What Jacob Coopland's mom said was 100% true. She was scared of him staying in Florida and UF had a reputation of allowing gang violence under Urban. She wanted him to go to Bama to be under a strict coach. And if you look it up Jacob got into trouble at UF, it just got swept under the rug. So the mom was right.
I'm in 100% agreement on what Copeland's mom said, but her action of walking out on her own son's special moment was too much. It would've been better if they handled that matter after the ceremony and out of the public eye.
@@AR18123 well my friend is his cousin and he told me that he told his mom he would pick Bama. What she did was wrong but I understand because she felt her son made a terrible mistake that did ruin his life. UF was the wrong decision
Even as a WVU fan, despite my hate for Virginia Tech, I can't bring myself to hate Beamer, especially after hearing the first story and reading some of these comments it just makes me respect Beamer even more.
Agreed. I kind of felt bad for Justin fuente. You don't want to replace a legend, and beamer certainly was a legend. To be open, I'm a Memphis fan and we are eternally grateful for what he did for our program. This is not like when calipari left for Kentucky and we hated him. We wanted him to do well at Virginia tech. What I never understood was how Memphis got better and Virginia tech got worse with the fan base and the money and the history Va Tech had. I think it was fair to say that Memphis would have beaten Virginia Tech every year except maybe one after he left, as we were routinely ranked in the top 25 and even had a Cotton Bowl appearance. Good luck to coach fuente wherever he goes next
My favorite recruiting story is when Woody Hayes went up to Michigan to visit a recruit, and on his way back the car was running low on gas. He refused to fill it back up while in Michigan because the tax money on the gas would indirectly support U of M. Supposedly the car ran completely out of gas before he got back to Ohio, so he had his assistant push it the rest of the way. I don't know if that really happened or not; but knowing how Woody was, I could see it
It has been said that if the bus broke down while in the state of Michigan, Woody would have the team push the bus(es) over the state border rather than refilling it. Because that fraction of a fraction of a cent that U of M gets from public spending and gas taxes would be supporting U of M.
Not a recruiting story, per say, but another great story about Beamer: After the shooting that took place at Virginia Tech in 2007 that killed 32 students and faculty, Beamer was one of the first people from the school to visit the survivors in the hospital. It's been documented that it would take him as much as 30 to 45 minutes to compose himself between the hospital rooms before he would enter another to try and console the victims and their families, because in many cases, he was just as distraught as they were. If you watch the closing segment from the Virginia Tech memorial program (Nikki Giovanni's We Are Virginia Tech speech) at one point, the camera cuts to Frank and his wife sitting crying listening to the speech. They really don't make coaches like Beamer and Bill Snyder anymore.
@@regurgitatedapplez7388 “successful” by college athletic standards doesnt really mean sh*t. Coach Calipari is one of the worst coaches in the country but according to his resumé you would call him successful but thats only because he ends up getting the best players in the country to play on his team. With all of these too teams like Alabama, you could put 100 different coaches coaching those same players and still end up with the same record as Saban, maybe even better. Saban might be a bad example but you get what I’m saying. If you can get 20 of the top 50 players in the country on your team while other teams get 1 player in the top 50 players in the country, its not exactly being a great coach is why your “successful”. College sports is joke in that way. If you actually compared how good of a coach Calipari is compared to some coaches who have barely a .500 winning percentage. You would think Calipari is the way better coach and thats why he “successful” when in actuality those .500 coaches are 10 times better of a coach he is. This is why Calipari gets knocked out by a 15 seed as a 2 seed, its why he loses the crucial games, because hes such a bad coach that even with some of the best players he still cant win. And when he does win its because his players dod everything for him. His championship team I believe he had his whole starting 5 go in the NBA 1st round (never been done), he had like 2 or 3 straight NBA rookies of year on his team in college (Derrick Rose, Tyreke Evans). When he did coach in the NBA he was garbage and lasted like 1 year because that was more of even playing field. Thats why you see these “great college coaches” try to go to the pro league and get eaten alive. Winning percentage for a coach doesnt mean sh*t for how good you are as a coach in all the major college sports.
