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http://deadspin.com/heres-a-video-of-alabama-fans-watching-their-team-lose-1791084685

Drink it in, people.

We've gotta savor this moment before next year, when Alabama is all DURR HURR UNDEFEATED YAY WE'RE CHAMPIONS AGAIN.

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http://highschoolsports.nj.com/news/article/-5482660132244712626/uconn-reneges-on-scholarship-offer-ditches-jersey-football-recruit-in-eleventh-hour/

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Dickens also had his most important decision locked up, having verbally committed seven months earlier to accept a scholarship offer to play football for the University of Connecticut. He wore UConn T-shirts to school, chatted in group text messages with other UConn recruits and had already planned to major in business. Now, he was only 17 days from signing his name to a National Letter of Intent and making his dreams official.

Or so he thought.

Dickens’ cell phone rang while he and his parents, Matt and Patti, were still in the parking lot of the awards banquet in Princeton Junction Sunday night. UConn coach Randy Edsall was on the other end. Ryan Dickens excitedly answered the phone, but in an instant his world was shattered.

Edsall was calling to tell Dickens the unthinkable: The school no longer had a scholarship for him.

“And the next thing you hear is Ryan’s like, ‘You’re kidding, right?’” Patti Dickens said. “And then he put the phone on speaker and Edsall said, ‘No, Ry, we just decided we’re going to go in another direction. We don’t have a spot for you.’”

 

Barely over two weeks from signing day, but the real gut punch is that when Edsall took over as UConn's head coach, he called the kid on New Year's Day to reassure him that his scholarship was safe and the school still wanted him. 

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Considering he's pretty much fucked now, its too bad he can't sue the school.

I hope karma bites them big time and whoever got the scholarship turns out to be the drizzling shits.

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He's not necessarily fucked, he received an offer from Rhode Island and his coach is working to try and get him in at other schools. It's still supremely shitty to pull the kid's scholarship like that, though, especially after calling him just to reassure him that he'd be OK.

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