If the end of signing day has left you empty, it’s time to fill up.
- Nebraska, you’re strange.
- If you want to know how Mike Bobo’s first signing day went, here you go.
- The Sports and Grits guys will be in mourning: TCU’s Dick Bumpas announces he’s retiring.
- The saddest, strangest story from signing day occurred at FSU.
- Holy mother of crap, this kid’s huge.
- I’m gonna go out on a limb here and suggest that describing a kid being reinstated after punching a female student hard enough to fracture her face as “He’s been like a caged tiger, I can tell you that…” may not be the best choice of words.
- Ah, Los Angeles.
- Regrets about Johnny Football – Kevin Sumlin has a few.
- Here’s why South Carolina recruits metro Atlanta: “That’s evidenced by how actively USC recruits the area, which boasts as many high schools as in all of South Carolina.”
- If you want to get a feel for how programs across the nation did yesterday in 140 characters or less, Dave Bartoo can tell you.
Get The Picture 
L.A. is a whole ‘nuther world compared to pretty much anywhere else in the U.S., including NYC. Its certainly not for everybody, and I wouldn’t want to raise a family there, but I can see its allure among young, impressionable kids. Heck, if I could go back to my early 20’s just out of UGA, I’d probably spend a few years out there myself before moving back east.
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There was a summer before college when we headed to LA in a VW bus. Made several stops along the way. It was a different time.
I had a room mate that moved back after college with an LAR degree. Designs golf courses. But It could get ugly there.
I have two nieces that live there now.
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I lived there when this happened. Felt safe in the ‘burbs and later ventured into this area with impunity. The hate centered around injustice more than racial hatred. A few rioters were about race and that, of course, got all the scary press. It not for a great and fearless mayor and most respected black leaders, this could have happened in Atl when MLK was assassinated.
There is a lot of greatness in LA (it’s museums are akin to Florence, Italy except LA’s art is from around the world) in that you could tour for the summer and not see all the special places that are offered in and around LA. More than one Asian museum challenges those in SF. You can spend days in one museum alone (J. Paul Getty). Fruit trees and flowers abound (as seen in the Rose Bowl Parade) and the polyglot of people is reflected in great ethnic restaurants, much the same as Chicago. Where else can you chose from all the offerings from a city within 15-20 mins to an ocean beach and snow skiing less than an hour away? Throw in Disney Land and other family entertainment megaproperties nearby (Knott’s Berry Farm, etc.) and your growing family always has places to go.
LA is what you make of it and the native Californians always seemed gracious, like most Southeners are experienced. Can’t say the same for their itinerant population who are usually the ones with bumper stickers that read “Glad you have enjoyed California. Now, leave.”
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I saw that the Ginger Ninja has joined Bobo’s staff as a grad assistant. Good luck to him.
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The recruiting world is so strange and so stupid. It’s like living in Lake Wobegon — everyone’s class is above average.
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Spring games are the same way. Everyone is a winner.
Look at the NHL. Only 7 of 32 teams are below .500 .
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Embarassing about the Bell kid. His life is being destroyed because a kid died at his school who had a crazy family.
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Didn’t the FSU President and AD investigate firsthand? And what was their opinion? Why did they investigate personally if they were willing to condemn the kid on flimsy evidence? And didn’t Jimbo put it all on their shoulders as if he was the good guy? His disagreement, in an effort to get another baller on his field, makes his bosses look like poor truth-seekers while he proposes no rebuttal except to use their investigation and subsequent poor reasoning as his excuse to turn the kid down. If I was his boss, I’d fire Jimbo so fast that his teeth would rattle. He is a sick piece of shit while playing with FSU’s reputation. With Winston leaving, it appears that the other half of that travesty to FSU’s reputation remains to continue the assault.
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That FSU/murder/recruiting story is something else. I’m sure Jimbo’s tenure will provide more insane stories like that. How do the students and faculty not go berzerk over the football team making their university look so bad? An FSU degree must be about down to the value of an Auburn one at this point.
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That said, the case against Brian Bell appears to be ridiculously weak. No criminal charges filed and only a co-defendant in a case with MANY other defendants which was brought by plaintiffs against, among others, members of the the GBI, an FBI agent, the Sheriff of Lowndes County and the Lowndes County PD under a conspiracy theory. Not only that, how in the Hell do they intend to maintain jurisdiction in Dekalb County? This has summary judgment written all over it. Until the kid is indicted, jerking his scholarship offer away appears to be an over-reaction probably brought on by the Jameis Winston debacle.
