How Nate Bargatze, Diego Pavia helped Vanderbilt football’s push for Jared Curtis

Key Highlights

• “That was their message, that Vanderbilt was building something special.”Von, Pavia and Nashville-native comedian Nate Bargatze were all part of Vanderbilt’s furious and ultimately successful effort to get Curtis, the nation’s No.
• 1 class of 2026 recruit, to flip from Georgia and sign with Vandy on Dec.
• 3. More: How Jared Curtis turned an old jacket into a Vanderbilt football good-luck charmMore: What Vanderbilt commit Omarii Sanders said about Jared Curtis, Owen Cabell flipsAdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementBargatze personally called Curtis.“He was just saying the same thing Theo said, that Vanderbilt was a special environment,” Curtis said.
• “It was a fun conversation.”Curtis could finally put his wild recruitment behind him and look ahead to college after completing 14-of-19 passes for 205 yards and five TDs in his final high school game.
• Curtis will enroll at Vanderbilt in January. Vanderbilt and Clark Lea got heavily involved with Curtis in late October.