Class of 2025 OL Ja'Elyne Matthews (NJ) Portal to FSU

[Trueblue25]

Hear the kids out and see if they’re receptive to a plan. Notice he hasn’t signed any of them yet. Some of you are jumping the gun on culture worries a bit prematurely.

 

[kcsu]

We’re kicking the tires on some kids with questionable pasts….

And if Fran accepts them into the program im good with it.

 

[kcsu]

I think that statement is way too strong.

 

[kcsu]

Lets go with Fran is a very good person who actually cares about these kids.

 

[CIL]

Put your hands on a woman and you should lose your chance to play D1 football.

I have two teenage daughters. I commend this line of thought. If anyone touched them they may find themselves at the Clinic.

I do understand that there are two sides to every story. Let the staff kick the tires on this one to see if there is any validity to it and also let them judge this kid’s character.

I know for a fact this is not a mercenary type staff, nor is Syracuse a university that would allow it.

I’ll let things play out before casting judgement.

 

[orangepassion]

Fran is a better man then most of us on this board. So I trust his instincts better then most here.

It always amuses me when people presume to know what kind of a man a Football coach is, especially one who has been here for ...1 year.

 

[chop block]

Will Norman visited Cuse after Fran was hired. Big time HS recruit and after spending time with him they never spoke to him again IIRC.

Who knows what kind of impression Matthews will make.

Appears he transfered to marshall then to west georgia couple months later, see no stats for the last year. Wonder if hes even in college antmore

 

[anomander]

We’re kicking the tires on some kids with questionable pasts….

yup. hard pass on this one.

Fran did recruit him when he was at Georgia so there is a past.

 

[richmondcuse03]

I have two teenage daughters. I commend this line of thought. If anyone touched them they may find themselves at the Clinic.

I do understand that there are two sides to every story. Let the staff kick the tires on this one to see if there is any validity to it and also let them judge this kid’s character.

I know for a fact this is not a mercenary type staff, nor is Syracuse a university that would allow it.

I’ll let things play out before casting judgement.

was there a story I missed on this kid re: domestic violence? I am aware of the other kids but didn’t see that with Matthews. I thought we just had him pegged as a typical over rated Rutgers kid and then some others questioned his work ethic.

 

[Capt. Tuttle]

But besides all that Mrs Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play? Eeks, that sounds.. not good

Allegedly

 

[Capt. Tuttle]

Put your hands on a woman and you should lose your chance to play D1 football.

What standard of proof? She said so? Criminal conviction? Video? Do circumstances matter ( for instance she punches the guy)?
Just trying to clarify. Lots of loose allegations fly around these days. ( See Duke lax case)

 

[kcsu]

I have two teenage daughters. I commend this line of thought. If anyone touched them they may find themselves at the Clinic.

I do understand that there are two sides to every story. Let the staff kick the tires on this one to see if there is any validity to it and also let them judge this kid’s character.

I know for a fact this is not a mercenary type staff, nor is Syracuse a university that would allow it.

I’ll let things play out before casting judgement.

Fran puts his wife and children first. If he's good it's good.

 

[cardiac]

Where is the stuff on

was there a story I missed on this kid re: domestic violence? I am aware of the other kids but didn’t see that with Matthews. I thought we just had him pegged as a typical over rated Rutgers kid and then some others questioned his work ethic.

It was after a car accident and he put his hands on the female driver through the window

 

[bnoro]

What standard of proof? She said so? Criminal conviction? Video? Do circumstances matter ( for instance she punches the guy)?
Just trying to clarify. Lots of loose allegations fly around these days. ( See Duke lax case)

Duke Lax was 20 years ago.

Meanwhile we're watching the Canadian World Juniors case playing out in front of us right now.

 

[dasher]

What standard of proof? She said so? Criminal conviction? Video? Do circumstances matter ( for instance she punches the guy)?
Just trying to clarify. Lots of loose allegations fly around these days. ( See Duke lax case)

yeah, the Duke case. That doesn't mean that every woman that gets beat up by a man, or assaulted by a man, shouldn't be believed. I know you didn't say that but I am so sick of hearing about the Duke case. What do you think happens more often, a man is falsely accused or a woman doesn't get justice after she is attacked?

