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Post by IMG Public Relations on May 4, 2016 11:21:41 GMT -5
Who's the tranny over his right shoulder?
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Post by sdot on May 4, 2016 14:33:59 GMT -5
Now we're stuck choosing between Giant Douche and Insufferable Cunt
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Post by IMG Public Relations on May 4, 2016 15:02:33 GMT -5
Would have gone with Turd Sandwich. Giant Douche implies that he can make the Insufferable Cunt smell better, and that's clearly not the case.
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Post by prestonco on May 5, 2016 0:00:14 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure the Turd Sandwich was Ted Cruz.
Oh well, it should all be great fun until inauguration day.
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Post by HuffNfeffeR on May 6, 2016 8:36:22 GMT -5
Fastest she's ever laid off an entire organization. /I didn't originate this observation. The way I heard it was it took her 6 years to ruin HP but she killed Ted Cruz in only 6 days.
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Post by sdot on May 6, 2016 16:35:09 GMT -5
I'm in your state drinking all of your beers
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Post by HuffNfeffeR on May 7, 2016 14:10:37 GMT -5
All your beer are mine?
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Post by matt on May 11, 2016 12:44:50 GMT -5
This is the most awesome thing. I wish I was as awesome as this 15 year old.
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Post by matt on May 17, 2016 8:41:22 GMT -5
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Post by IMG Public Relations on May 17, 2016 8:56:22 GMT -5
Because we'd lose a ton of footballs - Skyler would throw half a dozen easily into the crack of his ass, and with this kids size you know they'll just absorb into him.
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Post by sdot on May 17, 2016 9:21:20 GMT -5
He doesn't look very athletic.
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Post by matt on May 17, 2016 10:20:26 GMT -5
He isn't. And he just breaks his legs every time he walks because people aint supposed to be that big.
So put him on the team. Losing with giant dude on the team will amuse me more than losing without giant dude on the team.
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Post by IMG Public Relations on May 23, 2016 15:13:33 GMT -5
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Post by sdot on May 23, 2016 20:03:34 GMT -5
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The Thread
May 25, 2016 21:08:13 GMT -5
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Post by matt on May 25, 2016 21:08:13 GMT -5
MattW MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — David Sills’ father just couldn’t let it go. Sills’ father, David IV, just kept dialing the same number, over and over, waiting for the response that he wanted. Finau-ly, he was told, “Yes.”
The man on the other end of the phone line was clear across the country from the Sills’ residence in Delaware. It was Steve Clarkson, highly-acclaimed quarterback guru. That relationship blossomed and led to a conversation between Clarkson and then-USC football coach Lane Kiffin, which resulted in a scholarship offer for Sills, who was just 13 at the time.
But David Sills’ story begins a few years earlier:
“My first year of football I was 6 and I played defensive end and I didn’t play a down,” Sills said of his first encounter with the sport he now plays at West Virginia, where he’s a sophomore quarterback/wide receiver. “The next year I played quarterback and I’ve been playing quarterback since then. I’ve been driven to play that since then. I know it’s kind of hard to say you’re driven to play quarterback when you’re 7 but growing up that’s all that I wanted to play.”
Now, after years of being told “yes” at the quarterback position, Sills is being told, “Hey, why don’t you try something else?”
See, Sills, born a quarterback, has begun a dual role with the Mountaineers, taking spring reps both at his natural position at QB as well as split out at wide receiver.
But that’s just one interesting aspect in the journey of Sills, who’s worked most of his life trying to overcome a stigma that was placed on him by an overeager decision to commit to a collegiate football program at the age of 13.
Quarterback coach Steve Clarkson works with 15-year old David Sills. — GETTY
DECISIONS, DECISIONS
Sills was sitting in after-school study hall when he got the news. His mother was on her way to his sister’s swim meet when she got the same phone call from her husband, David IV.
“I remember the day so clearly,” said Sills’ mother, Denise. “I got the call and my husband said, ‘You need to get up here, quickly.’ ”
The news? Sills had been offered a collegiate football scholarship by USC.
“I was like, ‘Is this even possible? Can you do that?’ I’d never heard of it,” Sills said, thinking back to the day. “I kind of took it and ran with it.
“I was working with a quarterback coach out in California, Steve Clarkson, and he had good connections with Coach Kiffin, he was the new coach there. They were just talking about quarterbacks and my film got brought up somehow and then I got an offer.”
The story of a 13-year old quarterback prodigy, trained by the QB whisperer in California, blew up across national sporting news outlets. But while it grew bigger, Sills’ head had to remain the same size.
“Really, when I think about it, my parents raised me really well and they made me stay humble throughout the whole process and to five glory to God, because without God I wouldn’t be in this position,” Sills said. “They kept me humble and I continued to work hard. I knew I couldn’t get a big head.”
