https://twitter.com/isaiahessissima/status/1038155200631107584?s=21
https://247sports.com/Player/Isaiah-Essissima-46039961/
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Wonder what the significance of 131% is. Either way, welcome aboard, young man!
Welcome to the family!
BOOM!
Unsure, but he’s not the first. 4* DE from Fort Worth that committed to Notre Dame used it when he committed.
Essissima had P5 offers from Iowa State, Nebraska, Texas Tech, and Vanderbilt as well as offers from Tulane and Boise State among the 20 offers he had.
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We are getting players. The present is very bright and the future is even brighter.
The reputation is that Houston develops players.
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Hasn’t Hightower been a hotbed for UH lately?
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Yes and it’s because their head coach really likes Major Applewhite.**
**This post featured sarcasm.
Chose UH over Boise and Iowa St (“the finalists”).
Texas Tech, Nebraska, Vandy & Tulane also offered.
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First high school kid to sign from Hightower since Applewhite has been part of the program (class of 2015-2019)
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Solid pickup there!
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Yes…helps to have Edward Jones on the staff as the recruiting coordinator. He was a coach on the staff at Hightower a few years back
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Went to the Hightower/Marshall game Friday night. Saw #1. He played very little defense. He was a WR and KR. Lot of special teams. Listed in the program as WR/CB.
Decent size with very long arms.
#5 for Marshall was a little guy with size/speed ratio of Tyron Carrier although a bit bigger than Carrier in HS. Very smooth slot receiver.
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He can run, turn, and locate the ball. We have a true man coverage corner. Alright coaches hang on to him.
He didn’t play CB on Friday night so I cannot comment on his CB skills
He has good feet that’s for sure!
Starter as a true freshmen confirmed.
We need a shutdown CB. IF he can truly adjust to the college game that fast it would help us out immensely.
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I’d imagine if he can play press-man then it doesn’t matter how fast he’ll adjust, they’ll always run man on his side. If he can do that and they still keep him off of the field, that would be a major coaching blunder. I can’t imagine them putting someone in that’s not as good in man-coverage but is ok to good in zone. Man-corners are ideal. As I stated this year, if they want our corners to run a bunch of Cover 2, then we might as well put safeties out there; at least they’ll be bigger and will be good against the run.
He HAS to start.
Rant over.