A South Carolina high school is no longer interested in having the Louisville football team recruiting their players in the aftermath of Bobby Petrino’s decision to pull a kid’s scholarship offer just two days before National Signing Day.
Just two days before signing day, Louisville pulled a scholarship offer from Dutch Fork High School running back Matt Colburn.
Needless to say, Dutch Fork head coach Tom Knotts was not pleased.
Here are some of Knotts’ comments:
“I tell my players when you commit, you commit. That’s what a commitment is. Matt’s been committed for eight months. It’s irritating that men can do this. He’s just a boy, a young man. He doesn’t know how to understand it. He’s very upset. Some things have opened up but that’s not the way it should be. It’s not right.
“Louisville is only going to hurt themselves doing this. Everybody knows not just what a good player Matt is but what a good person he is. That is not the way to do business and if that’s the way to do business we don’t want to deal with them.
“He (Petrino) won’t be able to recruit my school anymore and I imagine there will be some other coaches that will say the same thing. Trust factor is just not there. They’ve known about these three DBs wanting to go to the NFL for weeks now. To use that as an excuse doesn’t hold water with me.”
