Incoming freshman Xavier Goldsmith earns first two offers

The future is now, especially in the world of high school football recruiting. Colleges are examining recruits earlier and earlier, even filtering into the middle school ranks, and giving kids who have yet to play one down of high school football, offers. Incoming freshman, Xavier Goldsmith, is one of those players, earning his first two offers on Wednesday, from Cincinnati, and Kent State.

"They called a couple of days before saying they wanted to be the first to offer," said Goldsmith of his first offer from Cincinnati. "Then I was on the bus, and they called me, and offered me and S.J. (Southfield, Michigan 2019 QB Sam Johnson III). Coach Clinkscale offered me.

"I was just in shock. I was blessed, thankful, and I prayed and thanked God. I thanked my father, my mom, and my coaches. I was just happy."

Happy might be an understatement for the emotional state Goldsmith was in at the time. What high school freshman, or any recruit for that matter, wouldn't be excited about receiving their first offer? But the good news wasn't over for Goldsmith. More would soon be on the way.

"I told Kent State I got offered, and then their head coach offered me," Goldsmith said of his second offer of the day from the Golden Flashes. "I had already been talking to them for months, and I had the same reaction.

"I was just thinking, two offers in one day? The experience was unreal, and I know more are coming, It's amazing."

The 5-7, 140-pounder was on a bus with Rising Stars Recruiting, on a college tour with several other top prospects from Michigan, when he heard the news of his first two offers. The bus will stop next at Maryland, and Penn State, as Goldsmith looks to garner interest from those two programs, to add to the Big Ten interest he already has, including from Ohio State. Surprisingly though, he hasn't heard from the Big Ten schools in his own backyard.

"No Michigan schools have contacted me, but I'm going to make sure I call Michigan State," Goldsmith said. "I am looking forward to hearing from Michigan State, and would love if Michigan contacted me."

With his first two offers in, Goldsmith became the fourth player in the 2019 class in the state of Michigan to claim an offer, sparking up a never-ending debate on whether prospects with little, to no high school experience, should be getting football scholarships already. Some believe the early attention ruins the younger kids, and understandably so. Then again, you have players like Goldsmith who don't let the limelight get to them, and has a good camp around him that keeps him grounded amid his early success.

"It's actually pretty good to start early if you are god enough," he said. "But of course, there are pros and cons to anything anyways.

"But I will always stay humble, and recognize who helped me get here. Whenever you love something, you are going to work at it."

Goldsmith will be entering his first year of high school football at Michigan powerhouse, Detroit Cass Tech, or "DBU", as some like to call it, for the many Division I recruits it has produced since 2007. Goldsmith wasn't sure if he'd start off on varsity or junior varsity at Cass Tech, with the Technicians already fielding a loaded defensive backfield, and isn't concerned at all about what level he begin his career there at.

"I'm honestly not sure, but I'm just trying to do whatever I can to contribute," said Goldsmith. "The future is bright at Cass Tech, and we are looking forward to winning states."