Fox, now in his sixth season at Georgia, began watching Jackson’s games when Jackson was in the eighth grade. He talked with William and got to know Jackson’s mother, Lorry. And when he was able to talk to Jackson, he’d call and give Jackson pointers.
The phone calls didn’t stop when Jackson committed to UConn in February. He’d call after Jackson’s AAU games and tell him to take more shots, to lead.
“He never gave up on me and would say, ‘no matter where you go, I love you,’” Jackson said. “I really respect him for that.”
I found that interesting if for no other reason than it reminds us how hard coaches continue to recruit kids even after they verbal to us. Clearly any recruit who is happy they verbaled to UCONN (or any school) will probably tell other coaches to knock it off, but in this case it worked..
That this is accepted is either a relatively new phenomenon - in basketball at least, I know football is the wild west - or Calhoun got a lot of undeserved **** over the Wiggins/St. Johns deal.
He talked with William and got to know Jackson’s mother, Lorry. And when he was able to talk to Jackson, he’d call and give Jackson pointers.
The phone calls didn’t stop when Jackson committed to UConn in February. He’d call after Jackson’s AAU games and tell him to take more shots, to lead.
“He never gave up on me and would say, ‘no matter where you go, I love you,’” Jackson said. “I really respect him for that.
And then you have Calimari telling recruits that Lou Carnsecca was on the verge of dying from cancer.I believe it was Lefty Driesell at Maryland (probably in the late '70's or early 80's) who said the best part of a recruit verbally to a school was you now knew who you were recruiting against.
Negative recruiting and recruiting verbals has been going on for a long time.