2013 College Football Thread (Realer than Real Deal Holyfield -->S/O Craftsy)

[rook]

What's the story

This...im all ears

 

[rook]

nvm found it

http://www.sbnation.com/2013/3/2/4058324/led-miles-rumor

 

[5am6oody72]

Rumor is that he had an affair with a student. No idea if there's any truth to it.

 

[stillin729]

Just like the rumor that Jay Wright got a student on the soccer team pregnant

 

[newbs24]

It would be more believable to me if the rumor was Les banging a staff members wife like he did at Michigan

 

[zs05wc]

Some people are too quick to try to be that person with the "breaking news." I enjoy twitter but it gives idiots too much freedom to be "insiders" and wanna be bloggers. This is pretty much the same thing as when Joe Pa died, then didn't die, then died again.

Dude is getting bashed pretty good on Twitter.

 

[jhawk826]

[h1]Mother persuades Texas Tech commit Ed Williams to sign with Tulane[/h1]
By Matt Hinton | Blogger
March 4, 2013 10:35 am ET

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On Feb. 6, Edward Williams, a three-star linebacker from New Orleans who boasted offers from Miami, Nebraska and Texas A&M, among others, had made up his mind: He would sign a national letter of intent to play for Texas Tech. The decision was a major coup for the new Red Raider coaching staff, with one minor hitch -- Williams' mother.

Because Williams is only 17 years old, his letter of intent required a parent's signature to accompany his own, which proved to be a problem when his mother refused to sign off for anyone except the school next door, Tulane, whose main campus is less than 15 minutes from her son's downtown high school. On Saturday, nearly a month after signing day, mom won out when Wiliams officially signed with the Green Wave.

"My son made the decision last night and we discussed it as a family," Rose Williams told a local website, PelicanPreps.com. "I always felt Tulane was the best option for my son, but he had to choose where he wanted to go. Him and his father went to Tulane and signed early this morning.

"Tulane just made me feel more comfortable with what they have to offer academic wise. Edward took notice to the same thing and he decided to stay home."

If that's the case, it seems he only took notice of Tulane's sometime after Feb. 21, when he told the same website in no uncertain terms, "it's Texas Tech all the way":

"I am going to Texas Tech, I have my heart set on them," said Williams. "The fans are crazy out there. I like everything about it. I can see myself playing there."
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"Right now things have been shaky, because my mother does not want me to go to Texas Tech," said Williams. "She has her reasons, but I still prefer to be in Lubbock. She really wants me to go to Tulane, but I do not like it there. So it has to be where I am happy."

 

Williams is rated as a three-star prospect. (247Sports)

Although generational conflict over big decisions is certainly nothing new, the increasingly microscopic focus on recruiting has managed to turn family disagreements into headline news. Last month, five-star Fort Lauderdale, Fla., running back Alex Collins had to wait 24 hours to sign a letter of intent with his school of choice, Arkansas, over the ongoing objections of his mother, who had reportedly absconded with the papers the day before to prevent him from becoming a Razorback. Five-star linebacker Matthew Thomas, bound for Florida State, recently told a reporter that he only settled on the Seminoles because his mother refused to sign off on his first choice, USC. Last year, when five-star safety Landon Collins picked Alabama on national television, his visibly nonplussed mother responded by telling the audience "LSU Tigers number one, go Tigers." Two years ago, the mother of four-star cornerback prospect Floyd Raven was so dead set against her son playing for Texas A&M that she actually forged his signature on a letter of intent to Ole Miss. (The gambit didn't work.) Surely many similar dramas play out behind the scenes.

In Williams' case, according to a weekend interview with the Times-Picayune (see above), his about-face is due at least in part to his mother's health, specifically a heart condition; he also cited the influence of Tulane coach Curtis Johnson, a New Orleans native, and his opportunity to play right away for one of the most perennially overmatched outfits in the nation. At any rate, whatever his true feelings on the relative merits of the Green Wave vs. the Red Raiders, he was singing a very different tune about staying close to home after making his peace with the former.

"It was a family decision-my parents and grandparents so everybody in the family had a big part of it," Williams said. "I'm very comfortable (with Tulane), very comfortable. … I like the coaches and players and the facility. I'm still going to be at home but not home at the same time. I'm going to get a wonderful education."

Parents need to put their interests to the side and let these kids go where they want to. They don't have to attend that school, get immersed in its culture or play for that team.

 

[shox23]

Texas Tech isn't a top tier program but you can't leave there to go to Tulane

 

[gunna get it]

Your mom does NOT have to sign your NLOI.

In fact, You dont have to sign a NLOI

it just ensures you will have your scholly ready and available.

You can show up to any campus you want to as long as you have been accepted and enroll

 

[tmay407]

 

[fear the ibis]

N's never learn :smh

 

[fear the ibis]

N's never learn :smh

 

[ThaxbyChamblis]

The SEC way

 

[ThaxbyChamblis]

Miami Central HS Head Coach is heading to USF as a position coach. Passed on a non-coaching/on field position @ FSU

 

[shox23]

oregon state will unveil their new stuff at 9:30 eastern

 

[gunna get it]

Miami Central HS Head Coach is heading to USF as a position coach. Passed on a non-coaching/on field position @ FSU

Yearby to USF !!!!!!!

 

[ThaxbyChamblis]

Yearby to USF !!!!!!!

One can only hope

 

[airblaster503]

oregon state will unveil their new stuff at 9:30 eastern

I'm not feeling those facemasks at all.

 

[Chester McFloppy]

oregon state will unveil their new stuff at 9:30 eastern

Bwaaaaahahahahahahahahahaa

 

[Johnny_Cakes]

Oregon State should just become an UA school.

 

[shox23]

http://nikeinc.com/n...-brand-identity

 

[degenerate423]

Manziel repping OVO?  I wonder if he owes Drake a favor now

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[jhawk826]

 

[jhawk826]

NEW YORK (AP) — A person familiar with the negotiations says the Big East football schools will get almost all of a $110 million pot in a deal that will allow seven departing basketball schools to keep the name Big East and start playing in their own conference next season.

The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the separation agreement has not yet been finalized. That is likely to happen by the end of the week. The football schools will receive approximately $100 million in the deal, most of which will go to holdover members Connecticut, South Florida and Cincinnati.

The basketball schools will receive $10 million, the Big East name and the right to play their conference tournament at Madison Square Garden.

 

[ThaxbyChamblis]

So there will be two "Big East" conferences?