South Carolina's Dutch Fork HS after pulling RB scholly. Dirt bag. Bout time for him to move again.
Petrino BANNED from recruiting at
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Good for the coach, but I have two questions:
1. Does the school have any other kids Louisville would want? If so, the ban is meaningful, if not, what difference does it make. It's kind of like banning me from drinking Milwaukee's Best. To which I would say great. Most schools rarely, if ever, have a player of this caliber, but I'm not familiar enough Dutch Fork to know what the ban means.
2. Lay down with dogs, you might get fleas. Coach should have been pro-active and not let the kid commit to the school in the first place. Feel for the kid, and he probably didn't know any better, but Petrino's reputation is shady and has been for a long time.
This post was edited on 2/3 10:45 PM by mowesten
1. Does the school have any other kids Louisville would want? If so, the ban is meaningful, if not, what difference does it make. It's kind of like banning me from drinking Milwaukee's Best. To which I would say great. Most schools rarely, if ever, have a player of this caliber, but I'm not familiar enough Dutch Fork to know what the ban means.
2. Lay down with dogs, you might get fleas. Coach should have been pro-active and not let the kid commit to the school in the first place. Feel for the kid, and he probably didn't know any better, but Petrino's reputation is shady and has been for a long time.
This post was edited on 2/3 10:45 PM by mowesten
From collegefootballtalk
Louisville recently added former TCU defensive standout Devonte Fields to the Class fo 2015, taking up one scholarship in the process. The addition of Fields was not exactly in the plan of attack when a scholarship was initially offered to Colburn, because Fields was not dismissed by TCU until just before the college football season. TCU has also had to focus on defensive secondary options in recruiting after losing some key players to the NFL a year early. Louisville is not doing anything that violates any recruiting rules, although some will suggest Louisville may be violating a certain unwritten code of recruiting ethics.
Players are given the freedom to flip their commitments at any time. Is it fair for schools to pull a scholarship for reasons based purely on roster manipulation? It would have been one thing had Colburn been in some sort of legal trouble that raised a red flag, but that is not at all the case here. Feel free to leave your thoughts on this practice of grayshirting players and how Louisville handled it in the comments below.
I find it interesting that a player can decommit last minute or flip but if a school does it's bad business? Just another reason for an early signing period.
As opposed to a recruit dragging a process out until the last day? They're both screwing each other over. If this wasn't Petrino you wouldn't hear anything about it. It happens all the time.
Who are the worst offenders of oversigning? I'm talking coaches, programs and conferences.
By far, the worst of the BCS conferences in terms of oversigning is the SEC, and it is not even close. SEC schools oversign their rosters more than any other conference, specifically schools such as LSU, Alabama and Ole Miss. The statistic that stands out the most is the number of times between 2002 and 2010 that SEC schools signed 25 recruits or more in back to back years: 54, as compared to the Big Ten's 18. That is staggering. We actually took a closer look at all the numbers and posted them on the site:
With regards to coaches, obviously Huston Nutt comes to mind, but in terms of national championship caliber coaches, Nick Saban and Les Miles top the list.
