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Pat Forde: ESPN
I hate columns like this: why does Forde think that HS kids owe anything to college coaches? Someone should tell him (I would have responded, but I'm 99% through with ESPN) that college coaches need to stop offering 2x-3x their available scholarships. That way, kids wouldn't have to "hold" their place while they made sure that they made the right choice in the biggest decision of their young lives.
I hate columns like this: why does Forde think that HS kids owe anything to college coaches? Someone should tell him (I would have responded, but I'm 99% through with ESPN) that college coaches need to stop offering 2x-3x their available scholarships. That way, kids wouldn't have to "hold" their place while they made sure that they made the right choice in the biggest decision of their young lives.
Actions speak louder than words during recruiting process
By Pat Forde
What's the only thing in football that's worth less than a big favorite in a big game in University of Phoenix Stadium?
Wednesday marks a national holiday for college football recruitniks, when players sign letters of intent. For fans who have obsessed over the whims of teenagers for months, it should be a day of immense relief.
Those signed letters are binding. Young men who have changed their mind more often than Hamlet finally have to put it in writing. That will be a welcome change after player de-commitments have reached epidemic proportions...
...It's always easier to say yes than no. But college football players need to reacquaint themselves with the meaning of the word commitment. It doesn't mean you're going steady until something hotter comes along.
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An interesting story brewing this year is K-State's recruiting. They have 19 (If I didn't make a mistake) JUCO players committed. I think Ron Prince is under immense pressure to win now, but it doesn't look good for the future of that program.
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Coaching requires work outside the playbook
Getting players to next level has become one of the bigger challenges facing prep coaches
By Mark Gokavi
Staff Writer
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
High school football coaching isn't just about Xs and Os. It's also about GPAs, VIPs and DVDs.
Recruiting responsibilities have added to a coach's duties ? be it making sure players get academic attention, hosting big-time college coaches, or sending video highlights to universities.
"Since I started coaching 26 years ago, it definitely has," Wayne's Jay Minton said. "The role of a coach in promotion (of a player) and getting him seen and getting his pub out there has really increased.
"It used to be, you'd hear older coaches say, 'That's not my job,' or 'If you're good enough, they'll find you' ? but that's not the way it is anymore. It's so competitive out there. You have to go do some stuff for your kids to help them."
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Coaching requires work outside the playbook
Getting players to next level has become one of the bigger challenges facing prep coaches
By Mark Gokavi
Staff Writer
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
High school football coaching isn't just about Xs and Os. It's also about GPAs, VIPs and DVDs.
Recruiting responsibilities have added to a coach's duties ? be it making sure players get academic attention, hosting big-time college coaches, or sending video highlights to universities.
"Since I started coaching 26 years ago, it definitely has," Wayne's Jay Minton said. "The role of a coach in promotion (of a player) and getting him seen and getting his pub out there has really increased.
"It used to be, you'd hear older coaches say, 'That's not my job,' or 'If you're good enough, they'll find you' ? but that's not the way it is anymore. It's so competitive out there. You have to go do some stuff for your kids to help them."
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Internet changing recruiting process
By Mark Gokavi
Staff Writer
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
For better or worse, high school football recruiting information ? truth and rumors ? is just a mouse-click away.
"I think the Internet has probably put more emphasis on it now than anything," Northmont coach Lance Schneider said. "You've got these fan Web sites like Rivals and Scout that really have no bearing on the actual recruiting process, but all the fans and all the players are interested in how many stars a kid is rated at."
Schneider is right. Fans do.
"People want to know what kids are saying," said Allen Wallace, a national editor at both Scout.com and Superprep Magazine. "We're a major part of the process in terms of being an information provider."
Technology has paved the way. Game film has moved from 8 millimeter to VHS tape to DVDs and beyond.
"My dad does the highlight tapes off a digital editing system," Schneider said of his father, longtime coach Mike Schneider. "He sends out DVDs to all the BCS schools and all the MAC schools.
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Internet changing recruiting process
By Mark Gokavi
Staff Writer
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
For better or worse, high school football recruiting information ? truth and rumors ? is just a mouse-click away.
"I think the Internet has probably put more emphasis on it now than anything," Northmont coach Lance Schneider said. "You've got these fan Web sites like Rivals and Scout that really have no bearing on the actual recruiting process, but all the fans and all the players are interested in how many stars a kid is rated at."
Schneider is right. Fans do.
"People want to know what kids are saying," said Allen Wallace, a national editor at both Scout.com and Superprep Magazine. "We're a major part of the process in terms of being an information provider."
Technology has paved the way. Game film has moved from 8 millimeter to VHS tape to DVDs and beyond.
"My dad does the highlight tapes off a digital editing system," Schneider said of his father, longtime coach Mike Schneider. "He sends out DVDs to all the BCS schools and all the MAC schools.
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It's too early to turn teenagers into celebrities Too much fanfare for college decisions
Published on Thursday, Feb 07, 2008
The e-mail arrived in mid-morning, from the folks at Sports Illustrated.
It touted ''SI Extra: National Signing Day.''
Shame on me for not marking the calendar for this one. If ever an event deserved an extra, this would be it. Seventeen-year-old kids announcing where they will go to college.
Make that 17-year-old kids announcing where they want to play football for a university or school willing to give them free tuition, room and board and countless other perks for four years ? and in some cases five.
There are fewer nonevents more deserving of skepticism and scorn than ''National Signing Day.''
Yet it's treated by some with more gravity than impeachment hearings in Congress.
ESPN actually promised seven hours of coverage of National Signing Day on ESPNU.
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It's too early to turn teenagers into celebrities Too much fanfare for college decisions
Published on Thursday, Feb 07, 2008
The e-mail arrived in mid-morning, from the folks at Sports Illustrated.
