#17

[BarrelORum]

He's #14 in the class of 2017.

 

[agt45]

We need more d line. Quality and quantity. I'm troubled with the small numbers on either side of the LOS in this class so far. Especially considering how lack of pass rush has been an Achilles heel for us the past several seasons

 

[ThomsonJacket]

Finally a DL man, things are looking up

 

[TampaBayJacket]

Very nice pickup

 

[LongforDodd]

Cortez Alston - DE

http://247sports.com/Player/Cortez-Alston-82575

from Harrison Butker's high school. Great recruit, Harrison!

 

[GTMensLax&SoccerD1Soon!]

I like how the cover of his website shows him gouging some guys eyes out!

 

[18in32]

He got offered by Harvard. I'm impressed. I mean I know that doesn't say anything football-wise, but that's a great school.

Happy to have the kid... but I would've taken Harvard over GT.

 

[zippyGT]

Happy to have the kid... but I would've taken Harvard over GT.

I would have said the same thing in the past, but after being around universities and students for this long, my advice now is to go cheap for undergraduate (generally the best in-state school you can get into) then go to Harvard/Stanford/MIT for a graduate degree.

If you graduate from Florida, for example, with a bachelor's then go to Harvard for a master's, you get the same name benefits as if you went to Harvard for your bachelor's (access to MBB Consulting, VC firms, BB IB, etc.). Meanwhile you spent 2 years paying crazy tuition instead of 5 and you tend to come out more well rounded vs. elitist.

Only risk is that you go to Florida then can't get into Harvard for a master's. However, master's degrees (excl. professional degrees) are easier to get in at Harvard, and if you go to Florida and don't blow it out of the water, you would have never been successful at Harvard, anyway.

 

[gtrower]

I would have said the same thing in the past, but after being around universities and students for this long, my advice now is to go cheap for undergraduate (generally the best in-state school you can get into) then go to Harvard/Stanford/MIT for a graduate degree.

If you graduate from Florida, for example, with a bachelor's then go to Harvard for a master's, you get the same name benefits as if you went to Harvard for your bachelor's (access to MBB Consulting, VC firms, BB IB, etc.). Meanwhile you spent 2 years paying crazy tuition instead of 5 and you tend to come out more well rounded vs. elitist.

Only risk is that you go to Florida then can't get into Harvard for a master's. However, master's degrees (excl. professional degrees) are easier to get in at Harvard, and if you go to Florida and don't blow it out of the water, you would have never been successful at Harvard, anyway.

Or, you know, there's football.

 

[Diseqc]

if you go to Florida and don't blow it out of the water, you would have never been successful at Harvard, anyway.

Getting into Harvard is the hardest part of an education at Harvard. Once you're in, it's pretty easy.

 

[18in32]

I would have said the same thing in the past, but after being around universities and students for this long, my advice now is to go cheap for undergraduate (generally the best in-state school you can get into) then go to Harvard/Stanford/MIT for a graduate degree.

If you graduate from Florida, for example, with a bachelor's then go to Harvard for a master's, you get the same name benefits as if you went to Harvard for your bachelor's (access to MBB Consulting, VC firms, BB IB, etc.). Meanwhile you spent 2 years paying crazy tuition instead of 5 and you tend to come out more well rounded vs. elitist.

Only risk is that you go to Florida then can't get into Harvard for a master's. However, master's degrees (excl. professional degrees) are easier to get in at Harvard, and if you go to Florida and don't blow it out of the water, you would have never been successful at Harvard, anyway.

This student athlete won't be paying tuition at Harvard or Florida or GT. And it is always better to start high rather than low. You can always easily slide down the ladder of worldly success; it is climbing the greased pole that is so hard. To put it another way, elite college undergrads are over represented in elite college grad programs.

 

[JacketFan77]

This student athlete won't be paying tuition at Harvard or Florida or GT. And it is always better to start high rather than low. You can always easily slide down the ladder of worldly success; it is climbing the greased pole that is so hard. To put it another way, elite college undergrads are over represented in elite college grad programs.

Harvard doesn't give athletic schollys.

 

[18in32]

Harvard doesn't give athletic schollys.

And yet none of its athletes pay tuition.

 

[JJacket]

And yet none of its athletes pay tuition.

They don't call it an athletic scholarship, but if you have the ability to help beat Yale in an athletic competition, you may get an academic scholarship.

 

[18in32]

They don't call it an athletic scholarship, but if you have the ability to help beat Yale in an athletic competition, you may get an academic scholarship.

Actually I don't think they give academic scholarships either. They give need based financial aid packages that are very flexible and very discretionary. In other words, Harvard does whatever it wants.

 

[AlaGold]

Maybe the 3rd most important recruit after the Swilling boys.We need DLs ,esp ones that are grown NOW with quickness.