The walls inside Brentwood Academy know Jake Diebler well.
He frequently traversed the hallways of the high school in Nashville, Tennessee, not too long ago in pursuit of Darius Garland. Then a five-star point guard, Garland attracted the attention of college programs throughout the country, earning offers from the likes of Duke, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, UCLA and Ohio State. The blue-blood attention didn’t deter Diebler, then an assistant coach at Vanderbilt. He invested years of effort pursuing the well-regarded prospect who was attending a high school just 11 miles south of the Commodores’ campus.
“(Diebler) came out every time he could,” Brentwood Academy coach Hubie Smith told Eleven Warriors.