Recruiting was becoming somewhat of a distraction for Horn Lake (Miss.)’s Nakobe Dean. With a list of close to 30 scholarship offers, the five-star linebacker was being contacted by college coaches on a daily basis.
The recruiting process was cutting into Dean’s first priority — academics. Receiving a plethora of calls and text messages from recruiters, the country’s No. 2 middle linebacker found himself having less time to focus on his schoolwork.
So, Dean decided to cut down his recruitment in order to lessen the amount of aforementioned calls and texts. On March 7, he eliminated nearly half of the schools on his list when he announced his top 15.