It wasn’t easy, though.
“It was tough for him. We tried to keep him as normal as possible. We never let him just focus on football,” Denise said. “He wrestled some and was a four-time state champion in his age group growing up. We kept him as normal as any parent could keep a kid.”
But, really, you can’t be normal as a 13-year old college commit, especially once other high schools got wind of it as David grew older.
“It was just shocking. I don’t know looking back on it if I would recommend other kids his age to commit that early. It put a target on his back, and wherever he went he was expected to perform like no other kid in the country,” David’s mother said. “It was tough on him. But he’s the type of kid who, the more pressure he had or the more naysayers he had, the better he performed.”
Committed to USC throughout high school, Sills decided to re-open his recruitment in 2013 when Kiffin was fired as the Trojans’ head coach.
“I have two very supportive parents who support me in everything I do. I had the conversation with both of them and we’d have meetings with my coach about the recruitment process and how I was feeling,” Sills said. “Eventually, it came down to where I was most comfortable.”
Sills’ older adopted brother Jahmere Irvin-Sills had already been through the recruiting process, having first been interested in Auburn but eventually settling on Mississippi State before opting to Finau-ly play at FCS North Dakota. To add to that, one of his two older sisters had been through the process to play collegiate golf.
Going even further, Sills’ father started a charter school mainly for football players in Maryland and most of those guys, Sills’ friends, had been recruited as well. Among that group were Daikiel Shorts and Wendell Smallwood, who both committed and eventually came to West Virginia, where Sills wound up.
The stigma, though, that Sills carried with him was one of perceived arrogance. But, really, Sills just wanted to play football.
“I feel like people still sometimes look at it like that, but that’s not what I want to be known as,” he said. “I work as hard as I can to be the best player I can. That’s what I’m trying to do, so I’m hoping that pays off.”
POSITION CHANGE?
Sills came to West Virginia a quarterback. Many people, including Sills, thought he would redshirt his freshman season and become entrenched in a deep quarterback battle the next season.
Wrong.
Once the fall started, Sills was inserted on the scout team for the Georgia Southern game, imitating an athletic, run-first style of offense. His athleticism caught the coaches’ eyes and they put him out at receiver for the next few weeks on the scout team.
“I was out there having fun. They threw me a jump-ball and I just went and caught it,” Sills recalled. “Then the offensive coaches would tease me, and then it built up, and then during Oklahoma State week they asked me to play receiver. I didn’t know because I was focused on getting a redshirt and working on quarterback.”
So, naturally, he called home. But not to his longtime quarterback coach, Dad.
“He called me, he didn’t call his father,” his mother said. “We’re pretty religious people and we believe God has a plan. They didn’t just come to him once, they came to him three times about blowing his redshirt and playing receiver. I wasn’t for it. But, I could hear it in my son’s voice on the phone call that he really believed that God wanted him to do this and that he just wanted him to help out the team. So, I told him that the decision was his.”
Sills decided to skip his redshirt year and told the coaches that he’d play receiver. The next game, against Baylor, he was inserted into the lineup on the second series of the game. He caught a quick pass, being tackled inside the 5-yard line. But his second catch went for a 35-yard touchdown, the first of his collegiate career.
“The touchdown pass, I knew it was a good chance for me to get open. When I saw the ball in the air and the DB was on my hip, I was like, ‘Geez, he’s going to knock this down and I’m going to have to slow down to get it,’ ” Sills said, detailing the play. “Right after I caught it, I thought I was out of bounds but I saw the ref shoot his hands up, so I put my hands up, too.”
And Mom?
“I almost punched my husband in the face,” she said. “I was so excited.”
Still, though, the feeling was different, catching a touchdown rather than throwing. It was different, too, for Mom and Dad to watch.
“Absolutely. It was really different. The kid was never a receiver, he was always quarterback. We didn’t know that he could be a receiver. He’s got the height, but I don’t know if he has the moves to play receiver,” Denise said. “It was just fun to see him involved in the team. That’s all he’s ever wanted to do. He just loves the game. It’s very hard for him to sit on the sideline.”
That was the first game that Denise and David IV watched of the younger David that season. The last? The 2016 Cactus Bowl in Phoenix, Ariz., where David caught the game-winning touchdown with 2:19 left to go in what turned out to be a record-setting shootout of a game.
During the play, Sills’ cleat dug up some of the turf, marking his moment in history for a brief period of time. Of course, Mom made him take a picture next to it after the game.
“You’ve got to do what Momma says,” Sills said with a smile when asked about it.
“I told him that I wanted to see that footprint in the turf,” Denise said. “I have that picture blown up in the basement.”
