11 Year Old Fifth Grader Announces His Football Scholarship To The University of Hawaii On Social Media
EWA BEACH, Hawaii - He just might be the youngest recruit in history for the University of Hawaii Football team. Titan Lacaden is an 11-year old wide receiver with the All-Blacks Crusaders in Kapolei.
“He’s definitely a special kid,” said Frank Lacaden, Titan’s father and co-founder of the All-Blacks Crusaders Football Club.
Titan just finished 5th grade, and his family says he already has his first offer to play college football with the Rainbow Warriors.
“It was heavy, it felt like a whole block of cinderblocks came on my shoulders,” said Titan.
The University of Hawaii at Manoa is one of his top three schools, and his mother’s top choice.
“My mom is forcing me to go to UH, she doesn’t want me to leave home,” said Titan.
I think this is my old man yelling at the clouds topic. I think this is where I draw the line. I’m a big Millennials guy and will defend them to the death over shit like avocado toast and vacation days. But 11 year olds announcing their scholarship offers to play D1 football at major universities in 7 years? That’s too much. I guess I’m pretty much old-school when it comes to my college recruiting. Just feel like my recruits should be in high school or at the very least have hit puberty.
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Frank said Coach Nick Rolovich talked to their family at football camp.
“Rolo pulled me on the side and asked me how I felt about a fifth grader, my son, being offered,” said Frank.
They decided to go with it.
“I’ve been through the recruiting process many times, and it’s a long, vigorous, narrow road, and many reach the door, but there’s many times that the door just doesn’t answer, and so when opportunity knocks you’ve got to enter, you’ve got to go, and so we went in,” said Frank.
The fuck is this kid doing with a Twitter account anyway? A 5th grader?
Anyway here’s a rule I’d like to institute to make this all a little more tolerable for me – any scholarship offer from a team is 100% binding and has to be honored no matter what. Coaches offering babies out of the womb, toddlers crawling around the floor with stuffed footballs, extending future scholarships to Hawaiian fifth graders. You can’t just do that to be cute and get some media attention and some laughs on Twitter. You are officially stuck. No matter how this kid turns out, if he loses all his coordination, if he goes through a teenage angst face where he quits sports and starts a punk rock band, if he paints his nails and becomes a goth who worships Satan, I don’t care. He’s got a full football scholarship to Hawaii.
