Some recruiting visits are about the building. Some are about the scoreboard. The best ones are about a question the player won’t say out loud until he’s standing in the middle of the noise: Could I be this? M ikhael White is about to find out. The 2027 defensive back from North Shore (TX) will be inside TDECU on Saturday as the No. 17 Coogs host Cincinnati. It’s a short trip from the East Side, but the distance he’s measuring is a different kind. He wants to see what it would be like to be a part of Houston, and he plans to read the answer in the atmosphere, the competition on the field and…
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