North Augusta

All right, Gerard, it's been a minute since we've gotten to talk about a commitment.

It's been a minute since we've been able to talk about a 2027 commitment, but we get to do so today with USC pulling off a flip commitment of three-star North Augusta, Southern California, Defensive lineman Simeon Jones Jr. from James Madison University off his official visit this past weekend for the Ohio State game.

A consensus three-star prospect, 6'1", 325 pounds.

No need to embrace the inner Bubba.

One of those few, few, few recruits and certainly one of the fewer commits from South Carolina for USC.

We always joke on this podcast about South Carolina and Mississippi being just black holes and just places that you just don't go and get players if you're University of Southern California.

You know, the joke is – University of Southern California, USC, or South Carolina, USC, and I actually mentioned that to mom, I said, you know, when USC calls, were you thinking that was South Carolina, or when they, you know, the coaching staff at North Augusta brought that up, you were thinking that North, South Carolina was business school, she goes, no, no, no, we just actually went to South Carolina a couple weeks ago, and we know those people, and When they called, USC called, they made sure that they said University of Southern California.

I said, okay, good, because, you know, that could be a confusing type of thing.

And as we mentioned in the first half of this show, there were a lot of recruits in attendance, the biggest recruiting weekend of the year.

Also got a flip commitment from, at the defensive line in the 2027 class from Simeon Jones out of North Augusta, South Carolina.

Flip from JMU off his official visit to USC this past weekend.

Scott, I don't know if you want to start talking about Simeon or just the overall weekend as a whole, what you heard, what you experienced chatting with recruits, but I'll let you take it away because this was obviously a big win in front of a big cast of recruits, committed and not committed.

It doesn't exist as Hamburg anymore.

Now it's North Augusta.

But at the time, it was this dusty little railroad town on the Savannah River.

And there in this town, it was a freedman's town.

And they flat out murdered them, Bill.

This is how you know that the people who are all about removing statues and monuments and all that stuff, this is how you know they're not serious about what they're talking about.

Because the monument that stands in North Augusta, South Carolina today to this event does not list the black men who were killed.

It lists the white men who were killed defending their way of life.

He's the real deal.

For team, you know, North Augusta has been a pretty impressive team.

Their D-line is very good.

I know you all over them, and rightfully so.

Yeah, let me go over some of the Midland scores.

Maybe you have seen some of these teams as well.

Now, North Augusta, by the way, you just talked about that front seven.

They've got a Shrine Bowler and two players going to Touchstone Energy Bowl playing in the front seven.

good.

North Augusta is really good.

Strom Thurmond is really good at 2A.

Now we want to talk about 5A.

And I know I'm just angry at everybody if you're in the Brandon Watson Insurance Agency chat box from South Point and elsewhere and Westside and T.L. Hanna.

But I think Gaffney's a load right now.

North Augusta, South Florence.

North Augusta.