2020 – Champagnat Catholic LB/DE Jesus Machado adds offers from #IowaState via Eli Rasheed & #WVU via Seider pic.twitter.com/cdVIqx28Pl

— Rising Stars (@JerryRecruiting) May 6, 2016

That was May 5, I’d like to point out, when that eighth grader received his second and third scholarship offers. North Carolina State was first, and all of that was to virtually no fanfare.

That all changed today when Alabama’s scholarship offer made the news, and I don’t know what’s less of a surprise: Lane Kiffin’s school is pursuing a middle schooler or JaJuan Seider is in that deep in Florida.