A lot-traveled OT David Conner (6-6 315) of Andrew Junior Faculty in Cuthbert, GA, will make his first-ever go to to South Carolina this weekend. Conner mentioned he and his dad and mom will arrive in Columbia on Thursday night time and keep by means of the weekend.
Conner has had fairly the school soccer journey. Had it not been for a now-defunct SEC switch rule that required a participant to take a seat out for a 12 months for transferring to a different league program, Conner would have gone straight from the College of Florida to USC.
“That may have been my location after the primary time I hit the Switch Portal my freshman 12 months if it wasn’t for that SEC rule,” Connor mentioned. “That was the vacation spot. That was going to occur. It got here round once more, and all the pieces picked up. My recruitment picked up. I began getting extra gives, placing collectively nice movie. They began reaching out. The coaches began following. We began getting on the telephone speaking, after which we scheduled a go to so I can stand up there and see it in individual.”
Conner lived in Atlanta earlier than transferring to Deerfield Seashore, FL. He signed with Florida in December of 2021 and enrolled the following Might. Almost a 12 months later, he entered the Portal for the primary time and landed at Colorado. Issues didn’t go nicely in Boulder, together with a pec harm, and Conner returned to the Portal in April of 2024. A little bit over a month later, Conner enrolled at Texas State for what turned out to be one other brief keep.
“I wasn’t the identical man anymore. I wasn’t the identical on the sphere,” Connor mentioned. “I didn’t have the identical velocity, power, all that. I needed to construct that up. So, I took that 12 months at Texas State to sort of rehab, develop, and get the texture again. It wasn’t fully there but, and I simply felt like I wanted a 12 months to get again between the traces, get again and play for actual. Me and my crew determined we should always go JUCO for a few months, deal with enterprise, get again on the sphere, and present the entire nation what we already knew, that I’m a type of ballers for actual. We went on the market, did that, and now it’s simply as much as my resolution I’ll make subsequent month.”
The Gamecocks haven’t but provided Conner, however primarily based off the conversations he’s had with their offensive line coaches and recruiting workers, that might come this weekend.
“They’re on the lookout for offensive linemen, guys who’re prepared to return in and play proper now and who could make an on the spot affect,” Connor mentioned. “They really feel like I’m a type of guys that may do this on the guard place and the sort out place. That’s been our most important dialog main as much as this week. “I feel they need to (provide). I don’t suppose some other JUCO lineman is healthier than me. If they need the most effective, then they need to provide.”
Conner has picked up gives from Auburn, Arkansas and Syracuse within the final month. He’s additionally getting sturdy curiosity from Oklahoma and North Carolina.
“I’m not too locked in to anyone proper now,” Connor mentioned. “I’m nonetheless weighing all people. I plan to make my resolution come that first week in December. I’m going to go to North Carolina. I’ll in all probability make a journey to Syracuse. I’ll in all probability make a journey to Arkansas. I feel I’m going to set one up for Oklahoma.”
Not like the younger highschool recruit happening visits for the primary time and seeking to be wined and dined, Conner mentioned these visits for him will likely be all enterprise.
“I’ve been round a very long time. I’ve been on a bunch of visits,” Connor mentioned. “Nothing on a go to goes to an excessive amount of excite me as a result of I do know the true on the finish of the day. I’m simply excited about attending to know folks, get a really feel for the folks, construct a few relationships, and simply see if I really feel like that’s a spot I may very well be at for the following two years.”
Conner does have ties to the state of South Carolina as a result of his father grew up within the Holly Hill space.
