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Sources: 7 Baylor recruits ask out from NLIs
- Updated: June 1, 2016
5:54 PM ET
Seven members of Baylor’s 17th-ranked 2016 recruiting class are requesting releases from their national letters of intent, including four ESPN 300 recruits and the Bears’ top three rated signees.
Baylor’s class that signed in February ranked as the best in school history, but Patrick Hudson, J.P. Urquidez, Jared Atkinson, Kameron Martin, Parrish Cobb and Donovan Duvernay have already requested releases from the letters of intent that bind them to the university, sources close to all seven confirmed.
Fellow signee Devin Duvernay, the No. 3 ranked receiver in the ESPN 300 and the top prospect in Baylor’s class, intends to request his release and is close to completing that process.
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All seven signees were supposed to enroll at Baylor on Monday but held off. They want to play college football at another school after Baylor announced last week Art Briles will be fired in response to a scathing review of the Bears’ handling of sexual assault allegations made against several football players.
“J.P. should be afforded the opportunity to go to a university that is not riddled with investigation, not labeled with sexual assault and rape,” said Julian Urquidez, the father of ESPN 300 offensive tackle signee J.P. Urquidez of Copperas Cove (Texas) High School. “He should be afforded the opportunity to go to a university that is safe.”
Once a recruit signs a NLI he is bound with that school, unless he doesn’t meet admissions or eligibility requirements, doesn’t attend any institution for at least one academic year, the school has been charged …
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