Ryan Hilinski will be traveling several thousand miles with his family when he joins South Carolina’s football team after committing on Wednesday.
But he traveled nearly 2,500 miles the other way to make his decision.
In an interview with SportsTalk, he said he got a feeling he’d pick the Gamecocks in a hotel room in Hawaii. He and his family flew there after South Carolina’s spring game to spread the ashes of his late brother Tyler.
“I spoke to our older brother Kelly,” Ryan Hilinski said. “He was in the opposite room.