When Rich Eisen goes on vacation, Ryan Leaf sometimes acts a substitute host for his show. During one of those stints, Leaf discussed his visit to The U. of Miami. Some of the other players took him to a record shop. He went home some rap albums he couldn’t find in Montana. After he went shopping, a limo or two came along, and he joined a larger group of players for a night of partying. One of the players who was along for that night was a then unknown Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson
I didn’t know that story about Macho Harris, he played for my Roughriders in the CFL and was a pretty good player for a few years. I believe he even stayed in Saskatchewan in the off-season if I’m not mistaken. If anyone knows where he is now I’d love an update.✌️
A former WR by the name of AJ Taylor's family was obsessed with Monopoly, and they had a custom board and cards, and when he pulled the "advance to college of your choice" , that's how he verbally committed to Wisconsin, where he was a solid WR during some of the badgers best years of the late 2010s. Cool story
My brother is a punter at Clemson and on his official visit dozens of members of the staff wrote me and my twin sister hand written letters. (We were like 15). These big schools don’t just recruit the player, they recruit the family.
I have to say in todays day and age, my attention span is hella short lived. But you are simply one of the best when it comes to story telling. Piques my interest every upload. Wish you would upload more often, KTO! Or even a second channel or a podcast would be next level.
I always thought it was “peaked” or “peaks” like it heightened my interest, it was the top of my interest, high point top of mountain in my interest level. It almost still works for the definition of “peak”. This is the one word that people probably mess up that still almost works with the wrong word being used. Thanks for correcting that so now I know. Side note, I dont know why people get so angry when someone corrects them. Why would you want to continue to keep doing it wrong? Most people get so mad and defensive especially when they correct their spelling or grammar. I’ve never understood that. You have to be extremely insecure, sensitive and unintelligent to get mad when someone helps you to correct yourself so you dont continue to make the same mistake.
@@Keyser___Soze Definition of pique (Entry 1 of 3) transitive verb 1a: to excite or arouse especially by a provocation, challenge, or rebuff sly remarks to pique their curiosity
The Florida one was 100% the kids fault. That mom was doing a moms job, looking out for her son. He chose that life over his own momma, that’s just downright awful.
@@billblaski9523he lied to his mom and told her he was going to Bama. She also didn't want him to go to UF because of the trouble he might get into which eventually did happen so that's how it was his fault
Copeland's mom was completely justified to be mad and upset at her son. That said, to make such an act in public on national TV was a bit much. This should've been a private matter.
8:51 Omg.... I absolutely love the villian arc played by Switzer, even after all these years.... could do an hour or more on his exploits running one of the top programs in the nation
Excellent video KTO. Me (and I assume many others) would love to see a Part 2 of this video. I’m sure there are countless crazy recruitment stories to be shared
At a Touchdown Club meeting many years before his death, Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant told the following story: "I had just been named the new head coach at Alabama and was off in my old car down in South Alabama recruiting a prospect who was supposed to have been a pretty good player and I was havin' trouble finding the place. Getting hungry I spied an old cinder block building with a small sign out front that simply said "Restaurant." "I pull up, go in and every head in the place turns to stare at me. Seems I'm the only white fella in the place. But the food smelled good so I skip a table and go up to a cement bar and sit. A big ole man in a tee shirt and cap comes over and says, "What do you need?" I told him I needed lunch and what did they have today? He says, "You probably won't like it here, today we're having chitlins, collared greens and black eyed peas with cornbread. I'll bet you don't even know what chitlins are, do you?" I looked him square in the eye and said, "I'm from Arkansas, I've probably eaten a mile of them. Sounds like I'm in the right place." They all smiled as he left to serve me up a big plate. When he comes back he says, "You ain't from around here then?" "I explain I'm the new football coach up in Tuscaloosa at the University and I'm here to find whatever that boy's name was and he says, yeah I've heard of him, he's supposed to be pretty good. And he gives me directions to the school so I can meet him and his coach. As I'm paying up to leave, I remember my manners and leave a tip, not too big to be flashy, but a good one and he told me lunch was on him, but I told him for a lunch that good, I felt I should pay. The big man asked me if I had a photograph or something he could hang up to show I'd been there. I was so new that I didn't have any yet. It really wasn't that big a thing back then to be asked for, but I took a napkin and wrote his name and address on it and told him I'd get him one and shook his hand and left." "I met the kid I was lookin' for later that afternoon and I don't remember his name, but do remember I didn't think much of him when I met him. I had wasted a day, or so I thought. When I got back to Tuscaloosa late that night, I took that napkin from my shirt pocket and put it under my keys so I wouldn't forget it. Back then I was excited that anybody would want a picture of me. The next day we found a picture and I wrote on it, "Thanks for the best lunch I've ever had." "Now let's go a whole buncha years down the road. Now we have black players at Alabama and I'm back down in that part of the country scouting an offensive lineman we sure needed. Y'all remember, (and I forget the name, but it's not important to the story), well anyway, he's got two friends going to Auburn and he tells me he's got his heart set on Auburn too, so I leave empty handed and go on see some others while I'm down there." "Two days later, I'm in my office in Tuscaloosa and the phone rings and it's this kid who just turned me down, and he says, "Coach, do you still want me at Alabama?" And I said, "Yes I sure do." And he says OK, he'll come. And I say, "Well son, what changed your mind?" And he said, "When my grandpa found out that I had a chance to play for you and said no, he pitched a fit and told me I wasn't going nowhere but Alabama, and wasn't playing for nobody but you. He thinks a lot of you and has ever since y'all met." Well, I didn't know his granddad from Adam's house cat so I asked him who his granddaddy was and he said, "You probably don't remember him, but you ate in his restaurant your first year at Alabama and you sent him a picture that he's had hung in that place ever since. That picture's his pride and joy and he still tells everybody about the day that Bear Bryant came in and had chitlins with him."
