Casey Barner

everyone has good visits on a game day, right? Especially if a team is lining up that weekend to be a big weekend and the team wins, right? Like, yes, Miami had a very successful recruiting weekend with a lot of people, a lot of younger guys also in town kind of setting the stage for their recruitment.

You look at a Casey Barner at safety from Georgia and he's going to be, he'll be a tough pool, but Miami very much in that one.

But, If a kid shows up to a game or doesn't show up to a game, doesn't mean that that's determining whether he's coming to Miami or not.

So I will say that Miami continues to stay on Matthews.

And just for the future, I think we've got to consider Some of these players that Miami could potentially add to the class and continue to make a run at guy.

I want to lead off with this Casey Barner, five-star safety out of McKee churn in Georgia.

This is a guy who will have the opportunity to play at whatever school he wants.

Of course, Kirby smart at Georgia, uh, DB that local, uh, if I were projecting, it's hard to bet against the dogs for a player like Casey Barner, considering where he's located, but Ohio state, Miami, USC, plenty of others are going to battle Miami.

for Casey Barner.

And I think from what I've gathered, Miami feels like they made a pretty strong impression and that continued to kind of keep themselves in contention for one of the nation's best players, number three overall prospect, five-star prospect for 24-7 sports.

One of just three true 24-7 five stars at this early stage of the process.

I mean, here's some of your top ten in the state of Georgia for 28.

Casey Barner.

Maddox Davis, who has been on campus, a receiver.

Jamarcus Johnson.

Five-star offensive lineman, Maui Tonata.

Five-star defensive back, Casey Barner.

Five-star wide receiver, Jalen Adai.

Top 100 defensive lineman, Prince Che.

Yeah, a couple things on then.

I do think that you-- I mean, look, everybody always says, "Hey, you know, you be around greatness, you have a chance to be better than you otherwise would be." When you are showing up and practicing every day alongside a lot of major college prospects, you know, Casey Barner's probably the most well known in that secondary, but there are other big-time guys there too, and certainly plenty of offensive talent that he's lining up across from.

I do think that makes you better in the long run.

A guy like Kareem Reed, their coach, is a guy who's worked at SEC programs, was at Florida, uh, prior to coming back to Georgia High School and being the head coach at McEachern.

But there is something about being around other prospects every day as you try to sharpen your own craft.

Brandon, let me put an extra slab of bacon on this story a little bit if I can.

Uh, Casey Barner, you mentioned him earlier, the five-star, really close with Nash Johnson.

That dis- that relationship has been described to me kind of like a cousin-type relationship.

... another game anywhere where you expect to have this high of a concentration of blue chip recruits, where, you know, if you go by, um, you know, the Rivals on 3, uh, they have I think five of the top 10 players in the class of 2028 are gonna be there and 13 of the top 50.

You know, including standouts like five-star receiver Bryson Wright, who's the top player in the class period, five-star edge rusher Asher Giotto, five-star offensive lineman Maui Tonata, five-star safety Casey Barner are the ones that are highest on that list.

I mean, these are players Miami's competing with top programs in the country for.

Uh, but to your point, TJ, I mean, Mario Cristobal and his staff, like, really made an effort knowing the home schedule for Miami this year, there's not a lot of juice.

So, like, maybe somebody like that, 'cause the 2027 is much later in the process, of course.

So I, I guess if Miami was gonna try to flip somebody in the current cycle, then maybe that could happen sooner than later.

But with some of these top 28 guys, uh, like, uh, like Bryson Wright and, uh, Casey Barner, uh, the five-star safety, not necessarily saying Miami's trending for him.

But the greater point is, um, I do think it's gonna be a slower burn for some of these guys.

It's this super freak right here.

That's Casey Barner, the five star in 2028, uh, who I believe is gonna be down at Miami this week for that matchup against Florida State.

But nonetheless, we got a good football player.

Ooh, good switch release right there.

Like, you've, they've got Kayden Battle that's going to Pitt.

They've obviously got Casey Barner that's the highest ranked safety in the 2028 recruiting class.

Like, they've got the Pollock twins.

Like, they've got, um, Nasir Banks that's also committed to Auburn.

It seems as though Georgia is being pretty calculated with who they are bringing on official visits.

Nash Johnson is a big recruiting win now that's already happened.

And I will say this, there are personal family friend ties to Casey Barner as well, and I'm not saying that you get him because you got Nash Johnson.

But I will say, like I have been saying for a while now, I thought Auburn had a legit chance to be able to get Casey Barner, and I will admit that a big reason for that is because Nash Johnson and also Nasir Banks were in that Auburn recruiting class, and I thought that there were some personal connections there that would help Auburn's cause in that recruitment.