a$m picks up #14

[pied]

Steals another from LaTech and Arkansas. A&M, Arkansas and Louisiana Tech, Miss State was close to offering.

As I said with the last guy, going LA is not a bad move.

[cajun]

Kid can play...One of the few kids that played well against John Curtis...

Brandon Jackson
http://pelicanpreps.rivals.com/viewprospect.asp?pr_key=89402&sport=1

[chapfan2008]

First off, when you start a thread about the latest commitment, put some professionalism into it. Next time I open one of these I don't want to see the dollar bill sign (especially when your team recruits lightyears better than the one you accuse of paying), and I certianly don't want to hear bashing of my team in the original frea king post.

Don't turn this into a flame war, I didn't bash anyone in that last paragraph so don't get upset about it. That goes for everyone.

[chapfan2008]

And I'm not accusing Texa$ of paying recruits either.

Just kidding. I honestly don't think they do.

[Aggies2009]

Kid can play...One of the few kids that played well against John Curtis...

Brandon Jackson
http://pelicanpreps.rivals.com/viewprospect.asp?pr_key=89402&sport=1

Longview's TEAM played well vs JC :D

Nah, JC is great... TOUGH bunch and they are PHYSICAL. Anyone who can play well with them must be an athlete.

[F18mustang]

First off, when you start a thread about the latest commitment, put some professionalism into it. Next time I open one of these I don't want to see the dollar bill sign (especially when your team recruits lightyears better than the one you accuse of paying), and I certianly don't want to hear bashing of my team in the original frea king post.

Don't turn this into a flame war, I didn't bash anyone in that last paragraph so don't get upset about it. That goes for everyone.

Are you threatening me?
;)

[tayb]

First off, when you start a thread about the latest commitment, put some professionalism into it. Next time I open one of these I don't want to see the dollar bill sign (especially when your team recruits lightyears better than the one you accuse of paying), and I certianly don't want to hear bashing of my team in the original frea king post.

Don't turn this into a flame war, I didn't bash anyone in that last paragraph so don't get upset about it. That goes for everyone.

For some reason I don't think pied gives a **** what you think or what you "want" to see. Come to think of it neither do I.

[F18mustang]

a$m

[chapfan2008]

For some reason I don't think pied gives a **** what you think or what you "want" to see. Come to think of it neither do I.

My last sentence was for you.

[tayb]

My last sentence was for you.

Oh please. That is like saying "no offense" directly before you explicitly say something to offend someone. :rolleyes:

[chapfan2008]

How did I offend you?

[tayb]

You didn't offend me. That is why I said "that is like."

[chapfan2008]

You must've been offended somehow since you went off on your first post. That was a little ridiculous. Pied and I have these little bickerings about players all the time. He knows I'm just messing with him.

[F18mustang]

You must've been offended somehow since you went off on your first post. That was a little ridiculous. Pied and I have these little bickerings about players all the time. He knows I'm just messing with him.

Post #3 does not sound anything said in a "just messing with him" manner. You seemed very serious.

Just sayin.

[tayb]

You must've been offended somehow since you went off on your first post. That was a little ridiculous. Pied and I have these little bickerings about players all the time. He knows I'm just messing with him.

I must have missed the sarcasm and the emoticons.

[chapfan2008]

2 requests when you start a commitment thread

1. No money symbols
2. No bashing of prospect or school (on the original post)

Happy?

[F18mustang]

2 requests when you start a commitment thread

1. No money symbols
2. No bashing of prospect or school (on the original post)

Happy?

But you're still just messing with him, right?

[chapfan2008]

In a serious way, yes.

[pied]

2 requests when you start a commitment thread

1. No money symbols
2. No bashing of prospect or school (on the original post)

Happy?

I'll address #2 first.

In regards to Gramling:

Ehh, he's alright. The rivals people that have seen him have all said they were quite underwhelmed but the kid is still getting some good offers so it's hard to say.

His body composition is horrible but at least he has size.

In regards to Weaver:

Nooooooooooooooo, Weaver is not the start to a great linebacker corps. Stewart and Patterson are studs though.

