If you want to know why Jalin Hyatt is wearing Tennessee orange instead of garnet and black, this is what did it:
"Jamie remembers a conversation they had with Muschamp the summer before Jalin's junior year in high school. Jamie said Jalin ran a scorching 40-yard dash and that Muschamp even called Jalin's high school coach at Dutch Fork, Tom Knotts, to tell him it was one of the fastest 40 times he'd ever seen.
When they met afterward, Jamie said Muschamp looked at Jalin and said, 'Man, you're fast, but you need to eat more peanut butter.'
At that point, nothing else needed to be said.
'I still talk to Coach Muschamp and we chop it up. [Georgia] is recruiting my younger son,' said Jamie, whose son Devin is attending IMG Academy. 'But I can tell you -- and I don't think Coach Muschamp meant it personally -- that our business was done with South Carolina after that. We needed to move on, and I know Jalin has used it for motivation.'"
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"Jamie remembers a conversation they had with Muschamp the summer before Jalin's junior year in high school. Jamie said Jalin ran a scorching 40-yard dash and that Muschamp even called Jalin's high school coach at Dutch Fork, Tom Knotts, to tell him it was one of the fastest 40 times he'd ever seen.
When they met afterward, Jamie said Muschamp looked at Jalin and said, 'Man, you're fast, but you need to eat more peanut butter.'
At that point, nothing else needed to be said.
'I still talk to Coach Muschamp and we chop it up. [Georgia] is recruiting my younger son,' said Jamie, whose son Devin is attending IMG Academy. 'But I can tell you -- and I don't think Coach Muschamp meant it personally -- that our business was done with South Carolina after that. We needed to move on, and I know Jalin has used it for motivation.'"
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