Beaver Gone. To Conference USA.
Right, so that is Shavodrick Beaver's myspace and he's been flat-out lying to the mods at Rivals and Scout:
Tulsa received a quarterback commitment Friday afternoon when Shavodrick Beaver announced he'd sign at the University of Tulsa.
Beaver, a 6-foot-3, 185-pounder, is from Wichita Falls (Texas) Rider High School,and has been ranked the eighth-best quarterback in the country by rivals.com.
Beaver had given a commitment to the University of Michigan, but switched to TU after a home visit by TU coach Todd Graham.
This seems like completely farfetched crap, but Rivals has an article with quotes($) up, too. WTF? This one really bothers me because for months Beaver's been called up and has said things like "I'm ten thousand percent committed!" Man up and admit you're wavering.
Michigan now needs to scramble for a second quarterback in the class. They've been recruiting FL QB Denard Robinson and may look to get involved with WVU/Tennessee decommit Tajh Boyd; expect Eugene Smith to get a phone call, too.
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No, actually, even with your over-wraught analysis, the lottery ticket analogy works. As you note, lottery tickets are fungible items - one is just as inherently valuable to the other (prior to the drawing). Your complaint is that these are humans - and not neccesarily equivalent value. Normally, you'd be right.
HOWEVA, if we're going to accept Brian's argument that swapping Newsome for Forcier was a wash, we have to believe that Beaver and Forcier are pretty equivalently rated. Newsome was the 4th ranked dual threat QB, Forcier the 6th, and Beaver the 8th. The three of them have the same overall rating (5.9). If we were pining about the loss of Feagin, your argument would stand - Feagin isn't a realistic candidate to beat out Forcier or Threet. Beaver was.
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Fair enough. "Over-wraught" wasn't a good word choice. I guess I meant nit-picky. Which, it sorta sounds like you'd agree with. I wasn't trying to be as big a dick as I came off.
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"One word for the Beav though, she named you Shavodrick Beaver. How rationale [sic] can she be?"Once you're stuck with the last name "Beaver" (which was more likely inherited than a choice by the parent), any silliness in the first name is lost in the noise.
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This is going to work out okay. I promise.
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