[Update x2 w Tiger Woods Reference] Hello Kiffin Takes Commitment From A 13 Year Old QB
by Nestor on Feb 4, 2010 7:14 PM PST
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PrintI am trying to figure out if this is a real story. Seems to be like this is not a joke (emphasis added):
David Sills, a highly-touted youth quarterback, made a verbal commitment tonight to accept a college football scholarship from USC.
Sills is not even in high school yet. He is a seventh-grader at Red Lion Christian Academy in Bear.
Red Lion high school varsity coach Eric Day confirmed the decision by Sills tonight, also confirming that USC coach Lane Kiffin recently offered a scholarship to the 13-year-old Sills.
"I'm very excited but I was very, very nervous," Sills said tonight about talking to Kiffin over the phone. "It was very cool [to talk to Kiffin] but my heart was beating so fast, and I was scared. But after it was over, I was so excited and pumped."
Someone please let me know if this is a joke. It sounds too good to be true because we are already overflooded with material to clown Hello Kiffin.
GO BRUINS.
UPDATE (N): Holy cr*p. This looks to be true story. Here is an article on SI.com from two years ago, written by a Trogan alum about this kid as an "11 year old prodigy":
David Sills is being hailed as one of the greatest quarterback prospects ever.
If you haven't heard of him yet, it's understandable. He just turned 11.
"I know he's young but there's always an exception. He's the exception," says Steve Clarkson, who runs the Air 7 Quarterback University, a national camp for quarterbacks. "By no means would I recommend this for ten-year olds, but he's a special case."
Sills isn't hard to spot on a crowded football field, filled with top high school prospects.
"He's the little one slinging passes to guys twice his size," says a family friend sitting in the bleachers, pointing at the pint-sized quarterback.
I am going to be sick. GO BRUINS.
UPDATE II (N): Uhm. They are calling this kid the next "Tiger Woods":
I will leave it up to you to insert all the east jokes. GO BRUINS.
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Hey N
I did a FanShot about the same time, please delete the double post. Thanks.
Unfortunately, I think it’s legit. The website is real. Just…..WOW. It is only a matter of time before suc implodes under this douchebag and nutjob. I’m not even going to try and figure out why.
I don't think so
I clicked on other links and they all work. Just in case it was a sham site but the site is legit.
Well, I say good for the trogans
Let them commit NOW to give this kid a scholarship, no matter what.
Sometimes things happen in the several years between junior high and college. Maybe he’ll stop growing. Maybe he’ll discovery girls. Maybe a lot of things. But more power to the trogans. They should now have one less scholarship for the incoming class of whatever it would be – 2015? Lame won’t care. He’ll long since have been fired. by then.
Precisely
Way too young to even know how this kid is going to turn out. I have so many stories, as I’m sure we all do, about so and so’s kid who was this great football player. Half-way through high school it turns out the kid is a drug addict or knocks some chick up. Usually game over.
So, if the Trogans want to spin their wheels like this, hey, I only see it as a waste of resources.
*I* ran over George Tirebiter.
by Bruins102NCAA on Feb 4, 2010 8:01 PM PST up reply actions
We may not know how this kid will turn out
… but Lame already knows within 10 minutes!
At least he is not signing a LOI right now. The next “Tiger” is not going to a school where they can’t play in a post-season. He will back pedal like a great QB as soon as the ban hammer comes down on $C.
It’s understandable for a 13 yr old to jump at this chance because he is a 13 yr old. But for Lame to offer a scholarship to a 13 yr old… it’s so typical of the program… It’s Just$C…
I was going to head that direction, HK
It only took Lame 10 minutes to figure out this kid was still in junior high.
This proves Lame likes watching film of 13yo kids.... What a sicko.
This can’t be legal.
GO COLTS!!!!!
I'm sorry
but you shouldn’t be able to recruit an 11 year old. You should at least be a Sophmore/Jr in HS before a coach can even talk to you.
Glad this hit the press before their big hearing with the NCAA.
It can’t help their cause.
GO COLTS!!!!!
its nothing new, lame was hounding pre-teens at Tennessee as well, he’s trying to get them now before they get to rick
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/andy_staples/06/30/tennessee-berry/index.html
Just to give an objective look at this, I think that this has less to do with Lane Kiffin and more to do with the state of recruiting today…the kind of attention signing day and the recruiting process gets these days – you saw it yesterday here on this site. Guys like Clarkson are not helping and this kind of thing is only going to continue on down this path. This isn’t isolated to USC. Former Gator QB Chris Leak got an offer in middle school as well, and he’s not the only one. If you do some googling there are some stories up that mention that UCLA also sent this kid some correspondence, and I’m sure there are more schools than that who are interested in this kid. That’s just the nature of NCAA football these days, and I think it’s pretty sad – when I saw this and read about the kid, my first thought was Todd Marinovich Jr.
verification
ESPN.com is also running a story about the committment. Brought to you by the same “school” that signed (and subsequently cut) Lil’ Bow Wow.
Those lyrics are just so disgusting
I’m sorry, anything is game when Kiffykins is creeping on 12 year olds.
Hello Kiffen is following in the footsteps of the ghosts of Trogans' past
Doesn’t anyone remember Trogan bball coach Timmeh! offering a scholarship to a 13 year old hoopster? And we know what ended up happening with Timmeh…
RECRUITOPHILE!!!
Shady.
"The entire world that bleeds blue and gold ... they have been dying for this." - Coach Rick Neuheisel
Am I missing something?
How is this kid the next Tiger Woods? Yeah he’s a kid and he throws the ball accurately for whatever Pee Wee division of football he’s playing in, but I’m not exactly impressed.
This isn’t kid Tiger dropping putts from 20+ feet. But hey, if you want to burn a scholarship on a kid who doesn’t even know what a pimple is yet, go for it Lame. When he flames out or doesn’t pan out according to plan, they’ll dump him and claim he was “afraid to compete.”
Also
“I’m very excited but I was very, very nervous,” Sills said tonight about talking to Kiffin over the phone. “It was very cool [to talk to Kiffin] but my heart was beating so fast, and I was scared. But after it was over, I was so excited and pumped.”
That whole quote just sounds creepy. Very child molester-y. Excitement. Nervousness. Heart beating fast. Is Lame serving up the ol’ Michael Jackson special or something?
You know how to tell when it's time to go to bed in inheritance hall?
When the big hand touches the little hand. (Thank you, Michael Jackson, for leaving an endless supply of lines that can be used with Lame.
(And as an aside, I’m kind of getting partial to “Lane Violation.” It has a nice ring. I can’t remember who put that up, but I think it’s a good one.)
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