LOCK IT UP - College Football - 2009 Season/2010 Off-Season

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[gunna get it]

Coach Bennie Wiley got these boys Ripped. GJones & DMo been grindin!
I dont even wanna see Jacques Smith

 

[gunna get it]

Vols are no longer pursuing Porter, could be a sign that DT John Brown may have actually passed his summer classes

 

[rook]

Originally Posted by GUNNA GET IT

Coach Bennie Wiley got these boys Ripped. GJones & DMo been grindin!
I dont even wanna see Jacques Smith

Them boys ready to prove people wrong

Hopefully they never rock those Black Uni's with the orange pants again though

 

[gunna get it]

Read how stupid the NCAA is

[h1]Murphy: Death of Boise State recruit Emil Smith highlights NCAA's puzzling flaws[/h1]

Leave it to the NCAA to regulate how much contact a member school can have with prospective student athletes and their families - even when they are dead.

It's a rule that needs changing.

Boise State football recruit Emil Smith died in a July 18 car accident in Hemet, Calif. His brother Dimitri Garcia, 22, also died in the accident.

Garcia, a father of two young children, was driving the speeding yellow Dodge Neon. Smith, a passenger, was a star football player entering his senior year at Rancho Verde High who had committed to attend Boise State on June 23.

Smith said the Broncos' coaching staff was influential in his decision to join the Broncos' 2011 recruiting class. Running backs coach Keith Bhonapha was Smith's primary recruiter.

"What really fascinated me was the coaching staff. I really liked the coaching staff," Smith told me during a phone call in late June. "They showed me a lot of love. They were very enthusiastic about what they were doing."

Recruiting - the very act of convincing an 18-year-old to leave home and become part of your family - requires a close bond.

It is easy to tell which coaches recruited which player in the Boise State football offices, special teams coordinator Jeff Choate said, because the players will always stop by to say hello.

"It's like they're your child kind of. You have that kind of relationship with them," Choate said. "You get to know these kids, the ins and outs. You have really honest conversations with them."

But when Smith died, the Broncos' coaching staff was handcuffed by NCAA rules.

Because Smith had not signed a National Letter of Intent (NLI) - signing day is in February - Boise State coaches could not comment on Smith.

They could not attend his funeral. They could not send flowers. They could not call his grieving parents or any other family members.

"There was nothing the school could do," said Scott Hobbs, Boise State's assistant athletic director for compliance.

Hobbs said the Broncos contacted officials at other schools, the Western Athletic Conference and the Mountain West Conference to discuss their options.

The answer was the same.

In phone conversations with Hobbs, he was careful never to reference Smith by name. Instead, he outlined the NCAA bylaws that Boise State felt compelled to obey.

Such as NCAA Bylaw 13.10.2, which states member institutions may only confirm its recruitment of a prospective student-athlete before he or she signs a NLI.

Or NCAA Bylaw 13.2.9, which outlines how large of a donation or other token of support ($100) a school may provide in the event of his or her death, provided he/she has signed an NLI.

No phone calls are allowed from a team to players or their families from between June 1 and Aug. 31, Hobbs said, meaning no Boise State coach could call Smith's parents.

Since no off-campus contact is allowed - and since Smith's funeral was to be attended by his teammates (or, in NCAA parlance, recruitable athletes) - even the funeral was off-limits.

In recent years, the NCAA has taken steps to be more sensitive to student-athletes' needs. But the organization still has work to do.

They can start with this issue - and afford schools with verbal commitments the same latitude in dealing with deaths that it does for players in the program.

It is, fortunately, a rare occurrence. And it should be handled with more dignity and respect than the NCAA currently allows.

 

[statis22]

I read that today, sad situation.

Notre Dame lately has not shied away from filling its football schedules with marquee names.

The latest example? The Irish are planning to mess with Texas.

Notre Dame and the Big 12 powerhouse Longhorns are "very close" to finalizing a four-game series for future games, sources told the Tribune.

The series could begin in 2015, sources said. The rest of the details are unknown, such as if it would be simply a pair of home-and-homes or involve games at off-campus venues.

But it would be another recent statement that Notre Dame remains in the business of big names and big venues on its schedule. The Irish also have firmed up plans to rekindle their rivalry with Miami in a 2012 game at Soldier Field.

The Irish and Longhorns have met 10 times before -- three times in the Cotton Bowl between 1969 and 1977 -- but have not played each other since 1996. Notre Dame owns an 8-2 advantage in the all-time series.

Maintaining that lead would be quite the challenge against the current incarnation of Texas football, as the Longhorns have won 10 games for nine straight seasons and snared a national title in 2005. They're ranked No. 5 in the 2010 preseason coaches poll.
But there's no shortage of history to the matchup: Entering 2010, only Michigan (877) has won more college football games than Texas (845) and Notre Dame (837).

