My buddy Alex just linked me to the unfortunate news that Willie Williams was arrested yet again. This time around, he’s suspected of burglarizing the home of another player that was trying out for the UFL. Da Predator allegedly memorized the code for the home’s security system after a visit and took $18,000 worth of cash and valuables from the house when the family was gone. This is the latest in a long string of missteps by the one-time super prospect. The guy was the top rated defensive prospect the same year Adrian Peterson was the top offensive player. Williams was recruited by a number of powerhouse schools. As a last tribute to WW, we re-visit the legend of Willie Williams after the jump.
Willie Williams could out-blog me any day. Luckily, he’s too busy playing football. DubDub was a promising linebacker from Florida who nearly went on to star at Miami. Now he plays at Union College in Kentucky. He did some bad things — but nothing that hasn’t gone down on a college campus before. I put him somewhere between Najeh Davenpoop and Laveraneus Coles/Peter Warrick. From Bruce Feldman:
A little Willie Williams update. The former all-everything linebacker recruit had a school-record 22 tackles for Union College (Ky.) in a 33-27 loss to Shorter College (Ga.) Thursday.
22 tackles? I don’t care where you’re playing — that’s insane domination. I’ve never seen a picture of Willie Williams, so I just picture LaVar Arrington at Penn State when I think of him. To read about the downfall of WW, check out this article from the New York Times. Below are some amazingly hilarious highlights from a journal Willie kept during the recruiting process.
Select Willie Williams quotes:
- ”Coach Bowden was cool,” Mr. Williams said in his diary. ”But Ms. Bowden was the bomb.”
- There he was treated to a beauty pageant of sorts, which he called ”weird” because ”there were some people talking about black history the whole time.” He ate ‘’so many meatballs the people there started looking like meatballs,” but he drew the line at eating alligator tails. ”I’m not the Crocodile Hunter,” he said.
- ‘When I saw he was driving the Escalade,” Mr. Williams said in his diary, ”I was like, ‘Dang, coach got some taste.’ ”
- ”After going on these trips and living like King Tut,” he said. ”I think business is something I want to get into.”
EDIT: My brother also sent this wonderful excerpt from the Willie Williams journals…
During the wait, several of the female hosts, nicknamed the “Tigerettes”, offered him some of their spinach dip. “You know how it is, those girls are supposed to be there to cheer you up,” Williams said. “But I told them, ‘I ain’t no animal, and I ain’t going to eat no plant.”
“But they kept pushing it toward me. It was disgusting. I told them, ‘I’m from Miami. I don’t eat that. You farm people are used to it, but not me.’”
I asked Coach Odell, ‘Where we eating tonight?’ Williams said. “He was like, ‘The stadium’ I thought he was playing. Then we ended up eating at the stadium again. I guess we spent all their money the night before.”
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