First, thanks for doing this. It is relatively easy to comment on someone else’s work. Doing the original work, not so easy. So again my appreciation for what you did.
2) What has intrigued me about the Savion Jackson commitment is that it has been the second time Doeren/Kitchins has swooped in to poach a talented player who was bound elsewhere to play football.
Jackson de-committed from Duke and re-opened his recruitment. He was not “bound” elsewhere. No coach gives up because he thinks a recruit is going to or might commit to another school. Even after commitment if coaches are given any indication that the recruit might “flip” they will continue to recruit.
Savion scheduled a visit with us and committed after the visit. He is still not “bound” to NC State until he signs an LOI.
Doeren had little if any involvement in Jackson’s recruitment. Kitchens did because Clayton is his geographic area of responsibility. Kevin Patrick will be Jackson’s position coach and far more likely worked together with Kitchins on the recruitment.
Similarly Ted Roof worked with position coach Dwayne Ledford to land Dylan McMahon.
One involvement Doeren had with Kitchins was when Kitchins was leaving to be HC at Furman and he stayed here to coach. LOL
