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Blue chip Micah Braswell’s verbal commitment to Florida State seemed the natural order of things, given his father Ty’s background as a Seminole player and later, as an assistant coach. But two changes in the assistant coaching ranks provided Micah with a reason to reassess his initial commitment, and after a recent visit to Austin, the 17-year-old announced he would join the University of Texas in 2020.
Blue Chip Micah Braswell is Signing with Texas
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“I knew Brandon Wagner pretty well because he was coaching Adam Neff and I had practiced with them,” Micah Braswell said of the Longhorns’ new assistant coach, who had worked for many years in the Bradenton/Sarasota area, where the Braswell family lives. “He wanted me to go on a visit there and I decided it would be a good idea before I signed with a school.”
In addition, Micah had gone through much of the recruiting process with Florida State associate head coach Ryler DeHeart, who left the program this summer to become a USTA National Coach at the Lake Nona campus.
“He only took a couple of visits to Florida and Florida State last fall, and after Ryler left he was doing some soul searching, considering maybe taking another visit,” Ty Braswell said. “At the last minute, he decided to take one more visit. We called and told (FSU head coach) Dwayne (Hultquist) and his staff he was going to do it. He came back and just really felt like that's where God was leading him to go and felt like it was the right fit for him.”
Ty and his wife Anna had mixed feelings about their son’s change of heart.
