Earlier on this thread I was told that "with all due respect" that I was wrong that JC would be bad for bama. I was told he was, let me paraphase " sincere, serious, level headed kid etc". Read below. This kid is a Lebron James wanabe. He does not strike me as a team player. No more apologies from me. Go to USCe Clowney because your theatrics are Clownish!
Jadeveon Clowney leading a circus show
By Travis Sawchik
tsawchik@postandcourier.com
Saturday, February 12, 2011
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ROCK HILL -- It is Friday afternoon, T-minus 70 hours until the nation's No. 1 football prospect makes his choice between South Carolina, Clemson and Alabama, and Jadeveon Clowney's lunch is being interrupted again.
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Jadeveon Clowney
Clowney is tired of making appearances at the South Pointe High attendance office. Division I coaches come courting at this particular office because it is located at an extreme wing of the school where coaches can swoop in and out the back door. Nick Saban does not like to make a scene.
Is Saban nice?
"He just kind of nodded," said student assistant Lanie Johnson of Saban's informal greeting.
Clowney's midday meal has been truncated countless times this year by Saban, Steve Spurrier and Dabo Swinney because they don't want to interrupt class time. His free-period card games with buddies in the cafeteria paused for several weeks by writers asking the same tiresome question: Where you going to college? He'll answer it on ESPN at 10:15 a.m. on Monday.
Today in the office they wonder if Clowney will show for one last request? Minutes pass. Doubt grows until the hallway fills with laughter, sounds of a crowd. Clowney enters the office. Today he's wearing a South Carolina windbreaker. A verdict? He smiles and says he'll be wearing a Clemson shirt later in the day.
Clowney says he just wants to fit it in, even though his 6-6 frame hovers above the crowds in the hallway, even though he's followed by a documentary film crew.
Clowney declines to sign a couple more ESPN The Magazine covers he graces for students. He said his hand is cramped. He's signed at least 300. Clowney said he's tired of the reporters. The most annoying question? Answered Clowney: "Where are you going to school?"
Clowney said if he could do it over, he would have announced on signing day. He said he was influenced by LeBron James' decision broadcast this summer. While Clowney brought this attention on himself, he also brought it unwillingly upon a rural school that has never seen anything like it and whose administrators seem ready for the spectacle to end.