'09 COLLEGE FOOTBALL OFF-SEASON THREAD-recruiting/Coaching Changes/Transfers

[jville819]

Originally Posted by Fear The Ibis

Spring practice is here already.

Jacory been hitting the weights?

Idk, before i even scrolled down to see what you had said i was asking myself does this dude ever go to the weight room

 

[N41D]

I was just about to say jville... Dude still looks mad frail to me...

 

[fear the ibis]

True....


But this was him last year....

 

[myron rhodes]

Originally Posted by Fear The Ibis

BTW.......anybody know what gloves these are?

Nike Treadlock Assassin

 

[fear the ibis]

Vicious.

Copped.

 

[vctry20]

yeah those gloves are crazy, the lighter gray part is padded

Idk, before i even scrolled down to see what you had said i was asking myself does this dude ever go to the weight room
I was thinking the same thing

I just saw this, don't know if I'm late.

Oregon backup Quarterback Chris Harper is going to be exploring his options. Chip Kelly split him out at WO for most of the season.

[h1]Harper to finish semester at Oregon[/h1] [h4]BY JEFFREY MARTIN[/h4] [h4]The Wichita Eagle[/h4]
Chris Harper, the former Northwest High football star, will finish his freshman year at Oregon and then mull his options, his older brother said today.

"We're going to evaluate things," Ladale Harper said.

Harper originally committed to Kansas State during his senior season at Northwest, but changed his mind soon afterward for a variety of reasons. But when Ron Prince was fired and Bill Snyder was re-hired in November, Harper began to think about home.

He told the Eagle in December, "Out of all of the schools, I felt most comfortable at K-State.... When I was on campus at K-State, I felt totally comfortable. I have friends on the team -- it just felt right. I don't how else to explain it -- it just felt right."

Despite being hobbled by a groin injury, Harper carried 35 times for 137 yards and two touchdowns and caught nine passes for 122 yards and two touchdowns for Oregon (10-3), which finished the 2008 season with a 42-31 victory against Oklahoma State in the Holiday Bowl.

But his position of choice remains quarterback, where he completed 4 of 9 passes for 40 yards, a touchdown and two interceptions despite a balky right shoulder that did not require offseason surgery. He was also one of four quarterbacks used by the Ducks in 2008, and with Oregon's first practice scheduled for March 30, Harper will likely spend the spring seeing how he fits into the Ducks' plans.

Harper's situation, according to his older brother, has no bearing on the extended recruitment of East running back Bryce Brown, who is also considering Oregon and K-State.

 

[dlo13]

Orson Charles dropped Florida. He may make his final decision between now and the 5th of Never.

 

[the wizard]

Brandon Warren is going to play WR for the Vols.

 

[gunna get it]

Wiz. U 3 months late with that

 

[dlo13]

WR, TE, whatever...you still got Crompton throwing the ball.

Orson now says he plans to cut one more team by the end of the week...

 

[gunna get it]

Kiffin has been tellin everyone Crapton can play it was wak !$$ Clawson and his new read/schemes.

from what I saw last yr, I dont trust Crapton, but when he was a Freshman and forced to play, he was damn good. So I dunno

 

[gunna get it]

UT's 2nd string TE Aaron Douglas, has been moved to OT ...

a sign of someone joining the program at that position?

 

[fear the ibis]

A sign that @%@%* A. Can't Catch B. Can't Run Routes C. Eats too much

 

[dlo13]

Originally Posted by Fear The Ibis

A sign that @%@%* A. Can't Catch B. Can't Run Routes C. Eats too much

Kiffin going HAM...

 

[gunna get it]

 

[gunna get it]

Bryce with a "UT Hostess" its her default pic.

Dudes msged her on facebook askin her who he was and she replied "he is an incoming freshman"

In.comin.freshman

Thank you ladies and Gentlemen, Im here all week

 

[fatpat1251]

David Durham, OLB
Austin, TX
Westlake H.S.


Scouts Grade: 40 Buckeyes pull David Durham out of Lone Star State
Outside linebacker / defensive end David Durham has committed to sign with Ohio State, ESPN affiliate Web site Bucknuts.com reports. He selected the Buckeyesover scholarship offers from Illinois, West Virginia and Virginia.