Lewis or Nelson might make me throw a party.

Bad argument. I'm sure Trinity would be happy to have him, that has nothing to do with us though.

So me stating a prospect has offers from smaller La schools is bashing the prospect, but it's ok to liken one to a D2 or D3 or whatever school?


In regards to HOneycutt:

Chalk me up as NOT happy about this.....

We tell Honeycutt yesterday that we would offer this morning and be expecting his commitment, all the while offering Matt Joeckel last night?

He will never, ever, play quarterback at Texas A&M.


So, please before asking me not to "bash" recruits, please read what you are typing.

[pied]

And I'm not accusing Texa$ of paying recruits either.

Just kidding. I honestly don't think they do.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL; Sherrill Tied to Payments

George Smith, a former Texas A&M running back, today recanted statements attributed to him in taped interviews in which he was quoted as saying that Coach Jackie Sherrill paid him to keep quiet about National Collegiate Athletic Association rules violations.

The Dallas Morning News reported Friday that in eight hours of taped interviews, Smith said Sherrill paid him $4,400 in cash and money orders since November 1986.
''It certainly was not hush money,'' Smith said at his news conference. ''I put great emphasis on that. It was not hush money,''

Today he said he got $1,000 to $1,400 from Sherrill that he considered a loan. Ralph Langer, vice president and executive editor of The Dallas Morning News, said in a statement after Smith's news conference that the paper reported accurately what Smith said took place.

Sherrill voluntarily sat out today's 18-0 victory over Texas Christian University, but said he would coach in the game against Texas on Thursday night.

The victory under the defensive coordinator, R. C. Slocum, raised the Aggies' season mark to 6-4, 5-1 in the Southwest Conference. T.C.U. finished 4-7 and 2-5.

http://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/20/sports/college-football-sherrill-tied-to-payments.html?n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/Subjects/F/Football


SPORTS PEOPLE; Sherrill Paid Player

A university investigation has confirmed that Jackie Sherrill, who resigned as the Texas A&M football coach last month, gave $1,500 to a former player, but the investigators said they found no evidence that the payments had been hush money.

The former player, George Smith, who later recanted the allegations, told The Dallas Morning News in November that Sherrill had paid him several thousand dollars between November, 1986, and September, 1988, to keep him from telling about recruiting violations.

William H. Mobley, the Texas A&M president, said the results of the investigation had been sent to the National Collegiate Athletic Association, which put the Texas A&M football program on probation last September for a series of infractions and is also investigating Smith's allegations.

Robert Smith, the Texas A&M vice president who led the investigation into George Smith's allegations, said the investigation found that the payments came at times when the former player encountered ''considerable need and distress,'' and that they stopped when he tried to pressure Sherrill into making larger payments.

There was no immediate comment from Sherrill, who predicted at the time of his resignation that he would be exonerated.(AP)

http://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/29/sports/sports-people-sherrill-paid-player.html

ON COLLEGE FOOTBALL; For Texas A&M, a Cloud Over Cotton Bowl

The hotel lobby was filled with Texas A&M supporters dressed in their Cotton Bowl T-shirts, some brandishing their class rings, others in A&M baseball caps. It is bowl week here and, for the second straight year, Aggie fans are out in full force.

This time, though, they have little to celebrate. Twice let down -- first by the bowl selection committee, then by some of their own -- the Aggie fans have come hard to the knowledge that Friday's game between Texas A&M and Notre Dame is not merely about football, not anymore.

Instead, the 57th Cotton Bowl is also an example of the problems facing big-time college athletics. First, the Cotton Bowl committee selected Notre Dame and its high television ratings as the Aggies' opponent rather than the higher-ranked Seminoles of Florida State. That move all but eliminated any real chance for undefeated Texas A&M to win a national championship.

