Lane Kiffin and the Ole Miss Rebels are crimson scorching on the recruiting path.
June was robust on the dedication entrance and July is trying even higher. Bradenton (Fla.) IMG Academy defensive again Main Preston grew to become the third pledge within the first six days of the month in going public along with his pledge on Saturday night.
The four-star picked Ole Miss over finalists Florida, Colorado and Virginia Tech in the long run.
“Me and coach Wes Neighbors have been locked in for some time now,” Preston advised Rivals. “After I went up there I bought the house feeling. It is the place the place I need to be, the place to place nice individuals round me, with a terrific teaching employees that may develop me and take my sport to the following degree.
“From the teaching employees to different individuals on campus, it is the place I need to be.”
The versatile IMG secondary recruit, who initially hails from Virginia, can play each cornerback and security. He has expertise at every and strikes round on the prep degree.
Within the SEC, he may go into the same function.
“They anticipate me to come back in there and have a right away influence,” Preston mentioned. “They’re dropping 10 guys within the secondary after this coming season, so that they anticipate me to come back in there and produce. They are saying I will play all 5 positions.
“It is large for me to have the chance to play wherever within the secondary. To have the ability to get on the sector early at an SEC program is large for me.”
The versatile imaginative and prescient in Oxford comes from head coach Kiffin, defensive coordinator Pete Golding on down. The latest Insurgent hung out with a number of coaches whereas on the town most not too long ago.
It is when he pulled the set off for this system.
“Coach Golding, that is my man,” Preston mentioned. “He is a high-energy man. I bought to see him coach in individual, throughout observe and stuff. Coach Kiffin is my man. We have been locked in because the official after I bought to satisfy him. Nice conversations with him.I have been silently dedicated for some time now. They had been extra excited than I used to be after I dedicated. They had been speaking like I used to be a excessive precedence for them.
“It was over after I took my official go to up there. It was nice hospitality and simply speaking with the teaching employees — having particular person conferences with them — the issues they had been telling me about what I can do there made me really feel good.”
The most recent blue-chipper on the long run Insurgent roster has a message for his new fanbase.
“They’re getting a tough employee,” Preston mentioned. “An incredible man on the sector, off the sector. Any individual that is gonna are available in and produce for this system.
“Hotty Toddy! Let’s go! Let’s work!”