The Westlake (Austin, Texas) product said, "I visited Virginia on Thursday, Ohio State on Friday and West Virginia on Saturday. I thought Ohio State mightoffer. I called them back today and talked to (linebackers coach Luke) Fickell. He said they were officially offering a scholarship and I committed. I hadthought about it over the weekend and decided if the offer came I was going to commit."

Durham recorded 80 tackles and 11 sacks this past fall

 

[gobucksbc]

Billboard in Columbus...

 

[ThaxbyChamblis]

Made a thread on this, but it should go here as well

February 27, 2009
[h1]N.C.A.A. Investigates Role of a Recruit's Adviser[/h1]
By THAYER EVANS and PETE THAMEL

The saga of the nation's top football recruit, Bryce Brown, and his controversial adviser and mentor, Brian Butler, took some new twists Thursday, with the University of Miami saying it was no longer interested in Brown and the N.C.A.A. beginning an apparently unrelated investigation of Butler.

The assistant director of the N.C.A.A.'s amateurism certification staff, Mike DeCesare, is in Wichita, Kan., investigating Butler, who trains and advises Brown and other players in the Wichita area.

Butler, a former rapper and cellphone call-center manager, has emerged as a polarizing figure in the recruiting community by acting as a third party for numerous high school football prospects and briefly charging for updates on their recruiting on his Web site, PotentialPlayers.com.

Colby Duranleau, a lineman at Wichita Northwest High School who worked out with Butler, has a meeting scheduled with DeCesare at his home on Friday. "It's about Brian Butler," Duranleau said Thursday in a telephone interview, referring to his meeting with DeCesare. "They said they had heard some news and they wanted to get some information on it."

Duranleau's mother, Karen Powell, confirmed the meeting but declined to elaborate. "I don't feel comfortable tinkering with their investigation," she said.

Butler, whose role in Brown's recruiting was reported by The New York Times earlier this month, said in a telephone interview on Thursday that the N.C.A.A. had not contacted him.

"They'd be more than welcome to talk to me if they needed to, because we've kept everything 100 percent legit," Butler said.

Brown, a tailback, has narrowed his college choices to Oregon, Louisiana State, Kansas State, Southern California and Tennessee. He is verbally committed to Miami, Butler said, but a Miami official said Thursday that the program was no longer recruiting Brown and would not offer him a scholarship, even though it had scholarships available. Butler said Brown was still considering Miami.

Brown and Butler will not be in Wichita on Friday because they are driving to L.S.U. Brown attended Wichita East High School, graduating a semester early.

"I'm not doing anything," Butler said. "If the N.C.A.A. comes, then I'll give them any information that they want and that's available."

An N.C.A.A. spokesperson said that its amateurism certification office - as distinct from its enforcement section, which often examines the recruitment of high-profile athletes - typically looks at the amateur status of prospects before they enroll in college. The N.C.A.A. is probably checking to see if Butler has done anything to jeopardize the amateur status of any of his clients.

Once a player enrolls in college, investigations into a player's amateur status are turned over to the N.C.A.A.'s agent, gambling and amateurism department. Amateurism issues are rare in football because, unlike in sports like basketball, tennis and golf, there is no immediate professional option available to young athletes.

The N.C.A.A. does not comment on specific investigations.

Duranleau, who will attend Coffeyville Community College in hopes of landing a Division I scholarship, and others questioned Miami's scholarship offers to Butler's clients in the recent article in The New York Times. "I didn't want to mess with some of the stuff that he was talking about, like not going to our high school practices or lifting at our school and paying him to work out and for his recruiting services," Duranleau said on Thursday, referring to Butler.

Numerous college football coaches said they backed off recruiting Brown and his brother Arthur Brown Jr., a linebacker entering his sophomore year at Miami, because of having to deal with Butler. Some football coaches cling to the notion of not wanting to recruit through third parties.

Butler caused concern in college coaching circles by charging for recruiting updates from his Web site. He has since stopped. Butler also expressed his displeasure in the former Kansas State coach Ron Prince for encouraging Wildcats boosters not to donate to his nonprofit organization. (It would violate N.C.A.A. rules for a booster to donate money to Butler to help recruit a player.)

Brown's situation has generated a lot of publicity because he did not sign a letter of intent on national signing day, Feb. 4, when nearly all recruits signed letters.

