Four-star DL Joseph Mbatchou decommits from Florida

[Gerry Hamilton]

Loganville (Ga.) Grayson High 4-star+ DL Joseph Mbatchou has de-committed from Florida.

The 6-4.5, 275-pounder made an official visit to Texas over the weekend. 

Texas is battling USC and potentially Georgia for the first-year player with a very high ceiling. 

[Gerry Hamilton]

 

[Gerry Hamilton]

Auburn is also trying to make a big run.

Expected to visit Michigan this weekend. 

[JMarquette]

The timing of this decommitment seems significant. 

[CJ Vogel]

Big news here.

[Joe Zura]

1 minute ago, CJ Vogel said:

Big news here.

Sorry CJ only Gerry can say HI hahaha

[Evan Andreolli]

Baker is proving to be an upgrade over Bo. Has Collins and Broughton playing as well as they realistically can and he's way, way ahead with recruiting versus anything Bo had here.

[qaertyisthatdude]

Just now, Evan Andreolli said:

Baker is proving to be an upgrade over Bo. Has Collins and Broughton playing as well as they realistically can and he's way, way ahead with recruiting versus anything Bo had here.

Watch him find a way to $nag Justus Terry too

[taxsaver]

weird...for some reason I thought he'd already done that...

[JMarquette]

2 minutes ago, qaertyisthatdude said:

Watch him find a way to $nag Justus Terry too

I think this game made Sark & Co. understand that we need some of those Georgia Boys... an NIL bag may be incoming for Justus. 

[PinchPullPancake]

 

[qaertyisthatdude]

1 minute ago, JMarquette said:

I think this game made Sark & Co. understand that we need some of those Georgia Boys... an NIL bag may be incoming for Justus. 

Agreed.  I know the staff wants to avoid upsetting the locker room by giving a HS kid that kind of money, but elite DL prospects like this don’t come along very often.  You have to go the Aggy route and pay a premium for them.  Difference is Baker has proven in his short time he can develop, so I trust him to develop his prospects into NFL draft picks.

[Zacharyhorn]

19 minutes ago, Gerry Hamilton said:

Auburn is also trying to make a big run.

Expected to visit Michigan this weekend. 

Don’t Auburn have a great defensive line haul already?  They need to fall back.  Same can be said for Georgia.  

[Orngblud05]

So when he said Texas is 2nd  to Florida after the visit may need some updating?

[qaertyisthatdude]

3 minutes ago, Zacharyhorn said:

Don’t Auburn have a great defensive line haul already?  They need to fall back.  Same can be said for Georgia.  

DL is so important that’s it’s worth getting greedy for

[Gerry Hamilton]

Turning into an NIL recruitment because of USC. 

See what happens. 

[Tande11]

Any reason why Georgia is not on the graphic?

[Gerry Hamilton]

Just now, Tande11 said:

Any reason why Georgia is not on the graphic?

They haven't made the push yet ... we shall if they do.

Just landed one 5-star, and Justus Terry remains possible for them. 

Georgia has three DL's committed right now. 

[Evan Andreolli]

32 minutes ago, JMarquette said:

I think this game made Sark & Co. understand that we need some of those Georgia Boys... an NIL bag may be incoming for Justus. 

The high end talent on this team is still really young.

[Gerry Hamilton]

27 minutes ago, Zacharyhorn said:

Don’t Auburn have a great defensive line haul already?  They need to fall back.  Same can be said for Georgia.  

Auburn wants to add one more DL --- if they can win another one. 

[JMarquette]

3 minutes ago, Evan Andreolli said:

The high end talent on this team is still really young.

I agree but DL is a position we need to fill 

[GoHorns1]

31 minutes ago, Zacharyhorn said:

Don’t Auburn have a great defensive line haul already?  They need to fall back.  Same can be said for Georgia.  

Never have too many top DL players on a team.

[Gerry Hamilton]

Mbatchou not expected to announce a decision until late November or early December ... barring a major change. 

[Forrest J.]

2 minutes ago, Gerry Hamilton said:

Mbatchou not expected to announce a decision until late November or early December ... barring a major change. 

How far away do you think he is from actually playing?  If he’s as raw as what’s being reported, it sounds like he’s at least two years away from hitting the field. Am I off on that?  

[Zacharyhorn]

14 minutes ago, Gerry Hamilton said:

Turning into an NIL recruitment because of USC. 

See what happens. 

Would Mbatchou carry the same NIL asking price as Terry?  Or would Terry be more expensive.  If they would be the same, then UT should extend an offer that Terry could not refuse.  After what we witnessed Saturday night, we may need to reset the market for top notch linemen out of Georgia.  
 

I always knew that we needed to recruit the trenches better, but witnessing Georgia players first hand really shows me that we still got work to do in order to have that next level d-line like them.