Ladanian Tomlinson

[Stallion]

Found this surprisingly on a Dallas Historical Society website. I guess guys with 530 SATs can make the best representatives of your university and make contributions to society. Wonder why 60 Minutes didn't mention his 530 SAT when they recently did they story on Tomlinson. It kills me though when I have to hear TCU fans talk about they were only team to find Tomlinson in a pumkin patch and nobody else knew about him. No body else thought he could qualify is more like it.

http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:gfk ... d=12&gl=us

[HFvictory]

Found this surprisingly on a Dallas Historical Society website. I guess guys with 530 SATs can make the best representatives of your university and make contributions to society. Wonder why 60 Minutes didn't mention his 530 SAT when they recently did they story on Tomlinson. It kills me though when I have to hear TCU fans talk about they were only team to find Tomlinson in a pumkin patch and nobody else knew about him. No body else thought he could qualify is more like it.

http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:gfk ... d=12&gl=us

That is total BS. NCAA rules apply and LT was a full-qualifier out of Waco University and no other recruiter has even suggested he was a grade risk. The comments were basically that he was too small to compete in Div1. Jerry may want correct his post, because if this goes much further he could be in serious trouble.

[Pony Up]

Not true. I was told by coach friends at two different universities (not TCU) that they didn't think he could get in anywhere, and those were at schools whose academic reputations are considerably lower than that at TCU, not to mention SMU. One said TCU (was it Sullivan who recruited him?) was "wasting its time" on him and seemed surprised that he got in.

[Stallion]

I've personally seen articles that stated that LT was not expected to qualify, and I posted at the time the facts when it was happening. I also have personally posted stories showing that LT was rated the No. 19 player in the State of Texas as a Junior but his stock dropped when it was not expected that he would qualify. There is no doubt that LT was a full qualifier which means he would have had to retake the SAT. I have no personal information on his score. He did not fall off a truck and he had academic issues.

[Pony94]

Found this surprisingly on a Dallas Historical Society website. I guess guys with 530 SATs can make the best representatives of your university and make contributions to society. Wonder why 60 Minutes didn't mention his 530 SAT when they recently did they story on Tomlinson. It kills me though when I have to hear TCU fans talk about they were only team to find Tomlinson in a pumkin patch and nobody else knew about him. No body else thought he could qualify is more like it.

http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:gfk ... d=12&gl=us

How do you find this stuff?

[Cadillac]

Found this surprisingly on a Dallas Historical Society website. I guess guys with 530 SATs can make the best representatives of your university and make contributions to society. Wonder why 60 Minutes didn't mention his 530 SAT when they recently did they story on Tomlinson. It kills me though when I have to hear TCU fans talk about they were only team to find Tomlinson in a pumkin patch and nobody else knew about him. No body else thought he could qualify is more like it.

http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:gfk ... d=12&gl=us

How do you find this stuff?

Err, do a google search for "SMU" "Film" and "Cotton Bowl"

Was that a trick question?

-CoS

[Stallion]

you know with all this talk about that movie invoving "Texas State" I was doing a search on Google for that Movie filmed at the Cotton Bowl that used an SMU crowd(during Russ Potts first year) as backdrop and somehow that LT thing came up. What was that movie SMU was involved in.

[mrydel]

you know with all this talk about that movie invoving "Texas State" I was doing a search on Google for that Movie filmed at the Cotton Bowl that used an SMU crowd(during Russ Potts first year) as backdrop and somehow that LT thing came up. What was that movie SMU was involved in.

Death Wish?

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly?

Titanic?

Home Alone? (That's how I felt at the last home game)

[OC Mustang]

I've personally seen articles that stated that LT was not expected to qualify, and I posted at the time the facts when it was happening. I also have personally posted stories showing that LT was rated the No. 19 player in the State of Texas as a Junior but his stock dropped when it was not expected that he would qualify. There is no doubt that LT was a full qualifier which means he would have had to retake the SAT. I have no personal information on his score. He did not fall off a truck and he had academic issues.

Stallion.
Are you my brother-in-law?? Do you just make stuff up?
You did not post any articles "at the time". You weren't even a registered user "at the time." Doesn't change the assessment of Tomlinson, but when you claim that you knew this and posted that and it isn't true, you remind me of my pesky TCU brother-in-law. Tomlinson entered TCU in what, 1997? This site didn't exist then.

