Rabid Cougar
09-12-2016, 08:32 AM
Did Texas High School coaches decide not to schedule IMG? If so good for them. More state associations need to do that.
From the Tulsa newspaper:
"Booker T. Washington played a team based out of Bradenton, Florida, Saturday, known as IMG Academy. Not High School, Academy.
IMG starting quarterback Kellen Mond transferred there from San Antonio. Marcus Williamson, a cornerback who scored an IMG touchdown, transferred from Westerville, Ohio. He plays the secondary with Isaiah Pryor, who transferred from Lawrenceville, Georgia. Asa Martin, the IMG running back who also scored Saturday, transferred from Decatur, Alabama. Detect a pattern here?
IMG has been luring teenage tennis prodigies from all over the country for so long that we view it as standard practice. Is it too much to ask to keep the talent mill from infecting football as well?
There’s a growing discomfort among college football coaches that their sport is being tainted by AAU/summer league/prep school tendencies.
IMG, the No. 3-ranked team in USA Today’s national poll, symbolizes that sleaze.
BTW lost Saturday’s game, 49-7. Let’s make that an excuse to take a stand similar to the one taken by Texas high school coaches — no more scheduling games against IMG and its football factory ilk. That goes for Jenks, Union or anyone else willing to learn from BTW’s sad example.
The only thing the Hornets got out of playing IMG was dirty."
http://www.tulsaworld.com/sportsextra/osusportsextra/guerin-teed-it-was-quite-a-week-extracting-victory-from/article_b668ea04-ae19-583e-a622-0f2cac5e1a78.html
From the Tulsa newspaper:
"Booker T. Washington played a team based out of Bradenton, Florida, Saturday, known as IMG Academy. Not High School, Academy.
IMG starting quarterback Kellen Mond transferred there from San Antonio. Marcus Williamson, a cornerback who scored an IMG touchdown, transferred from Westerville, Ohio. He plays the secondary with Isaiah Pryor, who transferred from Lawrenceville, Georgia. Asa Martin, the IMG running back who also scored Saturday, transferred from Decatur, Alabama. Detect a pattern here?
IMG has been luring teenage tennis prodigies from all over the country for so long that we view it as standard practice. Is it too much to ask to keep the talent mill from infecting football as well?
There’s a growing discomfort among college football coaches that their sport is being tainted by AAU/summer league/prep school tendencies.
IMG, the No. 3-ranked team in USA Today’s national poll, symbolizes that sleaze.
BTW lost Saturday’s game, 49-7. Let’s make that an excuse to take a stand similar to the one taken by Texas high school coaches — no more scheduling games against IMG and its football factory ilk. That goes for Jenks, Union or anyone else willing to learn from BTW’s sad example.
The only thing the Hornets got out of playing IMG was dirty."
http://www.tulsaworld.com/sportsextra/osusportsextra/guerin-teed-it-was-quite-a-week-extracting-victory-from/article_b668ea04-ae19-583e-a622-0f2cac5e1a78.html