Riddlewire said:
Jimmy Chitwood said:
that being said, we both know that straight-line speed doesn't necessarily make a good tailback.
How about
10.3 speed?
-At 6'0" 205lbs.
-With 2,079 yards to lead the state in rushing, and 39TDs.
Updated
highlight video.
USC, Ohio State, Texas, and Florida should be in a race to see who can sign him the fastest.
Instead, he has committed to Northern Iowa.
College football is a criminal enterprise. It needs to be destroyed.
Riddlewire, trust me, I understand your frustration. There is a lot of corruption in college football especially when it comes to recruiting, but why say it needs to be destroyed? Why throw the baby out with the bath water?
When we look at Austin Ebertowski we can't just throw up our hands and say "the system is screwed, someone like Austin will never get a shot."
Sam McGuffie, Joe Martinek, Tyler Gaffney, Dan Dierking, Robbie Frey, Mike Trumpy, Rex Burkhead, Brandon Wegher, all got a shot to be RBs at D1 FBS BCS conference schools. Cam McDaniel is going to Notre Dame, who has their own BCS tie-in, and there's a couple other high school guys that will also get to be RBs at BCS schools next year.
To me this makes me wonder what those players, their parents, and coaches did differently than someone like Austin. There has to be an answer to this. I know with McDaniel he went to all sorts of different camps. While he didn't get offers from some of the schools, eventually he did from Notre Dame.
As much as we want to lash out at the system, and think it's desirable if it all went away, I feel it's much more productive to figure out what can we do to improve the situation. It's getting easier and cheaper every day to make videos, also what's stopping us from reaching out to high school players and trying to promote them? Every one of us has some unique talent that we can help bring down the caste system little by little. For Don, it was making this site as a consortium where people can learn about the CS and plot to bring it down. For others, it's writing informative articles to help convince DWFs, for Dwid it's making highlight videos of college players.
I usually stick to making comments after articles, youtube videos, etc. This doesn't take much effort at all. I also like to hype the white players at sports bars, at games, etc. When I see someone with their team shirt on, I compliment one of their white players, almost universally to the fan's approval.
For a white high school player, we can adopt an "astroturf" approach where we bombard message boards of schools like USC, Miami, Ohio State, Notre Dame, Texas, Alabama, Auburn, Florida etc and stimulate hype for white high school athletes as if we were fans of those schools!
The best part of all these approaches is they cannot fail or backfire. There's zero chance that our efforts will someone cause the players to be reduced in their ranking.
We can really use a grassroots approach to help bring down the caste system. Technology is our friend in this case. If 100 members of CF zone in one a select HS athlete, and awaken 5 people to the athlete, that's 500 people involved with that school that now know. Eventually that can trickle to the coaches, and who knows maybe it will lead to them playing for that school!
To me there is only one choice, it's the one that has a chance to make a difference!
