I would like to preface this post saying that FAU's involvement is incidental only, I'm not posting this as a HAHA CUSA/FAU SUX. Just thought it was a funny thing for a commit to say.

Wow. The guy seems a bit full of himself. Is he a QB? was he planning on carrying the ball 80% of the time?

I agree this has more to do with this recruit than FAU. Sounds like he is expecting a FSU or UF (Miami might be a good fit with that ego of his) to beg him to play. Some one needs to sit down with this kid and teach him about being humble and how PR works.

(06-28-2014 09:04 AM)trueeagle98 Wrote:  Wow. The guy seems a bit full of himself. Is he a QB? was he planning on carrying the ball 80% of the time?

I agree this has more to do with this recruit than FAU. Sounds like he is expecting a FSU or UF (Miami might be a good fit with that ego of his) to beg him to play. Some one needs to sit down with this kid and teach him about being humble and how PR works.

I agree about the humble part but he does have 20 offers on his 247 page. And yes, Miami, UofF and FSU are on there, plus several other P5 schools. Likely grades kept him out of the others or, I imagine, he'd have taken one of those (just a guess).

He's a 4 star RB

(06-28-2014 09:20 AM)CatMom Wrote:  

(06-28-2014 09:04 AM)trueeagle98 Wrote:  Wow. The guy seems a bit full of himself. Is he a QB? was he planning on carrying the ball 80% of the time?

I agree this has more to do with this recruit than FAU. Sounds like he is expecting a FSU or UF (Miami might be a good fit with that ego of his) to beg him to play. Some one needs to sit down with this kid and teach him about being humble and how PR works.

I agree about the humble part but he does have 20 offers on his 247 page. And yes, Miami, UofF and FSU are on there, plus several other P5 schools. Likely grades kept him out of the others or, I imagine, he'd have taken one of those (just a guess).

He's a 4 star RB

He'll like sit for a year and then have to compete for a spot after that. Going to FAU would have almost guaranteed him a starting spot and lot of attention. Now I can see where top recruits wanna go to schools that offer them a legit chance to win a title and that is something FAU (and all G5 schools) will have a hard time competing against.

It didn't seem too much for Alfred Morris...

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A four-star running back like him committed to FAU would NOT carry the team on his back. In fact he would probably be a detriment.

I don't think the kids a bad person just caught up in the ESPN hype. I remember when he first committed and all the ESPN recruiting experts questioning his chose. I'm sure quite a few people have been in his ear. He was a 4star recruit when he committed to FAU and he is as good as he thinks he is. Will probably get his 5th star now that he is not committed to a G5 school. Those are the breaks kids.

I don't know, its a dumb to say that, but I live here in South Florida, FAU is a bad program, not only how they play on the field, but they get very little attention here in SF, I take it this kid is saying I will not have any top flight talent on the team to support me, its going to be hard for me to reach my potential. Arrogant, yes, but if he is as good as he believes, then you cant blame for wanting to surround himself with top flight talent.

if I was a coach I would be crossing him off my recruiting list immediately

(06-28-2014 02:16 PM)TodgeRodge Wrote:  if I was a coach I would be crossing him off my recruiting list immediately

May decommit on wind sprints/weight room.

Lets be honest, if he is getting that much attention from the P5 schools, including the defending national champions, the odds of him honoring his commitment to FAU was a real long shot, we might not like it when a kid doesn't honor his verbal agreement, but that, unfortunately is the way of the world these days.

I think everyone is scratching their heads about the kid now. Can FSU take him with all the crap surrounding the program at the moment? The comment likely limited his choices significantly. Or maybe not. Hopefully he extends an apology to the university.

Keep thinking I am hearing someone else's words he is using. Either some other recruiters, some article, or even FAU fan board.

(06-28-2014 04:23 PM)GoApps70 Wrote:  Keep thinking I am hearing someone else's words he is using. Either some other recruiters, some article, or even FAU fan board.

http://www.upressonline.com/2014/06/high...-from-fau/

“I felt like FAU wasn’t the best decision for me academically and out on the football field,” Scarlett said. “At my position, you need your body and at FAU, I would need to carry the team, and I’m trying to get my body ready for the NFL.”


I have no issue with someone decommitting at all, but an 18yo high school kid talking about "getting ready for the NFL"......yea right pal

it is fine to have hopes and dreams, but attempting to say that FAU was not right "academically" and then saying you would have to carry the team and that you would be too physically worn out for the NFL after all of that.....please

1. ok so now you go from FAU where you "carry the team" against CUSA type programs for 12 games a season to the SEC SEC SEC where you get the living hell beat out of you 9+ games a season

2. in the SEC SEC SEC or at a similar "top" program you are going to have to EARN your playing time on the field and that means doing it in practice as well as on the field......this kid sounds like one that thinks practice is for the other guys because he is "a gamer and saving it for when it counts in game time" and "there are no scouts at practices"

3. in the SEC SEC SEC and top ACC and Big 12 and Big 10 programs you play EVERY play and you block for your QB and you lay out for the pass even as a running back......if not there are 3-4 other guys that have been practicing hard and that will do the hard work even when they know they are not getting the handoff or when they are the 4th or 5th option for the pass

