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BLOOMINGTON – Jake Forrester already held an IU offer when Archie Miller arrived in Bloomington this spring.
Not long after Miller finished constructing his coaching staff, IU assistant Bruiser Flint, whose ties to the Philadelphia area — where Forrester plays for Westtown School — reach back decades, called to let Forrester know that offer still stood. From there, everything just kept accelerating.
“Bruiser Flint was really a huge part of this. Bru is from Philly and is a huge friend of mine,” said Seth Berger, Forrester’s coach at Westtown, one of the most prominent prep schools in the country.