[Cadillac]

Tomlinson entered TCU in what, 1997? This site didn't exist then.

I'm Guessing it was the Mustang Maniacs board.

-CoS

[HFvictory]

I've personally seen articles that stated that LT was not expected to qualify, and I posted at the time the facts when it was happening. I also have personally posted stories showing that LT was rated the No. 19 player in the State of Texas as a Junior but his stock dropped when it was not expected that he would qualify. There is no doubt that LT was a full qualifier which means he would have had to retake the SAT. I have no personal information on his score. He did not fall off a truck and he had academic issues.

That is complete BS. LT wasn't even starting as a JR and played as a blocking FB at University that year. He was a LBer is Sophmore year.

He got the starting job at TB is SR season and almost missed that because his mom got a job in Dallas and moved to Garland. He stayed in Waco with some friends (his dad left the family after became disabled in a work accident). He had a tremendous SR year and was a State Top 100 as a result so yeh he wasn't completely unknown, but the TCU recruiter never saw him play in a game except on tape. His first visit was when he was already on the basketball team.

Sounds like the SMU recruiter was saying he looked at JR tapes which is also BS, because the coach said he never had any requests for video until after his SR year.

Your story is so full of holes and BS it stinks to high hell.

[HFvictory]

Finally:

Jerry Levy is full of it! This statement alone tells you he hasn't a clue:

"One night my junior year (1995), all of the coaches and I was there too, sat in the team film room from 5:30ish to about midnight scouting high school film. I was sitting with our RB coach, Clovis Hale, and we started watching film of this Running back at a high school in Waco that wore #5. Every play he looked like a men among boys. He was strong, physical, could catch, everything. "

LT never played TB at Waco University until the fall of 1996. As I stated before, Jerry may want to seriously consider removing his post.

From LT's bio:
http://www.jockbio.com/Bios/Tomlinson/T ... n_bio.html

The following season he was inserted in the backfield, as a fullback. Coleman’s philosophy was known to everyone in his program: You had to earn the right to run the ball by blocking for an upper classman. A year ahead of LaDainian at University High was Lawrence Pullen, a big-time halfback with major college aspirations. Okay with his place in the pecking order, LaDainian spent the 1995 season knocking heads with linebackers as he opened running lanes for his teammate.

I would love to see those stats from his JR year where he was catching passes, etc.

[Stallion]

He shouldn't remove a thing. I follow TCU recruiting almost as close as SMU. LT was a huge academic risk. And he was known by almost all coaches in Texas I am sure. Hell I knew who he was. I will admit UT and A&M never offered-I know that to be true-they did have recruits with bigger reps at the time. The basis of the story was true. YOU know full well that at the time LT was recruited TCU had bushels of non-qualified players several (at least 5) of which never made it into school. TCU doesn't seem to do that as much today but at the time TCU was one of the worst offenders. LT was one of many-aqlthough I admit and have never denied he was a full qualifier. He retook the SAT but he was an academic risk late into the recruiting season..

[HFvictory]

He shouldn't remove a thing. I follow TCU recruiting almost as close as SMU. LT was a huge academic risk. And he was known by almost all coaches in Texas I am sure. Hell I knew who he was. I will admit UT and A&M never offered-I know that to be true-they did have recruits with bigger reps at the time. The basis of the story was true. YOU know full well that at the time LT was recruited TCU had bushels of non-qualified players several (at least 5) of which never made it into school. TCU doesn't seem to do that as much today but at the time TCU was one of the worst offenders. LT was one of many-aqlthough I admit and have never denied he was a full qualifier. He retook the SAT but he was an academic risk late into the recruiting season..

Right, kinda like you knew he was a Top 19 recruit after his junior season in which he spent as a blocking fullback. LT was not a grade risk. His mom was a minister in Waco and spent countless hours making sure he got his grades right. In 1995 he had not even taken the SAT.

Not sure why you want to try and diminish the reputation of one the really good guys in the NFL. You are one sorry human being and you have absolutely no support to any of your statements except the word of some lying assistant recruiter who I have already proved as such. Also have proven most of your statements incorrect, yet you want to continue with them.

You are one sorry person!

[HFvictory]

Also you are incorrect about the 5 non-qualifiers in LT's class (1997) at TCU. Sullivan signed 26 players and since all qualified one left because he didn't want to take a grey shirt and signed with New Mexico (Rishard Stafford of Dallas a speedy WR).