J.J. Lollar transfers to Blinn from Texas Tech (not LAMAR)

[coachacola]

J.J. Lollar still loves Texas Tech, but the former A&M Consolidated football star was forced to leave his dream school after the Red Raiders pulled his scholarship.

 

Lollar, who overcame a career-threatening eye condition to return to practice this spring, said he will transfer to Lamar after Tech's new coaching staff refused to renew his scholarship.

 

http://www.brazossports.com/football/article_d7d9f546-6950-5488-a6a5-3302b99ddde0.html

 

He was a rivals 3-star defensive lineman. Looks like he could have 4 years of eligibility at Lamar.

 

Profile: http://rivals.yahoo.com/texastech/football/recruiting/player-J.J.-Lollar-123962

[Guest NorthoftheBorder]

Looks like a good pickup that is really a freshman!! Here are some tidbits:

 

 

J.J. Lollar's eye condition has not improved to the extent it needs to for him to play college football.He will miss the 2012 football season and won't even attend Texas Tech until January. It's a major setback for a very promising defensive tackle out of College Station, Texas, who was once on the verge of squatting a state record 800 pounds. But Lollar has always been upbeat. He's faced adversity before.

 

And.....

 

 

He was too strong as a kid and Lolita Lollar had to watch him closely. Horseplay with his friends in College Station, Texas, could be dangerous if his mother didn't pull in the reigns someone was bound to get hurt, and that someone was not going to be J.J. Lollar. People joked one day he would be a heck of a football player. Given the strength of an ox on a child's level, J.J. was a natural in the trenches as a peewee and junior high player. But those junior high stars tend to level out out as everyone catches up to them in their teenage years and J.J.'s mother didn't know what to think about his early success as a man among boys. "He's always been a bull," Lolita said. "It was always difficult with him growing up because he was always so much stronger and a lot bigger than most of the other kids. So even playing around you're like, 'You can't play like that. They push you and you don't even move. You push them and they fall down.' "It was a lot for him to grow up being the size and the weight that he was growing up. And the strength. He was just solid." But if you've ever met J.J. you know he's a gentle giant. He's a good guy who you would be proud to share your Texas Tech degree with even if he wasn't a football player. You just get this idea he's going to do special things off the field regardless of what happens these next four or five years on the field. You might say he was raised right. In a 10-minute conversation with Lolita, that definitely seems to be the case.

 

 

 

 

 

[KABrother88]

Have seen another article dated 6-1-13 saying he was headed to Blinn...did you use your insider info coach or just that article?...sounds like a great pick up if he is coming to Lamar though

[coachacola]

Have seen another article dated 6-1-13 saying he was headed to Blinn...did you use your insider info coach or just that article?...sounds like a great pick up if he is coming to Lamar though

 

Crap, you're right. I missed that, he's going to Blinn. I think I'm going to kill this thread.

[LUSportsFan]

Just a general question from a lay person. Is signing a letter of intent to a Junior College binding if the player decides to go to a D-I program?

 

I see where he signed his LOI to Blinn on 6/4. Generally speaking, would that close the door on signing with a D-I program or are the LOI's treated separately? In other words, is a LOI a LOI in all cases or is it a LOI at the collegiate level to which it is being executed?

[Guest NorthoftheBorder]

Have seen another article dated 6-1-13 saying he was headed to Blinn...did you use your insider info coach or just that article?...sounds like a great pick up if he is coming to Lamar though

 

Crap, you're right. I missed that, he's going to Blinn. I think I'm going to kill this thread.

 

Would love to know what change his mind to go to Blinn (what program got in his ear with some sort of promise)?