'15 TX S Prentice McKinney (Oklahoma Signee)

NDdomer2 · Jan 18, 2015

The way some make it sound he might have to go juco route no? If I knew that I'd be taking my officials just for fun.

Ironman8 · Jan 18, 2015

arahop said:
This is the time of year that I curse our administration. It never fails. F em.

Prentice may not get in ANYWHERE right now. It's not a ND admin thing to my knowledge.

Cackalacky · Jan 18, 2015

Please don't tell me this could be a Tee Shephard situation. I don't think I could handle seeing McKinney go that route.

dublinirish · Jan 18, 2015

id rather prentice decommits now then be a commit on NSD to ND and then somehow not be able to join the team ala Tee :/

irishandy · Jan 18, 2015

I'd like to see Prentice be apart of this team anyhow or anyway he can be.

ThePiombino · Jan 18, 2015

dublinirish said:
id rather prentice decommits now then be a commit on NSD to ND and then somehow not be able to join the team ala Tee :/

If things are as bad as some are implying, I doubt he'll be sent a LOI to sign.

NDinL.A. · Jan 18, 2015

arahop said:
This is the time of year that I curse our administration. It never fails. F em.

F the admin for not taking a kid who might not even get cleared by the NCAA???

Admissions (and by extension, the admin) has allowed Kelly to get PLENTY of academic risks into ND. That isn't the problem. The problem is keeping them on campus once they get here, as ND is unbending in their principles once kids are on campus. You're directing your anger at the wrong place in this case,

irishandy said:
I'd like to see Prentice be apart of this team anyhow or anyway he can be.

Not going to happen. At this point, Tee Shepard has a better chance of suiting up for ND next year than Prentice, sadly. ISD has been reporting this for over a month it seems. Pretty much over for ND and McKinney...

Cackalacky · Jan 18, 2015

Cackalacky said:
Please don't tell me this could be a Tee Shephard situation. I don't think I could handle seeing McKinney go that route.

NDinL.A. said:
Not going to happen. At this point, Tee Shepard has a better chance of suiting up for ND next year than Prentice, sadly. ISD has been reporting this for over a month it's seems. Pretty much over for ND and McKinney...

drake29 · Jan 18, 2015

NDinL.A. said:
F the admin for not taking a kid who might not even get cleared by the NCAA???

Admissions (and by extension, the admin) has allowed Kelly to get PLENTY of academic risks into ND. That isn't the problem. The problem is keeping them on campus once they get here, as ND is unbending in their principles once kids are on campus. You're directing your anger at the wrong place in this case,

Not going to happen. At this point, Tee Shepard has a better chance of suiting up for ND next year than Prentice, sadly. ISD has been reporting this for over a month it's seems. Pretty much over for ND and McKinney...

What's so crazy to me is that they didn't see this coming for so long. Say they new when they expanded their offer list to include Mykelti Williams (Dec. 18th, not sure how accurate that is) but isn't it a little late in the game to realize that a kid that's been committed since March isn't going to make it into Notre Dame - let alone any college? ND has tougher admissions requirements that most schools, how could they NOT know?

Wingman Ray · Jan 18, 2015

drake29 said:
What's so crazy to me is that they didn't see this coming for so long. Say they new when they expanded their offer list to include Mykelti Williams (Dec. 18th, not sure how accurate that is) but isn't it a little late in the game to realize that a kid that's been committed since March isn't going to make it into Notre Dame - let alone any college? ND has tougher admissions requirements that most schools, how could they NOT know?

Some overpaid admin sleeping on the job would be my guess

Ironman8 · Jan 18, 2015

They have known. We have gone after a ton of safeties, including Williams, Reid, Meadors, Kinnel, Buncom, Farrar, Edwards, Jennings, Williamson.

koonja · Jan 18, 2015

drake29 said:
What's so crazy to me is that they didn't see this coming for so long. Say they new when they expanded their offer list to include Mykelti Williams (Dec. 18th, not sure how accurate that is) but isn't it a little late in the game to realize that a kid that's been committed since March isn't going to make it into Notre Dame - let alone any college? ND has tougher admissions requirements that most schools, how could they NOT know?

FWIW, what are they supposed to do? They might have a good idea of what's going to happen in September... But they can't force the kid to publicly embarass himself and decommit.

