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Kai Locksley commits to FSU
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oh please lukas! if anyone really had their eyes open upon this guy, they would have very easily seen right through him! i for one, knew something just was not right as per this recruit.. when he kept maryland within his top 3 schools. upon whether his father worked there or not, how in the hell is he going to keep maryland along with the likes of TEXAS vs fsu? this never made any sense to me from jump start! talk about a true GIFT HORSE!
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Sorry, but that doesn't make sense. Just because a kid wants to go somewhere with high competition doesn't mean he's shady or wants to be in the limelight more than any other kid. From all I've read about him, he seems like a pretty upstanding kid with his head on straight.
oh wow lukas! it just so happens that the "high competition" that this "kid" decides to choose.. just so happens to be the 2013 - 14 MNC NATIONAL CHAMPIONS! do you very honestly believe, that there is not even a hint of GLAMOUR there? Not to mention, just look at how he performed his commitment. as soon as he felt a bit threatened as per the other recruit.. he jumped right in like a "sharknado"! in all actuallity, he probably surprised / shocked the officials at fsu as well. shady.. indeed!
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He put in one article that he took Maryland off his list is because he wanted to try to earn a job and not have it given to him. His dad is their best recruiter so he won't be getting fired anytime soon. I've met Mike a few times he is a cool guy. Long way to go though especially with 3 qbs committed.
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Are some of these guys full of themselves...sure, but not all them. I don't begrudge a guy who enjoys the process. Kai didn't do anything to jerk Texas around. He made a top 3 then chose a program that he felt best for him. Maryland is not be any means a stand out program, however they did get a top recruit Stefon Diggs a few years back. It's all about which place feels like home, or in the case of the SEC, which place provides the biggest $igning bouns...jkjk
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Makes sense to me.
Gilman star Kai Locksley's commitment to Florida State makes sense for football, family reasons
The announcement Thursday that Gilman quarterback Kai Locksley had committed to play at Florida State was disappointing news for Maryland fans who desperately wanted to see the four-star prospect in College Park in 2015.
In the long term, it wasn’t awful news for Terps coach Randy Edsall and, more importantly, for his offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, who also happens to be Kai Locksley’s father.
After talking with the family in June at their home for a story about the relationship between Mike Locksley and the youngest of his three sons, I came away with the feeling that neither Mike nor Kai was totally comfortable with the idea of working together.
Mike Locksley was well aware of the pitfalls of coaching his son, having done it with Kai’s two older brothers, first as the offensive coordinator at Illinois and then as the head coach at New Mexico.
In each case, neither Michael Jr. (Illinois) nor Meiko (New Mexico) wound up playing on offense.
At Maryland, not only would Kai have had the pressure of living up to the hype of being among the state's top-rated recruits, but his performance also would have been directly tied to his father’s livelihood.
If Kai was honest in telling me that he would have considered Maryland regardless of his father's coaching there, a part of me believes Edsall might have had a better shot at getting him if Mike Locksley wasn’t on his staff.
Those I talked with for the story all brought up the difficulties of the father-son coaching dynamic.
Cody Hawkins, a former college quarterback who played to mixed reviews under his father, Dan, then the head coach at Colorado, wondered whether it ultimately might have cost his father the job.
"Sometimes, you can be a great father, and you can be a great football coach, but I don't know if you can be both simultaneously," Hawkins said.
As much as the younger Hawkins believed playing for his father helped them forge an even tighter bond, “there's a lot of BS you have to deal with" from outside the program, he said.
While NCAA bylaws prohibited Mike Locksley from speaking specifically about what it would be like to coach Kai, he recalled how both he and his two older sons became targets when their respective teams struggled. It was especially true with Meiko, who converted from quarterback to cornerback at New Mexico.
"All of a sudden, it's not just that Locks can't call plays, but [the son] stinks, too," Locksley said in June. "That's when the Papa Bear in me [came] out."
Though acknowledging the positives of playing close to home for a team he rooted for growing up, even Kai Locksley was aware of “some complications and stuff that needs to be worked out."
