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Billy D Williams

Billy D Williams

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It would be my bet that these schools are pumping them up with the following assurances (add you take too):


1. There are a lot of SoFl kids already at The U. The focus and attention won't be on you.

2. People have lots of options in Miami and college football is just isn't as important to them. Come to a place where the focus is on football, full stadium, everybody know you and you'll be the man.

3. Miami's focus is not on football or the players, you cane see it, look at the facilities. We'll take care of you and we have the best facilities.

4. What you have is what we need up here, we don't have all the kids with your type talent and you'll be give every opportunity to see the field early and not just be another Miami kid on the team.

5. You spent all your life in Miami. You can get away from the hardships and see something different where you don't have to watch your back all the time. You'll be around kids and people who worship you.

6. Playing here means you'll be on National TV, playing in prime time games, all of America, friends and family watching and the scouts. This is where you get exposed to more NFL teams.

7. Miami players do well here because they are the focus. I know you know and see them on TV all the time, Dalvin, Calloway, Ridley, don't you? That will be you next year. Don't be just another Miami kid on a team full of Miami kids. Stand out from the crowd. Get the exposure you need to get to the NFL and make millions!
 
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Do the teams add in that the kids can break the law an only get away with it if they choose em over Miami?
 
Lawd I wish the season would get here so there won't be anymore dumb *** threads like this one.
 
They tell the kids they will help them achieve their dreams and play in the NFL. SEC coaches tell them they will play against the best players in college football and all other conferences are below them.
 
We win games, Miami hasn't shown they can do that yet.

Campus, campus, and campus. Miami's is small and doesn't offer the big college experience that we do.

I personally think those are our two biggest drawbacks. Win, then the first goes away. The second, Miami is very different from the state schools throughout the country. To many people that age, big campuses are a major plus more so than S. Beach. College parties trump S. Beach in general at that age.
 
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Don't forget that southern pootang, those georgia peaches are juicy and the midwest girls may be big corn feed girls but they are freaky as ****. Where as at Miami you have to deal with some difficult high maintenance women. I remember back on 2009 RB David Oku a Tenn Commit supposedly got his U of Nebraska hostess pregnant during his official visit.

An to 18 yr old these are some some major factors.

Go Canes

Published Tuesday February 24, 2009
Touted back surfaces at Lincoln East



Football recruiting, which has long been a strange game, took another perplexing turn Monday when David Oku enrolled at Lincoln East three months before he was scheduled to graduate from Carl Albert High School in Midwest City, Okla.

Oku, the nation's No. 1 rated all-purpose running back by Rivals.com, remains unsigned nearly three weeks after signing day with Tennessee, Auburn, Ole Miss and Syracuse still in pursuit.

Nebraska, it seems, is not in the mix for his signature, though Oku did visit NU in September and held a scholarship offer from the school.

The Huskers moved in a different direction, securing a commitment from Rex Burkhead to go with their earlier pledge from Dontrayevous Robinson after Oku committed to Tennessee.

Now that he's living in the Huskers' backyard, Nebraska might be in position to re-enter the race for the talented back, who rushed for 1,905 yards and 23 touchdowns last fall.

It doesn't appear likely, though, according to indications from the school. And that's a dose of sanity amid an otherwise bizarre situation.

So just why did Oku move to Nebraska?

He told recruiting guru Jeremy Crabtree of Rivals.com via text message that his parents support the move.

Oku indicated that he wanted to be closer to his girlfriend, whom he met during his visit to watch the Huskers host Virginia Tech.

Also, he said Lincoln East offers more classes to help prepare him for college.

Gary Rose, the coach at Carl Albert, said he had not talked to Oku about the move. Rose said Oku left the Oklahoma school on Feb. 12 and has not returned.

"It's very strange," Rose said.

How is it that four schools and many of their fans are still breathlessly following the moves of a teenager who, more than halfway through his senior year, wanders from Oklahoma to Nebraska?

Blame it on a football recruiting culture that each year seems to produce a story more outlandish than the last.

Oku's move, on the surface, bears some resemblance to the situation involving running back Bryce Brown of Wichita, Kan. Brown, labeled by many as the nation's top high school prospect at any position, spent two weeks recently in Omaha with his uncle, Lawrence Pete.