 

[richmondcuse03]

It was after a car accident and he put his hands on the female driver through the window

Thank you hadn’t seen it.

 

[DomeHolmes]

yeah, the Duke case. That doesn't mean that every woman that gets beat up by a man, or assaulted by a man, shouldn't be believed. I know you didn't say that but I am so sick of hearing about the Duke case. What do you think happens more often, a man is falsely accused or a woman doesn't get justice after she is attacked?

I think your last sentence is not particularly fair. I don’t think it matters much which happens more. Right is right and wrong is wrong. Women should always get justice if assaulted in any way, and people shouldn’t be falsely accused, which happens quite often as well. But the Duke lacrosse case did illustrate the absurdity of what happens with a false accusation and how it can destroy peoples lives. It’s a very well-known case, ( but certainly not isolated) . That’s why people use it.

 

[normaliswear]

yeah, the Duke case. That doesn't mean that every woman that gets beat up by a man, or assaulted by a man, shouldn't be believed. I know you didn't say that but I am so sick of hearing about the Duke case. What do you think happens more often, a man is falsely accused or a woman doesn't get justice after she is attacked?

Matt Araiza was just a couple years ago. How about simply take every allegation seriously and investigate fully? Don't presume to believe one side or the other until evidence points in a direction one side or the other.

 

[dasher]

Matt Araiza was just a couple years ago. How about simply take every allegation seriously and investigate fully? Don't presume to believe one side or the other until evidence points in a direction one side or the other.

Reasonable. But we don't do that.

 

[Niastri]

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Replying to an old post, but it’s really amazing to see someone who is listed at 300 lbs and my first impression was “How is he so skinny?”

The size of humans we are recruiting is just amazing.

 

[Capt. Tuttle]

It was after a car accident and he put his hands on the female driver through the window

The double standard slays me. Assuming it true, would it have been okay to put his hands on a male driver.

 

[qdawgg]

What standard of proof? She said so? Criminal conviction? Video? Do circumstances matter ( for instance she punches the guy)?
Just trying to clarify. Lots of loose allegations fly around these days. ( See Duke lax case)

Weird you’ve phrased this in a way that implies most female accusations are false when statistics show, cases like the Duke case are very rare. So it’s odd to defer to the extreme version.

I don’t know anything about this kid so this has nothing to do with the recruit. Just always odd to me when men/people assume women are lying about physical/sexual assaults when those situations are outliers.

 

[Niastri]

Can you please elaborate?

Wasn’t that enough?

Literally throwing a recruit out of his official visit is special.

Dude must be Homelander in disguise.

 

[qdawgg]

The double standard slays me. Assuming it true, would it have been okay to put his hands on a male driver.

People get arrested for that too. We had comments before about kids from the portal we’ve reached out to who were driving too fast in their cars and what their character might be like.

 

[Niastri]

The double standard slays me. Assuming it true, would it have been okay to put his hands on a male driver.

I think it’s safe to say that a 6’6, 320 lb dude putting his hands on anybody is going to need to be taken seriously. A D1 offensive lineman is a very dangerous person if they don’t control their behavior carefully.

Then again, I personally have seen a situation where a girl came at a big dude, mostly unprovoked. (He did say something impolite. He thought it was a compliment. The girl really didn’t.)

She was scratching, slapping and punching him. He did nothing at all, until she got him bleeding with a big scratch on his arm. He pushed her away, and we got out of there. She immediately called 911. We decided it would be worse to leave, so it was a long five minutes wondering what was going to happen. Just the week before, a different friend of mine got choked by cops who accused him of having drugs in his mouth.

I hate to say this, but I am very glad the first cop on the scene was a black guy, or my buddy might have been in big trouble. It was the 90’s, before cell phones. It was our word against her and her friend’s word.

It could have been ugly. He was lucky she had blood in her nails when the cop looked at her hands. A different officer might have used his taser on my friend and asked questions later. Once the taser comes out, the cop is in CYA mode and my buddy could have been railroaded.

I always give more benefit of the doubt to people accused because of that. Especially black men.