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YSU lands talented Florida WR with checkered past
TweetPublished: Tue, January 31, 2012 @ 4:11 p.m.
The Youngstown State football team is taking a chance on a talented Tampa-area wide receiver with a checkered past.
According to multiple reports, Robinson High senior Byron Pringle verbally committed to the Penguins on Tuesday morning, a day before National Signing Day.
Pringle missed his junior season due to his involvement in a Tampa-area crime spree. His only other Division I offer was from FCS Bethune-Cookman.
For more details, read Wednesday's Vindicator or visit Vindy.com.
Comments
Sound perfect for this area... he'll fit right in
Is this the best YSU could do? Really???
Kid screwed up royally his junior year, but article after article and coach after coach has said this kid has changed his life for the better his senior year. A lot of positive things have been stated in the past few months about this kid.
I am all about second chances and this kid deserves a second chance. Remember something folks, Marcus Mason stole a few LCD TV's before coming to YSU and becoming a star and eventually playing in the NFL.
If this kid stays out of trouble, he will be a star and could be an NFL talent per some commentators.
You have to put some of the responsibility on the head coach for accepting this kid. There is a risk or gamble in taking this kid and youngstown is a place that can bring out the worst in people. If the kid stays clean and performs it's a win-win for everybody. Good luck.
Should they change the YSU Penquins name to the YSU Hoodrats? What is YSU administration thinking? I guess this is Youngstown after all.
I'm not sure that this is essential for YSU sports sucess. Can't we win with good kids?
Only time will tell.......
His career came to a self-inflicted thud in August 2010, when he was arrested on seven felony charges — ranging from aggravated assault with a deadly weapon to burglary of an unoccupied dwelling — and a misdemeanor.
According to a Tampa Police Department report, Pringle and a handful of co-defendants including Woods and Jennings embarked on a July 5 spree that ranged from auto burglaries to a violent armed robbery to firing a BB gun at pedestrians.
Pringle acknowledges firing the BB gun and accompanying the group on the burglary spree, but says he never laid a hand on anyone. According to the Hillsborough County Clerk of Circuit Court’s office, he wasn’t prosecuted on the charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
Adjudication was withheld on the other charges, and Pringle was sentenced to four years’ probation. He has a 9 p.m. daily curfew that he says is extended to midnight on game nights.
“I wish I had done the right thing, that it never would’ve happened,” said Pringle, who attended Tampa’s Brewster Technical Center his junior year before re-enrolling last month at Robinson. “I wish I had gone home, never even left the house.”
The words “God” and “Son” are tattooed on his right and left biceps, respectively. Across his chest is “Patty,” his mother’s name. A “B” is marked on his left triceps, a “P” on the right.
And inscribed in his heart, he insists, is remorse.
“I’m not going to screw up a second time,” he said.
http://www.tampabay.com/hometeam/blog...