Both Ole Miss and Utah are claiming it received a National Letter of Intent from Florida athlete D.J. Law.
Ole Miss first announced the signature at 8:23 a.m. today. Utah announced at 3:36 p.m. (central) that he had signed with it.
An Ole Miss spokesman said the school is looking into it. His counterpart at Utah said that she published he had signed as soon āas I was told I could.ā But, she said, she thinks the school received the letter of intent earlier in the day.
Adding more weirdness to the story is this video from local TV news station Bay News 9, in which Law is clearly choosing Utah and is seen wearing a Utes hat.
Law actually triple-signed: he also has inked with East Mississippi Community College. The 5-foot-11, 185-pound athlete from Haines City, Fla. is a three-star prospect that scored 20 total touchdowns last season.
āThat was another midweek decision that we had to make, whether we were going to go all-out on him, stay in it with another guy that was very similar and we made the decision to go with D.J.,ā coach Hugh Freeze said. āReally fell in love with him on his trip here. Heās a kid from a very humble background, has had several hardships in his life and Iām totally convinced this kid wants to make something of himself. Heās going to have some academic challenges also because of the issues he faced as a ninth-grader.
Hopefully he can overcome those and get with us this fall. Weāre thrilled.ā
Ole Miss first announced the signature at 8:23 a.m. today. Utah announced at 3:36 p.m. (central) that he had signed with it.
An Ole Miss spokesman said the school is looking into it. His counterpart at Utah said that she published he had signed as soon āas I was told I could.ā But, she said, she thinks the school received the letter of intent earlier in the day.
Adding more weirdness to the story is this video from local TV news station Bay News 9, in which Law is clearly choosing Utah and is seen wearing a Utes hat.
Law actually triple-signed: he also has inked with East Mississippi Community College. The 5-foot-11, 185-pound athlete from Haines City, Fla. is a three-star prospect that scored 20 total touchdowns last season.
āThat was another midweek decision that we had to make, whether we were going to go all-out on him, stay in it with another guy that was very similar and we made the decision to go with D.J.,ā coach Hugh Freeze said. āReally fell in love with him on his trip here. Heās a kid from a very humble background, has had several hardships in his life and Iām totally convinced this kid wants to make something of himself. Heās going to have some academic challenges also because of the issues he faced as a ninth-grader.
Hopefully he can overcome those and get with us this fall. Weāre thrilled.ā
