6-2/185 Higley (Gilbert, AZ) High School QB Kai Millner had the chance to visit Cal last month and the visit and the developing relationship were enough to convince the talented QB to shut things down and commit to the Bears today.
Millner is a dangerous, dual threat QB who ran for 562 yards as a junior while completing 64% of his passes for 31 touchdowns and six interceptions on the season.
“Looking at all the things I’ve looked for in a program and in a college, they just really fit everything, from the coaches, to the players. And the academics were a big thing, as well,” said Millner in an interview with Sports360 Arizona today. “I just felt like it fit. It’s a great place and I’ll take that on the rest of my journey.”
Millner visited on the last day campus visits were available last month in a bit of fortuitous timing.
“It was great,” said Millner of his visit last month. “Being up there, being able to sit down and talk with Coach Musgrave, Coach Wilcox, Coach Ragle and all of them and being able to see practice was great. I loved it. Everyone was super duper welcoming and the visit was super-productive so I had a lot of fun for sure.
“My relationship with the coaches there is really good. I got to sit down and talk with a bunch of them and it was all great conversations, talking about the program, where they are now, where they’re going.
“Talking to Coach Musgrave, they talked about what they’ll be doing offensively. I loved his style of offense. I love how they run everything pro-like. You’ll learn a lot being in that system. They do a lot of things that’s going to be trouble for defenses, for sure.”
Millner’s commitment brings the Bears’ total to five so far, with Millner joining 4 star WR Mavin Anderson, 4 star TE Jermaine Terry, high 3 star OT Bastian Swinney and 4 star DE Akili Calhoun in their talented 2021 class.
The 2021 commits have been active on the recruiting front and Millner was one of their early targets.
“I feel like he’ll fit right in with the rest of our class coming in,” said Anderson. “His commitment at the QB position is huge for us and i look forward to playing with him in the near future!”
“I’m grateful,” said Terry. “The dude’s a baller.”
“Can’t wait to get rollin’,” added Calhoun.
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jay4e said:
Lets go! Gotta trust Musgrave's evals and if he likes Millner as much as reported, this is shaping up to be a truly great class.
In the words of Mike Breen: baaaaaaaaaang!
To be honest, I completely disagree with you. I want to know what the recruiting experts are saying about a player. Any player can look good on video against poor competition, and on top of that, I am not a football talent scout like those employed by the recruiting services. I like to rely on expert opinions. Their opinions are certainly more educated than mine. And these aren't "early recruiting rankings..." IMO, any really really good player is well known to the scouts unless he is a very late bloomer.CalFan777 said:
MB posted his highlights. I think that is more important than early recruiting rankings, correct? And it isn't hard to Google for recruiting rankings.
It's my fault. I keep ****ting on the commitment threads. And I don't even have any toilet paper anymore.LACalFan said:
Hahaha. I peeked in here after seeing the other commitment thread go to complete ****e. We'll never get this right.
WELCOME, KAI !!!!!!
Chapman_is_Gone said:It's my fault. I keep ****ting on the commitment threads. And I don't even have any toilet paper anymore.LACalFan said:
Hahaha. I peeked in here after seeing the other commitment thread go to complete ****e. We'll never get this right.
WELCOME, KAI !!!!!!
I'm just hoping they have Christopher Brown running exclusively north-south this season.calumnus said:
Seems like a great kid. Interesting that he played at the same school and followed Spencer Brasch. They seem similar in a lot of ways. He might be more of a passer and Brasch more of a runner? Brasch had better junior year stats, but then worse as a senior. Hopefully Millner puts up big numbers this Fall.
The big, big difference is not going to be our QBs, we have had reasonable talent at QB, it is going to be how Musgrave develops and uses them. Looking forward to seeing what our offense looks like hopefully this Fall.
Chapman_is_Gone said:
When the Stanfurd toilet bowl identifies the anus in question as Mr. C's, believe me, I turn off my spy camera really quick!
I went to Target tonight, and they are still out of all TP and paper towels. I was just looking to wash the windows of my house...crazy. So, I'm afraid I can't make a deal.
Got to agree as to preferring ratings (even early ones) over an edited highlight vid. Of greater relevance to me is what our coaches think. Wilcox and company have done a pretty good job so far. If they like him, I like him.Chapman_is_Gone said:To be honest, I completely disagree with you. I want to know what the recruiting experts are saying about a player. Any player can look good on video against poor competition, and on top of that, I am not a football talent scout like those employed by the recruiting services. I like to rely on expert opinions. Their opinions are certainly more educated than mine. And these aren't "early recruiting rankings..." IMO, any really really good player is well known to the scouts unless he is a very late bloomer.CalFan777 said:
MB posted his highlights. I think that is more important than early recruiting rankings, correct? And it isn't hard to Google for recruiting rankings.
And 5,000 Cyberbears readers (or however many it is) shouldn't each have to Google recruiting rankings when one writer could do a thorough job and save all that effort.
I see you're a "rookie" on this board. Hang out awhile, and you'll realize that the point you're making has been brought up and answered by fans like me -- fans who value quantitative rankings -- literally 50 or more times over the past 10 years. I'm not answering it again. I actually don't see anything negative about my post -- it simply requests that the author do a more thorough job in his writing.BearfanEric said:
Can't you just be happy and positive on a recruit commitment thread? Both threads you brought up negative stuff. As fans, we should be supporting the new commits, not bringing up downer and negative stuff.
Welcome to Cal Kai! He looks like a great get.
Chapman_is_Gone said:I see you're a "rookie" on this board. Hang out awhile, and you'll realize that the point you're making has been brought up and answered by fans like me -- fans who value quantitative rankings -- literally 50 or more times over the past 10 years. I'm not answering it again. I actually don't see anything negative about my post -- it simply requests that the author do a more thorough job in his writing.BearfanEric said:
Can't you just be happy and positive on a recruit commitment thread? Both threads you brought up negative stuff. As fans, we should be supporting the new commits, not bringing up downer and negative stuff.
Welcome to Cal Kai! He looks like a great get.
If anything, this board needs more critical fans, not fewer, given the lack of success of the athletic department over the past 50 years. This board would be incredibly boring if all we did was heap praise on the school, the athletic department, the coaches, and the players.
