Did you guys know Michael Oher was homeless?

[Optimus Prime 4]

Unless you haven't had ESPN on for the past week. Everyone else just thinks it's a great story.

Right or wrong, everyone else thinks it's fantastic, so I'll take that publicity.

 

[Original48]

Mickey Holliman is the adoptor..you would have no questions about the legality of the situation?

 

[RebelBruiser]

Unless you haven't had ESPN on for the past week. Everyone else just thinks it's a great story.

Right or wrong, everyone else thinks it's fantastic, so I'll take that publicity.

That's just because Khayat controls not only the NCAA but the media as well. He's piping in the story and forcing them to believe it without doing any background work. Reality is, Tuohy picked up Oher off the side of the road, had him run the 40, had his vertical tested, and then ran him through a series of work outs in front of NFL scouts to determine if he had D-1 ability, and then he adopted him and told him he had to sign with Ole Miss or else he wouldn't give him any dinner.

All those pictures of Oher hugging the Tuohys and having the Tuohys on stage with him as his family after being drafted are just fabricated by Khayat for the story. The media outlets just take what Khayat says, and they do it without question for fear of facing the wrath of the powerful Khayat. If ESPN didn't run those stories exactly as told, Khayat would shut them down. He's just that powerful.

 

[Optimus Prime 4]

Don't think that's the word you were looking for.

And I don't know enough details to know for sure. But I just doubt the Touhy's had an NFL plan in mind when this started. It isn't like they just went out and picked him up. It happened over like six months from when they first bought him clothes until he moved in (per the espn thing I just watched). But I really don't care. And luckily no one else in the country does either.

 

[RebelBruiser]

Mickey Holliman is the adoptor..you would have no questions about the legality of the situation?

I'll admit that I would raise questions at first, but if the adoption and the help had started before the kid ever took the field in a high school game and before any scout had ever seen him or pointed him out as a D-1 prospect, then my questioning of the situation wouldn't go much further, at least in terms of the motivation for the adoption.

If you want to, you could probably go to the hood and find a gigantic black kid to adopt, but you wouldn't do it, because your odds of having that kid turn into a prospect, much less a first round talent, would be pretty slim. That said, even if you do question the way it went down, it's a hell of a lot different than the AAU situations that go on in basketball, where players are scouted and basically picked up by these coaches for the sole purpose of trying to get them to the highest bidder.

 

[Dinkle]

Ya'll need to get a clue!
Michael was a 6'2" 220 lb tenth grader when the Tuoys found him shivering in the cold wearing shorts in the snow.
He did not even go out for football until his jr. year (a year after the Tuoys adopted him).

Do you really think they had a crystal ball that told them he'd grow so much and later become a great football player?
Are you really that stupid??

MSU people are the only ones on the planet who don't think this is a very heart warming story. They are making a movie about Michael and the Tuoys..
So don't be so bitter about it!

Do the Tuoys adopt anyone thats out in the cold? Plus i bet i could find some people other than us that don't find this load of horse **** heartwarming

 

[Original48]

the financial assistance. I don't care about the NFL. Like I said initially, I would not want any NCAA infraction type scrutiny. It is just one hell of a coincidence. And everybody loves a feel good story like this..you're right. But I'm sure everybody who loves this story probably has absolutely no clue who the Touhy's are and their connection to Ole Miss.

 

[MSUCostanza]

You're ridiculous.

 

[Mr Meoff]

I would ask him to adopt me as well, but then that would make his daughter my sister... which would take all the fun out of her hotness.

 

[Syd and Harrys]

you just apply it to the chance of all this happening without a "conspiracy." I apply the remote odds to a homeless teen becoming a first round draft pick.

I don't have a "fit" about much, especially the minutiae surrounding the adopted son of a school booster on a rival school's football team, or even collegiate athletics in general. Would some OM fans go nuts? Sure. But for me, that's what makes this so humorous: it eats you folks alive inside.

This is like watching Whiskey Alley Rebels or Nutt-haters from Hogville. Quality entertainment.

Cronies? Really? Damn, that's funny. I didn't know the reach of the dark side extended to Sandra Bullock.

 

[bulldogbaja]

nt

 

[Dinkle]

Mrs. Tuoy found Oher it was really cold proof:

 

[dawgstudent]

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[Dinkle]

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[HD6]

until you can figure out how to reply and how to follow the threads, stop posting.

 

[Roscoe.sixpack]

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[LewisNixon]

hope things are going good for you.

 

[elguapo543]

That Ole Miss worked its magic to have some powerful supporters in a TN program adopt Patrick Willis, an outstanding and highly coveted player, so that we could get a leg up in his recruitment? Do you follow this at all? Willis was a nobody and his adoptive parents adopted his entire family, but weren't able to financially support but half of the children. If I'm not mistaken, the dad coached the HS basketball team... Willis wasn't Oher, he was lightly recruited coming out of high school.

To lump Willis in with Oher is grasping at straws.

I don't know if Oher's story is legit or not, but the fervor and passion with which this board is calling BS is either rooted in some amazing cynicism or is inspired by some pretty puerile emotions. I'm not saying its true, but to scream its BS at the top of your lungs is kinda sad, too... Just be happy for the kid, his life is now set.

 

[Roscoe.sixpack]

He was however homeless. He wasn't at a basketball game, he was walking to the school to try to get into the gym out of the cold when they picked him up. The stories don't conflict.

 

[VinceVega70]

but I don't mind debating Rebels on a message board about it. What I think is so humorous about it is the vigorous defense given by Rebels, most knowing no more about Tuohy than we do. For us, baseball isn't really worth talking about this year, so we're sufficiently bored to join the fray. I can't wait for Mullenball and the hopeful road to Shreveport....