RSC Recruiting Tidbit/Snippet/Update/War Room/Bit of Tid/RSCUMOR

I was at a study session tonight for an exam and was talking to the kid across from me about the bowl game and travel plans, etc. when it came up that he was from Louisville and played football there. Being the information craved recruiting fiend that I am I inquired about the Spirit Board's love child, Clayton Moore, and Dennis Thames.

According to my "source" (I can have them too, Yancy, and they are no more credible than your opinion) Clayton Moore is a huge prick and the problem from that playoff game was mainly his fault. The coaches corrected him and blew up on the coaches and the coaches told him to hit the showers. Moore came back out cussing up another storm and the coaches had him escorted off the field. The players held a meeting the following day to see if Moore should play in the state championship game and they voted no. Why? Because he is apparently a huge prick to the majority of the team and really cocky.

I know that most of that is Germans/Volkswagonku/whatever cutesy, lame response you want, but I thought it was pretty interesting.

I also asked him about Dennis Thames and he said that he tried to get him to come to Ole Miss while he was at Louisville but he didn't think things looked too good with Thames. He mentioned Oklahoma State, Michigan, State, and said Thames can pretty much go wherever he wants to and is not going to let Moore dictate his decision.

The more you know. Back to the books.

Also, just to clarify from some confusion this summer, Thames' dream date is not Buyownce, favorite food is not spagiti, and he's not a big fan of Maddon when it comes to video games. Just letting you know, YP!

Winston Commits to Arkansas, Blogger Rants on Recruiting Hype

Darius Winston, the most recent in a long string of recruiting cock teases (see: Kieland Williams, Joe McKnight, Frank Gore, et al), committed to the Arkansas Razorbacks today at noon.

Who else isn't surprised by this?

When I tell people that I quit giving a hell about recrootin' and they subsequently ask me why, I just point to these incidents. Honestly, they all follow a pretty straight-up forumla:

• 5 star, 4 star, or highly touted 3 star athlete
• Not from Mississippi
• Mentions the Rebels often but never in a glaringly positive light, until...
• They rant and rave about the Grove, IPF, etc
• "I really love/have a great relationship with/just got $100 from coach [coach's surname]"
• Yancy Porter and the like swear up and down the kid's a Rebel before saying "oh, well maybe" a day before he commits elsewhere

If you still get your hopes up over these kids or, even worse, hold it against them (as if you somehow know them) personally then you're persistently delusional and likely stupid. I can remember the Rivals board after Drew Allen committed to Oklahoma. I was dumbfounded. People were attacking the kid for committing to Oklahoma (one of college footballs best programs, ever) after talking highly of Oxford, Kent Austin, et al. Ok, so he likes the town and the coach, that's cool, whatever, but he's from San Antonio. We don't recruit San Antonio. We hardly recruit Texas. Yet somehow people acted as if this Allen character had placed a voodoo curse on our houses.

Everybody, tone down the recruiting babble for now. So we didn't get Winston. I personally thought we never had a shot in the first place but, remember, these are 17-and-18-year-olds who have no real clue as to what they're doing and oftentimes change their minds anyway. They're not deliberately stringing anybody along. Hell, they're confused, if anything! They've got a bunch of old white guys calling them constantly and even coming to their houses to promise them cars, money, sex, and glory an opportunity to earn a wonderful education while successfully playing a sport which they enjoy! So they may say some misleading stuff and like the things being promised to them by a myriad of different schools. Why is this such a problem?

Ok, sorry for getting carried away there. I needed to vent that out.

Thank You.... Thank You

Improved

Yancy can't help what the kid actually said, but he did a much better job putting that together. I wonder if he might have read the blog...

Yancy Porter - Hipster...

Here's the most recent post (it's free) in Yancy's series of top 40 players in MS. I'm going to dissect the article to acknowledge some changes that we should hope for in the future. Do they have editors for these things? I have, by the way, eliminated the parts of his article that were done well. I did that shamelessly to fit my agenda.

"LSU : 'They send a lot of WR's to the league and they compete for titles every year.'"

Commas are wonderful things. Most people use them to join two independent clauses. Yancy apparently hates them.

"USM: 'They are suppose to throw the ball this year. I went to their spring game and they threw it a lot.'"

SUPPOSED to... Comma

"Favorite pro football player: Antoin Bolden"

My guess is that he said Anquan Boldin. Boldin is a wide receiver for the Arizona Cardinals. Amazing what 15 seconds on espn.go.com can get you. (Though real football fans should actually know who that is anyway).

"Favorite Food:Chicken Spagitti"

Seriously? That's how we're spelling spaghetti now?

"Favorite Video: NCAA '08"

This has gotten to me every time. NCAA '08 is not a video. It's a video game.

"Biggest Influences: Father"

The word "father" is singular. The word "influences" is not.

"First thing if I sign pro contract: By parents a new house"

Look... you can go by your parents' new house. You can buy your parents a new house. You cannot by your parents a new house.

I know that people are going to get pissed at me. I'm sure there will be uproar on a certain message board. Before anyone says it, I'm happy for what Yancy does for us too... blah blah blah. I just ask for more diligence in providing a service that we PAY for. Why anyone would care what Patrick Patterson's dream date is I cannot understand, but still... if you're going to report it, do it well. In short, nobody really cared about these things when this (thanks NAFOOM) was your competition. But now, this is your competition. Step it up. While those sorts of things may look good "on the hoof", they're not going to cut it anymore.

Maybe I'm "making a mountain out of a mole," but it would really take 4 or 5 minutes to proofread every article for easy to catch mistakes. I'm not asking to make sure that no sentence ends in a preposition or anything (though I try to catch those). I'm just asking people to spell spaghetti correctly and maybe, just maybe, know the difference between prepositions and verbs.

Also, I'm sure someone will try to find grammatical errors in my post. Please, when you do, pay me ten dollars a month to read the blog. Just remember, "when all is said and done," I'm just trying to improve things.

EDIT: We realize the article criticized in this post can be viewed free of charge. We used it because it is free and therefore a very public display of what we're griping about.

SECOND EDIT: Macon, the city in our state, is spelled that way. It is not spelled "Mecan".