You Kids Are Soft! You Lack Discipline!
11 Aug
Notwithstanding the infamous brush with ESPN’s Outside The Lines a few years ago, Penn State has managed to run a tight ship throughout the course of Joe Paterno’s eternal tenure in Happy Valley. Now, top recruit Cyrus Kouandjio has dropped Penn State for a very unique reason:
Schools like Auburn, Boston College, California, Florida, North Carolina, Notre Dame, Penn State and West Virginia didn’t make the cut. He said the Nittany Lions didn’t fit because they came across too “strict” with him. He said he felt he wouldn’t have any flexibility there.
Kouandjio’s top eleven schools, who apparently don’t have such problems: Alabama, Georgia, Iowa, Maryland, Miami, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Pittsburgh, Tennessee, Virginia and USC. Many of those schools are the stereotypical CHEETERZ that often enrage opposing fans. Iowa? Well, maybe the kid just want the freedom to chase his fat-guy-on-a-moped muse.
More likely than not, this is just an awkward way of Kouandjio saying that he doesn’t like PSU for another, unstated reason, much like Terrelle Pryor’s “too country” comments toward the end of his recruiting saga. (Next time, Brian McLaughlin, how about a follow-up question?) Still, odd that a guy considered the #1 recruit in the nation would drop “too strict” an excuse for cutting a school from his list.
Eight buckets of AWESOME.
Alabama’s to lose, so meh.
I wouldn’t count out Florida, they’re flexible. And UNC is still on there, making me think maybe it’s that we’re not flexible enough with agents that’s the problem.
Yeah, Iowa lets everyone roam free. We don’t even bother having practices.
(Actually, he’s probably still listing Iowa because former high school teammate and friend Marcus Coker is an incoming freshman. With that said, we don’t have a snowball’s chance in hell.)
Outside of City Boyz, Inc., Iowa’s really just the Pittsburgh Pirates of the Fulmer Cup. Sure, they get on the scoreboard, but it’s mostly singles.
CK’s list is pretty transparent — home state school with no chance, schools where friends are going, hoping for a substantial Locksley buyout, cheatenous SEC bastards, and cheatenous west coast bastards.
(And yes, M1EK, breaking out “cheatenous” just for you.)
No chance?! Pfft. Didn’t you hear? Iowa could have landed Seantrel Henderson but Kirk was all “naahhh, we’re good.” I’ll bet Kouandjio is already looking into apartments in Iowa City.
Fuck him.
Am I allowed to say ‘fuck’ here? If not, my bad.
Boys have a penis. Girls have a vagina.
IT’S NAWT A TOOMAH!
This is just great, I guess they kids doesn’t actually want to be a STUDENT/athlete.