STOCKBRIDGE, Georgia — The story of how Deontae McClanahan locked up a basketball scholarship starts and ends in a gymnasium, but not in the way one would think.
About a month ago, McClanahan was shooting around in the Woodland gym when the high school’s head football coach, Steve Davenport, approached him.
“He asked me what schools were recruiting me at the time. I told him that a couple of small schools, a college in Tennessee, Clark Atlanta and Wingate,” he said. “He asked me if I would be interested in going to Savannah State and I was like, ‘Yeah!’”
The former Savannah State football coach whipped out his cellphone, called the basketball coach at his old school and put McClanahan on the line.
Two weeks later, McClanahan worked out for the Tigers in Savannah. A short time after that — specifically April 24, the day of prom — McClanahan received a phone call as he was in the middle of taking pictures. It was a Savannah State coach and he wanted to extend an offer.
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