Then, almost two weeks ago, reports surfaced that a few Texas A&M players had violated National Collegiate Athletic Association rules by accepting paychecks from a booster for jobs they didn't hold. The impact on the program was immediate and two-fold: The Aggies suffered public humiliation, then lost four of their players -- including the star sophomore running back Greg Hill -- to school-imposed suspensions. 'That Damn Story'

"It's like we all just got kicked in the gut," said 57-year-old David Smithson of Fort Worth, an A&M fan who said he was "disgusted" by this year's Cotton Bowl. "You think we have a chance to finally show people something, in a big bowl game on television, and nobody's going to care about anything except the money and that damn story they wrote."

The Dallas Morning News reported on Dec. 19 that Texas A&M had violated several N.C.A.A. regulations in connection with payments made to players by a Dallas-based developer, Warren Gilbert. According to the report, several Aggies were on the payroll for Gilbert's company, but had not performed any work. Gilbert has denied any wrongdoing.

Six days later, Texas A&M suspended four players. The university rejected several allegations, but acknowledged that an internal investigation had found the summer salaries of four players to be questionable.

Although Hill has been seen around the team this week, neither he nor the other three suspended players -- offensive linemen James Brooks and Darius Smith and wide receiver Percy Singleton -- will play. They will be allowed to petition for the restoration of their eligibility on an individual basis at a future date. The Same Question

The Aggies' coach, R. C. Slocum, hoped, vainly, that the unpleasantness of the situation could be put aside in favor of football, which is, after all, what the Cotton Bowl is supposed to be about. He learned on his first day in Dallas that that couldn't be.

In the news conference, the first question addressed to Slocum was, inevitably, about the allegations. So was the second question. And the third. And the fourth.

"It's extremely disappointing to start my first press conference in Dallas on a negative subject," Slocum said. "This is a great bowl game. You have two great football teams here."

Even before the allegations of A&M's impropriety, though, the Aggies were suffering from a severe lack of national respect. Beyond its 12-0 record, Texas A&M's argument for national championship consideration is weak. Only two teams on the Agglies' regular-season schedule were invited to other bowl games, Stanford to the Blockbuster Bowl and Baylor to the John Hancock Bowl. Only four of the team's regular-season opponents finished with winning records. The Aggies' league, the Southwestern Conference, has been jokingly nicknamed "Southworst."

And so they needed a big victory over the best possible team on bowl day to justify their high ranking. (No. 3 in the coaches' poll, No. 4 in the writers' poll, No. 6 in The Times's computer ranking.) They got 9-1-1 Notre Dame, a good team for certain, but not the highest-ranked team available.

"We're not going to apologize for being here," said Notre Dame's coach, Lou Holtz, when this sore subject was touched upon today. "We read all the comments. We know a lot of people think we don't deserve this. I don't think that's fair." A Letdown for Players

Those deserving of the most sympathy, though, are the Texas A&M players who have had to suffer the shame brought upon the program along with the loss of their national-title hopes. The players have been instructed not to discuss the suspensions this week.

"The players are disappointed," Slocum said. "There's concern among some of the players, and all of us are highly resentful of our names being cast about at this time in a negative way. We're concerned about the various assumptions that are being made by the public."

"From a physical standpoint," Slocum said, later, "the suspensions affect us a lot. Any time you lose a running back the caliber of Greg Hill, it's a difficult situation."

With Hill out, Rodney Thompson will be A&M's top tailback, with Wilbert Biggens, who is generally used at wide receiver, backing him up.

"I don't think it will distract us as long as we stick to our focus," said Aggie linebacker Jason Atkinson.

Photo: Texas A&M will face Notre Dame in the Cotton Bowl without its star runner, Greg Hill, who was suspended along with three teammates. (Associated Press)

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/12/31/sports/on-college-football-for-texas-a-m-a-cloud-over-cotton-bowl.html





Forgive this old timer(UT 90-94) if I continue to refer them as a$m.

[F18mustang]

Pied wins.

[chapfan2008]

Oh come on pied, READ MY POST. It clearly says "don't bash (IN THE ORIGINAL POST)". Obviously you can go ahead in the other posts, because that's why you start these threads, so that we can all discuss the player at hand. But I don't want to read "mack didn't offer so this kid is terrible" bs in the first post. Make a better evaluation point please.

;):notworthy:):(:confused:

^^^^^Just so you don't think I'm flaming.