This is my rifle. There are many like it, but this one is mine. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. Without me my rifle is useless. Without my rifle, I am useless. I must fire my rifle true. I must shoot straighter than the enemy who is trying to kill me. I must shoot him before he shoots me. I will. My rifle and I know that what counts in war is not the rounds we fire, the noise of our burst, or the smoke we make. We know that it is the hits that count. We will hit. My rifle is human, even as I am human, because it is my life. Thus, I will learn it as a brother. I will learn its weaknesses, its strengths, its parts, its accessories, its sights and its barrel. I will keep my rifle clean and ready, even as I am clean and ready. We will become part of each other. Before God I swear this creed. My rifle and I are the defenders of my country. We are the masters of our enemy. We are the saviors of my life. So be it, until victory is America's and there is no enemy. - Marine Corps Rifleman's Creed.
Dreadnaught
Dreadnaught 
Three years ago, a talented young man named Ryan Boatright attended a basketball camp at the University of Southern California. Tim Floyd was that team’s coach. Boatright performed well enough at the camp — which really serve as sanctioned recruiting vehicles anyway — that Tim Floyd was immediately enamored of him. Floyd offered Boatright a scholarship. Boatright accepted and verbally committed to USC. All was well.
Just kidding. No it wasn’t. Because three years ago Ryan Boatright was 13, and it’s not really cool to recruit 13-year-olds, let alone offer them scholarships. That’s weird and naughty and it makes me feel very uncomfortable, as it should you.
At the time, of course, Floyd brushed it off as being competitive. He told reporters that he wasn’t going to sit around and wait for Duke or Kentucky to do the same thing, that he had to get his kids signed when he could. This practice has since been overtly demonized by the National Association of College Basketball Coaches and coaches have largely stopped recruiting sub-freshmen, at least publicly. (Who knows what goes on in private. Let’s not think about it right now.)
Now, though, Ryan Boatright — who is a 16-year-old junior — is getting a second brush-off from USC. First, they take him out of the recruiting picture early, before he really knows what’s going on. Now that Tim Floyd has resigned under suspicion of recruiting violations, USC has decided they aren’t really interested in Boatright’s services anymore. They haven’t contacted him since Floyd left, and they aren’t planning on signing him to a letter of intent. Awesome, USC.
I stole this article from rivals.com much like the currency situation in the Uk– it is a sterling example of college sports gone wrong. Yojoe I am sooo sad at your American Rugby Team School the fightin trojans
Bustard is great but he doesn’t sound American!
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