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Post by wingtol on Sept 13, 2011 9:04:05 GMT -6
Going through the mail at school and I see a letter from Oregon, now we are in NW PA so I found it weird they were sending us anything. Look at the letter and it is addressed to one of our soph. OL. Now the kid is a legit 6'8 but looks like a baby giraffe when he gets off the ground and all his arms and legs move in different directions when he runs! I know as a coach they only sent it because they saw a 6'8 kid listed on the OL. Thought it was a good story to share at parents mtg's about how the colleges are looking for a specific thing in players. So when mom and dad want to know why their 5'8 200 lb 5.0 40 LB isn't going D-1 they will realize what the colleges want.
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Post by gka76 on Sept 13, 2011 10:08:30 GMT -6
We had a letter come in from a major program for a kid. The kid was about 5'5'' and couldn't play dead if he had to. After checking into things it turns out that there is another kid by the same name in another school with the same name but 2 states over who was an all state 6'4'' DE. I felt bad crushing the kid's dreams when I told him I didn't think the letter was meant for him.
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Post by sexybeast on Sept 13, 2011 11:22:54 GMT -6
My HS coach told us a dog could get recruited if he made up some numbers and sent them out to the recruiting services.
Sure enough, he showed us the letters he received for a mysterious player with the first name GINGER.
True story, men.
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Post by sexybeast on Sept 13, 2011 11:23:39 GMT -6
My HS coach told us his dog could get recruited if he made up some numbers and sent them out to the recruiting services. Sure enough, he showed us the letters he received for a mysterious player with the first name GINGER. True story, men. |
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Post by wingtol on Sept 13, 2011 12:14:28 GMT -6
My HS coach told us a dog could get recruited if he made up some numbers and sent them out to the recruiting services. Sure enough, he showed us the letters he received for a mysterious player with the first name GINGER. True story, men. My point exactly! |
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Post by fantom on Sept 13, 2011 14:19:04 GMT -6
We've gotten letters from good programs for graduated players, second teamers, kids who had transferred, kids who'd quit, and kids who we didn't know who they were. Letters are cheap.
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Post by kcbazooka on Sept 13, 2011 18:47:22 GMT -6
two stories - nebraska once came to recruit our two tackles - neither weighed 170 pounds - another school near st. louis had the same name as ours.
We currently have a kid playing at a big 12 school who was the worst lineman we had on the squad. He is 6-6 and they took a chance on him - gets to go to the bowls and and has a great view of the games.
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Post by bleefb on Sept 23, 2011 0:40:12 GMT -6
My HS coach told us a dog could get recruited if he made up some numbers and sent them out to the recruiting services.
Sure enough, he showed us the letters he received for a mysterious player with the first name GINGER.
True story, men.
One year we had a highly recruited junior who was in my class, so to keep his head on straight I put down the name of one of our girl volleyball players with a gender neutral first name on one of the recruiting cards, listing her as a 6'3" linebacker. Pretty soon, she was getting more recruiting letters than he was, and I always gave them to her in front of the class to make my point about letters. Our kid took it well (He was pretty smart, ended up going to Stanford)
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Post by coachcb on Sept 23, 2011 7:42:55 GMT -6
A FCS college around here gave a partial scholarship to a kid that never played a varsity snap for us. BUT, he was 6'5'', 230lbs and All-State in tennis. Big, athletic kid but had no problem riding the pine; football was a little rough for him.
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