Football: Prep coach says Kaveinga "still a BYU guy."
People like us who are recruiting junkies jump on everything little bit of news we can get, so I am going to throw this one out there with a cautionary note: It's not much, and it might mean even less.
I was able to have a quick telephone conversation this evening with Dione Tolliver, head football coach at Leuzinger High in Lawndale, Calif. That's the school atended by Uona Kaveinga, the four-star linebacker who committed to BYU on Jan. 12 but subsequently visited USC the following weekend.
Tolliver said he asked Kaveinga on Friday what was going on with his recruitment, and "he told me he's still a BYU guy."
Tolliver said he is doing his best to "stay out of the middle of all this" and didn't want to speculate any more than that on Kaveinga's mental state.
The coach took my number and said he would ask the player to call me. He said Kaveinga did not make it to his sixth period class today or he would have asked him to call me then. He told me to not read anything into the absence.
"All I know, really, is that he said he had some doubts and so he went on a trip to SC," Tolliver said. "The only thing I tell him is, ‘Do what is best for you and your family.'"
By the way, I have seen the young man's last name spelled two different ways -- Kaveinga and Kavienga. I asked a receptionist at his school to pull up his file and spell it to me today and she spelled it K-A-V-E-I-N-G-A.
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Speaking of BYU football recruits, I was unable to reach Hamani Stevens today (Monday) after the offensive lineman told me Saturday that he might announce his college choice on Monday. I texted Stevens twice during school hours (I try not to bother players while they should be in class), but he did not reply, so I am assuming he did not announce it.
In case you missed it, Stevens said after playing in Saturday's SoCal Bowl that he had made his decision (between BYU and Oregon), but was waiting until Monday or Tuesday to announce it.
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A few other BYU football recruiting-related tidbits:
* BYU coaches were holding out some slim hope that Simoni Lawrence, a 6-foot-1, 210-pound safety from Valley Forge Military Academy in Pennsylvania would change his mind and de-commit from Minnesota in order to accept a BYU scholarship offer. I've heard they were saving a scholarship for him, even at this late date, although I never got that confirmed from anyone important.
Well, the Web site GoldenSports.Net reported last week that Lawrence has recently re-affirmed the commitment he made to the Gophers on Sept. 22. He had visited BYU on Sept. 7.
* There was a report over the weekend from Rivals.com that American Fork receiver Jake Murphy, who committed to BYU last summer, was going to visit Colorado some time before signing day. However, the BYU-based Web site totalbluesports.com, part of the Scout.com network, cleared the situation up Monday with direct quotes from Murphy saying he is 100 percent commited to BYU.
I was able to have a quick telephone conversation this evening with Dione Tolliver, head football coach at Leuzinger High in Lawndale, Calif. That's the school atended by Uona Kaveinga, the four-star linebacker who committed to BYU on Jan. 12 but subsequently visited USC the following weekend.
Tolliver said he asked Kaveinga on Friday what was going on with his recruitment, and "he told me he's still a BYU guy."
Tolliver said he is doing his best to "stay out of the middle of all this" and didn't want to speculate any more than that on Kaveinga's mental state.
The coach took my number and said he would ask the player to call me. He said Kaveinga did not make it to his sixth period class today or he would have asked him to call me then. He told me to not read anything into the absence.
"All I know, really, is that he said he had some doubts and so he went on a trip to SC," Tolliver said. "The only thing I tell him is, ‘Do what is best for you and your family.'"
By the way, I have seen the young man's last name spelled two different ways -- Kaveinga and Kavienga. I asked a receptionist at his school to pull up his file and spell it to me today and she spelled it K-A-V-E-I-N-G-A.
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Speaking of BYU football recruits, I was unable to reach Hamani Stevens today (Monday) after the offensive lineman told me Saturday that he might announce his college choice on Monday. I texted Stevens twice during school hours (I try not to bother players while they should be in class), but he did not reply, so I am assuming he did not announce it.
In case you missed it, Stevens said after playing in Saturday's SoCal Bowl that he had made his decision (between BYU and Oregon), but was waiting until Monday or Tuesday to announce it.
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A few other BYU football recruiting-related tidbits:
* BYU coaches were holding out some slim hope that Simoni Lawrence, a 6-foot-1, 210-pound safety from Valley Forge Military Academy in Pennsylvania would change his mind and de-commit from Minnesota in order to accept a BYU scholarship offer. I've heard they were saving a scholarship for him, even at this late date, although I never got that confirmed from anyone important.
Well, the Web site GoldenSports.Net reported last week that Lawrence has recently re-affirmed the commitment he made to the Gophers on Sept. 22. He had visited BYU on Sept. 7.
* There was a report over the weekend from Rivals.com that American Fork receiver Jake Murphy, who committed to BYU last summer, was going to visit Colorado some time before signing day. However, the BYU-based Web site totalbluesports.com, part of the Scout.com network, cleared the situation up Monday with direct quotes from Murphy saying he is 100 percent commited to BYU.
2 Comments:
Great stuff Jay...hey do you have any news on Cody Raymond from Jordan or Jordan Anderson from Alta?
Thanks for the insight!
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