OT: Cal Committ

[J.T.supporta]

dont know if this has been posted yet but i thought it was somewhat funny.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/recruiti ... id=3232661

what if he was playing a joke on the media the whole time?

[perunapower]

Did you look to see if it had been posted?

http://www.ponyfans.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=31041&start=0

[J.T.supporta]

sorry...thanks for pointing it out...i tend to not open every new thread that pops up on here

[abezontar]

....oh really...like you have anything better to do with your time then read every post on ponyfans...

[expony18]

i know i dont

[SMU2007]

Did you look to see if it had been posted?

http://www.ponyfans.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=31041&start=0

no one cares

[perunapower]

Did you look to see if it had been posted?

http://www.ponyfans.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=31041&start=0

no one cares

Well aren't you grumpy today. Relax! It's Super Fat Tuesday!

[ThadFilms]

i know i dont

POP THE CHAMPAGNE!!!!!!!!

Sorry, what?





Champagne for my real friends,
Real pain for my sham friends.

[Rayburn]

Whoever that guy impersonating Tedford is, sign him up, he's a great recruiter!

[smupony94]

i know i dont

We know you don't read every thread, you just post in every thread

[SMU Football Blog]

Report: Fernley player was duped
Posted: Wednesday February 6, 2008 1:32PM; Updated: Wednesday February 6, 2008 1:38PM
FERNLEY, Nev. (AP) -- A third party was allegedly involved in the recruiting gone bad of Fernley High School offensive lineman Kevin Hart, the Lyon County sheriff's office said.

Hart, in a report taken Saturday by deputies, claims someone calling himself Kevin Riley represented himself as a recruiter -- a middle man to big-time college football programs -- and led the 6-foot-5, 290-pounder and his family to believe there were scholarship offers available when there were none.

Deputy Dan Lynch said the report alleges a crime of obtaining money under false pretenses, though finding a suspect could be difficult.

"It's an ongoing investigation but we have no suspect at this point and no info to identify a suspect," Lynch told the Reno Gazette-Journal.

Lynch took statements from Hart and Fernley coach Mark Hodges at the school Saturday, a day after Hart verbally committed to California Berkeley during a school assembly that had Hart's father, Richard, holding back tears.

Lynch declined to say how much money the Hart family paid Riley, or how the purported recruiter kept in contact with Hart and Hodges.

Hart said at the announcement ceremony Friday that he talked many times with Cal head coach Jeff Tedford and that "personal experience" led to his decision to choose the Golden Bears over Oregon.

But it appears he and his family may have been misled.

Also Tuesday, the Lyon County School District said an internal investigation showed none of the universities once thought to have pursued Hart were involved.

"Although only in a preliminary stage, the district's investigation to date has been unable to verify that Kevin Hart was ever offered an athletic scholarship or letter of intent to play football," district administrators said in a written statement.

The district issued the statement the day before high school recruits around the country sign letters of intent, committing to college programs.

"The district understands the importance of the National Letter of Intent signing date to these fine institutions and their football programs and issues this statement in order to clear up any concerns prospective recruits to those universities might have as a result of the events that have unfolded at Fernley High School since last Friday," the statement said.

[mrydel]

Many, many years ago I worked for a company that did things like this sounds. We were independent workers who, for a fee from the parents, would market the kids to various schools in hopes that they would get a scholarship offer. My area was girls basketball and I would scout the athletes, talk to the coaches and meet with the parents. We would put together "scrapbooks" basically that would outline the potential of the client. Realize this was beofre the days of internet, even before the days of cam corders so the information was newspaper articles, and the personal opinions of the worker. I purposely chose girls basketball (no not for that reason) because it was not a highly recruited area at the time and I felt the potential for marketing girls for scholarship to small universities in Texas was good.

I personally enjoyed the job, but felt a little sleazy in that if the kid is good enough I was not needed and if not then I felt like I was stealing from the parents based on their false beliefs about their daughter's abilities.

This kid in question could have very well been dealing with a person like this who perhaps went too far by strectching the truth as to the interest shown by schools. With todays electronic resources, it would be difficult to make a living doing the job that I had done for a while.

[expony18]

i know i dont

We know you don't read every thread, you just post in every thread

[smupony94]

i know i dont

We know you don't read every thread, you just post in every thread

Dang, you actually read my post

[expony18]

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/recruiti ... id=3234302