I agree 100% with the mom in the Jacob Copeland story ...my mother raised 8 of us and managed to get us (my siblings and I) out the ghetto pretty much and gave us a better chance at life and made sure not to crawl back into that hole ... If I was in Jacob Copeland position my mama would probably have done the same lol
That first story was awesome! I just looked up Mr Harris. It appears that he played a couple of seasons in the nfl, and even made 9 or 10 starts at safety. He had over 40 tackles, and a positive approximate value rating. It's a really good bounce back from what could have been a fatal injury.
As a Vikings fan, it's so refreshing to see those young Sooner Adrian Peterson clips! He was everything we had when we didn't have much to celebrate here during his time in Purple and Gold. 💯 #RetireInPurple 😈 (Still can't believe he fell to us in the Draft at 7th.)
I felt so bad Copeland because you could see the disappointment in his face when his mom walked out. Then they made him retell the whole thing while holding back tears. His mom had her reasons, but it was a sad situation overall
My favorite story was was when either Baron Browning or Wyatt Davis (I forget who exactly) was visiting Ohio State, they wear a blue shirt by accident. Urban Meyer had a major thing against wearing blue in the Ohio State facilities (there are so many stories about that). So he made whoever was visiting do push-ups in his office. What's even funnier is that either one of these guys were the #1 player at their respective position.
Been a VT football fan since I was like 8 years old I'm 30 now and I absolutely love Beamer I've never met him but know people who have and EVERYONE said he's one of the nicest people you could ever speak too Beamer is beyond just one of the best college football coaches of all time he is one of the best human beings of all time
Not really a crazy story but this year new LSU coach Brian Kelly was dancing with a Tight end recruit to try and get him to come and the recruit ended up signing with Bama
Alex Collins was a beast we’ve got nothing but love for him here in Arkansas. I remember when he was recruited and my dad telling me what his mom had done and just how crazy it was at the time. I was wondering if you were gonna talk about him too, it was cool to see us on your channel even if it is for an insane story like that.
Funny thing with Copeland is that Tuscaloosa is closer to his hometown than Gainesville. Really think it was just a check that bounced when he didn't pick Bama or Tennessee.
Dickerson talking about his recruitment is wild. Like a&m giving him a trans am and I think them or Texas offering them a brief case with 500K in it. He said U of Texas recruit told him it was his duty to sign with them because it was a state school and he would never get a job in the state of Texas if he didn’t. He signed with SMU partly because the coach at the time was a white man comfortable in a black household. And he said he was offered money. But it didn’t scratch what the other school offered.
a team told reggie bush he would never see a down of football if he didnt pick them later that day he got called to the office for cheatings on his finals test
I remember Disneys Smart Guy doing an episode about this. A big school mistakenly recruited marcus Henderson from peidmont high in Washington DC when they wanted to recruit marcus from piedmont in Washington state. They got a bunch of free gear and ultimately a sports car.
Coach O did it wrong. State prisons legally cannot transfer custody of inmates from state to state, only federal prisons can. He should have scheduled a free, paid for flight for AP weekly/monthly, although I’m not sure if that’s violating NCAA rules
Macho Harris was one of my favorite players to watch. It was a guarantee that he would do something exciting every game. He was a straight up ball hawk.
AFL football (it's not rugby) in my country Australia there's some great Aboriginal recruiting stories! Traveling out to the middle of nowhere in outback Australia to find the next Superstar of the game!.. it's about 2% of all Australian's are indigenous Aboriginal but AFL football it's about 12% and man are they unbelievable!!! A lot play In the desert playing with bare feet!!!.. Lance Franklin, Cyril Rioli, Eddie Betts just to name a few!.. watch their highlight's! I love NFL but AFL is Awesome as well! Get into it NFL fan's!!!
