Gilmer OL Ismael Camara won't take any official visits this summer

[khardman]

3 hours ago, GoHorns1 said:

Louie Gohermt 🤮

Yellow dog??

[harveycmd]

Yes, Kobe Bryant’s legendary Game 1 performance against the San Antonio Spurs in the 2001 Western Conference Finals is widely considered the greatest, most dominant game ever played by a 22-year-old in NBA history.

[WRNC]

2 hours ago, Glass Joe said:

It’s not the guardian that worries me, per se.  It’s the not-for-profit that is marketing Camara as its spokesman and its fund raising revenue source.  If Camara weren’t a marketable NIL entity, he’s still in France in a very difficult situation.  But because he’s a highly marketable NIL story, he’s now the “French Freak” and the fund raising face of an NFP that has literally created a campaign (“PROtector”…for a Tackle prospect 🤔😂) using his story.  

Again, I hope this has a happy ending for the kid and the team around him is acting solely in his best interests.  I really hope FOOTBALL can lead this kid to a better outcome, regardless of how he arrives there.  But I will be skeptical of the “team” and the marketing campaign until I see the results for the kid.

Camara wasn't marketable NIL entity in France.  His grandmother severely ill and he had to completely drop school to act as her primary caregiver. 

Coming had zero prior experience with the football.  He spent first year (2024) of football learning the rules and basics on the JV team.  

He made his varsity debut as a junior (2025). He dominated the competition at left tackle, racking up an astonishing 170+ pancake blocks across 11 games, allowing zero sacks, and earning District Offensive Lineman of the Year honors.  Scouts view his rapid ascent to a consensus five-star recruit as one of the most remarkable developmental stories, if football is priority #1 here for him.

Camara started PROtector, without official non-profit organization involved, relies entirely on his Gilmer High School classmates and football team, local community-driven volunteer. 

His coach has publicly stated that Camara’s choice to delay college recruiting travel to remain with his team is viewed as the ultimate realization of that selfless culture.

 

 

 

[Glass Joe]

2 hours ago, WRNC said:

Camara wasn't marketable NIL entity in France.  His grandmother severely ill and he had to completely drop school to act as her primary caregiver. 

Coming had zero prior experience with the football.  He spent first year (2024) of football learning the rules and basics on the JV team.  

He made his varsity debut as a junior (2025). He dominated the competition at left tackle, racking up an astonishing 170+ pancake blocks across 11 games, allowing zero sacks, and earning District Offensive Lineman of the Year honors.  Scouts view his rapid ascent to a consensus five-star recruit as one of the most remarkable developmental stories, if football is priority #1 here for him.

Camara started PROtector, without official non-profit organization involved, relies entirely on his Gilmer High School classmates and football team, local community-driven volunteer. 

His coach has publicly stated that Camara’s choice to delay college recruiting travel to remain with his team is viewed as the ultimate realization of that selfless culture.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Protector.org is funded through a larger not for profit called Street Grace (based in Atlanta) and run by Bob Rodgers.  Read here www.streetgrace.org.  This is an anti- sex trafficking not for profit.  That said, it is now “aligned” with Protector.org and sends grant money to get it funded and launched.

Todd Robinson (the guardian) is no stranger to those who follow recruiting.  He was the guy who took guardianship over Justin Johnson (5-star RB in 2008 who chose OU), as well as being a guardian and/or mentor to several other highly ranked football recruits in Gilmer area over the years (K.Boyd, C.Brown, others).  

So the story goes that Robinson was once an exchange student in France as a kid and somehow maintained “relationships” in that community in France.  And voila!!… a highly skilled 6’6” 340 lb athlete is introduced to Todd Robinson and winds up relocating from France to play football at Gilmer High, and is then adopted by Robinson (giving him power of attorney over Camara’s affairs, I assume).

Now Camara is not only an elite recruit, he is being repped by his “team of advisors” (including Robinson, Rodgers, etc).   They meet with colleges on his behalf and control his recruitment.  Camara is now an active fund raiser for a not for profit, and doesn’t seem to have time to select a college for himself.  If he doesn’t have time for his own recruitment, does this sound like a guy who’ll be a highly-focused talent maximizer after he gets $1M+ NIL deal?

There are a lot of adults who stand to make a lot of money for themselves, and they seem to have surrounded the kid to the point where the adults are running the decision making, not the player.  I’d love to be wrong and believe this is just an incredibly sweet rags-to-riches story for a really good kid, but then I look at this chaotic recruiting process, social media campaign, and outside activities, and all I can see adults spoiling that story.

I sincerely hope I’m wrong.

Edited 44 minutes ago by Glass Joe