Laumea recaps Oregon State visit; talks what's next in his recruitment
Rialto (Calif.) Eisenhower offensive tackle Sataoa Laumea was a big official visitor this past weekend for the Oregon State Beavers. It was the 6-foot-4, 310-pounder's first official visit and first time in Corvallis.
"Man, I loved it. I've never done anything like that," Laumea said. "It was my first (official) visit. It got me excited for my other visits too."
As Oregon State fell to 1-6 on the season after a 49-7 loss to Cal, it's clear that the Beavs need instant help at pretty much every position on the field. OSU could use another talented offensive lineman, and the coaching staff let Laumea know that.
"I can come and impact the team as a freshman, stuff like that,' Laumea said when asked what the coaching staff's message to him was.
Laumea enjoyed time spent hanging out with the OSU players.
"I was hanging out with the right guard (Kammy Delp) and the linemen," said Laumea. "It was cool. I got to see how everything was -- the dorms and how college really is on the weekends."
Laumea isn't the most active recruit in terms of posting news of his recruitment on social media (new offers, top schools, official visit dates, etc.) and doesn't do a whole lot of interviews.
So while it's seemed for a while that Oregon State didn't have many targets at offensive line, the coaching staff has been working on guys we may know have known about. A perfect example of that is Laumea.
"Yeah they've been on me since the middle of my junior year," Laumea said.
Moving forward, Laumea's recruitment will be tricky. He has four more official visits to take but where he will take them is still very much in question.
He told BeaversEdge.com that he has visits set with UCLA and Cal but may cancel those visits. He's already seen both schools unofficially and would like to use his future official visits for schools that are farther away.
"Oh man, there's a lot I'm thinking about cancelling," Laumea explained. "I don't know what I'm going to do. I set up two official visits with schools that are already close. I think I'm going to go to team that are farther to experience different things. The ones that are close, I've already went to (for unofficial visits)."
Some of the schools that Laumea is considering visits to are Oklahoma, Colorado, Ole Miss, and Notre Dame. Laumea says that all of those schools have offered except for Oklahoma.