I'm guessing they plan accordingly, stay in touch with him, but started scouting other safeties, hoping Prentice ends up getting in but expecting him to eventually visit somewhere else and have a low-kep change of schools.'

What I'm saying is, the staff probably hasn't considered him 'committed' the last month or so.. He's technically committed because he hasn't made it public.

drake29 · Jan 18, 2015

koonja said:
FWIW, what are they supposed to do? They might have a good idea of what's going to happen in September... But they can't force the kid to publicly embarass himself and decommit.

I'm guessing they plan accordingly, stay in touch with him, but started scouting other safeties, hoping Prentice ends up getting in but expecting him to eventually visit somewhere else and have a low-kep change of schools.'

What I'm saying is, the staff probably hasn't considered him 'committed' the last month or so.. He's technically committed because he hasn't made it public.

I get what you're saying but I've got just a couple hang ups. This happens to Stanford once or twice a year - they take a kid contingent on test scores, grades and core classes very similarly to ND but at a slightly higher level. There is always one or two players that as it happens will not make it through admissions and they end up going elsewhere (usually to another solid academically oriented team, sometimes ND). The rumor on McKinney isn't that he won't just lack the credentials to get into ND, but at any D1 school. There's a huge gap between ND and the NCAA minimum when it comes to admissions, but we don't expand the pool of offers until mid December? That just seems like the staff wasn't getting correct information - either from admissions or McKinney (likely the latter at this point).

IrishFaninTX · Jan 18, 2015

drake29 said:
I get what you're saying but I've got just a couple hang ups. This happens to Stanford once or twice a year - they take a kid contingent on test scores, grades and core classes very similarly to ND but at a slightly higher level. There is always one or two players that as it happens will not make it through admissions and they end up going elsewhere (usually to another solid academically oriented team, sometimes ND). The rumor on McKinney isn't that he won't just lack the credentials to get into ND, but at any D1 school. There's a huge gap between ND and the NCAA minimum when it comes to admissions, but we don't expand the pool of offers until mid December? That just seems like the staff wasn't getting correct information - either from admissions or McKinney (likely the latter at this point).

From what I understand, we never stopped recruiting safeties. We just expanded the offer list once some of the other guys higher on our board started looking less likely. I don't believe it was strictly because McKinney was likely to not be part of the class on NSD.

GBdomer · Jan 21, 2015

Flipped to UNC

Ironman8 · Jan 21, 2015

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GBdomer · Jan 21, 2015

Keep up Ironman

IrishLion · Jan 21, 2015

We knew it was likely.

Still a bummer.

EMAN51 · Jan 21, 2015

Liked that dude. Wish him success.

greyhammer90 · Jan 21, 2015

Hope he does well. Too bad it didn't work out academically.

dublinirish · Jan 21, 2015

best of luck to him, seemed like a good dude

Ironman8 · Jan 21, 2015

GBdomer said:
Keep up Ironman

You could post from the actual source as well kid.

Johannes · Jan 21, 2015

Best of luck to him!! I hope he resolves his academic issues and has a successful career in the classroom and on the field for the Tar Heels. Wish he could have been accepted to ND.

CanadalovesND · Jan 21, 2015

Hopefully this is our only defection. All other commits seen solid.

He's a good player. We'll see what he becomes in a few years. We play UNC in Chapel Hill in 2017.

Cackalacky · Jan 21, 2015

Ihazasad.

Good luck Prentice.

Ironman8 · Jan 21, 2015

CanadalovesND said:
Hopefully this is our only defection. All other commits seen solid.

He's a good player. We'll see what he becomes in a few years. We play UNC at Chapel Hill in 2017.

Yeah, I wouldn't even count this as a defection either. He really wanted to go to ND, just didn't work out on the academic side. If he could be going to ND, he would be.

Good luck to him though. I think UNC got a very good one.

GBdomer · Jan 21, 2015

Ironman8 said:
You could post from the actual source as well kid.

I was just giving you a hard time kid

UNC got a good player tonight IMO

IrishLax · Jan 21, 2015

Going to be sad if he ends up qualifying, but we all knew he wasn't coming to ND since November.

Ironman8 · Jan 21, 2015

IrishLax said:
Going to be sad if he ends up qualifying, but we all knew he wasn't coming to ND since November.

Mike Frank said he heard Prentice was NCAA qualified, just not ND qualified.

Crazy Balki · Jan 21, 2015

There it is. Okay, get Reid and/or Farrar and we should be good.

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