Any time Colby Davis flips over his TV to watch the Ohio State game, he sees Ameka Agbuka.
In Davis ’eyes, Eggbuka is already wearing No. 2 in scarlet and gray. He remembers seeing Chris Olaw every time he sees Chris Olav, one of the Buccaneers’ star receivers who wears the same number as Egbuka at Stilacom High School in Washington.
Davis is the head coach of the Sentinels who has had fun creating offenses for using Egbuka creatively in the last two years, gaining access to the country’s No. 1 ranked receiver. Davis, who spoke to Eleven Warriors earlier this week to preview Egbuka’s decision, was impressed with the senior’s appreciation of the movie game and what he has to offer Buccaneers as his latest commitment to stacked 2021 recruits. Class.
Egbuka, the No. 9 overall player in the cycle, has been told by Brian Hartline that it can be used in multiple locations but the work Garrett Wilson is doing during the Breakout Sofamore campaign is the biggest place to work in the slot. But Davis sees a more appropriate comparison between Egbuka and other West Coast products.
“Honestly, I think he’s got more moisture in him than Garrett Wilson, just some of the physical features and some of the things that he does up to ball skills and high-pointing and his catch play,” Davies said. “And when I watch Ohio State games, you’ll see Olav at No. 2, and he wears the same Mac.”
And sticking to the comparisons, Hartline told Egbuka at one point that her game and skills are reminiscent of Terry McLaurin, with Hartline saying that Buccaneers could use Egbuka in a similar fashion.
The recruitment process for those conversations began early, starting all the way through the winter of Egbuka’s Sofmore year. And when we look at why Egbuka finally chose Columbus as the final stop in his recruitment, you don’t have to look further than the National Recruitment No. 1 reason to rule the year.
“It was huge,” Davis said of Egbuka and Hartline’s relationship. “I think they have a very similar disposition in their approach and their competitiveness, and I think Mac Coach will feed Hart’s fire and competitiveness. I believe that his enthusiasm for Coach Hart will push him every day to be the best and not accept anything more than excellence. That’s what Mac wants. He doesn’t want to come into practice and just treats everyone like him and he doesn’t need a coach.
“He wants to push every day, and if you can’t help him get better as a coach he doesn’t really want to deal with you. He wants to go somewhere where he’ll be pushed and coached, and he wants to learn. Looks like it will definitely be a perfect match with those two. ”
But we cannot conclude that a strong relationship with Hartline is the only reason for Egbuka’s decision. Relationships are the most important factor in recruitment. But the blueprint for growth and the solid path to success goes hand in hand.
“They guys are segregated, the receivers are segregated, on short breaking routes, on breaking breakers, on deep deep shots, and I think (Ameka) can do it all and win consistently.”– Colby Davis, head coach of Ameka Egbuka High School
Ever since Ryan Day took over as full-time offensive coordinator in 2018, the bookies’ offense has been on its way to becoming what it is today as CEO of the program – the dream of an offensive skills player.
Sunday-style concepts and plans for the day have already helped the bookies unleash the most talented quarterback in program history (see: Fields, Justin), committing back-to-back five-star quarterbacks in the 2021 and 2022 classes (the latter being Queen Weeks, Has become the first ranked No. 1 all-time recruit in Ohio State history) and one of the best two years of offensive talent the bookies have ever had in high school.
Egbuka proved to be a big hit in getting into the Big Ten.
“Especially since coach Day has taken over, they don’t put their players in a bad situation,” Davis said. “They call concepts and they call plays that have a high success rate. They don’t call for bad looks versus drama. They really do it constantly. There are some ways they run into this crime that they need receivers to win and take advantage of one situation after another, and I think Mac does it very well. They leave the guys alone, the receivers alone, on the short lanes, on the vert bha breaking routes, on the deep nda shots, and I think Mack can do it all and he can win consistently.
“He’s also a guy who’s playing in the slot, he’s able to take advantage of some of the defenders who are trying to cover him, whether he’s an over-defender or an insider or a security guard. I mean, good luck. And the Mac is really, really smart so I think it will really work, in the Ohio State crime slot. Watching fans and coaches is a big crime. You appreciate a lot of the work they do, and you just know with a talented receiver like Mac, it will work well. ”
But, wouldn’t Egbuka have been so good at quarterback success અને and a receiver-friendly offense like Ok Klahoma? Well, yes, almost certainly. EggBuka is a special and Lincoln relay system has proven to be dynamic even for skilled position players.
