Another Recruit Has Rug Pulled Out from Under Him - Last Minute Greyshirt
Longtime Louisville commit asked to greyshirt two days before signing day. Feel for the kid. Yes, he's a 3-star RB and your team needs CB's - but this is just sickening.
Matt Colburn was verbally committed to Louisville since June. That changed on Monday. According to multiple outlets, Louisville pulled its scholarship offer from Colburn, a Rivals three-star running back from Dutch Fork High School in Irmo, South Carolina. Instead of signing his national letter of intent with the Cardinals on Wednesday with the rest of the program’s 2015 class, Louisville has extended a grayshirt offer for Colburn, which would delay his enrollment until January.
February 3rd, 2015 at 3:03 PM ^
There's a distinction to be made between sending out offers and accepting commitments. Offers get pulled all of the time from players, just not affer their commitments have been accepted..
February 3rd, 2015 at 12:49 PM ^
February 3rd, 2015 at 12:55 PM ^
This is the definition of shenanigans.
February 3rd, 2015 at 1:06 PM ^
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February 3rd, 2015 at 1:14 PM ^
February 3rd, 2015 at 1:37 PM ^
For some reason, after being reminded that this photo exists, I can see Petrino saying the line: "I see you bought the industrial size can of lighter fluid. Very smart."
Of course, the other interesting Lousville story that came out yesterday was how Petrino is apparently taking on transfers and/or the ne'er-do-wells (behaviorally speaking) from other teams too.
February 3rd, 2015 at 4:13 PM ^
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February 3rd, 2015 at 7:23 PM ^
Petrino is three years removed from getting caught in an affair with a young subordinate. His NFL canon does not end gracefully, however he was walking away from the Michael Vick crater and is not granted a side of that story. Since then, he's earned two head coaching jobs and continued his overall legacy of on-field success.
I think the gray-shirting switcheroo here is unfortunate, just like when Alabama frequently does it. It's not really even a partisan policy at all - no one is going to defend it. Ad hominem attacks and jokes against Petrino don't do anything constructive. It's the lowest form of argument against the letter of the law. If Petrino does something defensible tomorrow, a lot of energy will have been wasted discrediting him as an actor.
Also, a gray-shirt is hardly the end of the world: the kid's admission is deferred one semester. He can work in the fall and catch up to his academic timeline with spring/summer courses, or let his graduation ride for four extra months if he prefers. It's much worse to "cut" a student-athlete in the middle of his college career.
February 3rd, 2015 at 1:18 PM ^
Is it too late to offer him?
February 3rd, 2015 at 1:19 PM ^
I hope this kid signs on with an ACC school and hangs 250 yards on Louisville once or twice during his career.
February 3rd, 2015 at 1:20 PM ^
i am shocked. NOT. he has proved over and over that he has zero integrity.
i hope this kid tells them to take a flying leap. after signing day, he may get some looks from similar schools. if not, go to a good academic school like miami(ohio).
February 3rd, 2015 at 1:52 PM ^
And the staff felt the young man could benefit from a timeout with reduced pressure and greater opportunity to focus on academics. The punchline is that it's Louisville. OMG I slay myself!
February 3rd, 2015 at 2:56 PM ^
fat finger no cancel option
February 3rd, 2015 at 2:58 PM ^
sorry no cancel option
February 3rd, 2015 at 3:04 PM ^
sorry for last time.yea. once again need cancel option and spell check
February 3rd, 2015 at 3:02 PM ^
damn spending all day saying i screwed up.
February 3rd, 2015 at 2:58 PM ^
man did i screw up sorry. need cancel option
February 3rd, 2015 at 3:01 PM ^
once again sorry. no cancel option fat finger.
February 3rd, 2015 at 3:05 PM ^
are your fingers fat?
February 3rd, 2015 at 5:18 PM ^
when i sent it the reply screen came back on. normall it goes to the posting and you donot see it again. so when it came back i thought it was not sent. oh well time to take a beating :)
February 3rd, 2015 at 5:03 PM ^
Your signature seems rather apt.
February 3rd, 2015 at 3:08 PM ^
but it is a little less shitty when you consider how their roster has gone.
Colburn committed in the summer of 2014 before they played any games this year.
After their season and in basically the last month, 3 of their secondary declared early for the draft (the other top 2 graduated) and another safety was kicked off the team.
When Colburn committed months ago, they didn't really expect to lose 3 guys early to the draft I don't think. Then early last month they got 2 RBs to enroll early. So in basically a month they went from high need on RB to low need there and high need on DB.
Factor in that they got basically 3 new commits over the weekend from some of their highest prospects, and the timing of asking him to greyshirt makes a lot more sense.
But you know, recruiting is a vacuum where nothing changes and motorcylce wrecks and all.
February 3rd, 2015 at 3:45 PM ^
I'm dreaming of a scenerio where he gets offered by Michigan and then goes all Mike Hart On everybody! That would be epic and awesome.
February 3rd, 2015 at 8:39 PM ^
I think Michigan is guilty of doing very similar when we have refused to admit players that otherwise passed the NCAA clearinghouse. Our admissions department doesn't need to wait until NSD to determine whether or not they'll be able to admit a student, and this miscommunication happened more than once when Rich Rod was here (per Bacon's Three and Out).