Moving someone from a state prison in OK to a state prison in CA doesn’t make any sense. They are fully different jurisdictions! I guess nobody corrected the coach and said it was impossible…
I think the mom was upset cause Alabama had the bigger check, however I also did hear that Jacob Copeland was gang related so maybe she was telling the truth
yo KTO I went to south plant w buddha (Alex collins) and he had committed to FSU junior year up until Arkansas and Miami came by, makes me wonder how dominant those FSU teams could’ve been w him in the back field
Of course the story of Fred Taylor taking somewhere between $30 and $50K from Georgia and choosing Florida anyways broke like two days before you posted this. It definitely would have made honorable mention.
I don’t think Jacob Copeland’s mother was justified in what she did. I think she was absolutely justified in how she felt, especially her concern for her son’s well being, but you gotta stay up there and support your son. She shoulda waited til after and made her voice heard in private, but as it happened she basically took attention away from her son on a day that was supposed to be his.
In this case that’s best thing to do. Shine a light on him. Then they will ask her reason which she gave and now he’s forced to make the hard choice. Not the easy one
What Jacob Coopland's mom said was 100% true. She was scared of him staying in Florida and UF had a reputation of allowing gang violence under Urban. She wanted him to go to Bama to be under a strict coach. And if you look it up Jacob got into trouble at UF, it just got swept under the rug. So the mom was right.
I'm in 100% agreement on what Copeland's mom said, but her action of walking out on her own son's special moment was too much. It would've been better if they handled that matter after the ceremony and out of the public eye.
@@AR18123 well my friend is his cousin and he told me that he told his mom he would pick Bama. What she did was wrong but I understand because she felt her son made a terrible mistake that did ruin his life. UF was the wrong decision
@@Anukinihun "he told his mom he would pick Bama" So he straight up lied to her. I'd be pissed too.
Urban belongs in prison for some of the shenanigans he pulled with UF
I agree, she should’ve handled it better, but she just wanted what was best for her son
Even as a WVU fan, despite my hate for Virginia Tech, I can't bring myself to hate Beamer, especially after hearing the first story and reading some of these comments it just makes me respect Beamer even more.
Respect as a VT fan
Let’s go mountaineers
Agreed. I kind of felt bad for Justin fuente. You don't want to replace a legend, and beamer certainly was a legend. To be open, I'm a Memphis fan and we are eternally grateful for what he did for our program. This is not like when calipari left for Kentucky and we hated him. We wanted him to do well at Virginia tech. What I never understood was how Memphis got better and Virginia tech got worse with the fan base and the money and the history Va Tech had. I think it was fair to say that Memphis would have beaten Virginia Tech every year except maybe one after he left, as we were routinely ranked in the top 25 and even had a Cotton Bowl appearance. Good luck to coach fuente wherever he goes next
Mountaineer gang
As a UVA fan, I have the same sentiment
That first story was so damn wholesome despite the negative circumstances.
The opposite of almost every other sports story we hear these days.
My favorite recruiting story is when Woody Hayes went up to Michigan to visit a recruit, and on his way back the car was running low on gas. He refused to fill it back up while in Michigan because the tax money on the gas would indirectly support U of M. Supposedly the car ran completely out of gas before he got back to Ohio, so he had his assistant push it the rest of the way.
I don't know if that really happened or not; but knowing how Woody was, I could see it
It has been said that if the bus broke down while in the state of Michigan, Woody would have the team push the bus(es) over the state border rather than refilling it.
Because that fraction of a fraction of a cent that U of M gets from public spending and gas taxes would be supporting U of M.
@@TrinityShoji yeah fuck the blue
Not a recruiting story, per say, but another great story about Beamer:
After the shooting that took place at Virginia Tech in 2007 that killed 32 students and faculty, Beamer was one of the first people from the school to visit the survivors in the hospital. It's been documented that it would take him as much as 30 to 45 minutes to compose himself between the hospital rooms before he would enter another to try and console the victims and their families, because in many cases, he was just as distraught as they were. If you watch the closing segment from the Virginia Tech memorial program (Nikki Giovanni's We Are Virginia Tech speech) at one point, the camera cuts to Frank and his wife sitting crying listening to the speech.
They really don't make coaches like Beamer and Bill Snyder anymore.
