Don't Eat AstroTurf! and Ted Sr's Magic Bus ride is over

• Conelius Jones hasn’t played a down for the Spartanburg Vikings varsity football team yet, but Michigan has seen enough to offer him a scholarship. The junior quarterback received his first offer Tuesday, after Vikings coach Freddie Brown sent the Big Ten school a five-minute video of Jones from a scrimmage. He is fast, but may come with some baggage.

  Jones hasn’t played football in the Spartanburg system for a couple of years after he got into some trouble, he said.

  Maybe Coach Rod should have taken a pass on Mr. Jones. This sounds more like a WVU recruit then a Michigan recruit.
• The Ted Ginn Sr. Summer Tour Bus has ended. For those that don't' know Ted Sr. would pack up some of his players and other HS football players around Cleveland and take them to University Camps so they could showcase their talents. He has been doing this since 2001 and was the reason Pierre Woods was signed by Michigan. The tour trip has a $50,000 budget where the kids pay $400 and Ted Sr. provides $10,000 out of his pocket. The rest comes from donations. I guess his former NFL players are not pitching in as much as he had hoped.

They should know what to do, he said. As a result, the only former player who has offered financial assistance is his son, Ted Ginn Jr., a first-round pick of the Miami Dolphins in 2007. "It goes back to what I feel is important," Ginn said. "You need to give back."

• Astroturf does not have a ton of lead in it. But if your a 50 pound child, you should not eat 23 pounds of Astroturf. Because if you did you would reach the federal minimum threshold of elevated blood lead, assuming a bioavailability level of 50 percent. If that child eats closer to 100 pounds of synthetic turf he or she would have elevated blood lead levels. On a side note, if your child is eating 23-100 pounds of Astroturf they have other problems!
• Fluff on incoming Freshmen JT. Floyd.
• ND assistant, Bernie Parmalee has this to say: "

I guarantee you (Irish fans) that you won't be disappointed this season. Mark it down, we're on a mission," Bernie Parmalee, tight ends coach, told members of the Notre Dame Club of Northwest Indiana in St. Patrick's church hall.

• Is being the AD at Duke a better job then being the AD at Notre Dame? I think not, my feeling is Kevin White was on the way out and if "Good time Charlie" throws another losing season up in South Bend, he would have been looking for work. At Duke the football team doesn't have any expectations and he is pretty safe with Coach K.