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re: Biggest shite show recruitment you can recall....

Posted on 1/6/20 at 7:36 am to
Posted by Jester
Baton Rouge
Member since Feb 2006
34275 posts
Posted on 1/6/20 at 7:36 am to
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Player Personnel guy Austin Thomas was ironically similar to these shite show recruitments.



AtM is the perfect place for that clown.
This post was edited on 1/6/20 at 7:37 am
Posted by 314stunna
NYC
Member since Aug 2015
835 posts
Posted on 1/6/20 at 8:15 am to
I honestly can't remember one like Evans.

Yall have named some good ones. Roquan smith was kind of low-key weird.

He committed to UCLA on NSD, didn't send in papers. Ends up sending in his papers to UGA I think a few weeks later and the rest is history.
Posted by PhillyTiger90
Member since Dec 2015
10676 posts
Posted on 1/6/20 at 8:26 am to
Was Joe McKnight’s recruitment a shitshow? Or did the fans reaction make it seem worse when he went to SC?
Posted by redfish99
B.R.
Member since Aug 2007
16432 posts
Posted on 1/6/20 at 9:00 am to
Harvey.
Posted by bigjgotigers
Member since Jan 2016
80 posts
Posted on 1/6/20 at 9:05 am to
Marvin Wilson basically going to FSU because of some chicken wasn't really a shite show but was really fricking frustrating at the time
Posted by Rebel
Graceland
Member since Jan 2005
131364 posts
Posted on 1/6/20 at 9:14 am to
Ryan Perriloux
Posted by TBoy@LSU
Member since Sep 2012
5482 posts
Posted on 1/6/20 at 9:35 am to
Janzen Jackson for the way that it ended.
Posted by Rebel
Graceland
Member since Jan 2005
131364 posts
Posted on 1/6/20 at 10:00 am to
Jackson’s recruitment was relatively quiet.

He was just a flipper nobody saw coming.

Wound up being a positive thing for LSU.
Posted by Keys Open Doors
In hiding with Tupac & XXXTentacion
Member since Dec 2008
31898 posts
Posted on 1/6/20 at 10:47 am to
The last few weeks of that cycle, people were saying that Jackson was going to decommit. Slow Flow Pro came on and was basically saying he knew nothing about recruiting but that people he trusted were saying he was gone.

He and Kenny Bell were the two guys people were expecting to decommit. And Barkevious Mingo was the silent commit everyone knew about.

Floyd Raven and Lorenzo Booker has really weird recruitments. People thought Booker was going to USC, then Notre Dame, and he signed across the country at FSU.
Posted by OLDBEACHCOMBER
Member since Jan 2004
7189 posts
Posted on 1/6/20 at 10:49 am to
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This entire Rakim Jarrett one has really got on my nerves


This one moved up my list fast. It reeks of set-up and he never intended to go top LSU. The "My school doesn't allow students to sign in the early signing period" was off the charts retard.
This post was edited on 1/6/20 at 10:50 am
Posted by 9th life
birmingham
Member since Sep 2009
7310 posts
Posted on 1/6/20 at 10:50 am to
janzen jackson was a good one.

bryce brown too.
Posted by OLDBEACHCOMBER
Member since Jan 2004
7189 posts
Posted on 1/6/20 at 10:51 am to
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He was just a flipper nobody saw coming.


There was way more drama than just a flip with Jackson.
Posted by OLDBEACHCOMBER
Member since Jan 2004
7189 posts
Posted on 1/6/20 at 10:53 am to
Hold my beer,


Gunner Kiel "NO CHEST"
Posted by Tiny Rick
In a vat in the garage
Member since Jan 2016
1517 posts
Posted on 1/6/20 at 11:40 am to
Shea Patterson

Entire Patterson family tried to capitalize on this one
Jobs were being lined up for his bro at schools
Believe he committed here at one point (may have been a silent)
Ends up at Ole Miss
Transfer to Michigan
Brother loses job, bashes Harbaugh, etc.

This one is up there for me. I get that this is “part of the game” for recruiting but it’d be great if it wasn’t. I absolutely LOVE guys like Stingley. Commits, stays committed, no social media games to keep suspense up, quiet signing ceremony that was low profile, and he just put in the work. Funny how most that are shitshows end up being non factors in college and the quiet guys without the games end up great.
Posted by Stagg8
Houston
Member since Jan 2005
12986 posts
Posted on 1/6/20 at 11:57 am to
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Biggest shite show recruitment you can recall....


I don’t “recall” this, but any list of recruiting stories is incomplete without mentioning that Eric Dickerson drove around a Trans-Am bought for him by a TAMU booster while he was at SMU.

*And yes, I’m aware Dickerson refutes the story, but come on, what’s he going to say?
Posted by Tigerguru96
Member since Nov 2018
910 posts
Posted on 1/6/20 at 12:03 pm to
Chris Steele the CB out of Cali was a wild one. Openly committed to UCLA at the beginning. Ends up decommitting. Allegedly commits silently to like 3-4 different schools throughout recruitment. Then he openly commits to USC and yet again decommits. Ends up choosing to sign with UF and enrolls. A few months after enrolling he enters the transfer portal. Steele asked to have his rooming situation changed to get away from his roommate. UF didn’t listen to Steele’s complaints so he transfers to USC
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Posted by BasilBogomil
Member since Dec 2012
6092 posts
Posted on 1/6/20 at 12:11 pm to
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Janzen Jackson


Mean streets of Welsh.
Posted by WrigleyFan
Member since Oct 2019
73 posts
Posted on 1/6/20 at 12:15 pm to
Gunner Kiel has to make this list.
Posted by nerd guy
Grapevine
Member since Dec 2008
12703 posts
Posted on 1/6/20 at 12:20 pm to
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Lache Seastrunk?



wow, I forgot about that kid. Had to look up what he's done after Baylor and saw this on his wiki.

quote:

Before the end of the 2012 season, Seastrunk predicted he would win the Heisman Trophy next year and said "I know I am the best back in the country."[4] Seastrunk finished the season with 1,012 yards on 131 carries but averaged 138.2 yards per game and scored five touchdowns during Baylor's 4-1 run to end the season.[5] He did not win the Heisman Trophy.

Posted by Smell the crawfish
In enemy territory
Member since Nov 2018
1542 posts
Posted on 1/6/20 at 1:09 pm to
Guy is a punk and a waste of time. Sometimes talent alone is not enough to overlook, especially when you have a history of having a crappy attitude and trouble with authority.
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