Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Recruit Fakes Visit to Notre Dame


No one ever said football players were geniuses, right? How else can you explain the rather stupid move that a Georgia recruit pulled on Notre Dame this past weekend?

Stanley Williams, a junior currently playing at George Walton Academy in Bethlehem, Georgia, was scheduled to make a visit to Notre Dame over the weekend. 

When he was asked about his visit from the Notre Dame site Blue and Gold Illustrated he acted as if he the visit went great. He went as far as to say that he looked forward to furthering the relationship between him and the university.

The only problem is he was never actually there. Williams, who has already committed to Georgia but is still making visits to other schools fabricated the entire visit in the interview. When asked about it by another site, 247Sports, he owned up to it immediately, but the question remains--what in the world was he thinking?

There are probably many non-Irish fans that thing the incident is funny in light of everything going on with Manti Te'o. Williams had to be thinking of the fake girlfriend controversy when he decided to pull the prank.

But why do it? Just to be funny? Maybe schools are not too concerned that a player would show such blatant disrespect and incredible immaturity. However, I would think that some would also be concerned that a young high school kid that has yet to prove anything and can still have his offer pulled would be dumb enough to do this.

When you start playing college sports a player's actions are often considered representative of the university and program. Who wants to be associated with this kind of kid?



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