Texas A&M Football Recruiting
Daylon Mack on recruiting process, official visits, 2015 A&M class
Key quotes from Daylon Mack interview
"The recruiting process has been a lot of fun. Meeting new guys like Kyler (Murray), Malik (Jefferson), Larry (Pryor) and Justin (Dunning). It’s been fun meeting these other great players."
"A&M was my first offer. They showed they wanted me really early on. It was a real family environment up there and the coaches were really good to my family and me. The SEC in Texas, I was really big on that. I wanted to play in the best conference and be close to home."
"Coach Price was a huge influence. I really like what he is doing with the defensive line and we talk all the time. I really like him and he was a big influence on me coming."
"I’ve embraced (being a leader of the class). It’s really not me doing recruiting, it’s more relationships than anything. We’re all friends and that may factor into their decision. We’re all from the same area and are in Texas. We’d see each other all the time at camps and on visits and just became good friends."
"I’ve known Larry Pryor since I was a kid. My first visit to A&M, he was up there and we sat on the couch and were like, 'you know we could come here together.' That was back in November of 2012 or 2013."
"I talk to Malik and Kendall (Sheffield) a lot. I think they end up at A&M. I can’t lie. I don’t really pressure them, we just stay tight."
"I saw the videos of the locker rooms and the pools and I really can’t wait to get down there and check that out."
"We were talking about that last night, me, Kyler, and Christian (Kirk) were all talking about coming to the Rice game since it’s a night game. We’ve never been to a night game so we’ll all go check that one out."
"I had a lot of other schools and I was going to take one other official and I looked at a lot of other ones, and I didn’t want to play in the Big 12 I wanted to play in the SEC. Florida was a school I liked growing up so I chose them."
"Getting Kyler was really important. He’s another leader in this class, he’s a big part of the puzzle and when we got him we started getting other pieces, guys like (DaMarkus) Lodge, (Richard) Moore, Landis Durham, (James) Lockhart, so he’s a real big piece."
"Having Kyler on the team, we know in the first quarter if we can get two stops we might be up by 21."
"I feel like I’m there physically but you can always know more about the game, so that’s what I’m trying to work on."
"We’ve been watching film every day before practice so that has really helped me. Taking peoples stances and how they blocked me last year, the things the like to do. Coach has really helped me with that."
"Working with Zaycoven (Henderson), he’s like a big brother to me. He’s always shown me around, even at camps. Then Myles Garrett, he really good. I heard something about him beating Cedric (Ogbuehi) five times in a row at practice or something like that. Qualen (Cunningham) and DeShawn (Washington) are friends of mine too. It would be really good to get to play around those guys."
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