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After four years of being recruited, Dorial Green-Beckham’s college decision was made in less than a minute.
As he and his family drove home from his official visit to Missouri on Sunday along US Route 63 in their black Honda Odyssey van, he suddenly said, “Dad, I’m ready to talk.”
His adoptive parents, John and Tracy Beckham, had never pressured Dorial about his college future, and because they did not, it was rarely discussed. But when the Hillcrest High School star wide receiver, who is the top high school football recruit in the Class of 2012, said those five words, his parents knew exactly what he meant: He had made his college decision.
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