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StumbleGorman football player pulls commitment to Stanford
Sunday, Sept. 13, 2009 | 4:40 p.m.
Bishop Gorman football player Evan Paleli Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009.
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Bishop Gorman High linebacker Evan Palelei is back on the recruiting market.
The 6-foot-3, 230-pound senior pulled his verbal commitment to Stanford last week and will entertain offers from other schools, Gaels coach Tony Sanchez said.
Verbal commitments, like the one Palelei gave Stanford in April, are non-binding and don’t become official until an athlete signs on national signing day in February.
Sanchez said Palelei and Stanford mutually agreed to part ways. He doubts Palelei will recommit.
“We talked to Stanford and the best thing for Evan is to open things up again,” Sanchez said.
Palelei is a three-star recruit on an evaluating scale of five stars by recruiting Web site Rivals.com. He is a three-year starter for Gorman.
Sanchez was in contact with Oregon, Colorado and Northern Arizona last week and expects others to follow suit.
Palelei currently doesn’t have any offers because schools backed off once he committed to Stanford. He had interest from Cal, Washington, UNLV and Notre Dame before committing.
“Things will heat up again,” Sanchez said. “He is definitely a Division I football player.”
Ray Brewer can be reached at 990-2662 or ray.brewer@lasvegassun.com.
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Oregon, Colorado and Northern Arizona? It sounds like he missed out on a Stanford ship. Good luck Evan.
Don't be so quick to judge on this. I have a feeling it was partly Stanford that said "let's part ways" as well. Don't forget that teams have the ability to pull scholarships too. It goes both ways.
I heard Stanford stopped contacting Paleli and stopped returning calls and other communications.
I can tell bigb did not go to Stanford. He cannot even spell opportunity or honor. I really hope that was an attempt at sarcasm because it was pretty funny.
Another dumb athelete that doesn't respect education. He better hope he has a career playing football. A degree from Stanford would have landed him a decent job.
@ VegasInsider
There are millions upon millions with decent jobs who did not graduate from Stanford. I graduated from UNLV and I am doing just fine.
@ VegasInsider and bigb
He has to be able to read and write. Actually, he must be pretty bright, otherwise Stanford would not have looked at this guy for even a second. Unlike most D-I football programs at intellectual institutions, Stanford does not deviate from their academic goals to recruit players underneath their academic standards, like some other football program in the same area...i.e., J.J. Arrington, Marshawn Lynch, or Desean Jackson.
@ bigb
Did the apostrophe key on your keyboard stop working? Check your "u" key, and career must not be a word you use too often.
He must not meet the standards for Stanford with his grades or his SAT scores. They don't look at grades at the beginning because they want everyone to see that high rated players will commit with them. Then, many of those players don't qualify to go to Stanford. That is why they "lost contact". If he had a choice do you really think he would pick those other schools over Stanford. Come on!