Arizona State middle linebacker Jordan Crook will soon be driving a new vehicle around Tempe. Fans of the Sun Devils partnered with a local dealerships to buy him a car less than 10 hours after he sent out the bat signal on social media.
Although this kind of purchase is not particularly uncommon in the modern era of NIL, the sequence of events is rather unusual and it would not make any sense if you tried to explain it to someone in 2010.
Crook, a former three-star recruit, began his college football career at Arkansas. The Texas-native spent two years with the Hogs and transferred out West during the offseason…