Recruiting Football Talk VIII

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#155,251
GoBigOrange86 said:
I want to thank everyone who said prayers or sent thoughts/good vibes to my Dad. His surgery this morning went well. They removed the suspected precancerous mass and some lymph nodes to check spread and we should have the pathology report by early next week. He may be going home as soon as this weekend.
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Praises and continued prayers!
 
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April 18, 1923

"The House that Ruth built."

On April 18th, 1923, the first day of the new baseball season, the gates of Yankee Stadium were opened and 74,200 people flooded through turnstiles, while another 25,000 were turned away – an amazing number, given that previous attendance record for a single game was 42,000 for the 1916 World Series in Boston. In an ironic twist, the first game was fittingly played against the Boston Red Sox, Babe’s former team. Even more fitting was that Babe Ruth hit the first homerun in the stadium on the opening day of the new ballpark – a three-run homerun, giving the Yankees the 4-1 win.

As a response to Babe’s opening day homerun, sportswriter Fred Lieb referred to Yankee Stadium in his column as “The House That Ruth Built”. It was a nickname that quickly stuck.


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HoleInTheRoof said:
Idk why but I feel like he was a vol lean at some point and then kind of trolled us somehow? Idk I could be wrong.
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Marques Easley was a Vols lean early on. We stopped recruiting him in the middle of his recruitment. Several in his thread read the clues to mean that he was "not a cultural fit" or there was a "character" issue detected during his OV. A couple thought it was a health issue.

Flash forward:
Easley is the player who last month, speeding recklessly, lost control of his Dodge Challenger, spun off the road, struck a power distribution box, bounced into a parked vehicle (which ricocheted into a second parked car), before his car finally landed on the front porch of an Athens apartment building. Inches from the front door.

Of course Athens police don't drug and alcohol test football players. That would solve the whole problem. And so far only two people have died.

Easley lied to the police and said he was driving 20-30 mph, despite the fact that there were 200-300 feet of swerving black skid marks down the road just before the point where (crossing the opposing lane) he lost control of his car completely. The trail of destruction belied his story, anyway. So Athens police took him to a hospital (which also didn't drug or alcohol test him) for some minor injuries. Then they let him walk!

Three days later, Kirby (trying look like he is getting tougher) (or for some other reason) suspended Easley indefinitely. I guess that was the signal to Athens police that arresting Easley was okay. So one day after Easley's suspension (4 days after the crash) they arrested him -- by which time everything of course had been "fixed" behind the scenes. Easley caught three misdemeanor charges and was out on bail in 40 minutes flat.

I don't know if his entering the portal was Easley's or Kirby's idea.
 
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