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Malik McDowell 2014 5* DE is still Unsigned UM should offer

LSU will pay for her move. Maybe even let her wash the players jock straps.
 
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Can the kid really not sign his own LOI at 18? I assumed AC was 17 last year. Can he choose a new legal guardian ? Crazy he could go sign up for the military but not to play a sport.
 
Don't mind the parents wanting him out of Southfield but East Lansing and Ann Arbor are like Hollywood compared to Detroit where the kid is actually from. He just played HS ball in Southfield and Southfield is not really all that nice anymore.

Especially Detroit's East Side where I grew up. They should let the kid go up to EL and play for a great DC that's a good business decision.
Otherwise I don't mind the kid coming to Coral Gables.
 
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caneforlifeforreal said:
am1640 said:
ilovelamp51 said:
Paranos said:
His mom is the custodial parent and he is 17, she refuses to sign the MICH ST LOI, so they are out.
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If it were me, I'd let my mom know she can either sign the LOI now or I'll sign when I turned 18..

If the latter happens the don't expect your name to be left on any tickets at will call.
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yeah pretty sure you have to be 21 to sign without your parent (Alex Collins fiasco), so yeah just waiting for 4 years isn't an option.
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I don't know if anybody remembers but this is exactly how we got Kellen Winslow. his dad wouldn't sign his LOI and he wasnt 18 so he had to look elsewhere.now the reason his dad did it was because there weren't any black coaches on the team that he wantedto sign with. but still similar because Winslow really wanted to go there and Once
his dad made him look elsewhere we ended up getting lucky
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KWII wanted to go to UW where Neweasel was the coach. I think the fact that Lannard was our DC made us an acceptable choice.
 
Paranos said:
ilovelamp51 said:
I think it is disgusting for a parent to do this. Shame on the NCAA for allowing it.
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Did you not read the entire posting and linked article. Until you do so please refrain offering un informed opinions about potential recruits. The mother wants a better opportunity for he child away from local Michigan influences. Have you been to Detroit, unless you have then again please keep it positive in this thread.

Go Canes
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Paranos, I have to disagree with you. Proximity to Detroit has nothing to do with this given that Michigan St. is about 2-3 hours outside of Detroit being in East Lansing. That's about the same thing saying a kid shouldn't go to Stanford or University of California, Berkeley since it's near Oakland which is probably the murder capital of the country.

It's his decision, not the moms. The kid can just hold off on signing his NLI when he's 18. He's not coming to Miami, it's as simple as that. We're not even on his radar.
 
Here's a little inside baseball on this kid. Our D Corchinator was actually tasked with recruiting him as early as 2011. He ended up just going here instead:

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Lol at OP thinking we can recruit a kid by just showing him YouTube videos and talking on the phone
 
paranos is a joke. east lansing isn't really close to the influences of detroit. that's a smoke screen from the parents.
 
am1640 said:
ilovelamp51 said:
Paranos said:
His mom is the custodial parent and he is 17, she refuses to sign the MICH ST LOI, so they are out.
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If it were me, I'd let my mom know she can either sign the LOI now or I'll sign when I turned 18..

If the latter happens the don't expect your name to be left on any tickets at will call.
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yeah pretty sure you have to be 21 to sign without your parent (Alex Collins fiasco), so yeah just waiting for 4 years isn't an option.
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My understanding is that an LOI doesn't even need to be signed at all. He can still go to MSU and play football without one.
 
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Jennifer Smith, MSU’s associate athletic director for compliance services, explained to the Free Press the ramifications for an athlete whose parents won’t sign a national letter of intent. She did so in general terms, because it’s an NCAA violation for her to speak publicly about unsigned prospects.

To summarize Smith’s information and apply it to McDowell’s case:

■ If an athlete is under 21 years of age, a parent or legal guardian must sign his or her national letter of intent to make it official. There has been speculation that McDowell, 17, could sign without a parent once he is 18, but that’s not true.

The age limit is the same on a Big Ten tender, 21. All Big Ten scholarship athletes must sign a tender in order to receive their financial aid.

■ The NCAA also has a rule that the “custodial parent” must sign the national letter of intent, in the case of sole custody and not joint custody. McDowell’s mother, Joya Crowe, reportedly has sole custody of him, which means she is the parent who must sign the national letter of intent.

However, a Big Ten tender only requires the signature of a parent. There is no language about a “custodial parent,” Smith said.

This means Greg McDowell could sign a Big Ten tender along with his son and make his addition to the MSU class of 2014 official. Like Crowe, Greg McDowell has said publicly he does not want his son at MSU, but after Malik’s announcement he said: “I feel good about the decision. My son, he stood up and said, ‘Hey, this is where I want to be.’ And despite my reservations and his mom’s reservations, I fully support my son.”

■ So what’s the difference between a national letter of intent and a Big Ten tender? Most athletes sign both. The national letter of intent “essentially stops other schools from recruiting a student athlete,” Smith said.

That’s because transfer penalties are in place as soon as it is signed. All football players who signed letters Wednesday would have to sit out a year if they decide to transfer to another school.

There is no such penalty for someone who just signs a Big Ten tender, unless they want to transfer within the Big Ten. So if McDowell enrolls at MSU with a signed Big Ten tender but not a signed letter of intent, he can decide to go to a school outside the Big Ten and do so without penalty – for the first year of school.

After spring semester of an athlete’s freshman year, the national letter of intent no longer applies and NCAA transfer rules kick in, Smith said.

So McDowell would have more freedom to go elsewhere as a freshman, then be under the same rules as everyone else afterward.

■ If it turns out McDowell can’t get his mother to sign the letter of intent, or either parent to sign the Big Ten tender, he can still enroll at MSU. After one day of classes, a prospect is no longer considered a prospect, Smith said – he or she is considered a student-athlete.

So McDowell could sign the Big Ten tender after one day of classes and he would not need the signature of either parent.

But that would mean McDowell would have to pay out of his own pocket if he wanted to enroll in summer classes before his freshman season. Many incoming MSU freshmen take summer classes and take part in offseason workouts with the team.
 
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