Leon's McSayles to play for ex-FAMU head coach

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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FAMU coach Billy Joe inducted in MEAC Hall of Fame

Photo: Hall of Famer and Miles College head football coach, William "Billy" Joe.

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Former Florida A&M football coach Billy Joe had to laugh as he told the story. He's wearing a brace on his right wrist, he said, because he tried to teach one of his players at Miles College how to deliver a forearm shiver.

"I've got to remember I'm not 21 any more," Joe said with a huge grin. "I'm 67 -- but I don't feel it."

Joe has plenty of reasons to feel good about himself these days.

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