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Austin Meek on the wierdness of big-time college football recruiting

In the RG here:

For one day next week, a group of rich and powerful people will surrender their dignity and pander shamelessly to those on whom their professional lives depend.

… Connor Murphy, a four-star defensive end also recruited by Oregon, received one of Harbaugh’s late-night visits.

“He got to my house around 1 a.m.,” Murphy told an Arizona radio station. “We ate some banana bread and drank some ice-cold milk.

“That’s his favorite, 2 percent milk, so we made sure to give him a whole gallon of that. We chatted it up probably for another hour and then hit the hay.”

Even Nick Saban, whose entire existence is a rejection of frivolity, showed up on the Internet performing various dance moves — including the “dab” and the “wobble” — in the presence of a recruit. He looks like a passenger on the world’s saddest cruise ship, stuck in a conga line he can’t escape.

Can Mark Helfrich do the wobble? I ask because the player in question, a cornerback named Jared Mayden, was committed to Oregon until he dumped the Ducks and reopened his recruitment. Maybe he wanted a coach with better dance moves.

I’m guessing these recruits would prefer that coaches made cash offers instead of dancing – but that would violate the NCAA’s prime directive: “No black man shall make money off college sports.”

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