Jameel Skinner liked Cristobal a lot,” Wilkes said, “but that boy ain’t going across the country.” When Skinner finally signed his national letter of intent Friday, Olsen even called the senior to congratulate him. He was officially part of the Hurricanes family. Miami calls itself “tight end U” and it envisions Skinner as the next one in line. “Stuff like that — it looks good on social media when it happens, but at the same time it goes further than that to make a kid feel a part of the community before he even was,” Skinner said. “Things like that are just small things. It might not mean anything at all to Michael Irvin or Greg Olsen, but to a guy like Jaleel it changes his perception or increases Miami in his eyes. Obviously, it was a lot to do with Cristobal, but it was a lot to do also with the alumni, the former players.”lipping to UM.
