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Title: Benoit????
Post by: Pittcat on August 01, 2007, 08:44:29 AM
What's going on with Eric Benoit?  According to Rivals he hasn't even signed his LOI!  Anybody know anything??





Also, 31 days to go! EMAW!
Title: Re: Benoit????
Post by: KSU4ME on August 01, 2007, 08:49:12 AM
He isn't in the media guide either.

Draw your own conclusions.
Title: Re: Benoit????
Post by: michigancat on August 01, 2007, 09:05:40 AM
I don't think he can sign one, can he?
Title: Re: Benoit????
Post by: Poopley on August 01, 2007, 09:11:42 AM
He can't sign -- signing period was over back in April.

He's enrolled but hasn't started classes yet.

Title: Re: Benoit????
Post by: Pittcat on August 01, 2007, 09:15:20 AM
When all the Benoit stuff started happening it was reported that there was a scholly available for him.  

Is he basically going to be a walk-on that gets a scholly automatically?








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Title: Re: Benoit????
Post by: Pett on August 01, 2007, 09:59:05 AM
Very good source says he's in Manhattan and reporting to Vanier today, I guess we'll see.

Ever since Eric showed up on the radar, I knew it would be hard to get him on campus with his academic issues and signing on with a team very late. But what I'm hearing, he somehow made it.  :woohoo:
Title: Re: Benoit????
Post by: Pittcat on August 01, 2007, 10:06:25 AM
 :beerchug: :beerchug: :beerchug:

 :hope: One more piece to the puzzle that is the o-line.
Title: Re: Benoit????
Post by: KSU4ME on August 01, 2007, 10:11:05 AM
Very good source says he's in Manhattan and reporting to Vanier today, I guess we'll see.

Ever since Eric showed up on the radar, I knew it would be hard to get him on campus with his academic issues and signing on with a team very late. But what I'm hearing, he somehow made it.  :woohoo:

The tried and untrue check of the student directory doesn't list him.

Title: Re: Benoit????
Post by: Pittcat on August 01, 2007, 10:13:25 AM
Very good source says he's in Manhattan and reporting to Vanier today, I guess we'll see.

Ever since Eric showed up on the radar, I knew it would be hard to get him on campus with his academic issues and signing on with a team very late. But what I'm hearing, he somehow made it.  :woohoo:

The tried and untrue check of the student directory doesn't list him.



Late addition.  No time to add him.
Title: Re: Benoit????
Post by: Jayhoxx on August 01, 2007, 10:39:51 AM
Ever since Eric showed up on the radar, I knew it would be hard to get him on campus with his academic issues and signing on with a team very late. But what I'm hearing, he somehow made it.  :woohoo:

Don't ever lose that sense of humor.  Good stuff!   :lol:

he somehow made it.

. . . somehow.
Title: Re: Benoit????
Post by: Pett on August 01, 2007, 10:55:02 AM
Trust me, I wont. Are you saying that we hired some ku assistant coaches?  :loly:  :mad:
Title: Re: Benoit????
Post by: waks on August 01, 2007, 11:06:03 AM
Ever since Eric showed up on the radar, I knew it would be hard to get him on campus with his academic issues and signing on with a team very late. But what I'm hearing, he somehow made it.  :woohoo:

Don't ever lose that sense of humor.  Good stuff!   :lol:

he somehow made it.

. . . somehow.
I still think it's hilarious that you question our coaching staff's ethics. You'll almost have a case once the NCAA starts slamming us with LOIC and academic fraud.
Title: Re: Benoit????
Post by: Poopley on August 01, 2007, 11:10:04 AM
Benoit never had any academic issues in the usual sense -- that was Sims, and it looks like he isn't going to make it. Benoit attended 2 different jucos and had to get all his credits transferred, but he screwed up and didn't start the paperwork from the first juco until June, so it's taken forever for him to get his stuff to the clearinghouse.

Sims . . . eh, that's a different matter.
Title: Re: Benoit????
Post by: Pittcat on August 01, 2007, 11:21:29 AM
Benoit never had any academic issues in the usual sense -- that was Sims, and it looks like he isn't going to make it. Benoit attended 2 different jucos and had to get all his credits transferred, but he screwed up and didn't start the paperwork from the first juco until June, so it's taken forever for him to get his stuff to the clearinghouse.

Sims . . . eh, that's a different matter.

That makes sense.

