With official visit season about to begin next week, there’s going to be plenty of good news on the horizon for Michigan State and first-year head coach Pat Fitzgerald.
There will undoubtedly be some big-time commitments coming over the next month, or so, and many were hoping that one of them would be top in-state EDGE Myles Smith. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like that’s going to be the case anymore.
I wrote a couple of days ago about Smith adding another team to his list which may just shift the Spartans off his radar and it was purely speculation.
Well, I gave it a couple of days and I checked back in on his upcoming official visit schedule which was supposed to feature Michigan State on May 29 and it looks like the Spartans are no longer getting a visit from the in-state four-star.
Tom Loy of 247Sports reported that Smith was once again considering Oklahoma after it looked like the Sooners were trending downward in his recruitment. And he set up an official visit with the Sooners for the end of May on — you guessed it — the date that Michigan State was supposed to host him. May 29 is now apparently locked in with Oklahoma.
There are now no more open weekends on his official schedule with Indiana hosting him last week and then Oklahoma, Missouri, Kentucky, and Michigan hosting him in consecutive weeks before the dead period. To me, that means Michigan State is likely out — the Spartans have also been downgraded from “warm” interest on 247Sports to “cool”.
It may be time for Fitzgerald and Winston DeLattiboudere III to look elsewhere.
Michigan State does have options on the defensive line
Losing Smith as a visitor — for now at least — definitely puts a damper on that May 29th weekend, but luckily the Spartans are hosting several other talented defensive linemen this summer.
Heck, on May 29, the Spartans have four-stars Reinaldo Perez, Nehemiah Ombati, and Marvin Nguetsop all visiting. Three four-star defensive linemen in one weekend could be really good for the staff because it gives these guys time to build relationships and talk about the possibility of playing together in East Lansing.
Ohimai Ozolua, a four-star Spartan commit, will visit the next weekend, rising star Dallas Ward will be in East Lansing on June 12, and Amari Vickerson, the son of former Michigan State star Kevin Vickerson, is set to be on campus on June 19 despite being an SMU commit.
The staff still has options, but missing out on Smith would be a gut-punch.
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