{"id":5485,"date":"2010-02-06T11:12:52","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T11:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2010\/02\/yougottabekiddin-me.html"},"modified":"2010-02-06T11:12:52","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T11:12:52","slug":"yougottabekiddin-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2010\/02\/yougottabekiddin-me.html","title":{"rendered":"Yougottabekiddin’ me!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did you see this<\/a>? We need to write the NCAA<\/a> to petition that this sort of nonsense be changed. Recruiting is bad enough; football recruiting probably the worst, but recruiting 13-years olds is out of bounds — and USC backers need to weigh in too.<\/p>\n

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Go ahead and laugh, but this time, Lane Kiffin<\/b> may have outfoxed us.<\/p>\n

Kiffin’s scholarship offer to a 13-year-old seventh grader has turned into a national joke, right down to the obligatory Chris Hansen<\/b>\/Dateline<\/i> NBC references. It’s positively hilarious that Kiffin — whose just-spell-my-name-right style of attention-grabbing recruiting has earned him a reputation bigger than his 7-6 record as a college head coach — would promise a scholarship in the class of 2015 to a player who might not shave for three more years.<\/p>\n

I’ll admit it. I chuckled, too. Until I searched for David Sills<\/b> on YouTube. Then everything made sense.<\/p>\n

The description of the clip<\/a> touts the Bear, Del., quarterback prodigy as “the best young phenom since Tiger Woods<\/b>.” (Get your minds out of the gutter, sickos.) The clip itself is a 117-second commercial for DreamMaker, the newest project for quarterback guru Steve Clarkson<\/b>, whose past students include Matt Leinart<\/b>, Jimmy Clausen<\/b> and Matt Barkley<\/b>.<\/p>\n

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