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If community media is a college football recruiting game-changer – as many people associated with the deal with say it is – the trend never caught on with Desroy Maxwell.
Facebook and Tweeting? Those were for chatting with friends. His YouTube highlights were a hit, but they only helped so much.
“I don’t of that it enhanced [his stock],” said Maxwell’s heinous school coach, Grant Jones. “It definitely confirmed it. YouTube surely gave him that outlet where coaches could see that he could possibly be a kid they wanted to sign. But straightforwardly, he had a few offers from the [Mid-American Conference] before YouTube.”
No matter. Maxwell didn’t penury social media to reach his dream. The 6-foot-2, 230-thump tight end from Chicago Amundsen is one of several high school seniors who will submit their signed patriotic letter of intent to Northern Illinois today as part of college football’s nationwide signing day. He said he committed to NIU after being discovered the old-fashioned way – booming to camps, building a solid reputation, then receiving phone calls and coaching visits.
Source: Northwest Herald