Puka not signing an LOI today makes him a complete wild card. Earlier this week he was said to be a 95% lean to UW, with a slight chance of Oregon, but the fact that the family has stated they need to sit down and figure all of this out seems to indicate that either he himself is torn or there might be a Jayden Daniels situation where he’s leaning one way and the family is wanting to see him go another.
Utah is supposedly still recruiting him hard and I’m hoping playing with his brother has at least some pull with him, as well as his family being able to more easily attend games id he stays here. Rumor has it that BYU is no longer in the running, and if that is true, Utah should be able to maximize a “stay at home” pitch.
Peterson is a heck of a recruiter, though, and UW has thus far only signed one WR in this class, so there is a lot to like about UW. It’s clearly not a homerun for Nacua, though, for whatever reason, otherwise there seemingly wouldn’t be anything left to figure out and he’d sign today.
Can Jayden Daniels flip back?
I take these with a grain of salt because they all had Jayden Daniels basically as a lock but Utah is definitely in the mix. https://n.rivals.com/content/prospects/2019/jordan-wilmore-184237
If he cant hack it st ASU, we don’t want him. I seriously doubt Whitt would allow him in unless he transferred before the roster was set down there.
Those are all rumors. The only fact is “Jayden Daniels chose to go to ASU”. Everybody speaking for his mom are purely speculating.
Daniels was a silent commit to Utah all summer. Everyone knew he was going to Utah. After his official visit his mom reached out to asu and Oregon.
Jayden visited Utah for the usc game and the following week Utah was at UCLA. The story I heard was the night before Utah played at UCLA Daniels had a game at Carter HS and no Utah Coaches were in attendance but asu Coaches were and had Jayden and his mom to themselves.
That is the only thing I can think of where Utah May had dropped the ball on Daniels but they were probably thinking he was in the bag.
Let’s not discount the fact that he has a legitimate chance at starting next season for asu. Their QB situation is not good at all. I’ve been told at Utah he was guaranteed to redshirt. That was a factor as well.
But no matter what it is his Mom was going to do whatever she could to keep him away from Utah.
I’ve heard different stories from hating Utah because the Dad like Utah to reverse racism on her part.
Whatever the case may be she act on her own behalf and her own best interests not Jayden’s
So ASU lied to him. I wish him the best of luck.
Jayden Daniels about ASU “They came in full fledge, all-out, showing me that they wanted me for me and not just wanting me to sit on the shelf [so] they don’t have to play against me.”
Daniel’s parents are divorced. Like many divorces, it was not an amicable split.
Daniel’s dad wanted Jayden at Utah. Daniel’s mom wanted whatever the dad didn’t want.