 

[gunna get it]

Coach Chuck Smith & (USC Transfer) Jackson

Jacques

GJones

Simms

Rajion Neal

Its a New Bray

TPoole

Meline playin Safety

Jacques lookin like Vernon Gholston @!% 18 yrs old

Justin Hunter

Da'Freak

I didnt know the NCAA banned two-a-days

the staff has split the team into two squads, one practices in the morning, the other in the evening. for more reps and more tempo.

 

[ThaxbyChamblis]

Off topic, but Wilson GST footballs are the greatest footballs I have ever played w/.

 

[eneyekayee]

Originally Posted by dreClark

Off topic, but Wilson GST footballs are the greatest footballs I have ever played w/.

Never been a fan.  I don't like the black laces and they take too long to break in.

> *

 

[rook]

Tennessee rocking new jerseys this season?

 

[statis22]

Brawlanteers gettin it in lol

 

[bigmike23]

I didnt know the NCAA banned two-a-days

i thought it was you cant do it on back to back days?


UCLA has 4 two-a-days

 

[gunna get it]

Yea, My son Da'Rick caught that

 

[clevelandsprince23]

My man Bacarri is about to have a breakout season..

 

[statis22]

What you knew about Matt Mauck Gunna?!

Probably woulda game em a better game than Nebraska did.

 

[rook]

Originally Posted by GUNNA GET IT

Yea, My son Da'Rick caught that

 Best Fr. WR on NCAA 11'

 

[gunna get it]

we blasted the hell outta Rohan, took him out then Mauck comes in and plays like John Elway
defense freakin folded

 

[firered18]

Originally Posted by RoOk

Originally Posted by GUNNA GET IT

Yea, My son Da'Rick caught that

 Best Fr. WR on NCAA 11'

 Were going to shock some folks.  And Darick on NCAA 11 

 makes me all types of money

 

[statis22]

For you Trojan homers out there too...

 

[rook]

Originally Posted by firered18

Originally Posted by RoOk

Originally Posted by GUNNA GET IT

Yea, My son Da'Rick caught that

 Best Fr. WR on NCAA 11'

 Were going to shock some folks.  And Darick on NCAA 11 

 makes me all types of money

Using them in a OD

Dude is unstoppable haha

 

[ThaxbyChamblis]

Originally Posted by EnEyeKayEe

Originally Posted by dreClark

Off topic, but Wilson GST footballs are the greatest footballs I have ever played w/.

Never been a fan.  I don't like the black laces and they take too long to break in.

> *

I've never played w/ one that wasn't broken in.

I played in a tournament this weekend and the qb had it.

Idk how so many people drop passes w/ those AND sticky gloves

 

[juicy j 32]

Are Cutters still the best gloves out there?

When those things were brand new it was impossible to drop a ball.

 

[newbs24]

This was taken from mgoblog.com. I think my hate for this douche is all time high for a coach. He is just a complete moron.


For the duration of his tenure, Joe Tiller was infamously supposed to be the guy behind Tom Dienhart's *****y anonymous quotes in the Sporting News. So it's good to know that the mustachioed Wilford Brimley impersonator doesn't fall far from the diabeetus commercial:

"We've had about 90 kids on campus all summer and they've been in summer school. We don't have a general studies major at Purdue so they've had to take real classes too."


This, as anyone who remembers the grand tenure of Garrett Bushong can tell you, is hypocritcal bunk. Purdue is an engineering college full of nerds that preserves a small section of itself so it can jam Big Ten athletes onto its campus. This is totally fine by me as long as their head coach doesn't take shots at Michigan for doing the same thing. Presenting the Purdue major breakdown*:
[h3]Gimme Shelter[/h3]

Aristide, Ishmael	RS FR	Safety	organizational leadership and supervision
Cooks, LaSalle	SO	Defensive Tackle	organizational leadership and supervision
Crank, Jared	JR	Fullback	organizational leadership and supervision
Ezenwa, Nnamdi	SO	Linebacker	organizational leadership and supervision
Flood, De'Ron	FR	Tight End	organizational leadership and supervision
Foy, Trevor	RS FR	Offensive Tackle	organizational leadership and supervision
Gooden, Gerald	JR	Defensive End	organizational leadership and supervision
Greaves, DeVarro	JR	Linebacker	organizational leadership and supervision
Holmes, Gabe	FR	Tight End	organizational leadership and supervision
Humphrey, John	RS SR	Linebacker	organizational leadership and supervision
Johnson, Josh	SO	Cornerback	organizational leadership and supervision
Kelly, Dennis	JR	Offensive Tackle	organizational leadership and supervision
Lindsay, Jeff	RS SR	Tight End	organizational leadership and supervision
Lucas, Will	FR	Linebacker	organizational leadership and supervision
Short, Kawann	SO	Defensive Tackle	organizational leadership and supervision
Siller, Justin	JR	QB-RB-WR	organizational leadership and supervision
Smith, Cortez	SR	Wide Receiver	organizational leadership and supervision
Thomas, Tommie	SO	Wide Receiver	organizational leadership and supervision
Werner, Jason	GS	Linebacker	organizational leadership and supervision
Bush, Gary	RS FR	Wide Receiver	organizational leadership and supervision
Carlos, Keith	SR	Running back	organizational leadership and supervision

