02-12-2008, 06:54 PM
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The Man In The Box
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ESPN Page 2 - TMQ: Bad predictions review
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High school players convicted of crimes end up with full scholarships for football and men's basketball. To cite a case that received significant attention in my state, a highly recruited Maryland prospect named Pat Lazear pleaded guilty in early 2007 to conspiracy to commit armed robbery, receiving jail time and extended probation: He supplied a replica gun and drove the getaway car for a robbery. Ohio State rescinded its scholarship letter to Lazear, but most football-factory offers stayed on the table; he chose an NCAA scholarship to West Virginia. If a guilty plea involving an armed robbery doesn't bother a football factory, why would Smash's minor transgression cause the reaction depicted in "Friday Night Lights"? On signing Lazear, Rich Rodriguez, then the Mountaineers' coach, told the Charleston Daily Mail that character "can be a matter of opinion." How very Rodriguez-like!
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Last edited by Mothra; 02-12-2008 at 07:08 PM.
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