outdoors of soccer, they will help me turn out to be a greater man. They’ve already helped me study loads.”
