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Football Recruiting Update: Former Clemson RB commit switches from Maryland to UCF
Feb 2, 2017, 10:54 AM
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Does anyone know what the REAL story is on this kid?
Feb 2, 2017, 11:00 AM
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None of his actions make sense to those of us on the outside looking in.
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Orange Immortal [67328]
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He's academically ineligible....
Feb 2, 2017, 11:07 AM
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and will likely have trouble complying with NCAA Clearinghouse requirements as the results of his high school coach allegedly altering transcripts.
The belief is that he will be a sign-and-place no matter where he signs and, as you know, Clemson doesn't take JuCo transfers.
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Re: Does anyone know what the REAL story is on this kid?
Feb 2, 2017, 1:08 PM
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I posted when this committed to be wary of him and was ridiculed. Haha. I live in memphis and wouldn't touch a kid from trezevant and sure enough everything I said came to fruition. I'm just glad we didn't get wrapped up in his mess.
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Orange Blooded [2929]
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Re: Does anyone know what the REAL story is on this kid?
Feb 2, 2017, 1:45 PM
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Isn't the vast majority of Memphis pretty hood? I have family out that way and they've all moved outside the perimeter to Germantown, Collierville, etc.
Which area do you live in? And is Memphis proper as ghetto as people say?
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Re: Does anyone know what the REAL story is on this kid?
Feb 2, 2017, 2:05 PM
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I lived in Codorva - a suberb of Memphis when Albert Means was recruited from Trezevant HS to Bama. I thought they cleaned house on that school though. There are still mysteries surrounding the Albert Means story.
I worked downtown (Maybe mid-town / up-town or whatever they called that area) and there were lots of street people. You would meet one almost every day at lunch time or quitting time wanting money. I guess there were lots of Black people since I knew people that called it "Memphrica". I've never heard that term used outside of Memphis though. I choose to live outside the inner-city of large cities myself, so I'm not very knowledgeable as to how it is there.
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Re: Does anyone know what the REAL story is on this kid?
Feb 2, 2017, 8:12 PM
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There are definitely areas. Memphis is weird. You have million dollar homes and four blocks over you have Crack houses. I live in Arlington.
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Re: Does anyone know what the REAL story is on this kid?
Feb 2, 2017, 9:01 PM
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I rarely ever actually go into the city. I work in Mississippi and go around it. Ha.
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Re: Does anyone know what the REAL story is on this kid?
Feb 2, 2017, 9:19 PM
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He is a kid that has no control over what his coach or any other adult at that school does. They are the ones that should be punished for the grade tampering. And they are the ones that should be made to pay for private tutoring to get all his grades up no less than a B average across the board. And they should be kicked out and barred from working any job as an educator any where in the united states for ever!!!
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Hmmmm. . . . I sense a disturbance in the Force
Feb 2, 2017, 11:05 AM
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I think his video and then his switch tells everyone why this would not have been a good fit at Clemson. Our players don't start a video out with: "I'm a 4-star" and they certainly don't switch on National Signing Day. And, they certainly would never say they are going to Maryland???? (Talk about a washed up program from the days of Randy White in the early 70s and then Boomer Easiason in the early 80s.) I sense that there was something about this young man that while a truly outstanding athlete, he would not have fit the "outstanding man" label of Clemson recruits these days. I think the parting of the ways in December was probably mutual from Clemson's standpoint as well. Good luck Mr. Richardson.
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Orange Blooded [2638]
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Because cutting a tree down nearly neckid screams
Feb 2, 2017, 11:08 AM
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'GENTLEMAN'!!!
No - sometimes these kids are just trying to have fun and that is okay for me.
I think the story about poor grades still holds up well here. He may have committed to a P5 school in Maryland, but then the school realizes or he realizes that he'll never get in there.
When that is clear he finds another school and conference where the shady grades can be glossed over.
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Re: Because cutting a tree down nearly neckid screams
Feb 2, 2017, 1:09 PM
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The naked tree cutting was fun and original. Nothing about that was bragging about being a 4-star recruit. And, any coach that talks about good wood taking a while to light but then it burns for a long time has got to fit in with naked tree cutting!
But, you are probably right on the grades thing. And, maybe that is what happened with Maryland too. While they certainly are not a football power any more, they are more of an ACC school in terms of academics than the majority of the Big 10 (Michigan, Northwestern, and a few others excluded).
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Re: Football Recruiting Update: Former Clemson RB commit switches from Maryland to UCF
Feb 2, 2017, 11:11 AM
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Stay tuned till tomorrow when he decommits from UCF and commits to Lackawanna College.
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Re: Drama Queen
Feb 2, 2017, 11:23 AM
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Glad he didn't come to Clemson...this guy screams Mike Bellamy all over again.
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I don't think its drama at all. Just think he's desperate
Feb 2, 2017, 12:18 PM
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He's looking for a place where he might actually get accepted.
If he were academically eligible, he'd be headed for Clemson in the spring.
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Re: Drama Queen - not at all...
Feb 2, 2017, 4:51 PM
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actually the kid was very reserved, didn't do any interviews and wouldn't allow anyone to speak for him, probably because outside of football field, he was very unsure of who he could trust... this guy only has two things in common with Mike Bellamy, being a RB recruit and a certain possession of melanin... as far as social and pathological, those two are opposite ends of the spectrum...
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I'm glad he's not associated no long longer with Clemson
Feb 2, 2017, 11:30 AM
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Best of luck to him though.
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YeS..something is amiss with this guy!!
Feb 2, 2017, 11:42 AM
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Glad it worked out for Clemson via a sound minded young man from LA who can carry the Rock equally as well.
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Re: Football Recruiting Update: Former Clemson RB commit switches from Maryland to UCF
Feb 2, 2017, 1:29 PM
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Based on what I have heard (and his action 1 Feb), he might be a candidate for EMCC.
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Re: Football Recruiting Update: Former Clemson RB commit switches from Maryland to UCF
Feb 2, 2017, 1:45 PM
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EMCC,stands for ?
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Re: Football Recruiting Update: Former Clemson RB commit switches from Maryland to UCF
Feb 2, 2017, 4:58 PM
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> EMCC,stands for ?
East Mississippi Community College
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This guy will be playing football at GMC next year.....
Feb 2, 2017, 2:23 PM
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bank on it.
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Re: This guy will be playing football at GMC next year.....
Feb 2, 2017, 4:53 PM
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or Florida Atlantic University...
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