Michigan State extends offer to Alaric Jackson

Detroit Renaissance junior offensive tackle, Alaric Jackson, already had two Big Ten offers, but received his biggest one yet, from instate school, Michigan State. The offer was Jackson's 10th of the process, and one he was really excited to receive. He talks about it more, and what where the Spartans stand in his recruitment.

Q. Branden Hunter: You already held two Big Ten offers from Nebraska and Illinois, but how special was this offer from Michigan State?

A. Alaric Jackson: "This offer was very special from Michigan State, because they are such a powerhouse athletically and academically."

Q. Growing up did you ever think you would be able to play football at Michigan State?

A. "Growing up, I didn't at all, because my mother was scared to let me play football, but ever since that first offer came, she's been a die hard fan."

A. How did you hear about the offer from Michigan State?

Q. "I talked to my basketball coach at first, he let me know to give Coach Dantonio a call. so then I called him off of my football coach's phone, and he let me know that they had offered me."

Q. What did Coach Dantonio say?

A. "He said that he liked me from a personnel standpoint, from when I took visit. He said he liked that I was a very good person, and a stand up guy. He told me he liked me as a player, of course, and that I had great size, athletic and raw."

Q. What do you like most about Michigan State football, and where they have been, and are headed as a football program?

A. "I feel like MSU is a great school. It's really homey, and I like their great staff, and the players are really cool. I know a lot about the school through a current athlete, and their program is headed in the right direction to me. They were Rose Bowl champs, and now Cotton Bowl champs, so anybody with a brain stem would know that they are heading in the right direction."

Q. Do you talk to current Michigan State junior, Lawrence Thomas, who went to Renaissance as well in 2011?

A. "Yes I talk to him. Me and his brothers are tight as well, and I feel like I know the school already from him and his brother."

Q. When are you looking to get back up to East Lansing for a visit?

A. "Sometime for spring ball."

Q. Where does the offer put Michigan State now, in your recruitment?

A. "It really doesn't put them anywhere honestly, because it's still early in the process for me, hut the are a great contender."