But with Brown, also still unsigned, the explanation seems plausible.

He sought an escape from the pressures of recruiting, ongoing for years as he experienced the game alongside his brother Arthur Brown, a freshman linebacker at Miami (Fla.).

Bryce Brown graduated from high school in December.

"He wanted to be at peace with this," said Pete, a former defensive lineman at Nebraska who spent five years in the NFL. "He wanted to come here and relax and get away from it. I admire the position he took to clear his mind. It's a business decision for him, just like it is for those schools.

"I'm proud to be his uncle."

Pete's younger sister, Lelonnie, is Brown's mother. She and his father, Arthur Sr., needed time, too, Pete said, to escape the unending scrutiny.

It's easy to examine these recruiting dramas and find it difficult to feel sympathy for the kids and their parents who struggle to reach a decision between full-ride scholarship offers to glamorous universities.

But until you've been in the middle of the storm, it's hard to gauge the level of confusion.

Just ask David Oku.
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Most times the most convincing argument comes from other players already committed to a school.

https://www.seccountry.com/alabama/meet-alabamas-best-recruiters-5-star-alex-leatherwood-and-4-star-vandarius-cowan

Meet Alabama’s best recruiters: 5-star Alex Leatherwood and 4-star VanDarius Cowan

Alabama’s motto for this year’s recruiting class was created shortly after VanDarius Cowan, a 4-star linebacker commit from Palm Beach Gardens (Fla.) High School, was listening to rapper OG Maco.

Cowan was listening to the song “Undefeated,” and right after he finished hearing it, he took to Twitter to reveal a motto that has taken off since then.

“It just came to me right then that savages want to play with savages,” Cowan told SEC Country. “When you look at the people that are going to Alabama, who’s not a savage? Alex Leatherwood — savage. Markail Benton — savage. We’re all trying to ball.”

“Savages want to play with savages” is best described by Leatherwood, a 5-star Alabama offensive tackle commit. Both Cowan and Leatherwood have been the most vocal recruiters for the Crimson Tide.

“Iron sharpens iron. That’s what it means,” Leatherwood told SEC Country. “If you want to be the best, you need to be with the best. You need to practice hard each and every day with good competition.”

Cowan did not feel like he had that level of competition when he was committed to Florida State. He de-committed from the Seminoles twice, which has made some Crimson Tide fans wonder if he’ll stick with his commitment.

He knew he was going to remain with Alabama because of defensive coordinator Jeremy Pruitt, who he considers his favorite coach. Once Pruitt was re-hired by Alabama (Pruitt had coached at the school from 2007-12), Cowan knew he was going to end up with the Tide at some point, and he ended up committing back in April.

Both Cowan and Leatherwood are confident in their abilities to compete with anyone in the country. It’s one of the main reasons why both have actively recruited other top players at their position. Leatherwood helped Alabama land 4-star offensive tackle Elliot Baker two weeks ago. Baker actually credited Leatherwood for helping him with his decision. Cowan helped the Tide land a 4-star linebacker in Benton, who spurned Auburn when he committed.

The message both players give to recruits varies, but the same premise is behind each pitch.

“Look, if you come to Alabama, you’re going to have to work,” Cowan said of how he begins his pitch. “If I go to Florida State right now, I can start as a freshman. It’s that simple. When I first went to Alabama, I talked to some of the players and they were telling me that you need to work if you go here. It’s hard. That intrigued me.

“At Florida State, it was all about, ‘We play a lot of freshmen. You’re going to play from Day 1.’ You play a lot of freshmen when that’s all you can play. It’s not like that at Alabama.”

For Leatherwood, he isn’t as aggressive with his message. The nation’s No. 5 offensive tackle takes an “if you don’t want to play here, we will find someone just as good as you” approach.

“I’m very confident in my own abilities,” Leatherwood said. “That’s just a characteristic that I’ve had growing up. We need players at Alabama who believe they are the best and want to play with the best.”
Vandarius Cowan by Randy Schafer Dawg Night 2015

Cowan added: “I don’t want to play with any chumps. I’m playing with top guys who are going to push me to play harder.”

