2026 Prospects/Commits

I’ll also say, I knew people in the North Carolina and South Carolina high school schools that over the last five or six years (before Bell and company) had basically said I do not want Western on my campus because of how the coaches would come in and talk bad about the kids abilities of being able to play FCS football. Mark Speir’s name never came up as one who acted like that but many assistant coaches did.

I will also say that from following and playing football in high school in North Carolina I still do not think North Carolina is a hotbed of football talent. They have nothing on Florida and Texas and other states like that. It’s not to say, that there are not great football players, that we can choose from, but for the last number of years, we have target of these other states that seem to have better talent. All this is in my opinion other than the parts about western not being wanted on campuses. The bells are working on fixing these relationships with the high school coaches.