David Sills celebrates after catching the game-winning touchdown in last year’s Cactus Bowl. — GETTY
WHATEVER HELPS THE TEAM
Year Two. Sills is still a quarterback. But he’s got more statistics as a wide receiver at West Virginia than quarterback. Of course, that’s an easy feat, considering he’s never taken a snap at QB.
But, still …
“Right now, I’m in the quarterback room, learning the offense from the view of a quarterback. I’m getting reps with the quarterbacks, going to individual drills with the quarterbacks, throwing routes with the quarterbacks. All those things,” Sills said.
But …
“Right now, I’m just working the hardest I can at both positions. My heart is at quarterback. That’s what I want to do, that’s what I came here to play. So, you know, I’m trying to keep getting better and better at the quarterback position. But I’m trying to help the team and be a better teammate, helping at receiver.”
That’s just Sills’ competitive nature, Mom says.
“We were excited to see him do a great job at receiver,” she said. “For playing it as much as he did, I think he did really well. Now, we know he can play both positions.”
Again, there’s a but …
“But do we want him to change to wide receiver? No. No. Quarterback is his love.”
You can’t ask Sills a question about playing wide receiver without hearing about his love for quarterback, a constant reminder to anyone who will listen that the sophomore’s heart lies behind the center, not split out by the hashmarks. Along those same lines, Sills will tell you that he just wants to be a good teammate and help the team any way that he can.
“There’s always one position, though, that you’ll end up putting more time in with, whether you like it more or you fit in better. I’m very driven as a football player,” Sills said. “I try to be the best in everything that I’m doing. I’m trying to be the best at wide receiver, and I’m trying to be the best at quarterback.”
You know, but …
“He’s very smart. He’s quarterback smart. He’s been reading defenses since he was 7. He knows offense,” his mother said. “He just knows the game so well that I wouldn’t want to see him at any other position than quarterback. That’s just my opinion. He’s too smart to play anywhere else. Other positions are smart, too, but quarterbacks have to know it all.”
To wrap up the spring, Sills caught a touchdown pass and turned right around and threw a touchdown pass to help the offense beat the defense, 49-46, in the Gold-Blue Spring Football Game.
JUST DO WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY
When it comes down to it, Sills and his parents are on the same page about one thing: Happiness.
Sills knows that playing football makes him happy. If that means catching passes, he’ll do it. He still hasn’t fiven up on his dream to be a collegiate quarterback, a dream that started as an eager 7-year old who turned into a 10-year old QB sensation, a 13-year old recruiting anomaly and, now, a Power-5 Conference wide receiver.
But, whatever he does, he’s going to do it with a smile.
“I just went out there. Coach told me to have a good time playing the game you love,” Sills said of his first game at wide receiver. “That’s what I ended up doing.”
That attitude, his mother said, was instilled in him at an early age. She, for one, is happy it’s stuck with him, especially through the tough times.
“The kid eat, sleeps and dreams football. Because he loves it. We don’t make him do it. We told him when it doesn’t become fun any more to quit because it’s supposed to be fun,” she said. “That’s all you want your kid to be: Happy. Seeing the smile and knowing he’s doing what he loves makes me so happy.”
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Post by IMG Public Relations on May 26, 2016 7:40:12 GMT -5
If God is really looking out for him, he'll be able to throw a pass to himself for a touchdown.
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Post by matt on May 26, 2016 8:54:59 GMT -5
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Post by matt on May 26, 2016 10:54:12 GMT -5
So Art Briles seems to have been fired.
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Post by IMG Public Relations on May 26, 2016 11:20:24 GMT -5
Is this about the rape? I bet it's about the rape.
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Post by sdot on May 26, 2016 13:14:09 GMT -5
rape(s)
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Post by matt on May 26, 2016 14:31:27 GMT -5
And various and sundry other sort of sexual and domestic assaults. Baylor is straight up bad right now.
This is something that deserves the NCAA Pervert State Hammer, unlike the basically unrelated to sports at all Pervert State Sandusky thing.
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Post by IMG Public Relations on May 26, 2016 14:56:27 GMT -5
So lots of tough talk, posturing, and an eventual banhammer than winds up being a ballpeen rather than a sledge? Seems appropriate. Oliver Fucked Luck will do a fabulous job.
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Post by matt on May 26, 2016 15:26:27 GMT -5
Naw. The NCAA had to back off of Pervert State because they were going to get owned in court because it was so far out of their purview. This Baylor thing is completely tied up with sports.
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Post by prestonco on May 27, 2016 13:40:56 GMT -5
After major collegiate sports eventually swallows itself and is no longer viable, it would be awesome if every major university just opened up and let all their shit out of the closet. Rape, sex boats, fixing games, and probably some murder all with a big blanket of stogy, white academic elitism to keep it safe and warm at night.
EDIT: Oh, and money. Money keeps everything safe and warm at night.
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