Guess it really is ALL ABOUT DA U
We mentioned a while back that it seemed really odd that Miami signed 5 star football recruit, Latwan Anderson to a track scholarship without the football coaching staff ever "officially" speaking with him. Everyone knows that the minute Anderson does anything football related he becomes a counter towards the 85 limit, so conventional wisdom says the track scholarship was just to get him on campus while the coaching staff figures out who to cut in order to make room for him. Miami, as we discovered earlier, is at full capacity with regards to scholarships.
Since then the #1 recruit, Seantrel Henderson has decided to leave USC and showed interest in Miami. He has since signed a letter of intent with Miami and he too is pretty much waiting for a scholarship spot to open up.
It appears that the oversigning gods are smiling down on the Da U because magically two players have appeared on the radar as possible candidates for not coming back, despite having eligibility left and expecting to return next year.
http://miamiherald.typepad.com/umiami/2010/07/are-thearon-collier-steven-wesley-off-the-team.html
The NCAA needs to create a lot more transparency with regards to the signing process. Miami should have to prove that they have a scholarship available before they accept the commitment of a new recruit - if that were the case Henderson and Anderson would be looking to other teams who have legit room for them.
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July 31st, 2010 - 13:14
I’m still waiting to hear specifics on student athletes who were living up to all their responsibilities and wanted to stay at a school but were cut to make room for a better player. How about a few specific players? How about one? Where are all these victimized student athletes who need the NCAA to protect them?
Oops! I’m sorry. This comment was intended for one of the other threads.
August 1st, 2010 - 09:27
Well we know it couldn’t have been academics as is being reported. As we all know, there isn’t a group of kids any more serious about keeping up with their studies than D-1 football players.
Oops! I’m sorry. I forgot about Duron Carter. I stand corrected.
August 1st, 2010 - 09:33
Idiot, in case you can’t read, the article suggests the two players were academic casualties. Schools typically don’t come out and say a kid flunked out. Perhaps that might have something to do with privacy issues. The high school coach of one of the two says he’d heard the kid had been “battling some personal issues”, but never mind that, you and your boy Joshua can simply create your own reality and tell us what happened based on surfing the internet.
Miami must be awfully deep if the 2 worst players they could find on the roster to “cut” were one who has started 17 games at defensive end in the last 2 seasons and one who returned 2 punts for touchdowns last season. It’s hard to figure out how they lost 4 games last year.
August 2nd, 2010 - 15:48
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