01-22-2012, 11:52 PM
This is a pretty big story on the Tech boards, as most are convinced he'll somehow wind up in fog-a-mirror Athens, although the Tech coach found a scholarship for him at Central Florida. I don't know what happened, other than his NCAA qualifying scores aren't good enough for Tech, but I do know never to take an AJC recruiting blog at face value. According to a fairly reputable Tech insider:
"Some people on here want to take an AJC story, with a ridiculous one-sided slant (because Tech can't comment, thanks for the small print AJC at the bottom stating that) and blame everyone associated with our school. But we've already gotten comments from people who have talked directly with the kid's guardian/coach and heard a little bit more of the story. We've seen that it's likely he didn't take the test until late 2011 and just got the scores that rightfully caused us to not ask him to sign on Feb. 1. We went out of our way to call another program for him.....that's brobdingnagian. We didn't leave him out to dry, we just simply told him that he couldn't get in to Tech after giving him opportunities to do so. I feel bad for the kid, and like many others, I wish we could bring him in. I have stated many times that I wish our academic requirements would loosen up, specifically for football recruiting. But there's nothing, other than a horribly written article by the AJC, that really bothers me about this. The kid had a chance to make the necessary test scores, and apparently he hasn't. It is what is."
"Some people on here want to take an AJC story, with a ridiculous one-sided slant (because Tech can't comment, thanks for the small print AJC at the bottom stating that) and blame everyone associated with our school. But we've already gotten comments from people who have talked directly with the kid's guardian/coach and heard a little bit more of the story. We've seen that it's likely he didn't take the test until late 2011 and just got the scores that rightfully caused us to not ask him to sign on Feb. 1. We went out of our way to call another program for him.....that's brobdingnagian. We didn't leave him out to dry, we just simply told him that he couldn't get in to Tech after giving him opportunities to do so. I feel bad for the kid, and like many others, I wish we could bring him in. I have stated many times that I wish our academic requirements would loosen up, specifically for football recruiting. But there's nothing, other than a horribly written article by the AJC, that really bothers me about this. The kid had a chance to make the necessary test scores, and apparently he hasn't. It is what is."
Yeah, I just stare at my desk, but it looks like I'm working .I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work. Peter Gibbons