A few weeks ago, both commits were at Rivals’ 5-star challenge camp, where both players received rave reviews. Leatherwood was named the top offensive lineman, and that was with other elite prospects at his position.

When he was going through 1-on-1 drills, Cowan ran over to Leatherwood to cheer him on. He made sure to be as loud as he possibly could be to make sure other recruits noticed the brotherhood the two share.

“That just goes to show you the kind of program that we have,” Leatherwood said. “We got some of the best coaches in the country and we’re going to play together as a unit. Everybody is cool with everybody in this class and we’re all brothers.”

Said Cowan: “I want everyone to see that we’re teammates and we’re going to be there for each other. I want other recruits to get jealous and say, ‘Dang, my teammates don’t cheer me on like that.'”

One of those other players in attendance was 5-star defensive tackle Marvin Wilson. Both Cowan and Leatherwood have Wilson near the top of the list as far as who they want in Tuscaloosa next season.

Cowan, the nation’s No. 5 outside linebacker, said he thinks Alabama is the favorite to land the nation’s No. 1 defensive tackle. Wilson is also strongly considering LSU and Florida State.

“He seems like he’s leaning toward us right now,” Cowan said. “I think we’re his top school right now. I’m just waiting to see what he’s going to do because I got to get some defensive tackles.”

Some other recruits that the tandem are recruiting include: 5-star offensive tackle Isaiah Wilson, 4-star defensive end Ryan Johnson and 4-star wide receivers Jerry Jeudy, Devonta Smith and Henry Ruggs.

Cowan has a message for those receivers.

“You see that quarterback we got from Hawaii (4-star Tua Tagovailoa)?” Cowan rhetorically asked. “That boy can play. We need all of those receivers to slide through.”

Leatherwood said the coaching staff has noticed that the pair has gone all out with making sure Alabama has the best recruiting class for the seventh straight year. He said the staff did not instruct them to do this. It’s something both took upon themselves to do.

“I didn’t consciously choose to do this,” Leatherwood said. “It just came along with my personality. It came natural to me that I should be one of the leaders for this class.”

Don’t expect them to stop getting in the ears of the nation’s top players, especially with Alabama being ranked No. 2 in the team rankings behind Ohio State. It all goes back to the motto championed by Alabama’s Class of 2017.

“Savages want to play with savages,” Cowan said. “It’s simple as that.”
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Paranos said:
Most times the most convincing argument comes from other players already committed to a school.

https://www.seccountry.com/alabama/meet-alabamas-best-recruiters-5-star-alex-leatherwood-and-4-star-vandarius-cowan

Meet Alabama’s best recruiters: 5-star Alex Leatherwood and 4-star VanDarius Cowan

Alabama’s motto for this year’s recruiting class was created shortly after VanDarius Cowan, a 4-star linebacker commit from Palm Beach Gardens (Fla.) High School, was listening to rapper OG Maco.

Cowan was listening to the song “Undefeated,” and right after he finished hearing it, he took to Twitter to reveal a motto that has taken off since then.

“It just came to me right then that savages want to play with savages,” Cowan told SEC Country. “When you look at the people that are going to Alabama, who’s not a savage? Alex Leatherwood — savage. Markail Benton — savage. We’re all trying to ball.”

“Savages want to play with savages” is best described by Leatherwood, a 5-star Alabama offensive tackle commit. Both Cowan and Leatherwood have been the most vocal recruiters for the Crimson Tide.

“Iron sharpens iron. That’s what it means,” Leatherwood told SEC Country. “If you want to be the best, you need to be with the best. You need to practice hard each and every day with good competition.”

Cowan did not feel like he had that level of competition when he was committed to Florida State. He de-committed from the Seminoles twice, which has made some Crimson Tide fans wonder if he’ll stick with his commitment.

He knew he was going to remain with Alabama because of defensive coordinator Jeremy Pruitt, who he considers his favorite coach. Once Pruitt was re-hired by Alabama (Pruitt had coached at the school from 2007-12), Cowan knew he was going to end up with the Tide at some point, and he ended up committing back in April.

Both Cowan and Leatherwood are confident in their abilities to compete with anyone in the country. It’s one of the main reasons why both have actively recruited other top players at their position. Leatherwood helped Alabama land 4-star offensive tackle Elliot Baker two weeks ago. Baker actually credited Leatherwood for helping him with his decision. Cowan helped the Tide land a 4-star linebacker in Benton, who spurned Auburn when he committed.