From a recruiting standpoint, those familiar with the process always considered the Terps a long shot, partly because of the programs they were going up against but also because of the tenuous history of coach-quarterback relationships when they share the same DNA.
“It usually doesn’t work out very well,†Mike Farrell, national recruiting director for Rivals.com, said in June.
The fact that Maryland was still in the picture down the stretch could have been a diplomatic move, and Kai Locksley's decision to choose the Seminoles might have been solidified when he made his recruiting trip to Tallahassee in June.
Edsall was in a particularly awkward position, caught in the middle of Locksley family dynamics and his own career in College Park.
“To some extent, Randy has to want Kai Locksley" and not not care about family dynamics, Farrell said. "But [Edsall] is also smart enough to know this — not only the family dynamic but also the perception it sends to [high school] quarterbacks next year and the year after that."
Getting Kai Locksley would have been nearly as big a recruiting coup as keeping Stefon Diggs at home, but Diggs didn't have the same kind of baggage the younger Locksley would have had.
"They kind of were my dark horse throughout this whole process," Kai Locksley said of the Terps in an interview The Baltimore Sun's Katherine Dunn. "They were a school I felt could, out of nowhere, just pop up, but we kind of decided together that it was real hard to play for your dad, especially at the level that he's at and [Maryland] being a strong program and a Division I program. It's much tougher to do it in college and we decided it was better to go elsewhere and grow myself as my own man."
Edsall also might have had a hard time recruiting quarterbacks until at least Kai Locksley’s junior year, and maybe longer. Gilman coach Biff Poggi said he knew of "a couple of quarterbacks" Maryland lost while it was still recruiting Kai Locksley.
Thursday's announcement frees up Edsall and Mike Locksley to pay more attention to a couple of promising quarterbacks in redshirt freshman Shane Cockerille, Kai Lockley's former Gilman teammate, and Gage Shaffer, a 6-foot-7 prospect from West Virginia in the class of 2015 already committed.
Another recruit who now might look more seriously at the Terps is Bullis' Dwayne Haskins Jr., a rising junior whom Rivals.com has called "the hottest recruit in America." With Kai Locksley headed to Tallahassee, Haskins might ultimately be the quarterback prospect who stays home.
Poggi, whose sons played for him before going on to play for Football Bowl Subdivision programs, might have said it best in June when he talked about about the possibility of Maryland bringing in Kai Locksley.
“It’s dangerous to the [Maryland] program,†Poggi said. “Guys start thinking about favoritism, and they get a group of guys in the locker room to agree with them. It’s a disaster. They [Edsall and Mike Locksley] really have to think about that carefully. You have to be careful what you wish for; you just might get it.â€
Not getting Mike Locksley’s son certainly disappointed Maryland fans.
In the long term, it’s probably the best move for all concerned.
Read more: http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/terps/tracking-the-terps/bal-kai-locksley-florida-state-maryland-commit-mike-locksley-20140731,0,7477992.story#ixzz396ozeNFY
Gilman star Kai Locksley's commitment to Florida State makes sense for football, family reasons
The announcement Thursday that Gilman quarterback Kai Locksley had committed to play at Florida State was disappointing news for Maryland fans who desperately wanted to see the four-star prospect in College Park in 2015.
In the long term, it wasn’t awful news for Terps coach Randy Edsall and, more importantly, for his offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, who also happens to be Kai Locksley’s father.
After talking with the family in June at their home for a story about the relationship between Mike Locksley and the youngest of his three sons, I came away with the feeling that neither Mike nor Kai was totally comfortable with the idea of working together.
Mike Locksley was well aware of the pitfalls of coaching his son, having done it with Kai’s two older brothers, first as the offensive coordinator at Illinois and then as the head coach at New Mexico.
In each case, neither Michael Jr. (Illinois) nor Meiko (New Mexico) wound up playing on offense.
At Maryland, not only would Kai have had the pressure of living up to the hype of being among the state's top-rated recruits, but his performance also would have been directly tied to his father’s livelihood.
If Kai was honest in telling me that he would have considered Maryland regardless of his father's coaching there, a part of me believes Edsall might have had a better shot at getting him if Mike Locksley wasn’t on his staff.
