#STRecruiting: New USC staff renews the interest in OL Jordan Johnson (UPDATED)
December 18, 2015 by Phil Kornblut
Jordan Johnson
USC’s old staff offered and worked OL Jordan Johnson of Jacksonville. It didn’t go all that well for the Gamecocks because Johnson committed to Georgia Tech in July. But former USC assistant Steve Spurrier Jr. never stopped recruiting him and when Johnson decommitted in November, the Gamecocks were right back on his list. And the new staff has continued the relationship now that they’ve had a chance to sort thru some things in recruiting.
“When they changed coaches I went like a week without talking to anyone and then (earlier this week) Coach Elliott reached out to me, and he was like, ‘Oh yeah, we’ve just been trying to get everything situated,’ and that’s why they didn’t come see me,” Johnson said. “I basically asked him where I stood with them because I had gone a while without talking to him, and I said, am I still on the board at South Carolina. I thought I was going to take an official visit up there. He was like, ‘Are you still interested in South Carolina?’ And I was like, yeah. And he was like, ‘That’s great.’ He said he was going to call me, and he did, but I was busy.”
Johnson notified us Friday morning that he and Elliott did get back together on the phone and they set an official visit for January 29th. He’s also looking at January visits to Central Florida and Georgia Tech at this point. Those are the three schools he’s eyeing at this point with no favorite. He said coaches from Miami, Mississippi State, Duke, Virginia Tech, Louisville and Georgia Tech were in to see him during the live period.
As for what he sees for USC with Muschamp, Johnson expects positive things. “I feel like they have a legitimate chance to be a powerhouse in the SEC.”
