hes baaaackkk

[lasooner123]

http://espn.go.com/college-football/player/_/id/377843/josh-jarboe

[stoops the eternal pimp]

That kid must be one heck of a natural athlete

[instigator]

I thought this was going to be about him:

http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/4290/adrianpeterson4ko0.jpg

[VA Sooner]

Hmmm... still very productive in a smaller school. Wonder what kind of looks he gets from scouts in a few years.

[Collier11]

hopefully he has gotten his head on straight...finally

[stoops the eternal pimp]

Somebody will take a flier on him late....maybe this season if he keeps his nose clean and can actually finish a season on the field

[stoops the eternal pimp]

A guy from the seahawks says "camp invite", a guy from the bills says "7th round maybe"....take that for what its worth

[sooneron]

Imagine our receiving corps if that idiot wasn't such an idiot...

[Seamus]

Imagine our receiving corps exactly how it is.

Not too shabby ...

[TheHumanAlphabet]

What happened to him at Troy, wasn't that the school he went to after us?

[SoCal]

Jarboe and Kiffin Risky for Red Wolves, But Freeze Deserves Benefit of the Doubt

by Chris Bahn


2/15/2011 at 1:20pm

There is a good chance you’ve heard of Arkansas State’s newest football staff member.

Chris Kiffin has been hired as the Red Wolves’ defensive line coach. Kiffin's addition was reported early Tuesday by radio station 103.9 FM The Game in Jonesboro.

Why would fans know that name?

Because Chris Kiffin’s father, Monte, is the architect of the Tampa 2 defense and now serves as defensive coordinator at Southern Cal. Brother Lane Kiffin is USC’s brash head coach and one of the nation’s best recruiters.

Sounds great, but Chris Kiffin also has some trouble in his past. Here's a 2006 report from Tampa Bay Online:

The son of Tampa Bay Buccaneers defense coordinator Monte Kiffin was arrested Tuesday on charges he broke into two vans to steal money and compact discs earlier in the week, Indian Shores police said.

Christopher Kiffin, 24, of 16200 Gulf Blvd., Redington Beach, was charged with two counts of burglary to a vehicle. He was released from the Pinellas County Jail on $10,000 bail within hours of his arrest.

According to arrest affidavits, Kiffin admitted to breaking into two vans along Gulf Boulevard in Redington Shores at roughly 4 a.m. Sunday. His plan was to take money and compact discs, but it was unclear from the affidavits whether he did so. Indian Shores Police Investigator Jason Routzahn declined to comment.

The affidavits say Kiffin was under the influence of alcohol and drugs at the time of the alleged crime.

To be fair, the now 29-year-old Kiffin seems to have cleaned up his act since then. He served last year as a defensive video coordinator for the Trojans and was an intern on Bo Pelini’s Nebraska staff in 2009. While with the Huskers he met his wife, Angela.

Nearly five years have passed since Kiffin ran into trouble. If his issues are truly behind him and any of his father’s coaching ability or brother’s recruiting prowess has rubbed off on him, then Chris Kiffin is worth it for the Red Wolves.

What might cause eyebrows to raise even further, Kiffin might not be the biggest risk that ASU Coach Hugh Freeze has taken since being promoted to the position in December.

Freeze signed talented, but troubled wide receiver Josh Jarboe as part of the Red Wolves’ 23-man 2011 recruiting class. If Jarboe’s name sounds familiar, there’s good reason.

Oklahoma signed the 6-foot-3 Georgia native in 2008. Jarboe was a four-star prospect coming out of high school and programs like OU, Florida, Georgia, Georgia Tech and Ohio State wanted him.

What’s not to like, right? Here's a recent report from the Jonesboro Sun:

Jarboe became nationally known when he signed with Oklahoma in 2008 but was dismissed before the season after he was arrested on felony gun charges and then posted a controversial rap video on the Internet. The video was laced with obscenities, including lyrics about guns, shooting people and degrading references to women. The gun charges were later reduced to a misdemeanor under Georgia’s First Time Offenders Act.

Jarboe transferred to Troy, sat out a year and was dismissed from that program after more problems on and off the field. He spent last year in junior college.

Freeze said he and members of the ASU administration, including the athletic director and chancellor, spoke at length with Jarboe before approving a scholarship offer.

Freeze has said multiple times since signing Jarboe (Here's his rap video. It's not suitable for work, btw), he believes the player is making significant changes. Freeze told The Sun:

“I am just convinced that he has matured and wants to put that past him,” Freeze said. “I’ve never had a recruiting meeting like that before where a kid is as emotional, breaking down and crying and just thinking that somebody is willing to listen to his story. We all have a past. He made a mistake, and he is the first to confess ‘I made a mistake.’ ... It’s up to him to rewrite his story, and we want to help alongside of that.”

Freeze had a hand in helping re-write one significant success story. He helped fight to get Michael Oher into Memphis’ Briarcrest Christian. We all know how well that turned out for Oher, who is now a starting tackle in the NFL and the subject of several books and a hit movie, “The Blind Side.”

There are some major differences in the circumstances for Oher, Jarboe and Kiffin. Certainly. But the larger point here is that people can overcome a troubling past – self-inflicted or otherwise — and flourish.

Perhaps the right situation will help Jarboe reach his potential as a player and — most importantly — as a person. Maybe Kiffin is ready to prove he's more than the reports that surface when you Google his name.

Taking on a player working on his fourth school and a coach with a history of drug use and crime might seem risky. It is.

Because Freeze is so early in his tenure, he gets the benefit of the doubt here. He doesn’t strike me as a guy who would take unnecessary risks just for the sake of winning football games. Cutting corners when it comes to character can often blow up in a coach’s face, but until we see evidence of that happening, Freeze deserves the trust of ASU supporters.

[SoonerTerry]

thanks for the repost SoCal


damn net overlorders