“Thank y’all for coming,” Prince said to those who came to support him. “I want to give a shout-out to God, if it wasn’t for God’s influence I wouldn’t be here. Thank you to my family for y’all support, it means a lot. To the football team this year, going through life is hard but I come in here every day and I wake up and I don’t really complain. I want to shout out to my family, they are a big reason why I’m still here. Thank you all for coming. For the next four years, I will be going to Georgia Tech.”
Surrounded by his family, the always jovial Prince embraced the moment as he signed his National Letter of Intent to play under a blossoming Yellow Jackets team under first-year head coach Brent Keys.
Watching from afar as he played out his senior season for Glynn Academy, Prince stayed true to his commitment to the program as he announced his intentions to play for Georgia Tech over the summer.
Standing 6-foot-5 and always knowing where No. 2 was on the field, Prince said a talk that he had with Coach Keys and tight ends coach Buster Faulkner about making a switch from playing as a wideout to becoming a tight end.
“When I got closer, he brought me in and he talked to me one-on-one in his office and he was talking to me with the tight end coach about me developing as a man after football,” Prince said. “I just wanted to take my chances with Tech.”
Being a high school wideout where Prince accumulated over 1,000 yards receiving and 15 receiving touchdowns, Prince said the transition won’t be easy to becoming a tight end.
“It is going to be difficult for the first six months trying to block and gain weight,” Prince said. “I’m not used to that but getting to bond with my brothers on the football team is going to be an opportunity to play on the field. That’s what it’s about.”
With his resume speaking for itself throughout his career as a Terror on and off the field, Prince said the feeling of having his family come to Atlanta to watch him play is a great feeling.
Cracking a joke that one day he will be an engineer for an institute that is known for the field, Prince is focused on going out with a bang in his final months as a Terror on the basketball court as the team currently sits with a 9-2 record.