When The Great Recession hit in the late 2000s, it left many Americans fearful of what would come next. Thousands were left jobless, homeless, or both.
Toward the end of the economic decline in 2009, Gee Scott Sr. – the father of Ohio State 2020 receiver commit Gee Scott Jr. – became one of those people. After moving to Washington from Chicago about 10 years prior, Scott was the owner of an auto-detailing business but fell victim to hard times and was forced to live out of his car in Lake City, a suburb of Seattle’s northeast region.