Courtney Avery Draws High Praise
Nice article from annarbor.com on Courtney Avery.
http://www.annarbor.com/sports/um-football/michigan-cornerback-recruit-…
Praise from his coach, B.J. Payne:
“He’s the type of kid that if he wants to be president of the United States one day, he will be,” Payne said. “I got two compliments I could give him. That’s the first, and the second is if my daughter was 18, she could date him."
January 29th, 2010 at 11:32 AM ^
hahahahahaha
Edit: No one else finds those quotes hilarious? sigh
January 29th, 2010 at 5:57 PM ^
You are not alone.
January 29th, 2010 at 10:40 AM ^
Great article. Sounds like the kind of kid I want on my team. If he's smart enough to play QB, CB, and have a near 4.0, maybe he also knows geometry and can take proper angles.
January 29th, 2010 at 10:40 AM ^
I love when high character kids come into our program. Hopefully he can excel on the field and have a positive influence on other guys off of it.
January 29th, 2010 at 12:52 PM ^
Character kids who destroy peoples dreams on the field. See: Mike Hart.
January 29th, 2010 at 10:43 AM ^
Sounds like he has a great attitude and work ethic, very good qualities in a football player.
January 29th, 2010 at 10:50 AM ^
like a Michigan Man!
January 29th, 2010 at 10:58 AM ^
only goes so far. To win championships the right way, you need great character people like Avery, too. I wonder how the "no family-values"-RR bashers will spin this recruitment.
January 29th, 2010 at 11:01 AM ^
The second means much more than the first - I'm sure each one of us has thought either the current president or the former president is an idiot but saying you'd let him date your daughter - that's saying something...
January 29th, 2010 at 11:58 AM ^
When my daughter was dating in high school, my attitude was basically this:
http://wilk4.com/humor/humorp3.htm
The fact that Avery's coach gave him the thumbs-up says a lot.
January 29th, 2010 at 11:16 AM ^
and is a lock down defender on his AAU team (one of the tops in the country). Walk on for Beilein?
January 29th, 2010 at 11:54 AM ^
It says right in the article that he wont play basketball at Michigan.
January 29th, 2010 at 11:42 AM ^
I hadn't really done my homework on Avery.. this kid absolutely lays the lumber. I think my favorite qoute of the article is
"I’ve coached a lot of cats in seven years, and he’s the only kid that I can say that about.”
January 29th, 2010 at 12:02 PM ^
Hopefully he'll make a better president than Gerald Ford.
January 29th, 2010 at 8:40 PM ^
was probably the best president that decade
BOOM!
January 29th, 2010 at 12:18 PM ^
He was like a walk-on player, he filed in just fine for the expectation. Just don't confuse him as a full ride president.
January 29th, 2010 at 12:20 PM ^
His own HS coach praised him? That's amazing.
January 29th, 2010 at 12:21 PM ^
What was his quote about RichRod bringing in kids he didn't want to associate with?
January 29th, 2010 at 12:33 PM ^
Justin the Hutt said that Michigan's "family values have eroded".
What he meant to say was, "I am a colossal douche canoe, and the big, bad meanie with the whistle cusses and wants me to run for a change."
January 29th, 2010 at 12:31 PM ^
That quote wasn't from Boren. It was from Wermers.
And considering what we've seen from Justin Feagin and Boubacar Cissoko, perhaps he had a point.
I'm sure all of Ball State's players are model citizens, though.
January 29th, 2010 at 12:36 PM ^
Perhaps I am mistaken, then.
I had seen that quote attributed to Boren from a number of sources, but now some light googling has yielded the same quote from Wermers.
January 29th, 2010 at 12:39 PM ^
And still, f@ck Boren :^)
January 29th, 2010 at 2:55 PM ^
Don't worry. Wermers only felt that way once he flunked out.
January 29th, 2010 at 12:57 PM ^
Now we're back to normal. I should have known better than to suggest that Gerald Ford wasn't a great president or that Feagin and Cissoko weren't great teammates, history and police reports be damned!
January 29th, 2010 at 1:10 PM ^
I just want to neg you for your inability to use "reply" properly.
January 29th, 2010 at 1:18 PM ^
Pretty sure you got negged for suggesting that the fact that feagin and cissoko's transgressions indicated a lack of family values. Not for suggesting that they weren't great teammates.
January 29th, 2010 at 1:29 PM ^
I didn't say they indicated a lack of family values. I said WERMERS'S comments might have been about Cissoko and Feagin, two guys who are criminals and have thus been kicked off the team.
January 29th, 2010 at 2:25 PM ^
You said, "And considering what we've seen from Justin Feagin and Boubacar Cissoko, perhaps he had a point." Seems like you're saying that he had a point because of these two. No?
January 29th, 2010 at 5:26 PM ^
Wermers commented that he didn't like the people that Rodriguez brought in.
Some of those people were Cissoko (who likes marijuana) and Feagin (who at least pretends to sell cocaine). So yes, maybe he had a point.
January 29th, 2010 at 6:19 PM ^
Who doesn't like marijuana? College students before Rodriguez certainly did. Also, Feagin... I loved the kid's quotes and picture when he committed. Those two had difficult times adjusting to life in AA and were kicked off the team in a satisfactory manner. There was very little to suggest that they would end up that way.
Why did you make such a point to take the heat off Boren? He WAS the one that said, "...those family values have eroded."
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3314282
January 29th, 2010 at 6:38 PM ^
When I go out I'm always wearing a white suit, pink shirt unbuttoned down to the navel, sunglasses (no matter the time of day), and dress shoes with no socks. I also manage to complain about frogmen picking off shipments in every conversation.
I thought that was just being awesome.
January 30th, 2010 at 1:06 AM ^
For God's sake, I WASN'T talking about Boren. I was talking about Wermers. How many times do I have to repeat that?
"I really didn't get along with the new coaches," Wermers told the web site. "They were bringing in a lot of different kids that were not my kind of crowd."
Boren was the one who was talking about family values, yes. He WAS NOT the one who talked about Rodriguez bringing in bad people. That was Wermers. Also, it was Wermers who said that. Wermers said he wasn't a fan of the people Rodriguez brought in, Wermers said.
January 30th, 2010 at 9:08 AM ^
That was the statement I was thinking of! "Bringing in bad kids." Who said that?
(this is how a conversation goes in my house.)
January 30th, 2010 at 9:25 AM ^
Well, at least SOMEBODY finally gets it...
January 30th, 2010 at 9:44 AM ^
F@ck Wermers! :-)
January 29th, 2010 at 6:50 PM ^
think much of Tennessee then...
January 29th, 2010 at 1:56 PM ^
If Courtney has POTUS potential, sounds like he's got what it takes to be a leader in our secondary as well.