Havent seen this posted on App sites, so here it is.

Check out the articles on this Samford thread, about preferred App walkon, and a news guy claiming scandal.

http://www.samfordbulldogs.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2454

I went to Sun Valley High School and saw this in the CO the other day. Looks to be a great big misunderstanding. Coach Stein is a good guy.

Seems to me the writer stuck his foot in it.

A friend of mine is a coach there, and he has been keeping me up to date on this. Sun Valley had a signing party for two players to sign paperwork from both App and WCU saying they were going to play at the school. The coach never said it was a scholarship LOI. It looks like the local writer was unaware that a lot of preferred walk-ons do this now.

Jerry Snow. I'm going to assume this is the same Jerry Snow that used to be the SE at the Democrat a few years before Coulson arrived. The paper Snow is writing for now, is the one that Steve Behr was at before he moved to Boone.

I've learned the easy way to always ask what is being signed. I always ask "Is what's being signed a binding National Letter of Intent for a scholarship?". After that, I cover it accordingly. In my paper, NLI signings get a photo of the player signing a blank sheet of paper, surrounded by his parents, coach, etc. Signings for walk-ons (preferred or otherwise) or for D-III schools get mentions, but do not get the picture/story, as they are non-binding until the financial paperwork is done -- usually sometime during the summer. The same goes for JuCos and transfers. Those letters are non-binding until much later in the process.