UVa football is right on track. After national signing day, no one was really impressed with Al Groh’s collection of 24 new signees. What had happened to the guy who pulled in so many great players just a few years before? Who knows about Groh. But we do know about the previous great recruits. They’re pretty much gone now. In the last year, some have been drafted. A few players have been kicked off the team for drugs. A few others were arrested for a fight at a local frat house. And now, 8 members, or a full 1/3 of the latest recruiting class have been denied admission to the University.
There’s a funny smell about, and it isn’t my work-out clothes. Desperation is a stinky cologne. Tick-tock, Al.
The string of stupidity continues unabated for troubled former Ohio State running back Maurice Clarett. As you’ll recall, he is being charged with “two counts of aggravated robbery, four counts of robbery and one count of carrying a concealed weapon” for allegedly “flashing a gun and robbing two people in an alley behind a bar” in early January of this year.
In a single-paragraph letter Clarett wrote on July 20, he said he fired attorneys William Settina and Robert Krapenc. They filed a motion Monday saying they do not wish to continue as Clarett’s lawyers, saying he has not paid their fees and is not cooperating in his own defense.
The best defense is a good offense?
There is a chance that Clarett will return to the gridiron and glory though. He’s set up to join the Mahoning Valley Hitmen, of the newly formed Eastern Indoor Football League. So forget about returning to glory. Heck no one’s even sure of the EIFL will actually get off the ground, so you might forget about the gridiron, too.
Apparently Clarett’s brief college football career was just a blip on what is an otherwise uninterrupted downward trajectory. Maurice Clarett has a whole lot of loser in him.
[...] The last I left the Maurice Clarett saga about 2 weeks ago, he had fired his attorneys, who then filed that he had not been paying him. He has since hired new lawyers. Said lawyers are vigorously working to clear his name, even if he is showing up to court an hour late to help take care of his new bastard daughter. Just this last Friday they weren’t capable, however, of getting his trial moved out of Columbus. They argued that a fair and impartial jury cannot be found in the area due to his, um, celebrity. [...]