Another decommit today?
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Based on some Twitter speculation, looks like John Leday is putting pressure on Jalen Barnes to switch his commit to Houston. High school teammates.
This is a tweet from a fan directed at John Leday that he retweeted:
Apologies in advance for Twitter speculation but this thread needed some info, regardless of how bad it may be.
Check for yourself, Barnes on Twitter is "@YungPhenom_" and Leday is "@CatchAnything"
This is a tweet from a fan directed at John Leday that he retweeted:
Not sure if it's a done deal yet or not, Barnes may be having trouble with the decision:
Apologies in advance for Twitter speculation but this thread needed some info, regardless of how bad it may be.
Check for yourself, Barnes on Twitter is "@YungPhenom_" and Leday is "@CatchAnything"
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Jalen Barnes - Yahoo! Sports
Kamari Syrie - Yahoo! Sports
Both 2*s. Barnes seems to have better offers (Oklahoma St, Mississippi St, Utah) vs us and North Texas for Syrie.
Agreed. Not even a mention of where you could go to get the information. Come on man.
Email from a buddy. Not sure of his source but he would have no reason to lie about it. He is a hard core Cyclone.
Nice. In the future include that information in your first post. Your buddy might just be speculating off of the twitter posts above. Who knows.
Thus the question mark. His email was pretty funny as we always discuss these kids and their understanding of the word commitment.
I know it's cliche, but Houston (losing record in 2012, no bowl game, 30K fans/game) or a BCS Conference team (ISU: bowl game, 54Kfans, did I mention BCS conference?)? I just don't quite get the logic behind some kids' decisions.
Obviously, each player has to decide individually what is best for him, but it seems like they should hold on their "commitment" until they're truly sure of where they'd like to play. Rivals shows Barnes never visited - if true, wouldn't you think he'd at least want to do that before finalizing a decision?
Obviously, each player has to decide individually what is best for him, but it seems like they should hold on their "commitment" until they're truly sure of where they'd like to play. Rivals shows Barnes never visited - if true, wouldn't you think he'd at least want to do that before finalizing a decision?
His profile still looks pretty committed:
Future Big12 Participant Iowa State Cyclone c/o 2013 commit#CycloneNation #GoCyclones
Trill, TX · http://getmoney.org
Future Big12 Participant Iowa State Cyclone c/o 2013 commit#CycloneNation #GoCyclones
Trill, TX · http://getmoney.org
Two years ago, Houston was 13-1, ranked in the top 20, beat Penn State in a bowl game, and got all kinds of national exposure. They were likely one loss away from a BCS bowl. When is the last time ISU had a season like that? Also, I believe that Houston will be part of the Big East in 2013, which is a BCS conference. And don't forget warm-weather school in an NFL town...
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He visited the same weekend that Estime, Syrie, Waggoner, Brown, and a couple more did.
And seriously on Houston? They're not a bad program by any means, and he's from Port Arthur which is a lot closer to Houston than Ames.
While I am disappointed, if true. Keep in mind that he would be much closer to home and apparently playing with friends. Those might outweigh a BCS conference team 800 miles away.
When your argument is contingent on "we had an abnormally good season few years ago, it brought us national exposure", you have to question how much exposure it actually brought. Will there be a Big East in 2013? Certainly will not be a BCS conference for any recruit that is not one and done (which is all of them). The University of Houston is garbage.
Enough exposure to get their coach hired by a Big 12/SEC team.
With that statement, you're just being stupid.
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