Those I talked with for the story all brought up the difficulties of the father-son coaching dynamic.
Cody Hawkins, a former college quarterback who played to mixed reviews under his father, Dan, then the head coach at Colorado, wondered whether it ultimately might have cost his father the job.
"Sometimes, you can be a great father, and you can be a great football coach, but I don't know if you can be both simultaneously," Hawkins said.
As much as the younger Hawkins believed playing for his father helped them forge an even tighter bond, “there's a lot of BS you have to deal with" from outside the program, he said.
While NCAA bylaws prohibited Mike Locksley from speaking specifically about what it would be like to coach Kai, he recalled how both he and his two older sons became targets when their respective teams struggled. It was especially true with Meiko, who converted from quarterback to cornerback at New Mexico.
"All of a sudden, it's not just that Locks can't call plays, but [the son] stinks, too," Locksley said in June. "That's when the Papa Bear in me [came] out."
Though acknowledging the positives of playing close to home for a team he rooted for growing up, even Kai Locksley was aware of “some complications and stuff that needs to be worked out."
From a recruiting standpoint, those familiar with the process always considered the Terps a long shot, partly because of the programs they were going up against but also because of the tenuous history of coach-quarterback relationships when they share the same DNA.
“It usually doesn’t work out very well,†Mike Farrell, national recruiting director for Rivals.com, said in June.
The fact that Maryland was still in the picture down the stretch could have been a diplomatic move, and Kai Locksley's decision to choose the Seminoles might have been solidified when he made his recruiting trip to Tallahassee in June.
Edsall was in a particularly awkward position, caught in the middle of Locksley family dynamics and his own career in College Park.
“To some extent, Randy has to want Kai Locksley" and not not care about family dynamics, Farrell said. "But [Edsall] is also smart enough to know this — not only the family dynamic but also the perception it sends to [high school] quarterbacks next year and the year after that."
Getting Kai Locksley would have been nearly as big a recruiting coup as keeping Stefon Diggs at home, but Diggs didn't have the same kind of baggage the younger Locksley would have had.
"They kind of were my dark horse throughout this whole process," Kai Locksley said of the Terps in an interview The Baltimore Sun's Katherine Dunn. "They were a school I felt could, out of nowhere, just pop up, but we kind of decided together that it was real hard to play for your dad, especially at the level that he's at and [Maryland] being a strong program and a Division I program. It's much tougher to do it in college and we decided it was better to go elsewhere and grow myself as my own man."
Edsall also might have had a hard time recruiting quarterbacks until at least Kai Locksley’s junior year, and maybe longer. Gilman coach Biff Poggi said he knew of "a couple of quarterbacks" Maryland lost while it was still recruiting Kai Locksley.
Thursday's announcement frees up Edsall and Mike Locksley to pay more attention to a couple of promising quarterbacks in redshirt freshman Shane Cockerille, Kai Lockley's former Gilman teammate, and Gage Shaffer, a 6-foot-7 prospect from West Virginia in the class of 2015 already committed.
Another recruit who now might look more seriously at the Terps is Bullis' Dwayne Haskins Jr., a rising junior whom Rivals.com has called "the hottest recruit in America." With Kai Locksley headed to Tallahassee, Haskins might ultimately be the quarterback prospect who stays home.
Poggi, whose sons played for him before going on to play for Football Bowl Subdivision programs, might have said it best in June when he talked about about the possibility of Maryland bringing in Kai Locksley.
“It’s dangerous to the [Maryland] program,†Poggi said. “Guys start thinking about favoritism, and they get a group of guys in the locker room to agree with them. It’s a disaster. They [Edsall and Mike Locksley] really have to think about that carefully. You have to be careful what you wish for; you just might get it.â€
Not getting Mike Locksley’s son certainly disappointed Maryland fans.
In the long term, it’s probably the best move for all concerned.
Read more: http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/terps/tracking-the-terps/bal-kai-locksley-florida-state-maryland-commit-mike-locksley-20140731,0,7477992.story#ixzz396ozeNFY
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