The message both players give to recruits varies, but the same premise is behind each pitch.

“Look, if you come to Alabama, you’re going to have to work,” Cowan said of how he begins his pitch. “If I go to Florida State right now, I can start as a freshman. It’s that simple. When I first went to Alabama, I talked to some of the players and they were telling me that you need to work if you go here. It’s hard. That intrigued me.

“At Florida State, it was all about, ‘We play a lot of freshmen. You’re going to play from Day 1.’ You play a lot of freshmen when that’s all you can play. It’s not like that at Alabama.”

For Leatherwood, he isn’t as aggressive with his message. The nation’s No. 5 offensive tackle takes an “if you don’t want to play here, we will find someone just as good as you” approach.

“I’m very confident in my own abilities,” Leatherwood said. “That’s just a characteristic that I’ve had growing up. We need players at Alabama who believe they are the best and want to play with the best.”
Vandarius Cowan by Randy Schafer Dawg Night 2015

Cowan added: “I don’t want to play with any chumps. I’m playing with top guys who are going to push me to play harder.”

A few weeks ago, both commits were at Rivals’ 5-star challenge camp, where both players received rave reviews. Leatherwood was named the top offensive lineman, and that was with other elite prospects at his position.

When he was going through 1-on-1 drills, Cowan ran over to Leatherwood to cheer him on. He made sure to be as loud as he possibly could be to make sure other recruits noticed the brotherhood the two share.

“That just goes to show you the kind of program that we have,” Leatherwood said. “We got some of the best coaches in the country and we’re going to play together as a unit. Everybody is cool with everybody in this class and we’re all brothers.”

Said Cowan: “I want everyone to see that we’re teammates and we’re going to be there for each other. I want other recruits to get jealous and say, ‘Dang, my teammates don’t cheer me on like that.'”

One of those other players in attendance was 5-star defensive tackle Marvin Wilson. Both Cowan and Leatherwood have Wilson near the top of the list as far as who they want in Tuscaloosa next season.

Cowan, the nation’s No. 5 outside linebacker, said he thinks Alabama is the favorite to land the nation’s No. 1 defensive tackle. Wilson is also strongly considering LSU and Florida State.

“He seems like he’s leaning toward us right now,” Cowan said. “I think we’re his top school right now. I’m just waiting to see what he’s going to do because I got to get some defensive tackles.”

Some other recruits that the tandem are recruiting include: 5-star offensive tackle Isaiah Wilson, 4-star defensive end Ryan Johnson and 4-star wide receivers Jerry Jeudy, Devonta Smith and Henry Ruggs.

Cowan has a message for those receivers.

“You see that quarterback we got from Hawaii (4-star Tua Tagovailoa)?” Cowan rhetorically asked. “That boy can play. We need all of those receivers to slide through.”

Leatherwood said the coaching staff has noticed that the pair has gone all out with making sure Alabama has the best recruiting class for the seventh straight year. He said the staff did not instruct them to do this. It’s something both took upon themselves to do.

“I didn’t consciously choose to do this,” Leatherwood said. “It just came along with my personality. It came natural to me that I should be one of the leaders for this class.”

Don’t expect them to stop getting in the ears of the nation’s top players, especially with Alabama being ranked No. 2 in the team rankings behind Ohio State. It all goes back to the motto championed by Alabama’s Class of 2017.

“Savages want to play with savages,” Cowan said. “It’s simple as that.”
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Wow, may as well give Alabama a championship trophy
 
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Paranos said:
Don't forget that southern pootang, those georgia peaches are juicy and the midwest girls may be big corn feed girls but they are freaky as ****. Where as at Miami you have to deal with some difficult high maintenance women. I remember back on 2009 RB David Oku a Tenn Commit supposedly got his U of Nebraska hostess pregnant during his official visit.

An to 18 yr old these are some some major factors.

Go Canes

Published Tuesday February 24, 2009
Touted back surfaces at Lincoln East



Football recruiting, which has long been a strange game, took another perplexing turn Monday when David Oku enrolled at Lincoln East three months before he was scheduled to graduate from Carl Albert High School in Midwest City, Okla.