What's the story with Sims?  Should he not have even graduated from Junior High?
Title: Re: Benoit????
Post by: Pett on August 01, 2007, 12:07:53 PM
Benoit never had any academic issues in the usual sense -- that was Sims, and it looks like he isn't going to make it. Benoit attended 2 different jucos and had to get all his credits transferred, but he screwed up and didn't start the paperwork from the first juco until June, so it's taken forever for him to get his stuff to the clearinghouse.

Sims . . . eh, that's a different matter.

Benoit did have academic issues. That's why he couldn't enroll early to the other school he commited to before us. (Baylor?) No one thought he would make it, so pretty much everyone backed off, except for us.
Title: Re: Benoit????
Post by: Poopley on August 01, 2007, 12:45:17 PM
No, that is not right. He just couldn't get in to any place at semester because he did not have enough hours.
Title: Re: Benoit????
Post by: Pett on August 01, 2007, 12:53:02 PM
Hours has something to do with academics. And bottomline, he had issues.
Title: Re: Benoit????
Post by: Pittcat on August 01, 2007, 12:56:02 PM
As long as the issues have been taken care of, I don't care.  Hopefully now he can pick up on the system quickly and gell with the other linemen.
Title: Re: Benoit????
Post by: Poopley on August 01, 2007, 01:05:52 PM
Benoit verbally committed to U-La-La in March or April. Baylor and ISU showed some interest in him in the fall if he could count back in their classes, but he was never going to be a semester grad so he had no D-1A offers and did not sign with anyone in February. I guess if you think that every juco guy who didn't graduate at semester has academic issues, then he did also. :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Benoit????
Post by: Pittcat on August 01, 2007, 01:14:06 PM
Benoit never had any academic issues in the usual sense -- that was Sims, and it looks like he isn't going to make it. Benoit attended 2 different jucos and had to get all his credits transferred, but he screwed up and didn't start the paperwork from the first juco until June, so it's taken forever for him to get his stuff to the clearinghouse.

Sims . . . eh, that's a different matter.

That's all fine and good, but if you check the roster, (which probably hasn't been updated recently) Sims is on the roster, and Benoit still isn't.  I guess in a couple days we'll know for sure.  Hopefully they'll both be on the team.
Title: Re: Benoit????
Post by: ScubaSteve on August 01, 2007, 01:29:24 PM
That's all fine and good, but if you check the roster, (which probably hasn't been updated recently) Sims is on the roster, and Benoit still isn't.  I guess in a couple days we'll know for sure.  Hopefully they'll both be on the team.

I got an e-mail that said that even though Pinchback and Sims are on the roster, they will not be coming. Even though Walls and Benoit are not on the roster, they will be in Manhattan.
Title: Re: Benoit????
Post by: Jayhoxx on August 01, 2007, 01:35:46 PM
Trust me, I wont. Are you saying that we hired some ku assistant coaches?  :loly:  :mad:

No, they would have screwed it up and got caught.  We need better assistants in that sense.
Title: Re: Benoit????
Post by: KSU4ME on August 01, 2007, 01:48:11 PM
That's all fine and good, but if you check the roster, (which probably hasn't been updated recently) Sims is on the roster, and Benoit still isn't.  I guess in a couple days we'll know for sure.  Hopefully they'll both be on the team.

I got an e-mail that said that even though Pinchback and Sims are on the roster, they will not be coming. Even though Walls and Benoit are not on the roster, they will be in Manhattan.

Walls is da ballz.

 :-[

Glad he made it. 
Title: Re: Benoit????
Post by: ksuno1stunner on August 01, 2007, 01:50:23 PM
Ever since Eric showed up on the radar, I knew it would be hard to get him on campus with his academic issues and signing on with a team very late. But what I'm hearing, he somehow made it.  :woohoo:

Don't ever lose that sense of humor.  Good stuff!   :lol:

he somehow made it.

. . . somehow.

I don't know why you think we care.  As long as Smoke Patterson is playing for us!
Title: Re: Benoit????
Post by: KungFoooKitty on August 01, 2007, 04:28:51 PM
(http://www.champsarehere.com/images/Superstars/Chris%20Benoit.jpg)
Title: Re: Benoit????
Post by: Pittcat on August 01, 2007, 04:40:50 PM
(http://www.champsarehere.com/images/Superstars/Chris%20Benoit.jpg)

Wow, it only took seven hours and forty five minutes for someone to post that.


 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Benoit????
Post by: KungFoooKitty on August 01, 2007, 04:43:48 PM
I was going to post it earlier but I forgot about it.  The rest of you classless people are failing miserably.
Title: Re: Benoit????
Post by: Pittcat on August 01, 2007, 04:46:48 PM
I thought a photo or simply, "He's dead" would be the first reply.