WaDE'05 8 Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 From the Baton Rouge Paper... Benton visits AuburnBastrop coach Brad Bradshaw said DeAngelo Benton, a two-time LSU signee, is close to becoming academically qualified and expects him to sign with the Tigers again next week. The LSU Tigers, that is. Benton took a recruiting trip to Auburn this past weekend, a decision that didn’t sit well with his old coach. “I think he might be listening to the wrong people,” Bradshaw said. “Not very smart in my opinion.” Benton is a former teammate of Randle’s. The two starred in the receiving corps for Bastrop when the Rams won the Class 4A state title in 2006, Benton’s senior season. He later played at Hargrave Military Academy in Virginia. He continues trying to get his academics in order. Bradshaw said Auburn’s name surfaced in Benton’s recruitment only a couple of weeks ago. “I called Auburn and told them to leave him alone,” the coach said. “They obviously didn’t listen to me.” Link: http://www.2theadvocate.com/sports/3843766...ndex=14&c=y (Benton section is in the middle of the article) Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/55794-this-is-total-crap/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
TitanTiger 22,258 Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 Why on earth would a high school coach be so adamantly opposed to another school calling one of his former players...unless he's on the take somehow for steering kids to a particular school? Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/55794-this-is-total-crap/#findComment-576876 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kickinwang 0 Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 i'm gonna call this coach and tell him to stop running the ball to the left side of the field. that's acceptable correct? Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/55794-this-is-total-crap/#findComment-576878 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ziggyg 2 Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 Wonder what his cut is for $teering his players. Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/55794-this-is-total-crap/#findComment-576880 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldNewby 27 Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 Geez, hope he didn't call collect. Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/55794-this-is-total-crap/#findComment-576881 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarTiger 4,120 Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 WOW...just WOW. Who does this coach think he is? What right does he have as a podunk high school football coach, to call a major university and tell them not to talk to one of his players? What a douche. Now, like others here have already said, besides idiocy and arrogance, there can only be one reason he doesn't want other schools (auburn in this case) to contact one of this players. He's going to be rewarded if this kid goes to a certain school... Hello, NCAA, are you listening?? $$ has to be flying down there.... Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/55794-this-is-total-crap/#findComment-576883 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ziggyg 2 Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 WOW...just WOW. Who does this coach think he is? What right does he have as a podunk high school football coach, to call a major university and tell them not to talk to one of his players? What a douche. Now, like others here have already said, besides idiocy and arrogance, there can only be one reason he doesn't want other schools (auburn in this case) to contact one of this players. He's going to be rewarded if this kid goes to a certain school... Hello, NCAA, are you listening?? $$ has to be flying down there.... Guess that would mean Randle is headed to LSU as well. he is about to double dip. Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/55794-this-is-total-crap/#findComment-576889 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AU alum 2 Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 WOW...just WOW. Who does this coach think he is? What right does he have as a podunk high school football coach, to call a major university and tell them not to talk to one of his players? What a douche. Now, like others here have already said, besides idiocy and arrogance, there can only be one reason he doesn't want other schools (auburn in this case) to contact one of this players. He's going to be rewarded if this kid goes to a certain school... Hello, NCAA, are you listening?? $$ has to be flying down there.... I wonder if anybody from Auburn sent this article and let the NCAA know so they could check this out........... Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/55794-this-is-total-crap/#findComment-576890 Share on other sites More sharing options...
aubie316 76 Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 From the Baton Rouge Paper... Benton visits AuburnBastrop coach Brad Bradshaw said DeAngelo Benton, a two-time LSU signee, is close to becoming academically qualified and expects him to sign with the Tigers again next week. The LSU Tigers, that is. Benton took a recruiting trip to Auburn this past weekend, a decision that didn’t sit well with his old coach. “I think he might be listening to the wrong people,†Bradshaw said. “Not very smart in my opinion.†Benton is a former teammate of Randle’s. The two starred in the receiving corps for Bastrop when the Rams won the Class 4A state title in 2006, Benton’s senior season. He later played at Hargrave Military Academy in Virginia. He continues trying to get his academics in order. Bradshaw said Auburn’s name surfaced in Benton’s recruitment only a couple of weeks ago. “I called Auburn and told them to leave him alone,†the coach said. “They obviously didn’t listen to me.†Link: http://www.2theadvocate.com/sports/3843766...ndex=14&c=y (Benton section is in the middle of the article) Sounds to me like another Alber Means case! Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/55794-this-is-total-crap/#findComment-576905 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ziggyg 2 Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 From the Baton Rouge Paper... Benton visits AuburnBastrop coach Brad Bradshaw said DeAngelo Benton, a two-time LSU signee, is close to becoming academically qualified and expects him to sign with the Tigers again next week. The LSU Tigers, that is. Benton took a recruiting trip to Auburn this past weekend, a decision that didn’t sit well with his old coach. “I think he might be listening to the wrong people,†Bradshaw said. “Not very smart in my opinion.†Benton is a former teammate of Randle’s. The two starred in the receiving corps for Bastrop when the Rams won the Class 4A state title in 2006, Benton’s senior season. He later played at Hargrave Military Academy in Virginia. He continues trying to get his academics in order. Bradshaw said Auburn’s name surfaced in Benton’s recruitment only a couple of weeks ago. “I called Auburn and told them to leave him alone,†the coach said. “They obviously didn’t listen to me.†Link: http://www.2theadvocate.com/sports/3843766...ndex=14&c=y (Benton section is in the middle of the article) Sounds to me like another Alber Means case! It does sound like the bama drama which if true i would be ok with them getting some sanctions but thinking about it could just be some town coon ass of a coach pissed that his old player is listening to his new coaches who they spend all there time with up at Hargrave. Like they say nothing like a woman scorned or a coach, Ask Fulmer. Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/55794-this-is-total-crap/#findComment-576906 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarDamn57 0 Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 You would think that the players would like there coach to encourage schools to talk them. I was under the impression that a good HS coach would try to give their players as many options as possible, those kids bust their butts for those coaches, they deserve the same loyalty in return. If I was Benton, I would be upset if my coach told a D-I school to leave me alone. I don't see why he wouldn't want Benton to have the options he worked hard for and deserves. It's Benton's decision, Not the HS coaches. Benton has to do what is right for him, not what is right for his coach. Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/55794-this-is-total-crap/#findComment-576916 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WAR-GIGEM-EAGLE 4 Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 someone send it in or make a big deal about it. message boards have the ability to spark investigations. i've witnessed it first hand over on A&M's board with the OU Big Red Auto scandal and Coach Fran's illegal newsletters. to see a high school coach so alarmed at the fact that his kids are visiting other SEC schools while may be the coach being a doucebag, definitely sets off some alarms. Our high school coach was notorious for not helping students get scholarships or shopping his talent around, so it does exist.. He never, however, lobbied against one school for another. Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/55794-this-is-total-crap/#findComment-576922 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarTim 3,565 Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 I would have LOVED to hear Coach Gene's reply to the hand's off demand. Youtube material I am sure. Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/55794-this-is-total-crap/#findComment-576936 Share on other sites More sharing options...
