Last year, Mykel Calixte decided to make a move. He wanted to get more attention from college football recruiters so he moved from little West Oaks Academy in West Orlando to Dr. Phillips.
Calixte said that is why he has been able to accept a Football Bowl Subdivision scholarship offer from Central Michigan and former Florida coach Jim McElwain.
“If it wasn’t for Dr. Phillips, I probably wouldn’t be going to college,” Calixte said. “The school I was at, I might have gone to college, but I don’t think it would be D-I.”
He said he loved the coaching staff at Central, who recruited him quite heavily after noticing Calixte at USF’s mega camp earlier this summer. Calixte also put on a good show at the UCF 7-on-7 turnament.
“They showed a lot of love … I mean a lot,” Calixte said of Central Michigan coaches. “The whole visit wasn’t even about football. They were really just bringing me in like I was family … like I was blood.
“That’s what really made me want to go to Central Michigan because that’s what I was looking for in a school … coaches who were going to love their players.”
Calixte (6-foot-3, 185 pounds) is the No. 33 player in the Sentinel’s 2025 Central Florida Super60. He said he had a great camp at USF.
“It was crazy. I had a great day,” he said. “A lot of coaches were talking to me.”
Central Michigan coaches, however, were the ones who followed up with the schoalrship offer and Calixte committed last week.
“They said they like everything about me, for real,” Calixte said. “They said I got size and they said I got everything they need in a receiver. … I got speed, but I can get faster and that’s what I’m working on right now.”
Now Calixte can turn his attention to his senior season and playing for coach Rodney Wells, whom he also attributes credit for his…
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Author : Orlando Sentinel
Publish date : 2024-07-03 02:23:00
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