According to Yahoo News a school in Austin Texas was penalized for recruiting players from American Samoa. The coaches took a trip last summer to recruit players from Tafuna High School. The coaches said that they were really impressed with the size of the players over there. There school in Austin is not known for having big players they are more known for their academics rather than sports. One player that they did recruit has not played this season due to his academics he is now permanently ineligible for being recruited illegally. The coaches feel that they have done nothing wrong.
Is this wrong to you? I am not sure what I think about this. I am from Hawaii so I am use to playing football with Samoans I know firsthand they are huge. On my high school football team we had Samoans that where already the size of college players.
Is this unfair? I only think it is unfair that the coaches went to recruit them. Other than that it is fair game they are the same age as all of the other boys it just happens they are already the size of a grown man in college. They just shouldn’t have recruited them.
Why Samoa? The boys are naturally big. I think maybe they should have looked for some bigger boy’s right here in America or in Texas and they most likely would have not got in trouble. Leaving the country is what I believe got the coaches caught.
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