Did Clemson offer a coaching job to someone in order to get Robert Nkemdiche?
Robert Nkemdiche is the number one ranked recruit in the nation according to Rivals.com and he recently committed to the Clemson Tigers and Dabo Swinney. Swinney is known for being able to recruit extremely well but has not always lived up to expectations on the field for most Clemson fans. Clemson has a spectacular beginning of the 2012 season but finished poorly after losing to North Carolina State, Georgia Tech, and the South Carolina during the end of the regular season. Dabo Swinney and his Clemson Tigers then were invited to the Orange Bowl to play the West Virginia mountaineers where they received a 70-33 shellacking. Despite all this, they still landed the number one defensive end in the country.
All of this has caused some to question Swinney’s recruiting tactics and if they are at all “questionable”. This quote came from Saturday morning’s Mobile Press-Register Soundoff and was found via IBleedCrimsonRed.com
I think you’re going to find in the Robert Nkemdiche commitment that Mickey Conn, his high school coach, will also be getting a position at Clemson. This was a packaged deal, and we will see it in a few days.
What’s that you say? His position coach is getting a job too? That sounds a little sketchy if it’s true. Creating a package deal for a player and his high school coach looks extremely sketchy. You can bet that the NCAA and other schools recruiting Nkemdiche will be looking into this matter. Here is a list of schools that offered and recruited Nkemdiche via Rivals.com.
That is an impressive offer list from a lot of schools with very good football programs. I doubt Nick Saban of Alabama or Les Miles of LSU will just leave this guy alone now. This could be all smoke. But if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it’s probably a duck.
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YARDBARKER all of you are scumbags who suck the dicks of Carolina and every other SEC team when they don’t get their way way… SO BOO FUCKING WHOO
Being from the Mobile Bay Area I can tell you that the vast majority of people who call in to Sound Off have no clue what they’re talking about. A lot of it is just Bama and Auburn and LSU fans engaging in pissing matches, and this caller was obviously a Bama fan trying to justify and make sense of them actually losing out on a top recruit. Its been about a week since Nkemdiche committed and what do ya know Conn is still head coach at Grayson High School. UGA on the hand, did try something like this I think, and it didn’t work
Really? We show favoritism towards Carolina teams? Come on man.
http://blogs.ajc.com/recruiting/2012/07/06/robert-nkemdiche-clemson-can-seal-the-deal-if-they-offer-another-grayson-teammate/
“I am waiting on Clemson to offer Ryan; when that happens, it’s locked … it’s a done deal … it’s over,” Robert Nkemdiche told the AJC.
Nkemdiche says the primary reason he picked Clemson over LSU and Alabama, among others, was because the Tigers already had commitments from his two his Grayson teammates, RB Wayne Gallman and DB David Kamara. Also, earlier this week, former Grayson QB Nick Schuessler decided to give up his football scholarship to Mississippi State to be a preferred walk-on at Clemson (Nkemdiche has lived with Schuessler’s family at times).
The only person missing in the Grayson-to-Clemson pipeline is Ryan Carter, according to Nkemdiche.