Ruh roh.
Brooks is paying attention...
Full article...
http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/calloway-comment-contradicts-uas-hasty-claim-29622
Something else that doesn't add up:
Tidesports keeps acting like it's rare for a 9th grader to show any ability to be a college football player.
That couldn't be further from the truth. The four and five star guys get those rankings because they've dominated football since a young age. They don't just "mature early" and dominate opponents until other guys catch up. These guys are monsters in middle school and merely start making a name for themselves at high school camps around the 9th and 10th grade years. Along with their remarkable highlight tapes.
Unless Calloway matured late and was unnoticed (which is proven false by the 2008 article Brooks referred to), then everyone in Russellville drooled over the thought of having a kid like Calloway play for them.
They might not have said "sure-thing college football prospect," but they knew the possibilities. There are probably a lot of guys out there like Woodruff. They make an investment into a young high school kid that has potential. If he pans out? Great. "My team gets em." If not? Whatever. Just a kid that will probably make a good future employee if I train him right.
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