4. kids that are in high school "getting their body ready for the NFL" often forget to get ready for the test this week much less pass it or making it to class

5. kids that are in high school talking about "carrying the team" think they are going to walk up and have a spot handed to them and even if they do manage to get a spot if the pass is not perfect and they do not lay all out for it or they miss a block or do not sustain a block in the backfield they are the one that tells others to throw a more accurate pass or to get rid of the ball sooner or for a lineman to not let that gap be so big and slow down the LB or DB before he has to rub up against them and call it a block

other players will put up with that for about 1-2 games at most and then when they see you are "saving it for the NFL" or "saving it for the big games that season" and they call him out well that is when your team has rectal cancer and then it is all downhill from there especially if there is no one good enough or prepared enough to step up and get him sent to the bench

and remember there are plenty of attitude filled "future NFLers" that did pretty well in college even for a year or so until someone else beat them out or until their team started playing a tougher schedule......then we never hear from them again even in college or even if they start 3-4 years their lack of effort and the fact that they were surrounded by others that were playing hard every down becomes apparent to scouts and they never sniff the NFL

look at Tebow he did not fully "carry" Florida, but he damn sure had a lot of freight stacked on his back and he damn sure worked hard every play and was a LEADER in practice and he was not "saving a little back for the NFL" and he still struggled in the NFL

Vince Young......NOTHING "saved for the NFL" he laid it out there every damn down and even had a good year in the NFL one year and still struggled

so maybe this kid can even perform at their level in COLLEGE for even a year before he starts worrying about getting it ready for the NFL......much less actually getting in the NFL or "saving anything" for ANYTHING

real LEADERS step up and demand to lead and then actually GIVE IT ALL when they EARN the chance.....anal cancer talks about how they don't want to have to do it all and they have to hold a little back for their future NFL career

6. this kid I bet 99% ends up being the perfect example of why college should NOT pay players and should resist all attempts to make college a minor leagues for "future NFLers"

he would be MUCH better off getting the chance to go ahead and "go pro and get paid" somewhere else besides a university and then he can learn some real life lessons

(06-28-2014 01:45 PM)moehler Wrote:  I don't know, its a dumb to say that, but I live here in South Florida, FAU is a bad program, not only how they play on the field, but they get very little attention here in SF, I take it this kid is saying I will not have any top flight talent on the team to support me, its going to be hard for me to reach my potential. Arrogant, yes, but if he is as good as he believes, then you cant blame for wanting to surround himself with top flight talent.

I don't understand. FAU is in that huge South Florida market but they get very little attention? I thought those teams from those big markets guaranteed ratings and $$$$ on TV contracts.

All kidding aside, a top-quality running back looks a lot better with a top-quality offensive line opening holes for him.

If you want to go to the NFL, you need playing time. It also is not a bad thing to be the guy that carries your team on your back. It shows that.....you can carry a team on your back. The NFL doesn't count carrying a team on your back against you.

At FAU there was much less of a chance that tomorrow's 5-star McDonald's All-World Freshman of the Year freak will show up and take half of your plays and all of your limelight. The odds are a lot higher for that sort of thing at FSU.

You can end up at FSU or LSU and when your day is done they will plug another 4-star cog in and forget about you. At FAU you might end up with a statue and a field named after you.

Yes, choosing an FSU over an FAU is the more traditional route. It has paid off for a great many. But there are tons of very good football players who it did not pay off for, and for whom, choosing an FAU, App State, Delta State, etc. would have been right path to the NFL.

A whole lot of factors go into picking the right school that gives you the best chances...and its still a bit of a crap shoot no matter what you do. A lot of kids don't have the ability to make that sort of rational decision at that point in their lives and will default to the biggest name on their list.

(06-28-2014 01:45 PM)moehler Wrote:  I don't know, its a dumb to say that, but I live here in South Florida, FAU is a bad program, not only how they play on the field, but they get very little attention here in SF, I take it this kid is saying I will not have any top flight talent on the team to support me, its going to be hard for me to reach my potential. Arrogant, yes, but if he is as good as he believes, then you cant blame for wanting to surround himself with top flight talent.

FAU was decent last year. They improved as the year progressed.

IMO, they'll finish 2nd in the east and they are my darkhorse to win CUSA.

Their fan support is miserable though. When Miami can't get butts in the seats, FAU has very little chance of it happening.

If they are the darkhorse to win CUSA, you guys are in worst shape than I thought, of course, I could be wrong, when they are only putting 10-12 thousand fans in the stands a game, and are only mention in a brief paragraph on the 7th page of the newspaper during football season, I like so many people down here, pay such little attention to them, they might actually be decent for all I know, my bad,...I...guess, hell who knows, they might be the best team in SF, and nobody gives a dam.

With those type of comments from this young man, it may be a blessing in disguise for FAU. Definitely sounds like someone that would be a distraction.

(06-29-2014 12:22 PM)monarchman Wrote:  With those type of comments from this young man, it may be a blessing in disguise for FAU. Definitely sounds like someone that would be a distraction.

I agree. He's better gone now than next year or the year after. We've had a couple of recruits like this that thought they were better than the team.