Wasn’t the most successful coach but definitely one of the most loved coaches
@@regurgitatedapplez7388 “successful” by college athletic standards doesnt really mean sh*t. Coach Calipari is one of the worst coaches in the country but according to his resumé you would call him successful but thats only because he ends up getting the best players in the country to play on his team. With all of these too teams like Alabama, you could put 100 different coaches coaching those same players and still end up with the same record as Saban, maybe even better. Saban might be a bad example but you get what I’m saying. If you can get 20 of the top 50 players in the country on your team while other teams get 1 player in the top 50 players in the country, its not exactly being a great coach is why your “successful”. College sports is joke in that way. If you actually compared how good of a coach Calipari is compared to some coaches who have barely a .500 winning percentage. You would think Calipari is the way better coach and thats why he “successful” when in actuality those .500 coaches are 10 times better of a coach he is. This is why Calipari gets knocked out by a 15 seed as a 2 seed, its why he loses the crucial games, because hes such a bad coach that even with some of the best players he still cant win. And when he does win its because his players dod everything for him. His championship team I believe he had his whole starting 5 go in the NBA 1st round (never been done), he had like 2 or 3 straight NBA rookies of year on his team in college (Derrick Rose, Tyreke Evans). When he did coach in the NBA he was garbage and lasted like 1 year because that was more of even playing field. Thats why you see these “great college coaches” try to go to the pro league and get eaten alive.
Winning percentage for a coach doesnt mean sh*t for how good you are as a coach in all the major college sports.
@@Keyser___Soze ok cool
Coming from a lifetime Tech fan, they did him and his son wrong for not hiring him, and they are hurting now as a program for it, in my opinion…
@@Pop_Richie fax
When Rich Eisen goes on vacation, Ryan Leaf sometimes acts a substitute host for his show. During one of those stints, Leaf discussed his visit to The U. of Miami. Some of the other players took him to a record shop. He went home some rap albums he couldn’t find in Montana. After he went shopping, a limo or two came along, and he joined a larger group of players for a night of partying. One of the players who was along for that night was a then unknown Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson
KTO you’re a legend man. First TH-camr I started following. Content is always top tier. 👏🏻
Nowhere near my first, but very near the best.
Since I’m a massive VA Tech fan, hearing that story about Beamer and Harris warmed my heart
Beamer was just a stand up guy. Loyal, kind and a second father to many of his athlete
gaey lmao
Im a massive GA Tech fan, I hate yall's guts, but man, I can't hate Beamer, especially not after hearing that story.
I didn’t know that story about Macho Harris, he played for my Roughriders in the CFL and was a pretty good player for a few years. I believe he even stayed in Saskatchewan in the off-season if I’m not mistaken. If anyone knows where he is now I’d love an update.✌️
Not sure what he’s doing but I looked on Twitter and he apparently was inducted into the VT hall of fame last year if I’m not mistaken!
A former WR by the name of AJ Taylor's family was obsessed with Monopoly, and they had a custom board and cards, and when he pulled the "advance to college of your choice" , that's how he verbally committed to Wisconsin, where he was a solid WR during some of the badgers best years of the late 2010s. Cool story
Was he there during the Kenny bell block
@@robdavis4951 Kenny bell block was 2012, Taylor was a freshman in 16
My brother is a punter at Clemson and on his official visit dozens of members of the staff wrote me and my twin sister hand written letters. (We were like 15). These big schools don’t just recruit the player, they recruit the family.
He’ll do better soon.
That first story is so sad but has a great ending. Im sure getting drafted meant the world to him after losing his mom.
I have to say in todays day and age, my attention span is hella short lived. But you are simply one of the best when it comes to story telling. Piques my interest every upload. Wish you would upload more often, KTO! Or even a second channel or a podcast would be next level.
piques not peaks
@@Augfordpdoggie wow I've never known that lol, thanks
@@yoFACTOR you are welcome ;)
I always thought it was “peaked” or “peaks” like it heightened my interest, it was the top of my interest, high point top of mountain in my interest level. It almost still works for the definition of “peak”. This is the one word that people probably mess up that still almost works with the wrong word being used. Thanks for correcting that so now I know.
Side note, I dont know why people get so angry when someone corrects them. Why would you want to continue to keep doing it wrong? Most people get so mad and defensive especially when they correct their spelling or grammar. I’ve never understood that. You have to be extremely insecure, sensitive and unintelligent to get mad when someone helps you to correct yourself so you dont continue to make the same mistake.
@@Keyser___Soze Definition of pique (Entry 1 of 3)
transitive verb
1a: to excite or arouse especially by a provocation, challenge, or rebuff
sly remarks to pique their curiosity
Need a Part 2 of this ASAP. Great job this was awesome
Karsten keep up the uploads man , you’re highly underrated and I need more of your Vids. Don’t stop. EVER
im suprised you didn't talk about jim mora telling Najee Harris he knew who killed 2pac if he commited
that's hella funny
The Florida one was 100% the kids fault. That mom was doing a moms job, looking out for her son. He chose that life over his own momma, that’s just downright awful.
