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Message: [QUOTE="Bambrewer, post: 1059895, member: 4728"] Ok lot to work with here...First I will try and space the posts I am terrible at typing and scraped thru school but will do what I can...all bets are off from the phone though. My iphone zooms in so I can only see like 10 words at a time and I am usually impressed it is readable at all. To be honest there have been very few kids that have mentioned a family atmosphere... mostly they talk about the other players as being a family staff doesnt really enter into it. I will say watch the staff interact with the Miami players (during the camp the football team was there and at lunch were doing 7 on 7s) the kids seemed to be laughing and hanging out with the position coaches but who knows could be just a show for the camp. BC was very impressive in their insistence that you graduate with a degree... I havent seen it at any other schools (though it may exist) but we had to meet with the athletes learning resource center during our visit. The lady we spoke with us explained what they do. She said the meet with all the freshman and help set up classes so they are not overwhelmed during the season. She said after that its what the individual needs. She said some kids come once a quarter to do class schedule. Some come once a month to check in. Some will come weekly to use the computer lab and library. Some kids come every day to meet with tutors...then she blew me away... she said in some cases they will assign a person to go with the student to every class and do every assignment...she said they wont do the work but they will make sure the student understands what they are doing. That was pretty cool to know for a kid like shy that might need help. Shys attitude to school changed a lot when the doctor told him its not a bad attitude Shy suffers from but that the early stuff Shy went thru has caused the problems he has now. He went from hating school and wanting to play at a place like UNC to just play ball and cruise thru school...to wanting a back up plan if the NFL doesnt happen. His IEP will follow thru college. BC was huge on pushing for his IEP. They said what ever is in place when he graduates will follow him all the way thru. He gets 50 percent more time to complete tests and that seems to be working next year when we meet in Sept we will see if he needs more. The recruiters seem to know very little about the academic stuff and point you to other people at the school to talk to. When he commits we will begin that. He has a college adviser in the high school who takes care of the communication from high school to college... they are working on his no time restriction SAT ACT now...which he takes the SAT saturday and the ACT next Saturday. Top 3 we call the only three. Miami was a growing up thing Shy likes the loud hard hitting style that Miami used to be know for. He always used to say he was going to play there..then he grew up and has started looking at schools differently. I think if they offered in the next couple weeks Shy might have to do some sole searching as to what he wants. Syracuse was a relationship thing. The coaches believed in Shy. Thats huge to Shy. He believes he can be the next great player and his work ethic will get him there. But if someone doesnt give you the tools to get there it doesnt matter. The coaches call him and visit the school alot and Shy has formed a bond with the coach. Now I have tried to explain that any one recruiting him will give him that same feeling (the coaches really pump these kids up) But its all the stuff we have read and heard since the initial contact that has reinforced that this is a great place to be...not to mention proximity and moms approval. BC was kind of a surprise. Its a local school so it has the closeness thing and you have the local espn hype when the recruiters get out to the schools so the kids like that. The visit went well and the film time where the coach kept saying we want you to come here and do exactly what KPL is doing...you are built to replace KPL... helped the case. Shy believes he is a great blitzer believes his sacks are what will get him to the next level. He has and unbelievable sense of when the ball is going to be snapped. He faced all kinds of snap counts this year and only had 3 offsides which considering how he gets across the line is unbelievable. the other teams do everything to get him to jump but cant.. as a matter of fact 1 of his offside last year wasnt a missed timing it was he went to fake and slid into the neutral zone. BC wants to blitz 60 percent of the time.. thats built for Shy. plus the academics and the help the offer on the academics helped their case. But as I have said their recruitment has cooled so Shy is feeling like they have lost faith. Uniforms arent a huge factor but no one wants to wear ugly stuff. To be honest my kids wear under armour and it kills me that Syracuse and Miami are nike. BC has under armour. Shys coaches ask all the time if he has an under armour contract . I spent 650 dollars last season on the cleats my two kids wore..it was a charity auction for the BC under armour Wounded Warrior Project uniforms with the american flag cleats. those could be the greatest cleats ever made. Shy destroyed his during the season but Ryan will wear his to BC camp. This year Shy is wearing his Superman highlights and for grass games has his Northwestern wounded game flag cleats... if I can figure it out I will post some pictures of Shys equipment..I have spent a fortune.The new uniforms are ok id give the edge to the new Miami ones...the chrome helmet look goes along way. [/QUOTE]

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