A ridiculously expedited timeline, Kerry Coombs recounted, served as the toughest aspect of securing a signed National Letter of Intent from Cameron Martinez.
“How do you develop trust in that short window of time?” Coombs asked rhetorically. “Well you'd better spend a lot of time with him in person and on the phone, whatever the rules allow.”
Coombs went ahead and spent an entire day in January, from early in the morning until late at night, in Muskegon, Michigan, with the sole purpose of developing a relationship in an abnormally short period of time. It worked, with Martinez putting his decision in writing on Wednesday morning.