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Willy Mac on Let me get this out of the way right now, Kyle Parker is probably gone. And he should go. As good as he has been as a quarterback, As good of a football player as Kyle Parker has been, he’s arguably better at baseball. He is projected to be among the first 50 picks, and should be a first round pick. At this point, with the draft looming just a week away (June 7th), KP has a pretty easy choice to make; make millions or risk it all on another year of football (a sport at which his professional prospects are considerably less rosy). If you read between the line of the following quote, as seen on Tigernet, you can pretty much guess what future he’s easing the Clemson fanbase into:
“The biggest thing about a program like Clemson is that players come and go,” he said. “Clemson is built in a way that no matter if they lose one player, the program isn’t going anywhere. It will be here, and they recruit here to be able to reload. This program will be in great shape no matter what happens.”
All that being said, he still claims that he is not at the point where the decision is a no-brainer. Nonetheless, as I said on Twitter months ago, Tajh Boyd will (probably) be your Clemson quarterback in 2010.
Also, in an unrelated note, have you heard those Matthew McConaughey commercials for Beef? Do you also imagine him as Wooderson while he’s talking? No? Okay, just me.
1AParker
on Jun 2, 2010 at 6:26 am:
Please don’t go…without you we would still be the whoafully underacheiving team we were with top end talent…
2Broken Gnome
on Jun 2, 2010 at 6:29 am:
When I read the interview I realized he was probably gone because he seemed to be trying too hard to not say anything.
“I told him I still don’t know what will happen, or what decisions I will want or have to make.”
My translation: “I know exactly what decisions I will want and have to make, and under what conditions I’m quitting football, but I’m not going to go on record and burn bridges just in case the draft goes worse than everyone anticipates.”
3BuckTN
on Jun 2, 2010 at 7:43 am:
and will korn is at Marshall. damn what shitty luck for him
4true
on Jun 2, 2010 at 10:15 am:
Is this a DSOT post? Please tell me it is because I really want this to be a DSOT post. What’s that? Its not a DSOT post? Well then, I think I’ll jump out of my 25th floor office window.
5WillyD
on Jun 2, 2010 at 3:55 pm:
I haven’t seen anyone projecting him to the first round. Just squeezing in to the Top 50 seems to be the consensus (which I agree would probably be high enough that he would leave). I’ve seen a few reports that were kind of down on him and had him going much later (like 4th round) so we’ll just to wait and see what happens. Wouldn’t mind losing him as much if he somehow ended up playing for the Braves at least.
6Mogrits
on Jun 2, 2010 at 9:20 pm:
Whatever…
WTF is wrong with our baseball program that our football program has to carry the mail for that team’s leading hitter? I remember the stories when Parker came in- how he’d play both sports but on a football scholarship.
I think at the time he came in he was predicted to contribute in baseball and backup Korn in football but damn…this will be a big rug pulled out from under Swinney’s plans for next season if he leaves and I just wish that was avoidable.Some would say Dabo isn’t responsible because the scholarship deal happened under Bowden but then again Dabo is supposedly our best recruiter, so surely he knew what was up.
From where I’m sitting, I reckon it’s best to reflect back on Parker’s last years good season and the good baseball and move on.
7penthousetiger
on Jun 3, 2010 at 3:31 am:
I think it shows that our baseball recruiting has been really shitty lately, since our best offensive player was recruited by the football staff. Leggett needs to recruit better in our area, SC, GA, FLA, NC
8RichmanA2
on Jun 3, 2010 at 11:38 am:
If it happens, it happens. I hope he gets picked up by the Detroit Tigers.
903tiger
on Jun 3, 2010 at 12:46 pm:
one thing about those high school chicks……I get older, they stay the same age!!!!