Butler said Brown would announce his college destination March 16 at the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame in Wichita.

 

[dlo13]

Spoiler

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[gunna get it]

da $*#* !?!

Ryan Malllet got arrested this past weekend.

Orson Charles will decide. 6:30 on Friday.

updates from the Stalkers from the Volunteer faithful

These dudes goin extra hard

Orson has added Bryce Brown as Fasebook friends and they both added most of Tthe Vols squad

way too much access to peoples personal lives on the net now a days.

 

[dlo13]

For those that missed the story...

[h1]Kiffin's Tennessee staff ripping off shirts for recruiting[/h1]
8:14 am March 2, 2009, by Michael Carvell


Lane Kiffin is first-year coach at Tennessee (AP)

Tennessee coach Lane Kiffin and his staff made an unforgettable impression on some of the Southeast's top college prospects on Saturday.

More than 100 high school players, including several of Georgia's elite prospects, attended Tennessee's Junior Day. Things started off rather routine. "It was just like your normal Junior Day, with coaches and other people from the college talking," Brookstone tight end Brian Vogler said. "You could see heads bobbing, with eyes falling a little bit. But the second they split us up from the parents, it got so much more intense."

The prospects were led to the film room, where Kiffin thanked the recruits for making the trip and considering the Volunteers. "Then this other coach [assistant] got up there and said that Tennessee takes special teams very seriously, that it's a big key to winning," recalled Northview defensive lineman Denzel McCoy, who has 31 early scholarship offers.

"That coach said they get real fired up on special teams and yelled for everybody to 'Get up, get on your feet, and get fired up about special teams.' Then this other coach ripped off his shirt Superman style. It was crazy."

Many in the crowd weren't sure how to react. "The coaches told us to stand up, but nobody really knew what to do. We started clapping, sort of like one of those 'Ah, this feels awkward' kind of things," Volger said. "The coaches yelled 'OK, we're going to give you another shot. We've leaving the room. When we come back in here, we want it really to get crazy.'"


Denzel McCoy (AJC)

Douglass defensive lineman Garrison Smith said the lights in the room dimmed. "This one coach stayed behind and walked to the side of the room. Then he kept slamming the [side] doors, as if the other assistant coaches were trying to break it down. It was like an angry dog or some wild animals were on the other side."

After a few moments, Smith said the doors swung open and the Tennessee assistants ran into the room. "By now, three or four coaches had their shirts ripped off." Smith said around 10 Tennessee players, including All-America defensive back Eric Berry of Atlanta and quarterback Jonathan Crompton, ran down from behind the recruits to meet the coaches on the floor. "Eric and the rest of the players were chanting 'U-T, wild boys … U-T, wild boys … U-T wild boys.'" This time, prospects left their seats and joined the celebration. "We were all jumping up and down together, it was cool," McCoy said.

After things appeared to calm down, Tennessee recruiting coordinator Ed Orgeron gave a rousing pep talk, which caused the whole scene to repeat itself, only more intense. "The last time, everybody was hyped up and feeling it," Loganville tailback Storm Johnson said. "People were jumping all over the place. It was rocking. You should've seen it. Even the podium got knocked over."

All four of the players said they never saw Lane Kiffin lose his shirt. "He was on the side, just watching and smiling," Vogler said.


Garrison Smith (AJC)

The action-packed introduction pleased the prospects, which each said they had never heard or seen anything like it before. "I talked to some of the Tennessee players afterwards, and they said they had never heard or seen anything like that before when they were recruits and visited colleges," Vogler said with a laugh.

McCoy: "Personally, I liked it … It was kind of crazy, but it was cool. Coach Kiffin is trying to get everyone fired up about Tennessee football, and it worked. He had everyone in that room fired up."

Smith: "I loved it, especially when that coach ripped off his shirt like The Incredible Hulk. It was high intensity. I enjoyed the whole day. They [Tennessee] definitely moved up on my list."

Vogler: "It was awesome. I didn't know how to react at first. I said to myself, 'Oh my God, these people are crazy.' Then after talking to them later in the day, I realized that's just their style. That's how they go."

 

[ThaxbyChamblis]

Leave Denzel McCoy alone UT.

 

[ThaxbyChamblis]

Torrey Davis AND John Brown gone from FU?

 

[jville819]

Why did they get kicked off?