College Football Thread

[SunMo]

I'm Going to Cal...Wait, They Never Recruited Me?

awesome...mean, but awesome

[Feva]

i wonder if this means they have pryor in the bag

That's what I'm hoping.

Pryor's supposedly narrowed it down to Michigan and Ohio State.  Likely to announce tomorrow.


Either way, sound like you guys (Penn St.) are gonna have to deal with him for the next 3-4 years.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

i wonder if this means they have pryor in the bag

That's what I'm hoping.

Pryor's supposedly narrowed it down to Michigan and Ohio State.  Likely to announce tomorrow.


Either way, sound like you guys (Penn St.) are gonna have to deal with him for the next 3-4 years.

Oopsie.  Apparently now he's waiting to announce and is going to take an official visit to PSU, and also possibly Oregon.

[Rome]

Clemson is having a USC-like haul today.  They've signed 10 out of ESPN's top 150 recruits already.

Yikes.

[phattymatty]

I'm Going to Cal...Wait, They Never Recruited Me?

awesome...mean, but awesome

ha

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/recruiting/football/news/story?id=3234302

[SunMo]

even better

[ice grillin you]

sad that a school like michigan with such a great history of having real good stand up coaches in carr and bo had to resort to hiring that scumbag rrod



Purdue coach Joe Tiller upset with losing recruit to Michigan
February 7, 2008
By JOHN RABJOHNS
INDIANAPOLIS STAR

A star recruit's signing-day decision to renege on an oral commitment had Purdue football coach Joe Tiller fuming Wednesday.

Roy Roundtree, a nationally ranked receiver and kick returner from Ohio, signed with Michigan on the first day of the college football signing period.
 
Roundtree committed to Purdue in May and reaffirmed his decision many times since.

He signed with new Michigan coach Rich Rodriguez after a visit to Ann Arbor, Mich., last weekend.

"If we had an early signing date, you wouldn't have another outfit with a guy in a wizard hat selling snake oil get a guy at the last minute, but that's what happened," Tiller said.

Unlike most sports, football does not allow high school players to sign a binding national letter of intent before their senior season. Tiller has been among the growing number of coaches campaigning for an early signing date.

Roundtree, rated as a four-star recruit on a five-star scale, is described as having breakaway speed. The 6-1, 155-pound receiver played for Ohio power Trotwood-Madison.

"The problem when you lose a recruit at this late date is it's really impossible to bounce back and recover," Tiller said. "You have to wait a full year to recover. Given the position, etc., that could be detrimental.

"On the other side of the coin, maybe the guy did you a favor. It makes you wonder about the guy, the people surrounding him, the people in that building who would let that happen. I can say this: We won't go back in that building again and we won't be the only institution not to."

One of Roundtree's teammates, Michael Shaw, backed out of a commitment to Penn State and signed with Michigan.

Several recruiting experts listed those switches among the biggest surprises Wednesday.

Roundtree is the second recruit Purdue lost. Louisiana four-star defensive back Jerico Nelson committed to Purdue on Jan. 22, then switched to Arkansas last weekend. Tiller said losing Nelson, whom the Boilermakers had been recruiting for a short time, was much different than the two years they spent on Roundtree.

Purdue signed Carmel tight end Jordan Brewer, though he said several schools, including Indiana, Ball State and Illinois, continued to show interest.

"The Boilers stuck with me even though my junior year I wasn't really that good," he said. "Then my senior year I went to all kinds of camps and got better. They stuck with me through the hard times and the good times."

Tiller, heading into his final season at Purdue, said he's concerned about a loss of integrity among Big Ten coaches.

"There has been an unspoken rule that if a guy commits and you've been recruiting him hard, you always call them up and say, 'Are you sure about this?' If he says yes, you back off.

"We had a basketball issue where that wasn't true. We have a football issue where that isn't true, so maybe that's changing."

North Central's Eric Gordon committed to Illinois for basketball and maintained for months he would honor it before signing with Indiana.

Last February, Notre Dame football coach Charlie Weis lost several oral commitments on signing day and blasted the poaching of other schools' recruits.

"We're not the only school it's happened to," Tiller said, "but whatever issues are out there are solvable if we address them in an adult type manner."

[reese125]

For those that didnt know:

Dan Fouts and Tim Brandt off of ABC

[MDS]

2008 Temple Football Schedule

Fri., Aug. 29 at Army West Point, N.Y. 7 p.m. ESPNU or Classic

Sat., Sept. 6 CONNECTICUT Lincoln Financial Field TBA

Sat., Sept. 13 *at Buffalo Buffalo, N.Y. TBA

Sat., Sept. 20 at Penn State University Park, Pa. TBA

Sat., Sept. 27 *WESTERN MICHIGAN Lincoln Financial Field TBA

Sat., Oct. 4 *at Miami (Ohio) Oxford, Ohio TBA

Sat., Oct. 11 *at Central Michigan Mount Pleasant, Mich. TBA

Sat., Oct. 18 Bye

Tues., Oct. 21 *OHIO Lincoln Financial Field 8 p.m. ESPN2
(Breast Cancer Awareness Day)

Sat., Nov. 1 at Navy Annapolis, Md. TBA CSTV

Wed., Nov. 12 *at Kent State Kent, Ohio 8 p.m. ESPN2 or ESPN360

Sat., Nov. 22 *EASTERN MICH. Lincoln Financial Field TBA

Fri., Nov. 28 *AKRON Lincoln Financial Field TBA

Fri., Dec. 5 MAC Championship Detroit, Mich. 8 p.m. ESPN2

at least 3 espn games and 2 other minor networks. psu game will be btn and the unconn game might be on tv. BOWL GAME BITCHES.

[ice grillin you]

Arizona walk-on Josh Lewis (Jr.) has been suspended indefinitely after this video surfaced of him trying to get nice with what may, or may not be, a female offensive lineman.

http://brahsome.com/2008/04/07/cheap-feels-for-scholly-players-only/

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Some FSU WR got arrested for something or another.

[ice grillin you]

what a waste...

NEW ORLEANS -- LSU says coach Les Miles has kicked quarterback Ryan Perrilloux off the team.

Coach Les Miles said Perrilloux, who had been suspended three times in his college career, "didn't fulfill his obligation as an LSU student-athlete," but did not offer details.

LSU said Friday that Perrilloux is expected to finish out the spring semester at the school.

Miles suspended Perrilloux in February, shortly before spring practice began, for unspecified team violations. Perrilloux's former high school coach, who remains close to the quarterback and his family, has said Perrilloux missed a mandatory team meeting, then missed classes to attend his father's funeral without notifying coaches.

It was the third suspension for Perrilloux, who was considered the favorite to succeed Matt Flynn after leading LSU to two victories -- including the Southeastern Conference championship game -- when Flynn, a senior, was injured during the 2007 season.

Perrilloux, who was also suspended by the Tigers last summer, was on the fringe of a counterfeiting investigation and was caught trying to enter a Baton Rouge casino with false identification. He also was involved in a fracas at a nightclub in November, but was cleared of wrongdoing.

[shorebird]

Perrilloux missed a mandatory team meeting, then missed classes to attend his father's funeral without notifying coaches.

Man, I don't know how close he was to his father, but thats adding insult to injury, getting kicked off the team right after your Dad dies. Yeah, maybe he should have told the coaches, but how did they not know in the first place? It's your starting qb!

I know he's been disciplined before, but damn.

[shorebird]

Darrius Heyward-Bey is the guy we want in green next year, I'm tellin' you.

Against BC, watch him just
explode through the secondary. Talk about shifting gears.

[ice grillin you]

michael crabtree > dhb