Cincy recruits: Tuberville pulled scholarships w/out notice

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College Football
Cincinnati recruits: Tuberville pulled scholarships without enough notice

College Football
Cincinnati recruits: Tuberville pulled scholarships without enough notice
By Matt Hinton | Blogger
January 11, 2013 1:54 pm ET


Tommy Tuberville was introduced as Cincinnati's head coach on Dec. 8. (AP)

If Tommy Tuberville's abrupt, overnight exit from Texas Tech last month left some Red Raider recruits feeling a little chilly, his first few weeks on the job at Cincinnati have left Bearcat targets feeling like they've been abandoned in an approaching blizzard. With less than a month to go before national signing day on Feb. 6, multiple prospects who verbally committed to Tuberville's predecessor at Cincy, Butch Jones, have accused Tuberville of quietly crossing their names off the list without contacting them, leaving the players to scramble for last-minute offers.

First up: Demetrius Monday, a three-star cornerback from Fairburn, Ga., who committed to Cincinnati last summer, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Thursday that he's back on the market after failing to hear from Tuberville -- who accepted the Cincinnati job on Dec. 8, less than 48 hours after Jones left for the top job at Tennessee -- for a solid month. When Monday's family finally contacted the university this week, according to his father, they were told to "look other places":

"I think it's messed up," his father, Bryant Monday, told the AJC. "You wait until a few weeks before signing day to say something? They could have told us a month ago.

"Now we're left with less than a month until signing day to figure something out. [Demetrius] had other scholarship offers but he hasn't talked to those coaches in six months … since he committed to Cincinnati on July 25. It's really disappointing."
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"They told us to ‘look other places,'" Monday said. "I'm in Los Angeles on vacation, and I just got the bad news. The thing is, we've talked to some other kids committed to Cincinnati. They say the same thing, that they haven't heard from the staff. Basically [Tuberville] isn't calling anybody, he's trying to get the kids to de-commit on their own.

"It's a bad situation."


Demetrius Monday is a three-star cornerback prospect from Fairburn, Ga. (247Sports)

Next up: Jaleel Canty, a three-star "athlete" from Lansing, Mich., who also committed to Cincinnati last July, and also told the AJC he had to find out he'd been dumped the hard way. After a month with no news, he called the football offices on Thursday.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootbal ... nt-tell-us

[gostangs]

lets grab these guys! someone will fall out on our end.

[ponyboy]

Grab them and let them play against Cincy.

[Mustangs_Maroons]

Agreed, it's not ideal, but it works both ways since recruits do this all the time.

[Hilltopper]

We're already one over the limit, aren't we?