When a recruit is offered a scholarship to play college sports, coaches usually have to worry about competing schools, family, girlfriends, playing time and location being potential pitfalls to signing a kid that could help the program.
2013 Michigan State recruit Jay Harris, ranked by 247Sports as a 3-star wide receiver, has decided to forgo a college-football career and follow his dream in the hip-hop industry instead.
Truly one of the oddest decisions we've ever seen with respect to the high-school-to-college jump. But, if you listen to the young man explain his decision to Matt Breen of The Philadelphia Inquirer, it's something that has really been weighing on his heart for quite some time:
I've been thinking about doing this for a couple of years now...I try to take advantage of every opportunity I get and for him to like my music and reach it to me, I really appreciated that. I've always had this in the back of my head, but never had the courage to tell my parents that this is what I want to do.
According to the article, Harris' mixtape is set to drop in June and he'll be working with a professional recording artist this summer, instead of heading to East Lansing in preparation for Mark D'Antonio's upcoming football season.
He's already released a YouTube video—under the name Jay DatBull—that has over 50,000 views, and is entitled, "DatBull 4 Life". Warning: Video NSFW (not suitable for work).
Harris originally committed to the Spartans on national signing day (Feb. 6), but called his original commitment to the program "halfhearted", per Breen's piece. His decision has sparked some serious Twitter commentary, including that of B/R's own Randy Chambers and Michael Felder, and The B1G Time MSU (via Twitter):
The 5'11", 175-pound receiver had 48 receptions for 698 yards and 12 touchdowns last season. He scored 15 total touchdowns. Harris was expected to help bolster a Spartans recruiting class looking for help in the wideout department.
Operating mainly out of the slot, Harris was a playmaker for Downingtown East High School, posing a mismatch problem for linebackers through the air and victimizing corners in the open field with some shifty moves.
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