Timberland OT Desmond Green was back at USC last Saturday for the junior day. He brought his parents and his sister with him, and he went there this time with a different agenda than many of the other recruits who were seeing the inside of the Gamecocks’ program for the first time.
“We’d been there last year, so all that stuff they usually present we’d already seen,” Green said. “They set up for us a chance to talk to the people who run the academics for the football program so we could ask questions about the business school since that’s what I plan to major in. Also, how they help student-athletes with things that’s more away from football. We were really there trying to figure out what is life like playing at South Carolina away from football. Every school is going to have a good education, so it was really a matter of figuring out how South Carolina is going to help me from an education standpoint.”
Green came away from the visit satisfied that he learned what he sought out to learn.
“It’s the same thing every time we come there,” Green said. “They believe they have the coaching staff and the academic support staff to help me be the best man I can be on and off the field. When the time comes, hopefully I’ll make the best decision for me, you know, stay home. That’s basically what their message was.”
South Carolina has been a frontrunner for Green from the start of his recruitment. The Gamecocks remain so after this visit.
“There ain’t no change at all, they are still high up on my recruiting list,” Green said. “They are showing love, and they are still up there.”
Green visited Georgia the weekend before USC, and he will visit NC State this Saturday prior to the start of the month-long dead period.
Green has now set two of his official visits for June. He will go to Georgia the first weekend and USC the last weekend. In between those visits he said he’s looking at Oklahoma, Alabama, Virginia Tech and possible Florda depending on what he hears from the Gators’ line coach on Thursday.
Monday Green was visited by coaches from Oklahoma and Virginia Tech. Tuesday, Georgia coach Kirby Smart is scheduled to be in. Friday, Green will be playing basketball in Charleston, and he said USC coach Shane Beamer and offensive line coach Lonnie Teasley, Clemson offensive line coach Matt Luke, and coaches from Virginia Tech plan to be there to watch.