Santana Harvey’s first trip to Clemson back in the summer set a pretty high bar.

The four-star DE (Lakeland, FL) called it the “best place” he’d visited to date, so when he returns for the fourth-ranked Tigers’ season-opening matchup against ninth-ranked LSU on August 30, his expectations will be high.

“The environment. I want to see how everything is like on game day. How everything is live,” Harvey told The Clemson Insider. “I have seen it in the film room, but I want to see it in person. Seeing all the coaches again, coach (Chris) Rumph, coach (Tom) Allen and coach (Nick) Eason. Just seeing a great game. And to see how they are really recruiting me.”

Since June 15, when coaches could start contacting 2027 recruits directly, Harvey and Rumph have laid the foundation for a solid relationship, and the blue-chip talent is looking to keep building on that during his next visit.

“Our relationship has grown,” Harvey said. “There will be times he’ll contact me or call to check up on me, or to see how my family is doing. Or just to ask about how football is going. Or he will send me graphics here and there.”

The 6-foot-5, 235-pound pass rusher already has close to 20 offers, including Florida State, Georgia Tech, Oklahoma and South Carolina. The Tigers have yet to offer, but Harvey expects one to come at some point due to a conversation he had with Rumph during that initial visit for camp back in the summer.

“When I was up there in Clemson, we kind of talked about it a little bit,” Harvey said. “He said the offer is definitely coming, for sure. You know how Clemson’s process is. He said it is definitely coming, but that he just has to follow along with the process.”

The family-like feel he experienced is one of the biggest things that stand out about the Tigers.

“The brotherhood,” Harvey said. “When I came to Clemson, they made me feel like family. All the coaches. Coach Rumph, coach Eason, coach Allen and even some of the offensive coaches. It just feels like family there.”

Notre Dame, Florida, SMU, Florida State and South Carolina are some of the other schools Harvey is showing a lot of interest in. Georgia is also now on that list, as the Bulldogs just offered last week.

He plans to visit Athens twice this season, and he has game-day visits locked in with Notre Dame and SMU. He also plans to get to South Carolina at some point, but he hasn’t set the date. The rivalry game against Clemson in November is an option he’s considering.

However, first up is the visit to Clemson, and the hope is that he leaves town with an offer in hand.

“It would be an honor,” Harvey said. “Because Clemson, their process makes it hard to get an offer. Maybe one of the hardest offers to get in the country. It would mean a lot, and it would definitely shoot them up way high in my recruitment.”