Isaiah Simmons offered
Isaiah Simmons, a 6'3 205 lb safety out of Olathe North, Kansas has seen his recruiting start to take off late in the game, and has landed a Michigan offer on the heels of his Clemson offer. Simmons, the 16th ranked saftey according to 247 composite, is an under the radar recruit that a lot of recruiting sites are starting to pick up on late in the game. its a wonder why its taken so long for him to garner big time offers after watching his film its easy to see that this kid could contribute on both sides of the ball, as he also plays WR for Olathe North. Below is a link to his highlight film, and if someone could embed that would be great.
I had another question in follow up to this offer and recruiting violations. I'll start by saying I follow twitter, because you get up to the minute information in terms on recruiting, but I would never tweet at a recruit. I happened to notice that when Simmons received his Clemson offer that he posted a tweet saying hes blessed to receive the offer, and that was followed up by a tweet from his offensive coordinator/gym teacher (John Hilton) replying and including Simmons and Hugh Freeze on a tweet saying "Coach Freeze you need to get in on this young man before Dabo signs him. #hottytoddy" And, upon Michigan's offer Simmons posted the same message stating he was thankful for the Michigan offer, which was again followed up by his offensive coordiantor/gym teacher replying to his post and including Hugh Freeze on it saying "Coach Freeze, now Jim has offered. Let's get this kid in an Ole Miss uniform!!! #landsharks.
I guess my question is would this fall under a booster interacting with a prospective student athlete, even if hes a coach on the team. Are coaches allowed to go to social media and tweet at college coaches publicly, including the student athlete on the tweet, and promote said school to offer in lieu of other offers coming in?
This seems pretty sketchy to me, but I figured others on this board would have more input regarding the rules in terms of coaches interacting with college coaches and recuits publicly through social media. I have never seen an instance like this occur before.
January 17th, 2016 at 4:01 PM ^
Looks like he has visits set up for the next few weeekends already. I dobut this is really anything to pay attention to unless he cancels a visit or takes his recruitment past NSD.