It touted ''SI Extra: National Signing Day.''
Shame on me for not marking the calendar for this one. If ever an event deserved an extra, this would be it. Seventeen-year-old kids announcing where they will go to college.
Make that 17-year-old kids announcing where they want to play football for a university or school willing to give them free tuition, room and board and countless other perks for four years ? and in some cases five.
There are fewer nonevents more deserving of skepticism and scorn than ''National Signing Day.''
Yet it's treated by some with more gravity than impeachment hearings in Congress.
ESPN actually promised seven hours of coverage of National Signing Day on ESPNU.
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Dispatch
Michael Arace commentary: Great day for recruit who came up through foster care
Thursday, February 7, 2008 3:30 AM
By Michael Arace
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
CHRIS RUSSELL Dispatch photos
Foster parents Keith and Lynn Fields savor national signing day with Walter Stewart at Teays Valley High School.
Stewart signs his letter of intent to play football at Cincinnati. Eric Fenner of Franklin County Children Services then co-signed the letter.
Some 222 miles away from Jeannette, Pa., in the small town of Ashville, Ohio, Walter Stewart yesterday signed a letter of intent to play football at the University of Cincinnati. His father was not there to witness this rare rite of manhood. His mother lives in Atlanta. Nary a backup NFL quarterback, nor a street agent, was in attendance. Yet Stewart's signing was as special as any, and more unique than the rest. His ceremony included a proud set of foster parents and a giddy official from Franklin County Children Services. They, and many others, were there for a black kid from Youngstown via Columbus who, four years before, was taken out of his home, placed with strangers and somehow manufactured this day.
The odds of it coming to pass were astronomical. The foster-care system is not known to crank out student-athletes, especially under Stewart's circumstances. In many cases, the emotional trauma is a lifelong barrier to normalcy. Often, success remains a vaporous dream.
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Michael Arace commentary: Great day for recruit who came up through foster care
Thursday, February 7, 2008 3:30 AM
By Michael Arace
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Foster parents Keith and Lynn Fields savor national signing day with Walter Stewart at Teays Valley High School.
Some 222 miles away from Jeannette, Pa., in the small town of Ashville, Ohio, Walter Stewart yesterday signed a letter of intent to play football at the University of Cincinnati. His father was not there to witness this rare rite of manhood. His mother lives in Atlanta. Nary a backup NFL quarterback, nor a street agent, was in attendance. Yet Stewart's signing was as special as any, and more unique than the rest. His ceremony included a proud set of foster parents and a giddy official from Franklin County Children Services. They, and many others, were there for a black kid from Youngstown via Columbus who, four years before, was taken out of his home, placed with strangers and somehow manufactured this day.
The odds of it coming to pass were astronomical. The foster-care system is not known to crank out student-athletes, especially under Stewart's circumstances. In many cases, the emotional trauma is a lifelong barrier to normalcy. Often, success remains a vaporous dream.
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Dispatch
Big Ten at a glance: Michigan gets at least one QB that it wanted
Thursday, February 7, 2008 3:11 AM
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rich Rodriguez's first recruiting class at Michigan might be remembered by the star he didn't get. Terrelle Pryor, the quarterback rated by some as the nation's No. 1 player, said yesterday that he was not ready to make a decision.
Despite missing out on Pryor -- at least temporarily -- Michigan's recruiting class was ranked No. 9 overall by Rivals.com.
While Rodriguez didn't sign Pryor, he did add a quarterback -- Justin Feagin -- to a team lacking depth at the position because freshman Ryan Mallett transferred to Arkansas.
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Big Ten at a glance: Michigan gets at least one QB that it wanted
Thursday, February 7, 2008 3:11 AM
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rich Rodriguez's first recruiting class at Michigan might be remembered by the star he didn't get. Terrelle Pryor, the quarterback rated by some as the nation's No. 1 player, said yesterday that he was not ready to make a decision.
Despite missing out on Pryor -- at least temporarily -- Michigan's recruiting class was ranked No. 9 overall by Rivals.com.
While Rodriguez didn't sign Pryor, he did add a quarterback -- Justin Feagin -- to a team lacking depth at the position because freshman Ryan Mallett transferred to Arkansas.
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Dispatch
National scene: Notre Dame and Miami still attractive to recruits
Thursday, February 7, 2008 3:11 AM
By Ralph D. Russo
Associated Press
All those ugly losses didn't stop Notre Dame from landing a beauty of a recruiting class. Same goes for the University of Miami.
And while Alabama's first season under Nick Saban was so-so, the first Crimson Tide recruiting class the $4 million-per-year coach can truly call his own turned out top notch.
Notre Dame, Miami and Alabama were among the schools -- along with national champion LSU, Florida, Ohio State, Oklahoma and Georgia -- vying to be No. 1 in recruiting yesterday, the first day of the national signing period for high school football players.
For Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis, signing day was far more relaxing, and much better than most game days in 2007.
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National scene: Notre Dame and Miami still attractive to recruits
Thursday, February 7, 2008 3:11 AM
By Ralph D. Russo
Associated Press
All those ugly losses didn't stop Notre Dame from landing a beauty of a recruiting class. Same goes for the University of Miami.
And while Alabama's first season under Nick Saban was so-so, the first Crimson Tide recruiting class the $4 million-per-year coach can truly call his own turned out top notch.
Notre Dame, Miami and Alabama were among the schools -- along with national champion LSU, Florida, Ohio State, Oklahoma and Georgia -- vying to be No. 1 in recruiting yesterday, the first day of the national signing period for high school football players.
For Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis, signing day was far more relaxing, and much better than most game days in 2007.
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