Danny Hall gets commitment from son

Georgia Tech baseball coach Danny Hall secured a critical commitment Friday – his son Carter.

Carter Hall, a rising senior shortstop at Wesleyan, made his intentions to be a Yellow Jacket known at the end of a recruiting visit with his father and his staff. (Father and son drove to campus separately.) He chose Tech over Stanford.

“He was really excited, all of them were,” Carter Hall said of his father and his assistant coaches. “He’s just happy I’ll be around the house and won’t be all the way in California.”

Hall said that the situation had occasionally been awkward with his family, although his father refrained from making recruiting pitches. In fact, Hall said, his father didn’t even know he was going to announce his intentions Friday until he did so.

“He never really pressured me or wanted me to hurry up and decide,” he said. “He kind of let me do my thing, make the decision on my own.”

During his recruitment, he did place some limits on Carter – Georgia and other ACC schools were off limits. But the two flew out to Stanford last year for a visit and both came away impressed. Carter said he was 50/50 on the two schools until this week.

Hall has grown up around Russ Chandler Stadium, often taking batting practice or fielding ground balls from his father. But when he enrolls, most likely in the summer of 2015, it will be the first time his father will be his coach since he was eight years old.