Tomorrow marks exactly two weeks until National Signing Day, the only day of the year in which we allow 17 and 18-year olds to hold this country hostage. As I’ve mentioned before, I like exactly nothing about recruiting and do my best to not get caught up in the emotional roller coaster that accompanies high school seniors.
However, I’m fully aware of the importance of recruiting well. Without it, you end up with a 5-19 overall record, a 1-15 conference record in two seasons, and a third head coach in seven years, which, as you probably can’t imagine since your school is not a cat-herding operation, is NOT GOOD TIMES.
In the interest of staying somewhat informed concerning recruiting and such, I submit a proposal that would help suck restrained followers of recruiting like me back into discussions of the values and destinations of high school football players. Instead of stars, which are handed out on a one to five scale, with five being the most, to players so that their value might be kind-of-but-we’ll-really-know-in-two-to-three-years be determined, I want to see players given Cameron Poe Roundhouse Kicks To The Face:
Not literal roundhouse kicks to the face, though some of them probably deserve it (hey there, Gunner Kiel, what’s up, buddy? (BOOT IN THE FACE)), but this picture of Cameron Poe teaching the hired muscle of a Mexican drug lord that it is in everyone’s best interest to get out of the way while he’s looking for a syringe so that his diabetic prison friend can get his insulin before he goes into shock.
That’s way more awesome than boring yellow stars next to someone’s name. And everyone would get to describe so and so as a “five Cameron Poe Roundhouse Kicks To The Face defensive lineman.” Now THAT’S a player I want on my team.
So, someone in charge of all of this, makes this happen and I’ll come back, ready to inhale all of the stories about secret commitments and six-hour meetings with grandmothers that “could not have gone better. Sources tell me, he’s ours!”
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