SIGNED LB Jared Afalava

[Treand3]

Welcome Jared! GBR

 

[NUance]

Great pick up for us! Hope he turns out as good as the last Utah LB we had. Stew Bradley. :thumbs :

 

[BIGREDFAN_in_OMAHA]

Great pick up for us! Hope he turns out as good as the last Utah LB we had. Stew Bradley. :thumbs :

That would be awesome. He was one of my favs!

 

[BIGREDFAN_in_OMAHA]

Welcome future Blackshirt!!

 

[knapplc]

michaelbruntz:

Had a 247Sports analyst describe Afalava as, "the closest thing you can get to strapping a helmet on a missile."

 

[robsker]

michaelbruntz:

Had a 247Sports analyst describe Afalava as, "the closest thing you can get to strapping a helmet on a missile."

nice Imagery! We should all look forward to that.

Welcome Jared!

 

[Judoka]

Is he a possible academic casualty?

 

[RockyMountainOySker]

Is he a possible academic casualty?

Possible but his coach believes he'll make it. Exact same position as Alonzo Moore.

 

[BLEED4BLACKSHIRTS]

To think if we lose both Afalava and Moore to academics.......would kill this class :hmmph :hmmph :hmmph

 

[girlknowsfootball]

Slim chance this kid makes it this fall

 

[corncraze]

This sucks majorly.

 

[corncraze]

So is he our Braylon Heard/Charles Jackson of this year's class?

 

[MinnwiscowaSker]

but not a top-five rated recruit at his position. Let's just hope he makes it and doesn't have to go through the same stuff those other guys did. A lot of kids would have just given up given that situation.

 

[RockyMountainOySker]

So is he our Braylon Heard/Charles Jackson of this year's class?

Looks like it. It will be interesting to see if we try and place him in a JuCo. I think his grades are the biggest issue so not going to school and studying for the ACT/SAT isn't going to do much.

 

[girlknowsfootball]

So is he our Braylon Heard/Charles Jackson of this year's class?

Looks like it. It will be interesting to see if we try and place him in a JuCo. I think his grades are the biggest issue so not going to school and studying for the ACT/SAT isn't going to do much.

We went after Afalava because he was really good. A lot of schools shied away from him because he was most certainly going to be an academic casualty. NU was one of the few that was willing to take the chance to get this kid because he is really good. It is looking like we didn't win, but our belief in him and willingness to take a chance with him may lead to him re-signing with us after he does some Juco work or retakes classes.