Peter Buck makes AD's Academic All-American

[DopeyHurnut]

Peter Buck made Academic All-American. Another honor for a great kid that wasn’t recruited by the Sperbeck regime.

http://www.nacda.com/auto_pdf/p_hotos/s_chools/nacda/sports/div1aaada/auto_pdf/10team

http://www.hornetsports.com/sports/football/release.asp?release_id=9298

 

[Termite]

Peter Buck was recruited by the Sperbeck regime. He came out of high school in the class of '07. He was in the same recruiting class as Wilkins, Hilliard, Coleman, & Nash. No disrespect intended.

 

[SDHornet]

Congrats to Buck!!! Way to get it done in both the classroom and the field.

 

[DopeyHurnut]

Peter Buck was recruited by the Sperbeck regime. He came out of high school in the class of '07. He was in the same recruiting class as Wilkins, Hilliard, Coleman, & Nash. No disrespect intended.

Let me rephrase. Another honor for a great kid that the Sperbeck regime didn’t figure out he was worth a scholarship until after his freshman season. Just because he showed up at the same time as those other good kids doesn’t mean he was recruited. The word I got was they gave away all their scholarships and then asked him to walk on. They didn't know he existed, even though he was on the same section championship team as Nash. Inviting a kid to walk on in February isn’t recruiting, it’s just trying to get lucky.

 

[SactoHornetAlum]

Peter Buck was recruited by the Sperbeck regime. He came out of high school in the class of '07. He was in the same recruiting class as Wilkins, Hilliard, Coleman, & Nash. No disrespect intended.

Let me rephrase. Another honor for a great kid that the Sperbeck regime didn’t figure out he was worth a scholarship until after his freshman season. Just because he showed up at the same time as those other good kids doesn’t mean he was recruited. The word I got was they gave away all their scholarships and then asked him to walk on. They didn't know he existed, even though he was on the same section championship team as Nash. Inviting a kid to walk on in February isn’t recruiting, it’s just trying to get lucky.

Jesus give it a rest. You show up here with all of four posts...starting a thread on a wonderful honor for Buck, then denigrate Sperbeck? :roll:

There are a whole bunch of kids that slip thru cracks and into programs. For the love of God, you people simple amaze me...its football, a damn game.

 

[DopeyHurnut]

If you think it’s just a game you need to stop posting on a fan blog and just buy season tickets.

And, Peter Buck will be missed, making tackles and raising the team GPA.

 

[SDHornet]

If you think it’s just a game you need to stop posting on a fan blog and just buy season tickets.

And, Peter Buck will be missed, making tackles and raising the team GPA.

I agree. It’s a business, and Sperbeck and his regime made a business decision to invite Buck as a walk-on and it worked out. I am sure decisions like these happen at every program. If another school was interested in Buck, they could have offered him a scholarship (outbid Sperbeck and his regime) and he could very well have not even been a Hornet. Fortunately Buck chose to be a Hornet and the decision was a great one that worked out well for himself and Sperbeck’s regime.

Go Hornets!

 

[SacHornet]

every school invites walk ons, and every school offers scholarships to players, many times it works out that the scholarship player may be better then the walk on but that is not always true. Players slip through the cracks all the time and I feel that trying to recruit for college can be one of the hardest things a college coach has to do. It is hard to predict how a hs student is going to grow up and mature once they get to college. They have many new distractions and some just dont pan out. That being said I think that there is a lot of luck involving recruiting, whether the the player is a walk on or a scholarship guy. Let me just take one example and believe me there are more but David Born was a scholarship guy and where is he now??? Obviously just giving a scholarship to a guy doesnt guarantee that he is going to stay with the program and him leaving shows that maybe we got unlucky with that recruit.

But enough about all of that. The fact of the matter is the Peter Buck was a great guy and as nice of a guy you could ask for. He worked hard both in the classroom and on the field and he deserves this honor. I wish Buck good luck in all his future endeavors.