Yuri Wright to Colorado
Please tell me we were still recruiting him!
Buffstampede.com has all the Yuri Wright news coming your way. Huge get for #Colorado.
I would be forever grateful if he had a committable offer from Michigan and got to watch a live stream of Brian eating a lemon lol. EDIT: Yes, I know we stopped pursuing him and bet is void, a man can dream can't he?
EDIT II: How does one get a scholarship when they have been expelled from school for their senior year? How does he graduate and become elegible?
January 24th, 2012 at 11:38 AM ^
Michigan had stopped recruiting him a couple of weeks back. Best of luck to him, hopefully he learns from the mistakes he made.
January 24th, 2012 at 12:10 PM ^
I know we stopped recruiting him because of his problems and ultimate expulsion from school. My question is how can he attend Colorado without a HS diploma??? Those are some low admissions requirements. :)
January 24th, 2012 at 12:46 PM ^
Don't you think he could transfer to another HS?
January 24th, 2012 at 2:01 PM ^
Obvoiously this would be different from state to state and district to district, but when I was in HS if you were expelled more than 1/2 of the school year in, you could not acquire any school credit for that year. You retained none from your school of expulsion and had insufficient time to earn credit from any other institution. Unless he was very close to graduating after his Junior year, he would have a hard time making up a year of credit in summer term. Even then, he would miss some/all of fall camp. It would take a significant effort to arrange such a feat, and effort to complete as well.
January 24th, 2012 at 2:47 PM ^
He still in theory would have slightly more than 1/2 year left if he made the transfer to his public school immediately after the expulsion.
January 24th, 2012 at 2:11 PM ^
I have no idea what impact this has on athletic eligibility, but I had a classmate get expelled from HS with less than week left after being accepted early to Yale. He had to take a year off, but then he was allowed to attend. I think he made it a little over a year at Yale before he was expelled from there as well.
January 24th, 2012 at 2:30 PM ^
Yikes! What did he do to get expelled (both times)?
January 24th, 2012 at 3:23 PM ^
You will forever be on my shitlist if you do not elaborate.
January 24th, 2012 at 5:52 PM ^
yeah, fuck people who don't finish high school right lol
January 24th, 2012 at 11:39 AM ^
Sorry to ruin your day, but we stopped recruiting him.
January 24th, 2012 at 11:40 AM ^
So Brian has to take a video of himself eating a raw lemon?
I'm excited.
January 24th, 2012 at 11:43 AM ^
He clarified that Wright would need to have a commitable offer to Michigan. I don't think Wright has one at this point.
January 24th, 2012 at 11:43 AM ^
I believe the bet will be off since his fine print did say that Michigan still had to be pursuing him when he chooses between Michigan and Colorado
January 24th, 2012 at 11:44 AM ^
because he included cowardly, weasely words about a "commitable offer" from Michigan.
January 24th, 2012 at 11:46 AM ^
I figured Brian would try to snake his way out of this somehow.
January 24th, 2012 at 11:49 AM ^
Ew a RAW lemon? Couldn't that give him salmonella or something???
January 24th, 2012 at 12:11 PM ^
I was wondering how one might cook a lemon. In a stew with okra and tripe?
January 24th, 2012 at 12:37 PM ^
I think you're confusing the concepts of chicken egg and lemon.
January 24th, 2012 at 1:02 PM ^
/s...
I was making a point that I've never heard of a lemon described as "raw", as I've never heard of a cooked or prepared lemon...
January 24th, 2012 at 11:40 AM ^
Isnt this the school he tweeted that he was bored at? I guess the next 4 years are gonna be boring as hell for him. I guess he could try out snowboarding to keep himself entertained
January 24th, 2012 at 11:46 AM ^
Yeah, I thought I read he hated Colorado. Oh well.
January 24th, 2012 at 11:49 AM ^
pull your offer(I imagine nd did too...not sure) you have to settle.
January 24th, 2012 at 11:56 AM ^
ND did not -- was kind of surprised by that too after his catholic high school booted him.
January 24th, 2012 at 12:35 PM ^
Well Yuri Wright is Catholic. ND would not turn their back on a fellow Catholic.
January 24th, 2012 at 1:41 PM ^
How do you know this? I find it hard to believe that ND, with its image police, would have signed him, post-tweets. The fans, being fans, would have found a way to rationalize the signing. But the trustees, etc, almost certainly opposed signing a guy who tweets about bitches, ho's, and Jews. They know the last thing ND or Kelly needs is more controversy or bad press. Yuri Wright, to ND, would not be worth the trouble.
Plus: By all accounts, Wright favored ND over Colorado in a major way. But then, post controversy, he suddenly chooses Colorado. Wonder why.
