I've been doing some digging lately and may have come across a commitment that slid under the radar.
Based on the understanding of a source I spoke with who is close to the situation, Butler County Community College wide receiver Byron Pringle has given a verbal pledge to Kansas State. How long he's actually been committed remains a mystery but I am in the process of reaching the wideout to get the full details if that's truly the case.
Anyway, for the time being, mark Pringle down as a commitment but keep it in pencil until I hear it from his mouth.
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The back story on Pringle reads something like this: Originally from Tampa, FL attending Robinson High School as a senior back in 2012. A two-star recruit in those days, Pringle had some major colleges looking at him but no interest was very serious considering Pringle missed his entire junior season due to an offseason arrest following his sophomore campaign.
The arrest came in the summer of 2010 when Pringle was 16. Already being looked at by FBS schools after a season which saw him post 21 receptions for 591 yards and three touchdowns, the junior-to-be was booked along with two other teammates on charges of robbery, aggravated battery with a weapon, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, burglary of an unoccupied conveyance and grand theft after the group targeted unlocked vehicles and took stereos, GPS devices and credit cards.
According to the Hillsborough County Clerk of Circuit Court's office, Pringle was not prosecuted on the charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. He acknowledged to police that he fired a BB gun and accompanied the group on the burglary spree, but insisted he never laid a hand on anyone. He was eventually sentenced to four years probation and 100 hours of community service, including hand-written letters of apology to five victims.
After enrolling in a technical school to for his junior year to straighten out his academics, Pringle then re-enrolled at Robinson for his final high school season. There, he performed extremely well and once had two touchdowns of 90+ yards in a Class 5A playoff game, all the while sticking to his mandated 9 p.m. curfew (extended to midnight on game nights) in the evenings and manual labor at a local church in the mornings. He would go on to be named the MVP of the annual Blue-Gray National Football Classic. In 35 years of coaching at Robinson, head coach Mike DePue even went as far as to call Pringle, "One of the top five players to ever come out of our school".
Despite the legal trouble, one assistant stuck by Pringle and believed in his potential: Andre Coleman, then a member of Eric Wolford's staff at Youngstown State. The two had a great connection and Pringle ended up signing with YSU.
Now, I can't find any clippings or stats about Pringle's career at YSU, so there's a good possibility he never played and therefore his clock may not have started. When Coleman left for K-State, I'm pretty sure Pringle wasn't far behind, landing at Butler County.
This fall as a sophomore in his first action at Butler, Pringle ranks second in the KJCCC in receiving TDs with 6 and has tallied 21 receptions for 319 yards.
BYRON PRINGLE HUDL HIGHLIGHTS
Based on the understanding of a source I spoke with who is close to the situation, Butler County Community College wide receiver Byron Pringle has given a verbal pledge to Kansas State. How long he's actually been committed remains a mystery but I am in the process of reaching the wideout to get the full details if that's truly the case.
Anyway, for the time being, mark Pringle down as a commitment but keep it in pencil until I hear it from his mouth.
---------- PRINGLE BIO ----------
The back story on Pringle reads something like this: Originally from Tampa, FL attending Robinson High School as a senior back in 2012. A two-star recruit in those days, Pringle had some major colleges looking at him but no interest was very serious considering Pringle missed his entire junior season due to an offseason arrest following his sophomore campaign.
The arrest came in the summer of 2010 when Pringle was 16. Already being looked at by FBS schools after a season which saw him post 21 receptions for 591 yards and three touchdowns, the junior-to-be was booked along with two other teammates on charges of robbery, aggravated battery with a weapon, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, burglary of an unoccupied conveyance and grand theft after the group targeted unlocked vehicles and took stereos, GPS devices and credit cards.
According to the Hillsborough County Clerk of Circuit Court's office, Pringle was not prosecuted on the charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. He acknowledged to police that he fired a BB gun and accompanied the group on the burglary spree, but insisted he never laid a hand on anyone. He was eventually sentenced to four years probation and 100 hours of community service, including hand-written letters of apology to five victims.
After enrolling in a technical school to for his junior year to straighten out his academics, Pringle then re-enrolled at Robinson for his final high school season. There, he performed extremely well and once had two touchdowns of 90+ yards in a Class 5A playoff game, all the while sticking to his mandated 9 p.m. curfew (extended to midnight on game nights) in the evenings and manual labor at a local church in the mornings. He would go on to be named the MVP of the annual Blue-Gray National Football Classic. In 35 years of coaching at Robinson, head coach Mike DePue even went as far as to call Pringle, "One of the top five players to ever come out of our school".
Despite the legal trouble, one assistant stuck by Pringle and believed in his potential: Andre Coleman, then a member of Eric Wolford's staff at Youngstown State. The two had a great connection and Pringle ended up signing with YSU.
Now, I can't find any clippings or stats about Pringle's career at YSU, so there's a good possibility he never played and therefore his clock may not have started. When Coleman left for K-State, I'm pretty sure Pringle wasn't far behind, landing at Butler County.
This fall as a sophomore in his first action at Butler, Pringle ranks second in the KJCCC in receiving TDs with 6 and has tallied 21 receptions for 319 yards.
BYRON PRINGLE HUDL HIGHLIGHTS
