BATON ROUGE – When Noah Cain was rising up, he needed to appropriate folks on the place he was from.
Cain is a Baton Rouge native, regardless of spending 12 years of his childhood within the Dallas space. He moved to the Lone Star State along with his mom after Hurricane Katrina. However he spent his summers and holidays in Louisiana and the remainder of his household, together with his father, lives in Baton Rouge.
These roots clarify why Cain, a junior operating again who transferred to LSU from Penn State this offseason, at all times thought of LSU to be his dream college.
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“(After transferring to LSU) I began listening to from folks I have never talked to in years,” Cain advised reporters on Friday after LSU’s second day of preseason practices. “It was nice although. The entire household was completely satisfied, simply having the ability to come again dwelling. My grandparents are simply 20 minutes up from the road.”
Cain started his highschool years at Guyer Excessive College in Denton, Texas, then transferred to IMG Academy. He blossomed as a recruit at IMG, turning into a top-100 prospect and the No. 6 operating again within the nation, based on the 247Sports Composite.
He needed to come back to LSU, however the Tigers already had two operating backs dedicated to its 2019 class: five-star John Emery Jr. and four-star Tyrion Davis-Worth. So he went to Penn State and broke out as a freshman, speeding for 443 yards and eight touchdowns.
Davis-Worth is off to the NFL, however Emery Jr. is Cain’s teammate for the primary time this season. The 2 received to know one another in highschool, as they have been roommates at the Nike Opening camp.
“We’re making one another higher,” Cain stated. “We’ll get additional routes in, jugs, watch movie collectively, simply sort of feed off one another attempting to simply choose one another’s brains as a result of we each perceive like ‘man, we will actually do one thing particular.’ “
Cain’s time in Completely satisfied Valley wasn’t at all times completely satisfied. A lisfranc damage ended his 2020 season simply three carries into the primary sport in opposition to Indiana. He recovered sufficient to play in 2021, beginning six instances, however wasn’t the identical bodily as he was the season earlier than.
Now 5-foot-11 and 226 kilos, Cain says he’s 120% able to go.
“I wasn’t actually in a position to put the movie out that I needed to,” Cain stated about final season. “Now to have the chance to have a full offseason to get better, a full summer time, I am simply going to get again to myself.”
Working backs coach Frank Wilson focused Cain in his recruitment from the portal. However Cain did not wish to be recruited, he knew precisely the place he needed to go.
Dwelling.
“Once I ended up committing to coming again dwelling, it was a surreal second,” Cain stated. “My first day being right here in exercises, I am placing on the LSU exercise gear and it was simply surreal.”
Koki Riley covers LSU sports activities for The Each day Advertiser and the USA TODAY Sports activities South Area. E-mail him at [email protected] and observe him on Twitter at @KokiRiley.
