“I Like Everything About Them”

By Allen Wallace
National Recruiting Editor

Kentrell Brothers, the 6-foot-1, 215-pound three-star linebacker/fullback from Guthrie, Okla., headed out to the West Coast earlier this summer as he participated in camps at both Washington and USC.

“I was invited to go to both camps and it was worth the trip,” Brothers said. “They were both great.”

While the Huskies have already offered him, the Trojans have not.

“Washington actually likes me more on offense than defense,” he said. “They’re talking to me about fullback of half-back. They see me being a hybrid athlete.”

So has USC talked with him about a scholarship? “Not really,” he said. “They told me they’d keep in touch this season and want to see how I do.

“I really like the coaches there,” he said about USC. “I felt like I could learn a lot from them.”

Brothers, ranked as the No. 49 outside linebacker in the country by Scout.com, says he hasn’t narrowed down his favorites yet.

He also has offers from Missouri, Oregon State, Ohio, Vanderbilt, Tulsa, Washington, Kansas State, Iowa State, Baylor, Duke, Connecticut, Arizona, Syracuse and Kansas.

Missouri is recruiting him the hardest. “I like everything about them,” he said about the Tigers. “I love the campus…it’s amazing. They have a great rec center and there’s a lot to do there.”

Brothers attended the Missouri spring game as well. “The defense was killing them,” he said. “The defense looked great. The game was a lot of fun.”

He says he also has a good relationship with the Tigers coaching staff. “They’re real honest and they know what they are doing,” he said. “They’re very smart and that’s a program that always does pretty well.”

The only other school that has offered Brothers that he has already visited is Tulsa. Although he says he grew up following both Oklahoma and Oklahoma State, he says that neither are recruiting him anymore. “I’m not expecting them to offer,” he said about the Sooners and Cowboys.

Brothers hopes to make his decision before the start of his senior year. “If I can’t do that then I’ll wait until after the season,” he said. “I don’t want to get it wrong.

“I’d like to play for a good program or a program that is coming up or on-the-rise,” he said. “I think that all the schools that I’m looking at fit that.

“I want to be around great people and part of a family atmosphere,” he said. “I want to go where the coaches and players have your back.”

Brothers reports a 3.4 core GPA and a 20 ACT.