[th=""]Player[/th][th=""]Year[/th][th=""]Position[/th][th=""]Major[/th]

Count: 21.
[h3]I Can Manage And Stuff[/h3]

Panfil, Jeff	RS SR	Tight End	selling and sales management
Adams, Kyle	RS SR	Tight End	Management
Barry, Dan	JR	Offensive Guard	management
Dierking, Dan	SR	Fullback	management
Carlino, Chris	JR	Linebacker	building construction management technology
Shepherd, James	JR	Offensive Guard	building construction management technology
Wiggs, Carson	JR	Kicker-Punter	building construction management technology

[th=""]Player[/th][th=""]Year[/th][th=""]Position[/th][th=""]Major[/th]

Count: 7.
[h3]Basically Kinesiology[/h3]
Many Purdue players have variants on lifting weights all scientific-like as their majors:

Edison, Antavian	SO	Wide Receiver	health and fitness
Evans, Albert	JR	Safety	health and fitness
Higgs, Antwon	SO	Linebacker	health and fitness
McDaniel, Eric	RS FR	Defensive Tackle	health and fitness
Melton, Xavier	RS FR	Offensive Guard	health and fitness
Pierce, Justin	RS SR	Offensive Guard	health and fitness
Roberts, Gavin	SO	Running Back	health and fitness
Williams, Charlton	JR	Cornerback	health and fitness
Holland, Joe	JR	Linebacker	movement and sport science
Kitchens, Justin	RS FR	Defensive End	movement and sport science
Taylor, Brandon	RS FR	Defensive Tackle	movement and sports science
Ballinger, Kevin	JR	Long Snapper	physical education
Mondek, Nick	JR	Offensive Tackle	physical education
Allen, Ricardo	FR	Cornerback	general health sciences

[th=""]Player[/th][th=""]Year[/th][th=""]Position[/th][th=""]Major[/th]

Count: 14.
[h3]Majors That A Lot Of Football Players End Up In Everywhere[/h3]

McBurse, Al-Terek	SO	Running Back	communication
Mebane, Eric	SO	Defensive End	communication
Pamphile, Kevin	RS FR	Defensive Tackle	communication
Brewer, Andrew	SO	Center	sociology
Davis, Cody	RS FR	Center	sociology
Gravesande, Waynelle	JR	Wide Receiver	sociology
Plue, Ken	JR	Offensive Guard	sociology
TerBush, Caleb	SO	Quarterback	sociology
Eargle, Mike	JR	Cornerback	sociology
Bolden, Ralph	JR	Running Back	law and society
Marve, Robert	JR	Quarterback	law and society
Reese, Xavier	RS FR	Wide Receiver	law and society
Schmeig, Rick	SO	Center-Offensive Guard	law and society
Smith, Keith	RS SR	Wide Receiver	law and society

[th=""]Player[/th][th=""]Year[/th][th=""]Position[/th][th=""]Major[/th]

Count: 14
[h3]Possibly Actual Majors[/h3]

Drey, Peters	SO	Center	industrial engineering
Maci, Robert	SO	Defensive End	industrial engineering
McKey, Colton	JR	Offensive Tackle	industrial technology/distribution
Kerrigan, Ryan	SR	Defensive End	math education
Jackson, Derek	SO	Fullback	computer technology
Prater, Ryan	RS SR	Offensive Tackle	mechanical engineering

[th=""]Player[/th][th=""]Year[/th][th=""]Position[/th][th=""]Major[/th]

Count: 6
[h3]The Grand Accounting[/h3]

One Specific Fake Football Major	21	34%
Physical Education	14	23%
Standard-Issue Cake Majors	14	23%
You Too Can Supervise A McDonald's	7	11%
Actual Engineering Type Majors	6	10%
Total	62

[th=""]Type[/th][th=""]Count[/th][th=""]Pct[/th]

60% of Purdue's declared majors are either in one specific fake major or physical education. 90% of them are in stuff like the aforementioned, construction, or the usual diet of communications/sociology. Danny Hope should stick to personal grooming tips during his public appearances. That is all.

 

[fear the ibis]

Oh let's do it

Seantrel...

 

[the stoic paisano]

Seantrel doesn't look like he got THAT out of shape.

Carlos Hyde looks swole up in Columbus.

I really really want to steal the "I ain't scared of you bish" line but am scared to.