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Vols’ new strength coach may play key role in Baylor star DGG’s decision

Staff file photo by Matt Hamilton / Baylor School running back David Gabriel Georges is preparing for his senior prep football season while also deciding where he will play next year. Gabriel Georges, a five-star prospect who has been heavily recruited by Ohio State and Tennessee among other programs, plans to announce his college commitment on July 22.
Staff file photo by Matt Hamilton / Baylor School running back David Gabriel Georges is preparing for his senior prep football season while also deciding where he will play next year. Gabriel Georges, a five-star prospect who has been heavily recruited by Ohio State and Tennessee among other programs, plans to announce his college commitment on July 22. Staff file photo by Matt Hamilton / Baylor School running back David Gabriel Georges is preparing for his senior prep football season while also deciding where he will play next year. Gabriel Georges, a five-star prospect who has been heavily recruited by Ohio State and Tennessee among other programs, plans to announce his college commitment on July 22.

Typically, the more days that pass after a prep football player visits a college campus for a recruiting visit, the less it’s discussed. But like so many other aspects of Baylor School star David Gabriel Georges — from his fantastic talent as a running back to the amount of interest he generates as a prospect — that simply has not been the case.

The degree of attention and reaction given to his official visit last weekend to the University of Tennessee seemingly grew more intense in the week that followed as multiple state, regional and national recruiting service reporters and podcasters wrote about and discussed his upcoming decision on a college commitment.

This past Monday, during a nearly hour-long conversation, DGG’s uncle Jean Agenor — who has been influential in his nephew’s life and is helping him through the recruiting process — gave the Chattanooga Times Free Press a peek into the family’s feelings after a whirlwind two weeks that also included an official visit to Ohio State, the program that is neck and neck with the Tennessee Volunteers in the race to land the Baylor star as part of its 2027 signing class.

Agenor, himself a former football player in Canada who now helps train young athletes around Quebec, helped research several potential boarding schools before guiding his nephew to enroll at Baylor, where he believed DGG could create maximum exposure at a Southern football power. It was a plan that has produced the exact potential Agenor believed his nephew could reach, as DGG has earned every prep award possible and risen to national recognition as one of the top 15 prospects overall in the current recruiting cycle.

(READ MORE: Baylor’s David Gabriel Georges named national player of the year)