Spoke with Leslie Stirrups' Uncle today ...

[Velcro]

Imagine a dline with a senior Selvie if he came back, Genus, Bedford if he plays as good as they say and Stirrups

that would have to be one of the best in the nations just in time when they play UM

Don't forget Ryne Giddens 

[IHuckItDeep]

can some one give me the backround on this guy.....why didn't he come to USF when he was recruited......grades?......will he be playing this fall.......he was a bad ass out of high school.....

[Mama_Bull]

can some one give me the backround on this guy.....why didn't he come to USF when he was recruited......grades?......will he be playing this fall.......he was a bad ass out of high school.....

He failed to qualify, but that was no surprise.

Yes, he will be playing this year at East Mississippi CC.

[Bull Dozer]

Here's more for the dude asking about him.

http://southflorida.scout.com/a.z?s=359&p=8&c=1&nid=1912024

[Knight_Light]

can some one give me the backround on this guy.....why didn't he come to USF when he was recruited......grades?......will he be playing this fall.......he was a bad ass out of high school.....

Greg Auman wrote this a while ago trying to explain Leslie Stirrups situation:

http://blogs.tampabay.com/usf/2006/08/more_thoughts_o.html

When I called Pearl River Community College, where Stirrups was set to play this fall after failing to qualify academically at USF, coach Tim Hatten (PRCC Head Coach) was blunt: This was not the kind of activity he'd tolerate in his program, not the kind of character he wanted to bring to Mississippi. Unless the charges (6 felonies) go away very quickly, Stirrups has no place on his team.

The easy reaction is that it's slightly hypocritical that one day after he takes Carlton Hill off USF's hands, knowing he's had a recent arrest for possession of marijuana, Hatten says he wants no part of Stirrups and his error in judgment. With Stirrups though, the issue is greater, because it attacks a coach's ability to trust the young man. If he's willing to steal from customers of a business that employs both himself and his own mother, what conscience would stop him from stealing from a teammate's locker?

What's truly mindless in all of this, both funny and sad at the same time, is how Stirrups got caught: With both cameras, police say he took a few pictures of himself and friends before pawning them, never deleting the images. So when police were able to recover the cameras, they saw the post-theft pics and showed them around at the parking lot office. Of course, they could identify him; he worked there. It's the kind of silliness you normally laugh at while reading Carl Hiassen novels.

His six felony counts are remarkably similar to another USF signee who failed to qualify academically and wound up at Pearl River three years ago, a linebacker named Gene Coleman. We chronicled his problems last spring in a story about how college programs rarely do any kind of background checks on recruits; with Coleman, he'd burglarized a neighbor's home, with more than $13,000 in jewelry stolen. Again, not the smartest criminal mind, police said Coleman had stolen a $40 Wal-Mart gift card straight out of a Father's Day card, and was later identified on store surveillance cameras as he bought video games. The neighbor never got her wedding ring back, but still told a judge she didn't think his actions should take a college scholarship away from him.

This might not be the end for Stirrups. Coleman managed to avoid jail time in his case, and would probably be at USF today had he been able to get his academics straight at Pearl River. This is Stirrups' first known arrest, so it's reasonable to think he could get a plea agreement lowering the charges to misdemeanors -- the low end of the range for third-degree grand theft is $300, and he's barely above that on both sets of charges. He'll have to find a junior college willing to take him, then he'll have a year or two to show enough for a Division I program to trust him with a scholarship, all while solving the academic problems that have limited him so far.

For all you newspapers-are-always-negative critics, the Reed story dominated the front page of Tuesday's sports section; the Stirrups one was on an inside page.

[Bullpride08]

How cute Knight Light....amazing you kept that on your computer, what a useless human being you can be at times.

So, by the way, what is O'Leary doing about Syndey Haynes doing the same thing as Phillip Smith?  How about Kay not facing any game suspensions for his arrests...

Yeah, I'd not worry about us and try to work harder at keeping the UCF hypocracy off the airwaves. 

[Knight_Light]

Yeah...I invented google.

You should try it too.

Here's what ya get.

http://blogs.tampabay.com/usf/2006/08/more_thoughts_o.html

[USFMikeB]

Stirrups has come a long way in the past two years in both resolving his legal and academic troubles.  I think he probably realized that he was throwing away his best shot at life, and by all appearances he has worked hard to recover that opportunity.  Good for him.

[Matt]

so is he at Pearl River this year or what?

[gobulls83]

How cute Knight Light....amazing you kept that on your computer, what a useless human being you can be at times.

So, by the way, what is O'Leary doing about Syndey Haynes doing the same thing as Phillip Smith?  How about Kay not facing any game suspensions for his arrests...

Yeah, I'd not worry about us and try to work harder at keeping the UCF hypocracy off the airwaves. 

What the hell is the point of a post like this? One poster asked for the background on Stirrups, and Knight_Light provided a link to a detailed account. Seriously, what the **** is your problem? Knight_Light added infinitely more to this conversation than you did.