Scroll halfway down the athletics page of the web site for Cretin-Derham Hall, a Catholic high school in St. Paul, Minn., that is home to the nation's most highly-touted football recruit. There you will come upon the following note of felicitation: "Congratulations to the following student-athletes that have signed NCAA national letters of intent to play collegiate athletics:
Seantrel Henderson-Football-University of Southern California"
If only. While the 6-8, 330-pound offensive tackle did appear live on national television last Wednesday to announce that he would attend USC, he is still yet to sign his national letter of intent. Henderson, whose father Sean is heavily invested in his son's choice (the family discussed plans to move to Los Angeles just last week), will wait at least until after the NCAA infractions hearings that USC will be subjected to between February 19-21 in Tempe, Arizona, before scrolling his signature on a letter of intent.
"I just can't walk into anything that's going to, like, make my future, you know, not as good as it could be," the younger Henderson told the Minneapolis Tribune.
Thus, the Cretin-Derham Hall webmaster has some editing to do. Not only has Henderson yet to sign his letter of intent, but when he does it may not be to play at USC. Meanwhile, the older Henderson provided a comment to the Star Tribune which should serve as a huge warning sign to schools that covet his son's signature.
"I mean, at the end of the day it's still a business and at the end of the day it's still my son's future," Sean Henderson said. "And everything that's going to possibly go on in his life could boil down to that decision and I wouldn't sell him basically, per se, you know, but my son, his life away and put it in their hands not knowing, you know, what the future holds for USC or for him."




