National Signing Day Drama

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for those ofy ou who do not follow college football today is like Christmas for college football fans, it's national signing day. this is the day the recruits sign their letters of intent to go to play for X

so you guys know how i roll i'm a die hard arkansas fan. Arkansas got a commitment from the top rated RB int he country Monday night (at least according to 247sports.com)

http://www.foxsportssouth.com/pages...=v5:share:sharepermalink:&from=sharepermalink

so today comes, everyone has faxed in their letters of itnent. No LOI from alex collins. everyone is like oh well they probably just do their thing late.

as it tunrs out, and you can't make this **** up, his momma.. who gave legal custoy of him to his high school coach, and who he told he can go live with the coach to get out of the house, basically she wants nothing to do with rasing the child, is so pissed off that the kid is signing with arkansas and not miami which is his local collge, that she litarlly, came to school, stole the letter of intent and ran out the building

ran out the mother****ing building. **** was shoudl be signing her at running back. for you mother****ers that say i pull **** out of my ass here *****es

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/r...ollins-letter-intent-taken-mother-sources-say



how ****ty of a mother do you have to be. best day of the kids life and now he's the laughing stock of the entire country

 

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from what i understand divorced but he's actually trying to find the father who is going to sign the LOI for him instead of the mom. so the dad is in the picture. don't know why he doesn't live with him though.

 

[Bible_Belt]

ESPN said he's 18, so the parent's signature is only ceremonial. I don't know why they have the parent sign. It makes no sense from a legal perspective.

 

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ESPN said he's 18, so the parent's signature is only ceremonial. I don't know why they have the parent sign. It makes no sense from a legal perspective.

you have to be 21 to not have to have your parents sign a LOI. we had same conversation on a razorback forum earlier today

 

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yeah i almost forgot

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a78/nursetpd/Arkansas/NO_PIG_SOOIE_zpsadb79e66.gif

 

[speed dawg]

Nobody cares about freaking Arkansas. You're only mad because your a homer.

Maybe he just doesn't enjoy the smell of Tyson chicken grease and Walmart pollution in Fayettenam?

 

[Bible_Belt]

you have to be 21 to not have to have your parents sign a LOI.

That's an NCAA rule from what I read now. I still don't know the legal basis. Maybe it is some sort of acceptance to be scrutinized for recruiting violations. It's probably the person they watch to see if they suddenly buy an expensive new car.

 

[speed dawg]

backbreaker do you frequent Hogville.net?

 

[sageproduct]

Guy seems like he's really handling it well. If my own mom or dad did that to me, I don't think I'd be able to hold my tongue from tearing them a new one in front of the national spotlight

Seems like the real age threshold into adulthood is 21 or 25, not 18. Not without reason I guess, seeing how the teenage years have now been extended into the early 20's for many

 

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she's now hired a lawyer in an attempt to keep the father from signing the letter of intent here today.

Will Manso ?@WillManso
The attorney for Alex Collins mom says, "This is a very tough decision and they are weighing their options very carefully

 

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the mother is a b!tch. she is probably on the pay roll by some other team or maybe the whole thing is just a scam set up by the guy himself

 

[Bible_Belt]

Since the parent signature is an NCAA rule, the NCAA has every right to waive it at their own discretion.

 

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Since the parent signature is an NCAA rule, the NCAA has every right to waive it at their own discretion.

This is the released statement (he's signed by the way about 4 hours ago)

“Ms. McDonald understands that Alex has received consent from his father who has signed the letter-of-intent for him to play football for the University of Arkansas. However, our client’s initial intentions remain unchanged. She is a loving and caring mother who only wants her son to choose a university without any outside and inappropriate influences. Ms. McDonald hopes all NCAA rules and regulations were followed during today’s signing. She is not seeking any personal financial gain because her only concern is for Alex’s happiness and well being. The Cochran Firm is standing by Ms. McDonald in this difficult time and has made all of the firm’s resources available to her as she explores her options.”

Now this is what I want to know BB.... does she have any legal standing to try to go against the father's signature?

From a man's point of view, i could see a scenario where this could get ugly, if by some chance a court allowed the NLI to be void because the mother did not sign it even though the father did.

the mother is a b!tch. she is probably on the pay roll by some other team or maybe the whole thing is just a scam set up by the guy himself

if i ahd to take a stab at it, Miami promised to pay her X as long as collins signed with Miami. Miami is under NCAA investigation for violating a number of rules including paying players. Actually the results from the investigation are supposed to be officially released next week. Actually Collins was for a while committed to Miami and the impending sanctions made him decommit from Miami which lead him to Arkansas. If the results are what all the fans think are the results miami could very well get the death penalty. the U has always been one of the dirtiest schools in the country

 

[Bible_Belt]

Now this is what I want to know BB.... does she have any legal standing to try to go against the father's signature?

No. It's all NCAA ceremony and not really law. Upon turning 18, the kid legally becomes an adult and therefore has the right to enter into contracts - period. That's the law, which is a higher authority than NCAA rules.

I still think all of this has to do with the NCAA insisting that there has to be some parental figure that they can watch to make sure they don't suddenly receive unexplained lavish gifts. Giving money to parents is the new way of bribing athletes. It's a lot harder to track. That's what USC did with Reggie Bush.

It is worthy of mention that the mother herself can be sued here by her own son if he wanted to pursue it. She is guilty of tortious interference with contractual relations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortious_interference

 

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Now this is what I want to know BB.... does she have any legal standing to try to go against the father's signature?

No. It's all NCAA ceremony and not really law. Upon turning 18, the kid legally becomes an adult and therefore has the right to enter into contracts - period. That's the law, which is a higher authority than NCAA rules.

I still think all of this has to do with the NCAA insisting that there has to be some parental figure that they can watch to make sure they don't suddenly receive unexplained lavish gifts. Giving money to parents is the new way of bribing athletes. It's a lot harder to track. That's what USC did with Reggie Bush.

It is worthy of mention that the mother herself can be sued here by her own son if he wanted to pursue it. She is guilty of tortious interference with contractual relations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortious_interference

there's talk that this will be looked into this off season. something somewhat similar happened last year with alabama/lsu with landon collins his momma wanted him at lsu he was a bama fan. so at his bama ceremony his mom was doing the lsu chant and was all in the camera talking about how it's a bad decision, but she eventually let him do this thing. then i believe last year a player's mom faxed in a letter that said NO or something like that on it lol to a school.

it's a stupid rule and needs to be fixed