Senior Randal Grimes hugs Desert Pines coach Tico Rodriguez after signing to play college football for University of Southern California at Desert Pines High School, Las Vegas, February. 1, 2017. (Elizabeth Brumley/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @EliPagePhoto
When Tico Rodriguez took over as Desert Pines football coach starting in 2013, he thought the Jaguars’ freshman class had a chance to be special.
Four years later on National Signing Day, Rodriguez’s hunch proved correct.
Desert Pines put on one of the valley’s largest signing day ceremonies Wednesday, as a standing-room only crowd packed into the school’s theater to witness 11 players make their college choices official.