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The pen is mightier than the
stiff-arm?
By Smith | 4/14/10 |
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City, NJ running back Savon Huggins is one guy who is
tough to pin down on the football field. As evidenced by
his 25+ scholarship offers to play ball for the cream of
the NCAA crop. The thought never occurred to him that
people would have the same kind of trouble capturing his
words when it comes to giving interviews about his
recruitment. Unfortunately that’s already been the case
on more than one occasion according to his father,
Wendell Huggins.
“We had a big issue with that last year when he gave an
interview to a guy and some how or another, it came out
that Penn State is in his top 3. I'm like whoa, whoa,
whoa! Who said anything about a top 3? I called the guy
back and he explained to me that it wasn't him. That his
editor was the one who chose to put that title on it,”
said the senior Huggins.
This leads me to the reason I made contact with the
Huggins’ to request an interview. An article was
published by another recruiting site the day prior with
this direct quote from Savon, “Georgia and Ohio State
are a couple of the most recent ones to offer.” As one
of the Midwest contributors for ThaRinger, I wanted to
get his thoughts on being offered by Ohio State.
“No, they haven’t offered. They're showing a lot of
interest and sending a lot of mail though. Word is
they're going to offer but he does not have an offer
from Ohio State yet,” answered his dad.
Mr. Huggins didn’t mince his words any when giving an
opinion on how the interview in question was handled
either, “He explained to the guy before they hung up
that he made a mistake, that he did not have the offer,
but that they are thinking of offering him. So I told
Savon, you have to really start watching what you do
now. Because some of these guys, they’ll put a whole
bunch of stuff out cause they want to make a story. Make
it juicier than it is. So I said, I'll talk to whoever
first and then I'll give you the yea or nay to converse
with them.”
Any parent could empathize. The old saying of having a
child is like having your heart walking around in the
world comes to mind. The smallest slight or snub can
bring about an instinctual reaction to protect those we
care about. The senior Huggins is no different.
“I want him to enjoy this whole process. You know? But
the minute that I feel that it's a little bit too much
for him, I might just change the phone number. Because,
he's still in school, he has exams coming up. He doesn't
need to be losing his focus right now. I mean, that time
is going to come. You know, when summer time comes. Then
our process will be to eliminate some schools we know
he's not interested in. Just so that we don't get
bombarded. Cause I know that’s coming soon,” said
Huggins.
Soon is right, by the way. Soon as in any day now
depending on when you’re reading this. Unfortunately,
thanks to a miscommunication, the Huggins’ were under
the impression that it would practically be the end of
the school year before recruiting really kicked in.
Huggins explained, “I'm hearing that the blackout period
is lifted starting on the 15th of April. That’s when
they (coaches) can start calling and even visiting. I
was not aware of that. Someone had told me it didn't
start til the end of May but one of the coaches just
told me it actually starts on the 15th of April.”
Don’t think for a second though that Mr. Huggins is
anything less than thankful for the position his son is
in. “He called me a few minutes ago to tell me that he
spoke with USC today. He's supposed to be getting some
information from them shortly. You never get tired of
hearing things like that. It's just getting crazy now,
you know? The offers are still coming in and I'm like,
when are they gonna stop?” he said with a laugh. “Don't
get me wrong, it's a blessing. I couldn't be happier for
him. I couldn’t be prouder of him. It's just getting a
little crazy right now.”
With that, I let an exasperated and admittedly somewhat
overwhelmed dad get back to his family. Back to his son
and noises that sounded like running water and clinking
dishes in the background. Here’s hoping they can tune
out the noise of recruiting at least for a few minutes.
Just long enough to appreciate the joy of spending some
time together even if it is over a sink full of dishes.
National Ranking
#32. Savon Huggins
5'11", 190 / RB(5) / St. Peter's Prep (NJ)
Early Projected Ranking: 6.0/
Discuss Savon Huggins on ThaRinger.com message boards
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