College recruiting

By YellerSkeeters are PeterEaters!

August 15, 2008 3:40 PM | Link to this

Too bad for him UGA historically doesn’t go the JUCO route. Why bother? You only have them for 2 years max. Only on a very rare occasion will UGA offer, and we all know that UGA is the center of the football universe!

Oh, and Tech sucks! I’ve decided to end all my posts with that! Tech sucks will be my “pull on the ear” (Carol Burnett reference for all you youngsters — or Tech fans since so many of you are foreigners, not familiar with our pop-culture history — not Bollywood)

By Who?

August 15, 2008 11:17 PM | Link to this

Just because you are big and can run fast doesn’t make you a football player. This guy is a 2 star recruit at best. Pulpwood could run but no common sense.

By ugaboz

August 16, 2008 10:14 PM | Link to this

LOL

By bigeasy830

August 17, 2008 9:32 AM | Link to this

By Who?, that;s a dumb post. You do not no talent when you see it. I guy that size with that speed is a gem. Not many recruits from small towns make the 5 star list but many can play.

By YellerSkeeters and PeterEaters, I believe UGA will still make him an offer after juco. I remember Antonio Cochran from Montezuma went Juco and we offered to him after he spent 2 years at Middle Georgia College. He played rush end for us before Charles Grant did. Antonio ended up being a 4th round pick by Seattle. He was a bout the same size as this kid and had similar speed coming out of high school. Antonio ended up weighing about 280 by the time he left UGA but he could still run. I see the same thing with this kid.

By Jondoe

August 18, 2008 8:42 AM | Link to this

Ask Valdosta if this kid can play, and see what they will have to say about Williams???? By who… or whomever you are, the question would be can you play???? The answer would be heck no, if you don’t have anything nice to say pleaseeeeeeeee just don’t say anything!!!! After all, this is only a H.S. kid….

By Football Guy

August 19, 2008 8:42 PM | Link to this

Well let us set the record straight on the Williams kid. The information that I will provide is 100% accurate. Call coach Rainbow at Worth County High School for confirmation.

I must say that it is sad for a kid like Williams to go the JUCO route to college with all of the talent that he has. Both of his brothers played college ball and his first cousins let the RAMS to a state championship back in 1987. Three of the four siblings of Williams went to college and two of three have advance degrees. Therefore, there is some academic guidance in this child’s life. This child came into Worth County High as a 8th grader with high expectations and the community, family, and coaches knew what type of kid that they would have at this point. This young man has preserved through a number of trials and tribulations over the course of his high school career. His father was killed by one of his high school’s classmate in a car accident and still today, he has to walk the halls with this student everyday of his high school career. Nevertheless, he has played the hand he has been dealt and he has done well to the best of his ability. Let the record reflect, as a Junior this kid passed his GHSGT and the GHS Writing Test. This kid took the SAT for the first time and was points away from qualifying on his first try. The problem is his coach. Throughout his three years of high school, he has only failed one course. The head coach, Harris Rainbow, has coached this phenom since his sophomore season and could not get this kid qualified for college football play. Why, one may ask? Well it is simple, it is a lot easier to keep a kid like that in lower level classes so that he can be eligible than to challenge the kid with high expectation that would propel him into a Division I college program. As reliable sources has indicated in Sylvester, when his older brother, who is a high school football coach, recommended that the kid be placed in college approved courses last summer Rainbow and guidance discouraged the kid. After ill support from the staff and frustration, the kid’s mother decided to keep the kid in the lower level course in fear that he would not graduate. These are the facts and they are all true! Call Rainbow for confirmation if you feel different. I can guarantee you now that if this kid father had not passed prematurely he would indeed be playing for his brother who coached at Cook County and now Dublin. The older brother took the middle brother from Worth County after his sophomore year to Cook County and the kid excelled in the classroom and earned an opportunity to play college ball. So when we judge this kid, or any kid for that matter, understand that the success of the athlete is predicated by the work and guidance for his or her coach. I have been around football a long time and I know coaches must sell their players and must do everything that they can to give that phenomenal kid an opportunity to get into college. As Rainbow and the article has already stated, this is a good kid and he is not academically challenged, however, he has been academically disabled by a support system at Worth County High School that has failed him. Folks, many of you reading this blog know that this type of thing happen to a number of athletes across our state and our country. When one examines the successful programs in the state of Georgia, the Lowndes, Dublins, WACO’s, and a few more notables from the south, one will find a kid just like Williams, both athletically and academically, signing the big scholarships and playing on Saturday. So look at this situation, and ask, why does a kid like this have to suffer from inexperience from a staff? This blog is just setting the record straight for the kid. If the kid goes to a JUCO it is not the end of the world. If he get his academics taken care of and continue to excel on the field, he will play for somebody after his two-year stint.

By Informed

August 22, 2008 10:25 AM | Link to this

Why is always someone else fault. This kid will go to college and end up at a D1 school. Why wasnt the mother at the school trying to get him into the appropriate classes. Why is it the coaches resonsibility. oh I forgot it is always the coaches fault. You are correct on your statement of the kids brothers playing college ball. Were they eligible for a D1 school? Maybe you should check that out. These coaches care for these kids a lot more than the coaches that were here when he was a freshmen. Get off the coaches. I assume that you are a loyal supporter and attned all the games down here. Or do you just like to listen to rumors and believe everything you hear.

By MoJo

August 30, 2008 12:34 AM | Link to this

Yes, the older brother did qualify and played at Georgia Southern in the mid 90’s. The middle brother went the Juco route and played at Reedly College in Reedly, California. So, to the previous blogger, does it make it a difference?

By mr hurley

September 25, 2008 8:23 PM | Link to this

Man f*** all yall hatin on my boi!! He gone make it b***.and wen he do dont comment s** else