Oku, the nation's No. 1 rated all-purpose running back by Rivals.com, remains unsigned nearly three weeks after signing day with Tennessee, Auburn, Ole Miss and Syracuse still in pursuit.

Nebraska, it seems, is not in the mix for his signature, though Oku did visit NU in September and held a scholarship offer from the school.

The Huskers moved in a different direction, securing a commitment from Rex Burkhead to go with their earlier pledge from Dontrayevous Robinson after Oku committed to Tennessee.

Now that he's living in the Huskers' backyard, Nebraska might be in position to re-enter the race for the talented back, who rushed for 1,905 yards and 23 touchdowns last fall.

It doesn't appear likely, though, according to indications from the school. And that's a dose of sanity amid an otherwise bizarre situation.

So just why did Oku move to Nebraska?

He told recruiting guru Jeremy Crabtree of Rivals.com via text message that his parents support the move.

Oku indicated that he wanted to be closer to his girlfriend, whom he met during his visit to watch the Huskers host Virginia Tech.

Also, he said Lincoln East offers more classes to help prepare him for college.

Gary Rose, the coach at Carl Albert, said he had not talked to Oku about the move. Rose said Oku left the Oklahoma school on Feb. 12 and has not returned.

"It's very strange," Rose said.

How is it that four schools and many of their fans are still breathlessly following the moves of a teenager who, more than halfway through his senior year, wanders from Oklahoma to Nebraska?

Blame it on a football recruiting culture that each year seems to produce a story more outlandish than the last.

Oku's move, on the surface, bears some resemblance to the situation involving running back Bryce Brown of Wichita, Kan. Brown, labeled by many as the nation's top high school prospect at any position, spent two weeks recently in Omaha with his uncle, Lawrence Pete.

But with Brown, also still unsigned, the explanation seems plausible.

He sought an escape from the pressures of recruiting, ongoing for years as he experienced the game alongside his brother Arthur Brown, a freshman linebacker at Miami (Fla.).

Bryce Brown graduated from high school in December.

"He wanted to be at peace with this," said Pete, a former defensive lineman at Nebraska who spent five years in the NFL. "He wanted to come here and relax and get away from it. I admire the position he took to clear his mind. It's a business decision for him, just like it is for those schools.

"I'm proud to be his uncle."

Pete's younger sister, Lelonnie, is Brown's mother. She and his father, Arthur Sr., needed time, too, Pete said, to escape the unending scrutiny.

It's easy to examine these recruiting dramas and find it difficult to feel sympathy for the kids and their parents who struggle to reach a decision between full-ride scholarship offers to glamorous universities.

But until you've been in the middle of the storm, it's hard to gauge the level of confusion.

Just ask David Oku.
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The south does have the hottest girls
 
You left out: 1) $$$$$$ for you and mom. 2) Plenty of girls you can have *** with whether they want to or not because we have best perpetrators defense system in country.
 
3) there is also the Hostess Programs at various schools. **** some schools even guy hostess's (I guess a little something for eveybody)

Link to Article
Perception, Reality and the Role of College Football Recruiting Hostesses | Bleacher Report

Miami has a very attractive woman in the recruiting department also, here name escapes me at the moment. She is manager of some sort so she is ended up ulitmately where a lot of these hostesses hope their TOFTT efforts will land them one day.

Go Canes
 
Leaving money out of the equation, there are some legit reasons why kids may want to leave the city.

1. Ego/Girls. Yes, Miami has some of the most beautiful women in the world but very few of them are impressed by some broke college football player. Why chase a kid who may get money when there's plenty of wealthy dudes here already? And yes most of these Miami hoochies are after one thing and one thing only. Go to Gainseville or some other big state college in the middle of nowhere and you're worshiped like a God. Girls are lining up to sleep with the backup long snapper. Every bar/club/restaurant in town is giving you free drinks and food. The local police tend to look the other way when you have a little slip-up with the law. You get all kinds of perks that most guys at UM never get.

2. Family. This one's a bit more serious. We've seen some of these crazy family situations a lot of these guys are coming out of. Some dudes just want to get out of Miami, even out of the state to get as far away from their home lives as possible.
 
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