Five-star quarterback Jacob Eason (Lake Stevens, Wash./Lake Stevens) has not spoken since his official visit to Georgia.

Tony Eason, Jacob's father, thought he was done dealing with recruiting media with his son verbally committed to the Bulldogs for over 18 months and set to enroll at Georgia in early January. Events on the morning of November 29th quickly changed things for Eason and family.

“I was heart broke for my kid, he had stayed up until 4 a.m. watching the game (Semi-Final loss) from the night before, because that is the type of kid he is, and then he gets up at 8 a.m. to find out Mark Richt was fired,” he said. “That was a day of disbelief in our house.”

The elder Eason made a quick decision after UGA had parted with Mark Richt with regards to his son and media.

“It was a time to shut all of that down and just keep things between our family, we didn’t need any outside distractions,” Eason said.”I had coaches from all over the country calling me and trying to get Jake on the phone, we just had to circle the wagons on this deal.

Jacob Eason PRO | 6-5 | 217 Lake Stevens Sr (Lake Stevens, WA) Class of 16 247Sports Composite 0.9973 Natl 4 Pos 1 State1 Hard Commit 7/19/2014

Florida quickly emerged as a school that fits things they were looking for, so Jacob took an official to check out the Gators on Dec. 1.

“They are a quarterback driven system, their head coach is a quarterback guy as well,” he said. "They identified Jacob as the top quarterback in the country and they want him to run that offense. They are very similar to Georgia in a lot of ways, they are looking for a quarterback too. “

With this being a Georgia-Florida battle Eason said they looked from the outside in comparing both schools.

“Both places are pro-style offenses, they are both SEC-East schools, we like both coaching staffs, we are so far away from those two schools, we have not been caught up in all the rivalry between them yet," Tony said.

Florida head coach Jim McElwain made one last in-person pitch to the Eason family last Thursday. The following day, Tony, his wife, and Jacob made the cross-country trek to take an official visit to Georgia. This trip, the final one before the dead period, was about people, however, not places.

“Georgia was Georgia," he said. "It was the same place, just the people have changed, so we spent a lot of time with Kirby (Smart) with our in-home last week and on this visit.”

There was no secret there were a lot of eyes including from the Eason family on who Georgia would hire at offensive coordinator. Jim Chaney was hired on Saturday morning officially from Pitts and Kirby Smart wasted no time getting Chaney to Athens and in front of them while on their visit.

“My first impression was he was like my old high school and his son,(Keith Gilbertson and Keith Gilbertson Jr.) when we meet throughout the weekend,” he said.” He just reminded me of both of them so much that family tree of coaches. I liked that about him.”

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Still guarded about some information, Eason's father said all of this should be over “soon.” In fact, a decision could have already been made privately.

“I think there is one made, but we are going to look at it a little more and I think something should be out soon,” he said.

Staff prediction on Eason's decision

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