Austin's powers
From The Sun's Stefen Lovelace:
Dunbar's Tavon Austin has received a full football scholarship offer from Boston College. Austin, a junior, who is listed on the Poets' roster as "athlete," rather than by position, said Tuesday that BC coach Jeff Jagozdinzki hadn't promised him that he'd start if he were to come in 2009, but did say that he would want Austin to play specifically at running back.
This is the second full scholarship offer Austin has received. His first one came from Maryland, and he said he's still undecided about which school he will attend.
Austin, the reigning Sun Offensive Player of the Year, is this week's Male Athlete of the Week. He ran for 102 yards and three touchdowns in Dunbar's 56-6 pasting of City last Friday night.
Comments
I won't be looking for Austin to sign with ANY SCHOOL any time soon. The kid can play, and the world is just now finding out about him.
I expect NCAA D1-A offers will begin to pour in, and Tavon should take his time, visit each school and evaluate which one's best for him. The BC offer indicates to me that he's got good grades (that jesuit school simply doesn't offer to marginal students, regardless of their athletic prowess), so the sky is the limit for Austin.
Personally, I'd love to see him end up at Maryland when all is said and done (and not at an SEC school like Friendly's Haden, Snow Hill's Tate, etc., did.) It's high time UM began keeping the best MD players at home. If that happens, I'm curious how the Terps would fare against the Florida's and Auburn's of the BCS world. As it is now, UM can't win consistently at that level.
Posted by: Bill Burton | October 5, 2007 10:07 AM