SEC interest for Toailoa
Lokeni Toailoa has already landed plenty of major offers but there are at least two SEC schools showing new interest that could be next to offer.
"I've been talking to Ole Miss a lot lately," Toailoa said. "We have been talking on Twitter. We got on the phone about two weeks ago. We go back-and-forth on Twitter every day.
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"I also just started talking to Vanderbilt. The coach who was at Stanford moved over and he hit me up on Twitter. He was there when they offered me for Stanford and he loved my tape so he's trying to get me out to the SEC and check out Vanderbilt."
The four-star linebacker from Rialto (Calif.) Wilmer Carter still remains patient with the recruiting process and he's not prepared to name frontrunners yet but there is a list of programs that have been the most involved with him so far.
Rated as the second-best inside linebacker and the No. 48 prospect in the 2016 class by Rivals.com, Toailoa said Notre Dame, Utah, UCLA, USC and Washington are the five that have been most aggressive recently.
The four-star did not say that would make or break his recruitment but it's something Toailoa is seriously considering as things move forward.
Two of his latest offers - Oregon and Stanford - also intrigue him greatly and with so much attention coming in, the Rialto Carter recruit isn't ready to narrow anything down yet.
"Oregon is huge," Toailoa said. "Oregon is one of the schools everybody wants to go to. Everybody admires them and their uniforms and their fast-paced offense.
"Stanford is huge as well because it's a prestigious academic school. Not a lot of people get a Stanford offer so they're both huge, big-time offers from the Pac-12 and that's huge for me."
In his junior season, Toailoa finished with 98 tackles and six sacks.