RAY-RAY, CONT’D: A CLEMSON RESPONSE

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Oversigning Strikes In McElrathbey Cut
Published 3/10/2008 by Brian Cook at FanHouse
... you live under a rock or pass out as soon as something schmaltzy, airbrushed, and featuring Shelley Smith shows up on ESPN, you know who Ray Ray McElrathbey is. Ray Ray is the Clemson running back who is also the legal guardian of his younger brother Farmarr. He was a media cause celebre last year. Now, as Brian Grummel passed along this morning, he's been cut so that Clemson can cram another freshman into school. EDSBS has some original reporting in which Clemson defends itself: When the coaches met with Ray Ray, which they do with all ...

It’s A Shame About Ray Ray
Published 3/10/2008 by Signal to Noise at Signal to Noise
... Via the Wizard of Odds and EDSBS, we find that Clemson RB/DB Ray Ray McElrathbey won’t be suiting up for the Tigers come next season, per the Charleston Post and Courier — four blue chip RBs ahead of him, and it appears Tommy Bowden has pulled his scholarship and offered him a graduate assistant position in order to get under the 85-scholly limit for the upcoming season. This is unremarkable until you recall that McElrathbey got a lot of good press for the school and himself when he took in his younger brother Fahmarr and ...

Texas Tech Tuesday Morning Notes - Martin Zeno 2nd Team All-Big 12 Edition
Published 3/11/2008 by Seth C <info@doubletnation.com> at Double-T Nation: Front Page Posts
... In no particular order, DTN's Top Five: Da Wiz introduces Clemson's Ray Ray McElrathbey and EDSBS has more on the story and Da Wiz follows up with Tommy Bowden. This is the bad part of over-signing players. Corn Nation's Big 12 Baseball Weekly Review. Black Shoe Diaries on the Joe Paterno succession plan? Hashmarks is all over the Matt Walsh story. I'm interested in the outcome of this. Card Chronicle dismisses the myth of tired teams in the ...