The ugly side of recruiting hype
You see all kinds of stories about football recruiting. Some good, some bad and some just plain ugly. An article I read today about Notre Dame's latest QB recruit (Jimmy Clausen) has to fall in the ugly category. According to Dennis Dodd of CBS Sports, young Mr. Clausen hired a PR firm to hype his commitment announcement to Notre Dame. The staged announcement was performed at the College Football Hall of Fame in South Bend before hundreds of cheering Notre Dame fans. Mr. Clausen and his PR entourage of 15 arrived at the event in a stretch white Hummer limousine. Clausen posed for the audience and showed off several high school championship rings for the cameras, boosting that he plans to win 4 national championships at Notre Dame.
Please .... enough already! This is a high school kid who hasn't even graduated yet and he's out there acting like the next Joe Namath. Now we all understand that quarterbacks need to have self confidence but this is so over the top it's ridiculous. You have to wonder how the rest of the Notre Dame team will feel when "Hollywood" Jimmy Clausen finally arrives as the Notre Dame savior in 2007 and tries to steal all the attention and glory away from everyone else. I think the coaches are going to have their hands full dealing with an ego bigger than the state of California.
Click here to read Dennis Dodd's article on Jimmy Clausen (free access with no registration required).
Go Big Red,
RedCap
Please .... enough already! This is a high school kid who hasn't even graduated yet and he's out there acting like the next Joe Namath. Now we all understand that quarterbacks need to have self confidence but this is so over the top it's ridiculous. You have to wonder how the rest of the Notre Dame team will feel when "Hollywood" Jimmy Clausen finally arrives as the Notre Dame savior in 2007 and tries to steal all the attention and glory away from everyone else. I think the coaches are going to have their hands full dealing with an ego bigger than the state of California.
Click here to read Dennis Dodd's article on Jimmy Clausen (free access with no registration required).
Go Big Red,
RedCap
posted by RedCap at 10:56 AM
1 Comments:
I tend to agree with ya RedCap. The kid is 18 months from playing in his first game. There's enough pressure on young QBs without adding all this hype.
I wonder how ND fans will react to this SoCal kid? I don't think it would play well in Nebrasksa.
I wrote some more about this on BRN.
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