That's why the system eats so many up.
Lmao what u mean 'his fault'?
Pretty sure if he went to bama he would be big didnt hear about dude after moms did that
@@billblaski9523 lmao keep defending stupid decisions im sure that will work out for you
@@billblaski9523he lied to his mom and told her he was going to Bama. She also didn't want him to go to UF because of the trouble he might get into which eventually did happen so that's how it was his fault
Copeland's mom was completely justified to be mad and upset at her son. That said, to make such an act in public on national TV was a bit much. This should've been a private matter.
nah it’s not her decision where he goes. She needs to suck it up
@@condorsalesmanSo you would allow your son to go and commit gang related activities instead of actually improving his life for the better?
Rest In Peace Alex Collins. So glad you made the decision to be a Razorback
That first story is incredible…shouldve held it to the end
Probably smarter for him to use it first. It pulls you in and makes you want to keep watching.
@@Ryan-wx1bi I can see that. At the same time his endings are typically designed to be as powerful as possible, with that powerful outro music
Fred Taylor came out today and said UGA gave him 50k and he took it and went to Florida anyways. Reminds me of the Trans Am story lmao
I played against mucho Harris in high school and in College. Harris was a beast man, I remember when all this happened.
8:51
Omg.... I absolutely love the villian arc played by Switzer, even after all these years.... could do an hour or more on his exploits running one of the top programs in the nation
Excellent video KTO. Me (and I assume many others) would love to see a Part 2 of this video. I’m sure there are countless crazy recruitment stories to be shared
As a Georgia fan the best college football recruiting story of all time is the Bear Bryant and the restaurant story that’s an amazing story 💯
At a Touchdown Club meeting many years before his death, Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant told the following story:
"I had just been named the new head coach at Alabama and was off in my old car down in South Alabama recruiting a prospect who was supposed to have been a pretty good player and I was havin' trouble finding the place. Getting hungry I spied an old cinder block building with a small sign out front that simply said "Restaurant."
"I pull up, go in and every head in the place turns to stare at me. Seems I'm the only white fella in the place. But the food smelled good so I skip a table and go up to a cement bar and sit. A big ole man in a tee shirt and cap comes over and says, "What do you need?" I told him I needed lunch and what did they have today? He says, "You probably won't like it here, today we're having chitlins, collared greens and black eyed peas with cornbread. I'll bet you don't even know what chitlins are, do you?" I looked him square in the eye and said, "I'm from Arkansas, I've probably eaten a mile of them. Sounds like I'm in the right place." They all smiled as he left to serve me up a big plate. When he comes back he says, "You ain't from around here then?"
"I explain I'm the new football coach up in Tuscaloosa at the University and I'm here to find whatever that boy's name was and he says, yeah I've heard of him, he's supposed to be pretty good. And he gives me directions to the school so I can meet him and his coach. As I'm paying up to leave, I remember my manners and leave a tip, not too big to be flashy, but a good one and he told me lunch was on him, but I told him for a lunch that good, I felt I should pay.
The big man asked me if I had a photograph or something he could hang up to show I'd been there. I was so new that I didn't have any yet. It really wasn't that big a thing back then to be asked for, but I took a napkin and wrote his name and address on it and told him I'd get him one and shook his hand and left."
"I met the kid I was lookin' for later that afternoon and I don't remember his name, but do remember I didn't think much of him when I met him. I had wasted a day, or so I thought.
When I got back to Tuscaloosa late that night, I took that napkin from my shirt pocket and put it under my keys so I wouldn't forget it. Back then I was excited that anybody would want a picture of me. The next day we found a picture and I wrote on it, "Thanks for the best lunch I've ever had."
"Now let's go a whole buncha years down the road. Now we have black players at Alabama and I'm back down in that part of the country scouting an offensive lineman we sure needed. Y'all remember, (and I forget the name, but it's not important to the story), well anyway, he's got two friends going to Auburn and he tells me he's got his heart set on Auburn too, so I leave empty handed and go on see some others while I'm down there."
"Two days later, I'm in my office in Tuscaloosa and the phone rings and it's this kid who just turned me down, and he says, "Coach, do you still want me at Alabama?" And I said, "Yes I sure do." And he says OK, he'll come. And I say, "Well son, what changed your mind?" And he said, "When my grandpa found out that I had a chance to play for you and said no, he pitched a fit and told me I wasn't going nowhere but Alabama, and wasn't playing for nobody but you. He thinks a lot of you and has ever since y'all met." Well, I didn't know his granddad from Adam's house cat so I asked him who his granddaddy was and he said, "You probably don't remember him, but you ate in his restaurant your first year at Alabama and you sent him a picture that he's had hung in that place ever since. That picture's his pride and joy and he still tells everybody about the day that Bear Bryant came in and had chitlins with him."
