ON THE ADDITION OF BRANDON HUNTLEY-HATFIELD AND HIS DECISION TO RECLASSIFY AND SIGN IN THE 2021 CLASS
“He had talked about it for quite some time. We had been recruiting Brandon for a long time. He has a chance to be just a terrific player, as we all know. But what I love about him is he did take his time and he put a lot of thought into it. The wheels were in motion back a couple months ago, where it might be a possibility, the more we talked about it. He knows it’s going to be a challenge for him. He’s embraced it. He did his due diligence in terms of talking to players and wondering what it was going to be like coming in a year early.
"So with all that said and done, we’re excited for him. He’s thought long and hard about it. He knows that he’s going to come in and get a chance to go against some good players. But he’s set some very high standards for himself. The one thing I loved about him is he kept talking to me about how much he wanted to be coached, how much better he wanted to be. With that said, for a young man that classed up like that, I think that says a lot about him. So we’re excited because we know he has a chance, like I said, to be a terrific player.”