Sean is a 6’6″, 270 pound offensive tackle out of Fallbrook, California. Watched film on Sean and was highly impressed. He buries people, has a high motor and a real good mean streak to him. Likes to put people down and keep’em down. Very good pass blocker. Nobody gets by him. Didn’t see enough run blocking film, but he’s athletic and should be able to do that just as well.
Sean had committed to UCLA a while ago, but he decommitted on Dec.14 and committed to us today. Sean is a 5.7, three-star by Rivals, a high three-star by 247 (87 grade; 90 is a four-star) and a three-star by Scout (they don’t put grades on their players). Sean had offers from Arizona and Cal among others and USC and Stanford were showing a great deal of interest. He will be an early enrollee along with four-star qb commit Johnathan McCrary, meaning he’ll come in in January and participate in spring practice. Sean said the coaches told him they want him at tackle, but he is willing to play guard or center, wherever the team needs him. He really likes the education we offer, he loves our coaching staff, calls them the best in the country, and sees the ability to win championships in this program. He’s a highly confident, solid young man He said in his interview a while back, after he committed to UCLA, he wanted to talk to his dad after he came home from the Middle East about other options, so I’m assuming his dad is in the military. Looks like a real nice pickup here. We now have two offensive line recruits after offensive tackle Delando Crooks committed to us last Sunday. Come on L3. We’ve got a shot. He will announce at the Under-Armour High School All-Star game on Friday, Jan.4.
That was a tough one last night for the team losing 56-52 to Middle Tennessee State. I wasn’t going to write anything because it was so frustrating, but decided to listen to Kevin’s postgame and got some encouragement from that. We’re learning how to win. We have good talent, just inexperienced in games and particularly in clutch situations. Sometimes you learn by coming up short in these games unfortunately. Hopefully we’ll grow from this one. MTSU is a pretty legit team. Looks like a tourney team to me. A lot of juniors and seniors who knew what they are doing in the clutch. We struggled in the clutch. Got to get better in crunch time. We’re now 5-5. Butler next Saturday Night at Memorial. 8 PM ET/7CT on ESPNU.