BTW, From an Alabama fan, congrats on the national championship! Ya'll earned & deserved it!
@@joelee4605 Thank you I appreciate it 👍
I agree 100% with the mom in the Jacob Copeland story ...my mother raised 8 of us and managed to get us (my siblings and I) out the ghetto pretty much and gave us a better chance at life and made sure not to crawl back into that hole ... If I was in Jacob Copeland position my mama would probably have done the same lol
Awesome vid as always!! .. but we need a little more of that music at the end as it's the bombl! 🎶😎🎵
RIP Alex Collins
Rip Alex Collins 😢 crazy story though
That first story was awesome! I just looked up Mr Harris. It appears that he played a couple of seasons in the nfl, and even made 9 or 10 starts at safety. He had over 40 tackles, and a positive approximate value rating.
It's a really good bounce back from what could have been a fatal injury.
As a Vikings fan, it's so refreshing to see those young Sooner Adrian Peterson clips! He was everything we had when we didn't have much to celebrate here during his time in Purple and Gold. 💯 #RetireInPurple 😈 (Still can't believe he fell to us in the Draft at 7th.)
Always love the details and research that goes into these videos!
Love it. I really enjoy the college videos more, but that’s just my opinion. Keep up the good work!
I love these type of videos I love the effort you put into you’re videos
When he posts u know it a banger 💪💪💪
That opening story is awesome man no wonder va tech had a good program. Some of these were wild.
i need more of these recruiting focused videos in my life !!
Watched this numerous times already. Great video bud!!
Bro, absolutely love your videos.
I felt so bad Copeland because you could see the disappointment in his face when his mom walked out. Then they made him retell the whole thing while holding back tears. His mom had her reasons, but it was a sad situation overall
My favorite story was was when either Baron Browning or Wyatt Davis (I forget who exactly) was visiting Ohio State, they wear a blue shirt by accident. Urban Meyer had a major thing against wearing blue in the Ohio State facilities (there are so many stories about that). So he made whoever was visiting do push-ups in his office. What's even funnier is that either one of these guys were the #1 player at their respective position.
Been a VT football fan since I was like 8 years old I'm 30 now and I absolutely love Beamer I've never met him but know people who have and EVERYONE said he's one of the nicest people you could ever speak too Beamer is beyond just one of the best college football coaches of all time he is one of the best human beings of all time
Not really a crazy story but this year new LSU coach Brian Kelly was dancing with a Tight end recruit to try and get him to come and the recruit ended up signing with Bama
Alex Collins was a beast we’ve got nothing but love for him here in Arkansas. I remember when he was recruited and my dad telling me what his mom had done and just how crazy it was at the time. I was wondering if you were gonna talk about him too, it was cool to see us on your channel even if it is for an insane story like that.
Funny thing with Copeland is that Tuscaloosa is closer to his hometown than Gainesville. Really think it was just a check that bounced when he didn't pick Bama or Tennessee.
Dickerson talking about his recruitment is wild. Like a&m giving him a trans am and I think them or Texas offering them a brief case with 500K in it. He said U of Texas recruit told him it was his duty to sign with them because it was a state school and he would never get a job in the state of Texas if he didn’t. He signed with SMU partly because the coach at the time was a white man comfortable in a black household. And he said he was offered money. But it didn’t scratch what the other school offered.
The Texas line actively made him angry, and he played some of his best games against UT, IIRC.
Dang I didn't know some guy named Kevin Hart played football
a team told reggie bush he would never see a down of football if he didnt pick them later that day he got called to the office for cheatings on his finals test
I rly have missed ur uploads, keep them coming!
You need to do more of this series
Great stuff keep up the great work!
You should a video on SMU and the huge scandal with their recruitment
Honestly as a SMU fan, our program would be a interesting topic, just the rise, and fall, and the rise back up would be interesting for a whole video
ESPN already did a 30 for 30 on them, it's pretty cool.
Coach O is a real one thtas on erythang i love the guy has the biggest heart.
imagine if tyreek hill and tavon austin was at west virgina together
0:23 That dashcam footage is a busy street near me! What a coincidence!!!
do the lowest recruits ever in college to go on and have a great nfl career #video (video idea)
4:05 oh yeah I’ve heard about this there’s a video on TH-cam that explains this whole story
Roquan Smith and his dad refusing to sign his LOI to UCLA is a pretty good one.
