Keisean Nixon is taking a leap by joining the South Carolina football team.
There’s a reason some teams have geographic advantages. There’s a reason Will Muschamp’s staff recruits mostly within five hours of campus. Young people generally don’t want to be too far from family and those they grew up with.
Nixon had plenty of chances to indulge that particular instinct. The junior college defensive back had offers from UCLA in his hometown, from Pac-12 teams such as Oregon, Cal and the Arizona schools. But he brushed that aside and signed to cross the country.
He admits he didn’t even keep the current build of USC’s secondary in mind, but something else pulled him along.