autigeremt 7,549 Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 LSU.......you might want to put a hit out on this guy. He could be very dangerous to your program now that his mouth has blown away his arse. Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/55794-this-is-total-crap/#findComment-576939 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaDE'05 8 Posted January 27, 2009 Author Share Posted January 27, 2009 BTW, Bastrop is the same program that had a State Title stripped in 2005 because it came out that they were illegally recruiting Katrina victims by coercing their displaced families into signing over their kids so they could move to Bastrop school district, live in an apartment with no adult supervision and play football. You stay classy, Bastrop High. Check out the NYT story about it: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html...mp;pagewanted=1 Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/55794-this-is-total-crap/#findComment-576948 Share on other sites More sharing options...
auwallace 6 Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 if this is true that they steer their atheletes to LSU for compensation....wonder when this practice began...hmmm? Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/55794-this-is-total-crap/#findComment-576954 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tigermike 4,266 Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 From the Baton Rouge Paper... Benton visits AuburnBastrop coach Brad Bradshaw said DeAngelo Benton, a two-time LSU signee, is close to becoming academically qualified and expects him to sign with the Tigers again next week. The LSU Tigers, that is. Benton took a recruiting trip to Auburn this past weekend, a decision that didn’t sit well with his old coach. “I think he might be listening to the wrong people,†Bradshaw said. “Not very smart in my opinion.†Benton is a former teammate of Randle’s. The two starred in the receiving corps for Bastrop when the Rams won the Class 4A state title in 2006, Benton’s senior season. He later played at Hargrave Military Academy in Virginia. He continues trying to get his academics in order. Bradshaw said Auburn’s name surfaced in Benton’s recruitment only a couple of weeks ago. “I called Auburn and told them to leave him alone,†the coach said. “They obviously didn’t listen to me.†Link: http://www.2theadvocate.com/sports/3843766...ndex=14&c=y (Benton section is in the middle of the article) Sounds to me like another Alber Means case! That's what I was thinking as well. Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/55794-this-is-total-crap/#findComment-576962 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geauxtigahs11 1 Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 Benton is a tigah!!! We may also have Kelly join Randle and Benton...naw, but we'll get 2/3. Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/55794-this-is-total-crap/#findComment-577040 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LegalEagle 22 Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 Little bird says the AU plane is in Monroe. LA w/ 4 AU coaches. Can anyone check that flighty thingy? Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/55794-this-is-total-crap/#findComment-577042 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldNewby 27 Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 Little bird says the AU plane is in Monroe. LA w/ 4 AU coaches. Can anyone check that flighty thingy? Flight arrived In Monroe at 10:35AM CST. Looks like they're still there! Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/55794-this-is-total-crap/#findComment-577045 Share on other sites More sharing options...
au2004ece 30 Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 So, the coaches are visiting Benton? Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/55794-this-is-total-crap/#findComment-577047 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LegalEagle 22 Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 Little bird says the AU plane is in Monroe. LA w/ 4 AU coaches. Can anyone check that flighty thingy? Flight arrived In Monroe at 10:35AM CST. Looks like they're still there! Reckon they are there to suck up some crawdaddies or some more of LSU's prospects??? Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/55794-this-is-total-crap/#findComment-577048 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geauxtigahs11 1 Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 So, the coaches are visiting Benton? No, they went to go eat at Hooters Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/55794-this-is-total-crap/#findComment-577049 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukeduke 8 Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 They probably went to smooth things over with the coach. I'm sure their feelings were hurt by him not wanting Auburn to talk to his players. I honestly would have loved to know what was going through the head of whatever Auburn coach he talked to. I guess now we know what's under Les Miles' hat. Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/55794-this-is-total-crap/#findComment-577052 Share on other sites More sharing options...
au2004ece 30 Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 So, the coaches are visiting Benton? No, they went to go eat at Hooters Oh, does your mom work there? Hopefully, the coaches will tip her well. Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/55794-this-is-total-crap/#findComment-577053 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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