As a father I totally understand why the mother was so upset and trying to get her son out of Florida.
KTO you should make a video on this college football season like you did with the 2007 season
He did he has like 3 videos from Michigan losing and 3 way tie in the big 12
Do a story on Todd Marenovich!
I went to high school with Landon Collins. The rumor was that his girlfriend (at the time) convinced him to go to Alabama over LSU.
Just imagine the crazy stories that people don't know about.
I remember Disneys Smart Guy doing an episode about this. A big school mistakenly recruited marcus Henderson from peidmont high in Washington DC when they wanted to recruit marcus from piedmont in Washington state. They got a bunch of free gear and ultimately a sports car.
Coach O did it wrong. State prisons legally cannot transfer custody of inmates from state to state, only federal prisons can. He should have scheduled a free, paid for flight for AP weekly/monthly, although I’m not sure if that’s violating NCAA rules
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Macho Harris was one of my favorite players to watch. It was a guarantee that he would do something exciting every game. He was a straight up ball hawk.
always a good day when I see a KTO video👌
This story about Frank Beamer makes me like me even more I sure any player who chose a coach who save their life
AFL football (it's not rugby) in my country Australia there's some great Aboriginal recruiting stories! Traveling out to the middle of nowhere in outback Australia to find the next Superstar of the game!.. it's about 2% of all Australian's are indigenous Aboriginal but AFL football it's about 12% and man are they unbelievable!!! A lot play In the desert playing with bare feet!!!.. Lance Franklin, Cyril Rioli, Eddie Betts just to name a few!.. watch their highlight's! I love NFL but AFL is Awesome as well! Get into it NFL fan's!!!
Alex Collins made the right choice, he is my favorite player of all time, and Go Hogs
frank beamer is a class act
Florida one is 100% justified. Mom was looking out.
Love your videos bro
I never knew about the Adrian Peterson story. That's funny gotta love coach o
Moving someone from a state prison in OK to a state prison in CA doesn’t make any sense. They are fully different jurisdictions! I guess nobody corrected the coach and said it was impossible…
If he was in a federal prison and not state then the jurisdiction is the same
Great video but disappointed to not see the SMU pony excess included
I would hope the NCAA would have waived or made an exception had beamer drove Machos fam to the hospital
I mean they penalized Nebraska when Eric Crouch ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a flight before his junior year in 2000 so who knows.
I think the mom was upset cause Alabama had the bigger check, however I also did hear that Jacob Copeland was gang related so maybe she was telling the truth
yo KTO I went to south plant w buddha (Alex collins) and he had committed to FSU junior year up until Arkansas and Miami came by, makes me wonder how dominant those FSU teams could’ve been w him in the back field
I went to school with Alex "Buddah" Collins. Crazy when that paperwork thing happened lol.
Your my favorite TH-camd keep up the great vids.
Of course the story of Fred Taylor taking somewhere between $30 and $50K from Georgia and choosing Florida anyways broke like two days before you posted this. It definitely would have made honorable mention.
RIP Alex Collins. True Hogs fans will always remember you. WPS
Please do a part 2 on this
Adrian Peterson in his prime is still the most amazing athlete I've ever seen in my 27 years on earth.
Lol I remember people talking about he could jump straight to the NFL from high school
WHAT HAPPENED IN THE 2008 FIESTA BOWL AGAINST BOISE STATE ! 🤡🤪 HOLD MY BEER !😂🤣🧐
There’s a joke that when Eric Dickerson went to the NFL he took a pay cut lol.
I think he said that in the SMU 30 for 30 “A Payroll to Meet” - so good 😂
I don’t think Jacob Copeland’s mother was justified in what she did. I think she was absolutely justified in how she felt, especially her concern for her son’s well being, but you gotta stay up there and support your son. She shoulda waited til after and made her voice heard in private, but as it happened she basically took attention away from her son on a day that was supposed to be his.
In this case that’s best thing to do. Shine a light on him. Then they will ask her reason which she gave and now he’s forced to make the hard choice. Not the easy one
Love your vids
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That Alex Collins story was insane.
Loved the video but you should have shown Brian Kelly dancing with recruits
Didn’t even realize how recent this video was uploaded, just tapped on it thinking it was old 😂
I never knew macho Harris went through all that. That's sad as hell, but makes me feel like beamer is a true coach.
T.Y. going to WVU probably would've made him a first round pick. Plus, T.Y., Tavon Austin, and Stedman Bailey on the same offense 🤯
That coach O story is crazy😭😭 tryna move inmates
Amazing video 💯
Copeland actually just transferred to maryland
Kto you are the best TH-camr