Four star cornerback Jaboree Antoine has revealed his announcement date for his verbal commitment. He will chose between Miami, FSU and LSU on July 20th. Will he pick the Hurricanes?
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00:00Jabory Antoine, four star blue chip cornerback out of Louisiana, he's going to be announcing
00:07his verbal decision. He made an announcement for his announcement date. That's going to come down
00:14on July 20th. Standout player from Westgate High School in New Iberia, Louisiana, which is LSU
00:21territory, by the way. More on that in a second. He's going to be announcing on July 20th. So
00:25that's going to be three days after the DJ Pickett announcement. Jabory Antoine is a player I really
00:31like. More importantly, Miami staff seems to really like him. Very good length, the cornerback
00:36still growing. I'm sure heading into his senior season of high school, he's six foot one, around
00:40175 pounds right now. Now with Antoine, I mentioned LSU territory. He had been committed to LSU since
00:47January, but just decommitted from the Tigers on July 23rd. Now that makes his top three choices
00:56very interesting because Jabory Antoine, despite the fact that he just decommitted from LSU,
01:02LSU is in his top three and they're going to have a hat on the table, which is weird. Like we've
01:07seen this happen before in recruiting, but usually even when you have the hat on the table of the
01:12team you decommitted to, you don't usually end up going back. I think very certain circumstances
01:19have to happen for that to take place, but I don't know how seriously I'm taking LSU as a finalist
01:24for Jabory Antoine because if he wanted to go out to LSU, he could have stayed committed to LSU. He
01:28just decommitted there a couple of weeks ago. Now they've got a hat on the table. So his top three,
01:33Miami, Florida State, that's one I'm definitely watching out for because as we know, Florida State
01:38has done very well in defensive back recruiting, and I'm sure they will continue to do so. So
01:43Miami, Florida State, and LSU are going to be the three hats on the table. Now Antoine,
01:49back when he was still verbally committed to LSU and kept his recruitment open,
01:53he had a very good official visit to Miami on the weekend of May 31st. That was the first
01:59OV for him, first weekend of OVs hosted this year at Miami. And he said after that visit,
02:05Miami really set the bar for him. And I think Miami raised the bar in a lot of ways. And I
02:11think one of the factors that could play in Miami's favor, I know it's a little bit ironic
02:15because we talk about the Louisiana ties, even though he may end up choosing Miami over a school
02:21in Louisiana, but maybe Miami's the best of both worlds because you get to play at a program he may
02:26prefer to play at. Now LSU's defense is probably going to be really bad this year. Miami has,
02:33I'm not saying Miami's better overall than LSU, their offense is going to be sick,
02:36but I think their defense is going to be problematic this year. Miami's defense was
02:41pretty good last year, up and coming. I think they can get even better in the near future,
02:45especially with the way that they're recruiting at defensive back. So he can play at Miami,
02:50but also get some home comforts from Louisiana because Miami has so many ties to that state.
02:57Both coordinators, Lance Guidry on defense, Shannon Dawson on offense are from the Bayou State.
03:03His director of recruiting, Dennis Smith, Chavis Jackson, who would be Antoine's position coach if
03:09he chooses Miami, won a national championship in LSU's defensive backfield. So the Louisiana ties
03:15are numerous. If those comforts and those familiarities may add a little something
03:20into his recruitment. By the way, as to where Jabory Antoine is ranked among other recruits
03:28in this class, I call him a blue chipper because he is. According to the 24-7 sports composite
03:34rankings, Jabory Antoine is the eighth ranked cornerback in the entire class of 2025. 71st
03:40ranked player overall. Not only a top 100 player, a top 75 player. That's elite stuff right there.