He’s part of a top Miami recruiting pipeline. He talks signing plan, senior development
With potentially two games left in his senior season, Allan Haye’s goals are within reach.
Hollywood Chaminade-Madonna is two wins away from winning a fourth consecutive state title and Haye, who transferred to Chaminade-Madonna ahead of last season, is sitting on seven sacks — three off the preseason target he set for himself. He also could sign a national letter of intent with the Miami Hurricanes as soon as Dec. 16.
December could be a big month for the big defensive tackle.
“He’s doing what Allan does, man,” Lions coach Dameon Jones said. “He’s being dominant.”
Can Chaminade-Madonna finish off the four-peat? It’ll probably hinge at least somewhat on Haye’s play, particularly Friday in the Class 3A semifinals against run-heavy Tampa Berkeley Prep.
Will Haye hit the double-digit sack mark he set out for in the summer? The work he put in throughout the offseason — in his film study and at the dinner table — might determine it.
Is he going to sign with Miami in the early signing period?
“It all depends on how I feel,” Haye said Friday after helping the Lions beat Miami Edison, 28-0, in the Region 4-3A championship. “Most likely, but probably. I don’t know. I’m going to see how I feel that day and if I feel good I’m going to do it.”
Will Allan Haye sign early?
Last week, Haye was feeling good enough. If National Signing Day was Friday, the defensive lineman said he would’ve inked with the Hurricanes.
“Right now, yeah,” Haye said.
The hold up is more a formality than anything else for Haye. The senior, whom the 247Sports.com composite rankings peg as a three-star defensive tackle in the Class of 2021, only still hears from Miami and occasionally the UCF Knights. The Lions, however, don’t do any sort of formal December signing ceremony and Haye can’t early enroll, so he could wait until next year to sign. On Saturday, four-star Chaminade-Madonna running back Thad Franklin told 247Sports he plans to wait until 2021 to formalize his commitment.
Miami, however, has a good track record of getting commits to sign in the early period, even when they don’t plan to early enroll. Since the first early signing period in 2017, the Hurricanes have only had two decommitments between the early period and Signing Day — one because of medical reasons and the other because of academics. The last three Lions to sign with Miami did so in the early period after initially being noncommittal about it and Haye continues to rave about his future team.
“It’s the closest thing to Chaminade. It’s fast football,” the 6-foot-1, 296-pound lineman said. “You just go out there, you just play. Everybody plays fast. There’s not too much thinking in the defense. The defense is simple. You just go out there and play football.”
Allan Haye’s breakthrough senior season
Haye only started playing football as a sophomore at Coconut Creek. As a junior at Chaminade-Madonna, he piled up 68 tackles, eight tackles for loss and six sacks, mostly just because he was bigger, faster and stronger than most of the interior linemen he matched up against.
Even unpolished, Haye was good enough to earn scholarship offers from the Hurricanes, Louisville Cardinals, Duke Blue Devils, North Carolina State Wolfpack, Wake Forest Demon Deacons and Texas Tech Red Raiders early this year. He committed to Miami in April and strove for an even better senior season.
It started with his diet.
“I’m Caribbean, so I eat a lot of food. We just cut down on the portions,” Haye said. “It’s the same weight, but it feels better.”
The extra explosion is evident and he was quick enough to get into the backfield regularly in the Lions’ win against Edison last week in Miami. He even batted down a pass at the line of scrimmage in the shutout.
The extra quickness and better fitness is part of the equation, but his understanding of the game is just as important.
When there was nothing to do in the summer, Haye spent his time devouring YouTube videos of college defensive linemen to see what he needs to do to excel at the next level. Now his personal film study has shifted to watching the offensive linemen he matches up against each week. He wants to be more than just a big athletic guy and he’s proving he can get there this season.
“His knowledge of the game when it comes to watching film, and recognizing different formations and scenarios,” Jones said. “He sees it now where probably before he didn’t really understand it.”
