This undoubtedly is the highest-profile signing since Will Neighbour. Jackson was a 3-star recruit out of high school according to Rivals. Rivals had him as the second-ranked recruit out of the state of Arkansas, and he was ranked third by ESPN. He was the leading scorer on the junior college national champions. His stats look really impressive. So, on paper, this is a huge event for Coach Beard.
One wonders why a player of this caliber ended up at UCA out of high school. According to ESPN, Fayetteville, Baylor, Memphis, Ole Miss, Tennessee and Arkansas State were looking at him. It is a long drop from that level of interested parties all the way down to the bottom tier of the Southland Conference. Then he immediately disappeared into the junior college ranks. There had to be a reason for all that. Let's hope it was grades, because that would be the easier of the possibilities to fix.
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