Photo: Miles College head football coach, William "Billy" Joe
In college football recruiting, courting the student-athlete's parents can be just as important as wooing the student-athlete. Take cornerback Jared McSayles, for example. The recent Tallahassee Leon High graduate will head to Miles College in Birmingham, Ala. to attend school and play football. At Miles, he will play under first-year head coach Billy Joe, who was inducted into Florida A&M University's Hall of Fame last year.
McSayles, 18, cites two major factors in his decision to select the NCAA Division II school in Alabama:
Hearing from the Miles coaching staff that he would receive the opportunity to play college football as a freshman;
His mother's comfort with the Miles coaching staff.
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