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Missouri Just Poached Cuonzo Martin And They'll Probably Nab The Country's Best Recruit Too<em></em>
Outgoing Cal basketball coach Cuonzo Martin spent three seasons in Berkeley, where he put together a middling-to-good run. He won 62 of his 101 games and went 2-4 in three years worth of rivalry games against Stanford. Martin’s greatest accomplishment was recruiting Ivan Rabb and Jaylen Brown to com...
Football Prospect Announces College Decision With Glorious, Special Effects-Heavy Video
Tahj Rice, a four-star defensive lineman prospect from Kentucky, has refused the traditional hat-donning ceremony when announcing which college he’ll be taking his talents in the fall, and instead has made his decision known in much more imaginative fashion. ...
Louisiana High School Coach Bans Nick Saban From Campus For "Not Being Ethical"
LSU head coach Ed Orgeron rode out a potential boycott last week and got himself back into the good graces of New Orleans-area football coaches. Now, it’s Nick Saban’s turn to get on the wrong side of a high school coach....
What's Going On With Recruiting At LSU?
Last week, LSU landed the nation’s seventh-ranked recruiting class—signing 15 players who were ranked in ESPN’s top 300, and trailing just two other SEC schools. But 17 of the school’s 23 total commits came from outside Louisiana and only three of the state’s best 12 high school players signed with ...
Have You Been A College Football Hostess? We Want To Hear About It
It should be no surprise that part of the latest Title IX lawsuit against Baylor—which asserts that football players committed 52 acts of rape in four years—brought up the college-athletics tradition of hostesses. College football history suggests they started at Alabama with a group dubbed Bryant’s...
You Can't Please Everyone
Tears of joy for some; tears of sadness for at least one other....
Michigan Lost Their Third Recruit Of The Week Over A Thank You Note Gone Wrong
Thanks to the never-ending grind of the recruiting cycle, the sustained success of elite programs depends on how well their coaches can manage contrived relationships with a bunch of 17-year-olds. Because these teens are, well, teens, and because they’re frequently being chased by five-to-ten other ...
ESPN Nimrod Brays Like A Donkey About Recruits Who Don't Want To Play For Dickheads
Today’s episode of Outside The Lines took on the recent kerfuffle at Texas A&M, which saw Texas A&M wide receivers coach Aaron Moorehead chasing away recruits by acting like a baby on Twitter. ESPN recruiting analyst Tom Luginbill was brought on the show to give his takes on the situation, and he wa...
Texas A&M Assistant's Twitter Rant About Losing One Recruit Chased Away Another (UPDATED)
One of the grossest things in all of sports is big-time college football recruiting: educational institutions groveling and begging high schoolers to attend, adults directing slush funds towards 17-year-olds, college graduates harassing kids on social media to consider their alma mater. And last nig...
Look At Nick Saban, Dancin' Like A Clown
It’s recruiting season, which means it’s the one time of year when we get to relish self-serious millionaire coaches embarrassing themselves in order to scoop up the next crop of talented freshman. Take it away, Nick Saban!...
Four-Star Recruit Decommits From Oklahoma Because Of Racist Frat Video
Offensive line prospect Jean Delance committed to Oklahoma back in November, and was still all about the Sooners when he visited campus on Saturday—the day before the release of a video showing members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity taking part in a racist chant. Delance pulled out of his com...
The Two Best (And Only) Sixth-Grade Football Prospects
The class of 2021 is shaping up to be a big one, according to recruiting site Rivals. There are already two sixth-grade football prospects with profiles. Meanwhile, the class of 2020 has no one. Those seventh-graders are going to be huge duds....
An Actual Video Of 6-Foot-7, 410-Pound Motekiai Langi Playing "Football"
Yesterday I wrote that there was no video available of BYU’s newest recruit, Motekiai Langi, from the island nation of Tonga. As it turns out there is a very short video of Langi playing something resembling football at a Tuhulu football camp. It doesn’t show much, but the “light on his feet” com...
Bobby Petrino Is Still Scum
Bobby Petrino's coaching career has been a series of escapes. Not even one year after signing a 10-year extension with Louisville, he jumped to the Atlanta Falcons; bailed on the NFL after 13 games; went to Arkansas, where got the boot after wrecking his motorcycle with his mistress on the back; hop...
Baylor Woos Recruits With List Of Stores It Hopes Open In Waco Someday
Recruiting is about so much more than just playing time. It's about convincing an 18-year-old kid that your campus and its surroundings are fun place to spend the next four years. That can mean promising an In-N-Out when there's no actual In-N-Out on the way. ...
Four-Star Prospect Has Enough Recruiting Letters To Bathe In
Quart'e Sapp, a four-star linebacker prospect from Georgia, posted this photo to Twitter last night, of him soaking in a bathtub full of recruiting letters. If he were five-starred, he'd probably have enough to swim in....
Report: Skal Labissiere's Shady Guardian Asked How To Profit From Him
Six-foot-ten forward Skal Labissiere, one of the top prospects in the nation, is expected to announce tomorrow which college he will attend—Kentucky and Memphis are among the favorites. No one should get too excited. CBS Sports has a story featuring this pronouncement from one coach who's been in on...
Report: Army Plied Football Recruits With Alcohol, Women
Army has only had one winning college football season since 1996, and now they're having problems off the field too. According to a report in the Colorado Springs The Gazette—which West Point officials did not dispute—in February the team treated recruits to "an alcohol-fueled party, a dinner date w...