Mel Tucker, Jay Johnson and other members of Michigan State’s football staff recruited quarterback Hampton Fay when they were at Colorado. They offered him a scholarship and built a relationship with him.
That led to the Fort Worth (Texas) All Saints Episcopal junior being in the first wave of scholarship offers when Tucker and Johnson came to Michigan State.
Fay visited East Lansing in March, just before in-person recruiting visits were shut down. He was greeted with a chorus of cheers and experienced meetings, which he described as intense, and other aspects of Michigan State’s program.
The strength of the relationships and that visit brought Fay to commit to Michigan State over the weekend, joining a class that has good momentum with eight commits all coming in April.