Portal Spotlight: Trey Knox

Arkansas tight finish Trey Knox threw his title into the switch portal earlier this week after placing up a stat line of 26 receptions, 296 receiving yards, and 5 touchdowns in 2022. The Tennessee native transitioned to the place within the 2020 offseason and obtained progressively higher over the previous two seasons in his new position.

Knox will look to spend his ultimate faculty season elsewhere. As a result of two particular coaches on their employees, South Carolina is in a singular and doubtlessly advantageous place with Knox’s recruitment.

Former Arkansas tight finish coach Dowell Loggains was formally employed as South Carolina’s new offensive coordinator earlier this week. Loggains arrived in Fayetteville in the summertime of 2021, which was near the time when Knox moved to that place, which means Loggains has been Knox’s place coach for the previous two seasons.

As he acknowledged in his introductory press convention, Loggains does not deal with recruiting like making an attempt to promote a product. He treats it extra as a possibility to construct relationships.

It may be assumed that Loggains, based mostly on his recruiting observe document and being a self-proclaimed folks individual, that he and Knox hit it off of their participant and coach relationship at Arkansas.

One other tie the Gamecocks have with Knox that should not go unnoticed entails present Gamecock extensive receivers coach Justin Stepp. Again when Stepp was the extensive receivers coach at Arkansas, he served as the first recruiter for Trey Knox when the Hogs had been pursuing him within the 2019 recruiting cycle.

Stepp and Arkansas gained out ultimately. Very like Loggains, Stepp is a famous gamers coach who’s made sustaining relationships with present and former gamers a large precedence in his profession. The very best instance is when Stepp confirmed up at former Arkansas extensive receiver Treylon Burks’ NFL Draft watch celebration this previous spring.

Whilst you cannot assume this recruitment can be minimize and dry, based mostly on the relationships and tangible on-field progress, the Gamecocks must really feel assured in the event that they select to take part within the Trey Knox sweepstakes.

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