Throughout his efforts to recruit five-star linebacker Nakobe Dean, Kirby Smart would make calls to the Mississippi product.
Sometimes, Dean wouldn’t pick up. Try again later.
“I’m sorry, coach, I can’t talk tonight,” Smart, Georgia’s head coach, would recall the coveted prospect saying. “I have to go focus on my school work and keep a 4.0 (GPA).”
That’s what Georgia is getting in a quiet-mattered Dean, who signed with the Bulldogs Wednesday during the early signing period. His academic statistics mirror the on-field numbers. In fact, that’s what brought him to Georgia.
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