4-star DT Amir Leonard-Jean Charles is formally off the board.
Charles, the No. 28 defensive deal with out of Lipscomb Academy in Nashville, Tenn., in Tennessee, selected West Virginia. Texas and Syracuse have been additionally finalists for the 6-foot-4, 305-pounder.
The Highlanders are in Charles’s household. His mom is a West Virginia graduate, and the four-star DL nonetheless has sturdy ties in and across the state.
“They gained me over due to my relationship with Coach Jackson,” Charles advised Rivals of his resolution to decide to West Virginia. “Coach Jackson and I talked quite a bit and he was coming to Tennessee to see his household and play with us. Throughout that point, we actually bonded.”
“It was an insanely tough resolution, and truthfully, taking part in for any of those applications is an honor and a privilege that you simply simply cannot ignore as an athlete, however this West Virginia connection is deep in my coronary heart,” he added he “Seeing my mother smile and cry as a result of she understands what it means, listening to my dad inform me that I made the proper resolution as a result of he understands what it means… it would not get any higher… West Virginia, Nation Highway, I am coming residence!”
Charles spent June taking official visits — with main stops in Syracuse and Texas — earlier than returning to Morgantown final weekend.
That official go to moved West Virginia up the ladder for considered one of Tennessee’s high recruits.
“What stood out to me was the way in which the gamers handled one another and the entire staff, together with the coaches … All they talked about was household, and which means quite a bit to me,” he defined. “So far as Morgantown tradition goes, my mother graduated from West Virginia, the connection to Morgantown is simply loopy! I’m very excited to make Morgantown my residence.”
A part of the Mountaineers’ transfer to the four-star DT was made by the pinnacle coach Neil Brownwho performed a big half in sinking Tennessee for Charles’ favor.
“Coach Brown simply makes you need to be higher, he simply makes you need to play exhausting,” he started. “His teaching method is precisely what I like as a coach, he is aware of the sport, he understands deal with his gamers and he simply desires to make everybody round him higher.”