6-2, 215-pound Brian Maddox , one of the top running back recruits in East, plans to announce his verbal commitment this Friday at a 6:00 p.m. press conference at T.L. Hanna High School (Anderson, S.C.). Maddox has narrowed his list of schools to six and will discuss the decision with his family this week.

“We’ve created a nice matrix that’s consisted of about 32 items that we’re evaluating all the schools on,” Brian’s father Eddie Maddox said. “We’ve really broken it out and we’ve brought about six schools out of the 20 schools that have offered him. We’re doing a final analysis. We’ve created a new matrix with some newer items that we’re looking at the best of the best with and we’ll come out with a number one by the end of the week.”

His father discussed the most important factors in the final decision.

“The most important things right now are…one, that he gets a good education. We’re looking really close at some criteria from an academic stand point to make sure the school is a level where he’ll walk away with a degree that means something,” Eddie Maddox said. Brian wants to major in Engineering. “The second thing is that his mother and I have certain values that we’ve instilled into Brian and we want to make sure when he comes out of there in four or five years that he still has those values. We’re looking at the coaching staff, stability and if these guys share the same values we have. The last thing that is also a big item is the strength, speed and conditioning program. To play well on the next level you have to have a program that gets kids bigger, stronger and faster.”

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