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Brandon Felder of Oxon Hill, Md., is a 6-2.5, 167, 4.43 (36-inch vertical) with a 2.8 GPA. Has offers from Maryland, Boston College and Penn State. Thinks Syracuse and Illinois are close to offering, and has always liked Michigan.

"As a junior Felder caught 43 passes for 943 yards and 11 touchdowns. Playing safety he picked off three passes.

Says SMU, UConn and Notre Dame are among the other schools showing the most interest.

This staff has been bizzy.

I must say it's nice reading blurbs like this than something like "SMU in on Baird, TX athlete John Smith. Smith has also gotten interest from Angelo St, Tarleton St, and Central State (Oklahoma)."

RGV Pony wrote:I must say it's nice reading blurbs like this than something like "SMU in on Baird, TX athlete John Smith. Smith has also gotten interest from Angelo St, Tarleton St, and Central State (Oklahoma)."

To say the least.
Keep it up, Coach Jones.

this larger recruiting budget for june's gonna help us out big time for the quick fix

jkflamebo wrote:this larger recruiting budget for june's gonna help us out big time for the quick fix

As well as the long run too.

RGV Pony wrote:I must say it's nice reading blurbs like this than something like "SMU in on Baird, TX athlete John Smith. Smith has also gotten interest from Angelo St, Tarleton St, and Central State (Oklahoma)."

Nice to see "2.8 gpa" too

I thnk a 2.8 qualifies under NCAA rules. Correct?

We have a learning center and a great chance for a quality education.

Go Mustangs

Oxen Hill Maryland is not in one of the best parts of the DC area and the PG County school system is pretty weak. That 2.8 GPA will require some remedial work to get up to speed at most Division 1 Universities.

so what? thats what tutors are for.

gostangs wrote:so what? thats what tutors are for.

let's bring in the Dexter Manleys of the world but just make sure they can read when they leave

you know Dexter Manley almost went to SMU before we lost him to Oklahoma St. We seriously recruited him.

Stallion wrote:you know Dexter Manley almost went to SMU before we lost him to Oklahoma St. We seriously recruited him.

does that mean that OSU had a better salary at the time?

No Manley was just too dumb to tell which number was bigger.

Actually, from what I've read, he is anything but dumb. He had horrible advice (obviously) and made some terrible decisions (even more obviously), and he clearly never had to go to class as a youngster. But I've read several stories that talk to his coaches, teammates and even opponents who called him "very smart/bright" and talked about how he picked up defensive schemes in a flash. He's the posterchild for an academic system that allowed great athletes to slide by unchallenged, but there are a lot of folks out there who know him who swear he has plenty of brainpower - he just never got any guidance about how to use it until he was a national academic punchline.