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I imagine the parents of the kid who suffocated and their lawyer would disagree heartily because this has been floating around for some time with missing security footage (remind you of someone else (AH) who is on trial with circumstantial evidence only?) and double-speak from law enforcement figures. Perhaps the lawsuits may produce all the evidence needed for a circumstantial case against the supposed culprits.
If it was my child, I would do no less considering the difficulty the parents have had in getting to the truth and with complicity from some law enforcement figures. They seem to have evidence of him being lured there to be beaten by the accused and his brother. They had to dig him up to find that he had been assaulted with blunt instrument to the head. And no one saw or heard of it? Bullshit.
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What is “truth”?
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You should ask a pharisaic.
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As a SoGa boy, and a son of a Seminole grad (mother), I’ve always been loyal to FSU behind UGA. But the JWinson stuff had me pulling against them this past year. And now, with them willing to maintain their rescinding BBell’s offer, I’m done with them.
This is a travesty and Brandon above is absolutely correct, the family is crazy (victim’s, not the Bells). LHS was negligent bc they knew kids were hiding their shoes in these mats during gym, but the Bells?!?! Absolutely innocent.
Does anyone actually think that any conspiracy that involved two boys, a girl, and multiple law enforcement offices and the coroner’s office could maintain itself under the pressure of an investigation of this sort. Everyone involved with any modicum of objectivity, including FSU, knows the Bells are innocent and that this kids’ death was a horrible ACCIDENT. FSU isn’t worried about screwing over an innocent, it just doesn’t want more negative attention from the loonies connected to the family of the deceased. The NAACP won’t event touch this situation. The original pastor of the Kendrick’s family has even reversed his original support of them, because he recognized their charges are completely unfounded and illegitimate.
This is worse than sad and strange, justice and reality have no bearing on the grieving but lunatic fringe’s response through all has happened since Kendrick was found. It pi$$es me off.
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This is a sorry mess, and for all the 2nd chance advocates for wrong-doers, isn’t it surprising that no one is coming to the rescue of a young man who seems to be having his life ruined by these parents, just for having been in the gym that day? I have seen this story for over a year pop up on Atlanta TV stations and wondered why, and how, this keeps coming back in the light of no credible evidence. The parents must be “connected”, or supported by some influential group. As a parent I can certainly understand wanting a thorough investigation into a bizarre death of a child but at some point you have to accept that it was almost certainly a tragic accident. On the other hand, it could easily be driven by simple greed as they pursue the Almighty Dollar.
FSU is a school that probably should not take on any additional scrutiny right now but not one school in America? That seems to be overly cautious in this society, one which forgives more serious atrocities daily by much higher profile people.
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The last sentence of your first paragraph is the key. Ben Crump is quite the publicity hound also.
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Thought that his last para questions why no one else went after the kid. Like maybe there is some truth in the story?
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You need to reread my comment.
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As well as you should reread mine.
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Dave Bartoo tweeted about most every team I can think of, even USF and still failed to mention the Dawgs. When he said, I took my list of the teams in ranked order of their last 13 years of recruiting ranking, and tweeted a bit about their 2015 class and how it relates to their past trends and metrics of this century. I knew we would be mentioned, heck he even praised GTU for being back to back top 45. WTH
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Perhaps it is because Georgia’s 2015 recruiting work isn’t finished.
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That was my thought concerning the omission.
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The Pelini era is over at Nebraska and they are obviously happy about it.
For now.
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This doesn’t sound like anything less than felony assault to me.
“Molitor was taken to Norman Regional Hospital, where she was found to have a fractured jaw, fractured cheek bone, fractured sinus and fractured orbital bone, which caused damage to her left eye.”
So what that thing into motion? I think they might both may be guilty. One misdemeanor and one felony.
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Agreed. And they both have paid the price of their lack of self-discipline and good judgement.
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Maybe, but I wouldn’t want this guy anywhere near the UGA program–or my daughter.
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“Regrets about Johnny Football–Kevin Sumlin has a few.” But then again, too few to mention.
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Why aren’t people up in arms about Gary Patterson and Bumpus being sleazy?
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