NEW YORK, New York -- A few weeks ago, the No. 1 football recruit in the class of 2019, Kayvon Thibodeaux, took an unofficial visit to a historical football powerhouse in Tallahassee, Florida.
The only thing is, it wasn’t Florida State.
It was Florida A&M, one of the premier historically black colleges and universities (HBCU).
And while Thibodeaux did eventually spend some time on FSU’s campus, the Seminoles weren’t the reason the California native made the cross-country trip.
“The moral of the trip was FAMU,” Thibodeaux told the Daily News. “I didn’t just take the trip to go see Florida State, and then just happened to be at FAMU. My whole plan was to go visit FAMU. Florida State was having a camp, so I just went over to the camp.”
For Thibodeaux, a 6-5, 220-pound defensive end, the visit was the first time he’d ever been on the campus of an HBCU. He says he has friends that attend Howard University in Washington D.C. and an uncle that went to Tuskegee University in Alabama. So for the 17-year-old who lives in a state without a single HBCU, this was his chance to experience a campus that he once thought would be like the one he would wind up attending.
“Before I became highly recruited, I always wanted to go to an HBCU. And being who I am now, it gives me an opportunity to,” Thibodeaux explained.
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