Commitment and signing videos have long been part of college sports recruiting -- especially football and basketball -- with top prospects creating a ton of social media buzz around the video documentation of their decisions about which house of higher learning they'll attend.
The stakes for these videos having seemingly gotten higher and more produced over time as the act has grown from simply announcing the team you'd sign with by way of national TV to publishing videos around your commitment decision months before signing, and then filming another video when signing day rolled around.
The best of these occurred back in 2012, when Landon Collins picked Alabama over Lsu, much to the disapproval of his mother. But other contenders for the top video include Chaz Ah You landing a helicopter at Byu to announce his commitment, Jack Jones getting Snoop Dogg's help to pick USC and Tajh Rice committing...
The stakes for these videos having seemingly gotten higher and more produced over time as the act has grown from simply announcing the team you'd sign with by way of national TV to publishing videos around your commitment decision months before signing, and then filming another video when signing day rolled around.
The best of these occurred back in 2012, when Landon Collins picked Alabama over Lsu, much to the disapproval of his mother. But other contenders for the top video include Chaz Ah You landing a helicopter at Byu to announce his commitment, Jack Jones getting Snoop Dogg's help to pick USC and Tajh Rice committing...
- 5/24/2019
- by John Cassillo
- Tubefilter.com
Clinton Portis ain't just shutting the door on Landon Collins' wishes to wear Sean Taylor's old No. 21 jersey with the Redskins ... he's Bolting it down, saying, "f**k no" he can't wear it!! "F**k no," the ex-Washington running back says ... "I don’t ever want to see nobody else in it." Of course, Landon just inked a Monster 6-year, $84 Million contract with the 'Skins ... and since he grew up idolizing Taylor -- some...
- 3/19/2019
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
A college student has been expelled from her school and sorority after videos of her spewing hate speech on the day honoring Martin Luther King Jr. went viral.
Harley Barber, a now-former student at the University of Alabama, was removed from the university and kicked out of Alpha Phi sorority after she posted a pair of videos using racial slurs toward African Americans to her secret Instagram account.
Barber, 19, from Marlton, New Jersey, posted a video to her “finsta,” the name given to a second “fake” Instagram account where users are encouraged to portray a more realistic version of themselves...
Harley Barber, a now-former student at the University of Alabama, was removed from the university and kicked out of Alpha Phi sorority after she posted a pair of videos using racial slurs toward African Americans to her secret Instagram account.
Barber, 19, from Marlton, New Jersey, posted a video to her “finsta,” the name given to a second “fake” Instagram account where users are encouraged to portray a more realistic version of themselves...
- 1/18/2018
- by Jason Duaine Hahn
- PEOPLE.com
[[tmz:video id="0_y8ssxebc"]] NY Giants safety Landon Collins wants to help the Alabama sorority girl at the center of a racist video scandal, telling TMZ Sports ... he'd even take her to dinner to educate her. The woman Collins is talking about is Harley Barber -- who posted 2 disgusting video rants in which she spewed the n-word multiple times. To make it worse, she mocked Martin Luther King Jr. Day too. Barber has since been expelled from the University of Alabama...
- 1/18/2018
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
[[tmz:video id="0_ld30i0gr"]] Here's Charles Oakley dishing out some tough love to Eli Apple ... telling the NY Giants cornerback 3 things he's gotta do after acting a damn fool (again). 1) "Man up." 2) "Play ball." 3) "Shut up." The Knicks legend wasn't going easy on the young fella when we got him outside Michael's in NYC ... saying ballin' in the Big Apple ain't an excuse for his antics, and it's on Eli to clean up his own mess. Fyi, Apple got...
- 12/28/2017
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
N.Y. Giants star Landon Collins is apologizing for his recent comments referring to teammate Eli Apple as "a cancer" ... saying he met with Eli in person and cleared the air. Icymi ... Collins ripped into Apple during a radio interview with 98.7 Espn New York on Tuesday ... saying there's one major problem in the Giants' secondary ... and that's Eli Apple. "That first-round pick ... he's a cancer," Collins said. But Collins tweeted out Wednesday morning that...
- 12/27/2017
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
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