That’s one reason why Egbuka is considering the nurse so heavily and why he recruited her in the 11th hour before the commitment five days before the start of the initial signing period. That’s one reason he visited Norman last week when Oklahoma beat Baylor with Egbuka in the stand last week.
Agbuka, as Davis says, “has a lot of admiration and respect for what Oklahoma does aggressively,” and that’s why he was found comparing two high-powered crimes. But there were enough differences in which Agbuka was able to see which plans between the two for his college career were appropriate to his own vision.
“I would say Ohio State takes more shots than Downfield (Oklahoma does),” Davis said. “At least this year with groups of staff for both teams, I think Oklahoma is trying to move the ball downfield further using the horizontal concept and try to do this thing later by misdirection and try to fool the defenders with the content of the play-stuff cushion. doing. It’s a little different, and I know Mac knows it.
“When he went into the Oklahoma game, he saw that Oklahoma didn’t take a lot of shots downfield. But he also knows that when he had a ladder lamb, he would take shots at the downfield so he knew he was probably meeting the skills he had. But I think hi nda shots, the bhi stuff, the double-move concepts that are included in the state of Ohio are really interesting for Mac. ”
And now, by strongly supporting the relationship with the Heartline and Day Crime stretch, the bookies have reached the top spot in four years of receiver recruitment that has brought ridiculous confusion of wealth and potential first-round talent. Columbus.
Ohio State has four top-100 receivers in the 2020 class (including two Five Stars and another Boundary Five Star) and two more Top-100 receivers in Egbuka’s own class. Some programs tried to use it as a recruitment tool against the bookies, but it was ironically wounded by working in their favor.
“One of the big deals that Mack made in his decision to commit was that Mack never took the easy way out,” Davies said. “He wants to challenge, and he wants things to be difficult. And he knows with Coach Hart that he keeps pushing every day. He’s going to be a tough coach to be as good as possible. He knows the receiver room is stacked. He didn’t want to be in a position where he could just go in and take a place or something. He knew he had to go in and make money. He was just that kind of competitor. He wanted to push every day that he could probably It doesn’t want anything easy.
“It simply came to our notice then. He embraces it. Mac is excited in the very best way. And so, in the recruitment process there were coaches who told him (Ohio State) the room was crowded and gave him the option to come to a place where he could no doubt play immediately and compete easily. He was not interested in it at all. It’s not what he wants. Now he wants to go to a place where people think it will be difficult and where he can come out and show that he is the best player, he is the best receiver. It’s just a quiet belief that it’s about her. And he also knows that if he can’t do it, he’ll fill the room with guns trying to be the best, and until then he’ll continue to work every day. ”
The season was postponed until March, I’m still coming for my records pic.twitter.com/E4Ot5TjHLh
– Ameka Egbuka (@ameka_igbuka) July 23, 2020
Now, the right decision and the real operation must be made. The relief is that the recruitment process is going to officially go to bed on Wednesday when Egbuka hints, but a decision on whether it wants to gain early admission in January will have to be made quickly.
When Washington Washington pushed high school football back in the spring, Egbuka’s plan was to stay around Steelcom and get a shot to break the school’s record and get a second crack to win the Sentinels’ first state championship in football after a runner. – Finished in 2019.
But now, the state has a tough decision on whether to host high school football in the spring.
Agbuka has the physical skills and next-level understanding of the game – with the ability to quickly grasp the playbook and the noise of becoming a Big Ten receiver – competing to come and play time as a true fresh man and maybe even start. To get a real shot at that point, though, he’ll probably need a spring ball. If he waits until June, the odds against him are high.
There are a lot of family factors and other aspects that go into Egbuka’s decision, and he has to come to that choice quickly.
Whether January or June, though, a reassuring fact is that on Friday night at Pacific Time: 0: at7 p.m., Buckeyes chose one of the best and most versatile talents in the country.
And then, once Egbuka officially posted his commitment video on Twitter and Instagram, he stopped practicing on Steelacom at 5:30 p.m.
No parties. Not Hupla. Just go back to the grind. As if anyone should expect something.
Soon enough, Davis and millions of people will be able to flip over to Fox and see the impression of his best olava by screaming in the field for an Egbuka 50-yard touchdown or breaking out for a ho-hum 15-yard gain. On the side.
Maybe EggBuka will also get to wear No.2.
Header Photo: Ameka Egbuka – Brandon Huffman / 247 Sports
