I spoke with Sir Mells about his trip to Eugene and commitment. We had a fairly long chat so I cut some quotes out of the story to make into some extra notes for DSA subs only.
- Why he doesn't have junior film: "They cancelled last season the week before we were supposed to start playing so I didn’t have a junior season. I played some club ball but got an injury the first game."
- During the last year: "I spent this negative time getting better at different things. I think I improved my relationship with my family. My body type definitely changed over this whole Corona thing. I gained way more muscle. I got bigger, stronger, faster."
- Currently 6-foot-4, 305-pounds: "I want to get my body right between now and Oregon. College is a whole different ball game than high school. Way faster pace."
- On decommitting from Washington: "I had been committed to Washington and some things happened there and I decommitted. After everything that happened they just took me in and showed me love. I just knew it was the one for me. It was definitely hard, there were some sleepless nights. It was a family decision. It wasn’t like I just woke up one morning and decided ‘oh, I’m decommitting. We went through days and days of talking about it, making sure that was what we wanted to do. But when I decommitted that is when I started really blowing up. Looking back now I feel like it was the best decision for me."
- Who came with him on his Oregon visit? It was my mom, my cousin Tristan, he had a PWO and he committed yesterday. My auntie, my uncle and my other two cousins, his sister and another cousin. So I had a big crowd.
- What position will he play here? "I will be one tech, nose guard, three tech. Definitely in the trenches up front. Oregon really wants a big body in the middle. They want to bring in that piece that sometimes is missing from the program. And I trust them to help make my body into all it can be, and they will push me past my limits."
