After months of being a prized prospect in the eyes of universities from Hawaii to the East Coast, Michael Eletise of Kaiser High School has narrowed his list of 41 BCS offers and one Division II offer to 10 schools.
His father, Nofo Eletise, texted the list on Sunday night. Eletise’s top 10 remaining choices are (in alphabetical order):
Arizona
Arizona State
Cal
LSU
Michigan
Nebraska
Oregon State
Ole Miss
UCLA
Washington
On Twitter, Eletise posted this along with his list early Sunday evening.
LSU was a late arrival to the party with an offer that came just one day ago. (Alabama made an offer this morning.)
Interestingly, four of the schools on his list are sites that Eletise made unofficial visits to in recent months: Arizona, Arizona State, Oregon State and Washington.
Eletise was busy for the past three days at the GPA Maximum Exposure Camp held on the campus of the University of Hawaii. Dozens of coaches were in attendance and participated, including some from the 41 BCS schools that made offers to the 6-foot-4, 305-pound offensive lineman.
The Eletise family had expected to release Michael’s list a week ago, but held off. TCU and Wisconsin entered the fray just before Eletise’s self-made deadline, and in the week since, Texas, then LSU made their interest official with offers.
By paring the list of 41 FBS schools, as well as Division II Azusa Pacific, down to just 10, Eletise has given coaches the chance to free up valued scholarship offers to other prospects.
Prior to his list of 10, Eletise’s offers looked like this: Colorado, Texas Tech, Arizona State, Hawaii, UCLA, Cal, Arizona, Kansas, Nebraska, North Carolina, Washington, Washington State, Nevada, Florida State, Utah State, San Diego State, Utah, San Jose State, Oregon State, Tulsa, Missouri, Louisville, Kansas State, UNLV, North Carolina State, Boston College, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, Oklahoma State, Oklahoma, Penn State, Michigan, Auburn, Florida, Louisiana Tech, Michigan State, TCU, Wisconsin, Michigan State, Texas, LSU, Alabama.
June 7, 2015 – Eletise’s 41st BCS offer: Roll Tide
June 6, 2015 – BCS offer #40 for Eletise: LSU
June 1, 2015 – Offer No. 39 for Eletise: Texas
May 29, 2015 – TCU, Wisconsin join race for Eletise
May 27, 2015 – Eletise’s 36th offer: Michigan St.
May 22, 2015 – Offer #35 to Kaiser’s Eletise: La Tech
May 16, 2015 – Swamp Fever: Florida is Eletise’s 34th offer
May 1, 2015 – Offer No. 33: Auburn soars in for Eletise
Apr. 29, 2015 – Michigan is Eletise’s 32nd FBS offer
Apr. 25, 2015 – Eletise’s 31st FBS offer: Penn State
Apr. 24, 2015 – Sooner than later: Eletise gets 30th FBS offer
Apri. 13, 2015 – VIDEO: Most Wanted Man: Eletise chats
Apr. 10, 2015 – Eletise’s 29th FBS offer: Oklahoma St.
Apr. 8, 2015 – Offer No. 28: Ole Miss chasing Eletise
Apr. 6, 2015 – VIDEO: Eletise’s avalanche of offers
Apr. 6, 2015 – Miss. St. makes it 27 FBS offers for Eletise
Apr. 2, 2015 – BC makes it 26 offers for Eletise
Apr. 1, 2015 – VIDEO: Them 808 Boyz : Hawaii’s Finest : No Days Off , Waikiki Honolulu 2015
Mar. 27, 2015 – N.C. State makes it 25 offers for Eletise
Mar. 26, 2015 – Eletise’s 24th offer: UNLV
Mar. 23, 2015 – Kansas St. is offer No. 23 for Eletise
Mar. 21, 2015 – Louisville makes it 22 offers for Eletise
Mar. 20, 2015 – They all like Mike: Mizzou offers Eletise
Mar. 19, 2015 – Eletise’s 20th offer: Tulsa
Mar. 17, 2015 – Under Armour AA game invites Eletise
Mar. 15, 2015 – Blue-Grey invites Auwae, Eletise, Herbig
Mar. 9, 2015 – Oregon St. makes it 19 offers for Eletise
Mar. 8, 2015 — Eletise moving up at Nike Opening
Mar. 5, 2015 — Offer No. 18 for Eletise: SJSU
Mar. 3, 2015 — Utah makes it 17 offers for Eletise
Mar. 1, 2015 — Eletise ready for Opening, unofficial visits
Feb. 24, 2015 — Sweet 16: SDSU wants Eletise
Feb. 23, 2015 — Utah State makes it 15 offers for Eletise
Feb. 22, 2015 — Seminoles really, really like Eletise
Feb. 20, 2015 — Wazzu, Nevada make it 13 offers for Eletise
Feb. 19, 2015 — Huskies on chase for Eletise
Feb. 18, 2015 — Tar Heels become Eletise’s 10th offer
Feb. 14, 2015 — Cornhuskers want Eletise
Feb. 11, 2015 — Cal, Arizona, Kansas jump on Eletise’s list
Feb. 10, 2015 — Nike Football Combine results and video
Feb. 6, 2015 — VIDEO: Kaiser OL Michael Eletise
Feb. 6, 2015 — UCLA makes Eletise an offer
Jan. 28, 2015 — UH jumps on Eletise train
Jan. 27, 2015 — Kaiser’s Eletise offered by Arizona State
Jan. 25, 2015 — OL Michael Eletise ’16 : Kaiser ( Honolulu, HI) B2G BattleField UTR Spotlight
Interesting list. Not what I expected.
Where there any new offers made to other players?? Anyone, previously unknown impress the coaches this past weekend?