Maybe ND didn't officially rescind its offer. But it's not uncommon for schools to send a message that the recruit might be wise to explore other options. That way, the school allows everyone to save face. And I'm sure ND didn't want to be seen as pulling offers from Catholic-league players.
January 24th, 2012 at 2:49 PM ^
I believe they and we did the same thing with Tommy Schutt.
He was turned away by ND. He tried to commit to us the day we got Pipkins' commitment, and our coaches said thanks but no thanks we will honor Pipkins'. Then he went off and committed to PSU. I believe that is how his initial commitment transpired.
January 24th, 2012 at 3:13 PM ^
I'm skeptical about how hard ND tries to protect their image when it comes to things that could affect wins and losses on the field.
January 24th, 2012 at 6:48 PM ^
I don't know for certain.
According to a mentor of YW's that posts on the CU Rivals board and is close with a few of CU's coaches as well as the old Bosco coach (and who pretty accurrately predicted most of the developments in this saga, including his expulsion, which I relayed here http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/yuri-explained?page=2 the day before it became widely known), ND was calling him right up until the end. He also would strongly dispute the fact that CU was a sudden choice, and that YW majorly favored ND (although he did say he liked them). I think a lot of the surprise over this commitment (and maybe rightfully so given CU's recent past) has to do with people not thinking Yuri could seriously consider CU, despite the fact that they have a very good DBs coach who is also the DC (and who just put Jimmy Smith in the first round last year), and the fact that Yuri has friends that are either going to or already do play for CU. CU was the only school he visited twice (once unofficially), and despite his tweet about being bored one night, was always a school he really liked.
But really, I know none of the players in this thing personally, so I'm just repeating what I've read elsewhere.
January 24th, 2012 at 11:50 AM ^
He would have had some comment on the ladies there....
January 24th, 2012 at 11:52 AM ^
Said more below, but although CU has plenty of faults, I feel pretty confident that (maybe finals week notwithstanding) boring is not one of them.
January 24th, 2012 at 12:19 PM ^
He could try out that new twittering thing... You can litterally waste away all your time on that thing, and I hear its all the rage with kids these days.
January 24th, 2012 at 11:42 AM ^
But only because you told me to tell you so.
In reality, we stopped awhile ago.
January 24th, 2012 at 11:56 AM ^
Wright didn't have that great an US Army AA week, nor did he have a great game.
IMHO he's going to be a safety in college...especially with the speed at WR he will be seeing at USC, Oregon, and heck, the smurfs that Arizona will now be recruiting.
January 24th, 2012 at 11:43 AM ^
That school is gonna have some lock-down corners with Crawley and Wright.
Too bad nobody is gonna pass when they can gain 5 YPC on the ground.
January 24th, 2012 at 11:43 AM ^
He hated his trip to Colorado.
He tweeted every other hour about how boring it was and how he couldn't wait to get back home.
That same social medium is largely why he is "stuck" there now...
January 24th, 2012 at 11:48 AM ^
FWIW, he tweeted one time that he was bored on his last night there, which was in the middle of finals, because people were not going out. He had already visited CU once before that and had a great time -- and with the exception of the last night, by all accounts had a good second visit too. He has high school friends also going to CU (one already there), and has had a good connection to the coaches for a long time. Although it was never a sure thing, Colorado was a very serious consideration long before he got in Twitter trouble. Not saying for sure he would have picked it anyway, but he is in no way "stuck" there.
January 24th, 2012 at 1:54 PM ^
January 24th, 2012 at 6:39 PM ^
Yup, no doubt Greg Brown (DBs coach and DC for CU) played a big part in both Yuri's and Crawley's commitments.
January 24th, 2012 at 11:55 AM ^
A lot of people misuse the word irony, but I think it safely applies to this situation.
EDIT: Maybe not as ironic based on the post directly preceding me.
January 24th, 2012 at 12:12 PM ^
Does that qualify as irony?
January 24th, 2012 at 11:44 AM ^
All the Rivals and Scout guys had him going to Rutgers.
Can we please stop panicking about Garnett to Stanford now? Jesus.
January 24th, 2012 at 11:47 AM ^
Garnett's going to Stanford?!?!?!
I'm panicking.
January 24th, 2012 at 11:49 AM ^
NO! It means that now they are just more due to be right on Garnett!
MASS HYSTERIA!!!
/s
January 24th, 2012 at 12:16 PM ^
Yeah, they're not *Wright* all the time! No need to panic!
January 24th, 2012 at 12:33 PM ^
That pun was awful.
January 24th, 2012 at 1:08 PM ^
Awfully good.
January 24th, 2012 at 11:45 AM ^
January 24th, 2012 at 11:46 AM ^
At least Colorado has some killer weed.
January 24th, 2012 at 12:14 PM ^
The munchies can't be good for this guy. He's already so hungry for...well, you know.