The phone's been ringing off the hook all week inside the football offices at El Camino Junior College in Torrance, Calif. That's what happens when 23 of your 40 graduating sophomores are headed to Division I schools and media outlets across the country are clamoring for quotes.
So when a call came in from Athens, Ohio, on Tuesday concerning the gem of Ohio's 20-man recruiting class, quarterback Franshaw Boo Jackson, Warriors coach John Featherstone was ready to chat.
You've got a darn good quarterback coming your way
Featherstone interjected before I could finish introducing myself.
He's got like a sixth sense.Now you've peaked my interest. Go on.
He sees the whole field
in terms of a quarterback throwing the ball
the 23-year El Camino coach said. He's a very accurate thrower. He's usually on the mark or right around the mark every time. He's got tremendous feet and he can get you out of trouble real fast.
You got a steal in Boo Jackson.
As Featherstone describes it
Jackson
like many junior college football players
slipped through the cracks. Sure
Jackson managed to garner a number of state honors
but he didn't get much of a chance to show off his arm in high school
Featherstone said. Jackson was relegated as the hander-offer in a run-heavy Wing-T system at Lompoc High School in California.
That didn't bother Featherstone
