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Did Miami Recruit Get a Death Threat, or Just Mean Advice?

May 19, 2008 – 3:20 PM
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Via Bruce Feldman($) we come to this quote from Miami safety recruit CJ Holton, who decommitted from Florida State just before signing day to sign with the 'Canes:
Well, a bunch of people were kind of shocked. I got it from a lot of people. I got a bunch of hate mail, just people talking crazy stuff. One dude told me before I leave that I better make sure to get a (bulletproof) vest. That was the craziest thing I heard.
Miami's violent crime rate does happen to be the highest in the country (although Sperling's Best Places cheerfully notes the murder rate is "relatively low"), but more likely that is one supermean guy making impolite reference to the murders of Brian Pata and Sean Taylor.

Which... dude. That's like a whole new universe in negative recruiting, not that it had any impact on Miami's universally-lauded 2008 recruiting class.
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