After a furious week of recruiting, superstar prospect H. Dean has decided to pursue a career in association football instead of college football. Dean has signed a two-year deal with Mexico’s FC Atlante.
Dean on August 11 as he arrives in Cancun to play for Mexico’s FC Atlante.
Dean exploded onto the scene from the Cape Verde Islands, an area known more for its unique wildlife than its unique athletes. Dean’s path to stardom started with a mysterious blog post linking to a grainy video of Dean singlehandedly rocking pleasure craft in the island’s waters. Taking a chance, Rutgers gave Dean a private workout in the Atlantic. A leaked report showed tremendous strength and speed, but small size and a lack of organization. Nonetheless, the school offered a scholarship.
As Dean gained strength at a rate rare seen, other schools began pursuit of the new star. In under five days, the unknown from Africa had gained three stars on Scout.com’s listings as he began to close in on two schools, Florida State and Miami. Both schools prepared to hail the prospect as an integral piece of a rebuilding program, but then Dean dropped a bombshell that rocked the college football world.
Without warning and for reasons not disclosed, Dean changed his top schools to Texas and Conference USA’s Houston. Fans of both the Longhorns and Cougars could not believe the potential gift before them, but history did not side with these Texas schools’ chances to land this great player. Only two years before did Bahamian kicker Rita infamously rip up her Letter of Intent to Houston in favor of Louisiana-Lafayette, where she did tremendous damage to other Sun Belt schools.
Frustrated Houston fans leaving Robertson Stadium after Rita’s 2005 snub
And just as in 2005, a bombshell would leave remaining Cougar fans speechless. After Saturday’s tremendous scrimmages in Jamaica, Dean, now the 2007 class’s #1 prospect, was seen with several people from Mexico’s Primera Division soccer league. Although scouts did not believe Dean would choose association football over college football, it is Cape Verde’s favorite sport. Shortly after the meeting, a representative from Cancun’s FC Atlante announced Dean had signed a two-year deal with the club and would head to Cancun immediately.
Although Dean is going south of the border, Rutgers has not stopped their recruitment for one minute. When H2DN contacted RU concerning this story, the athletic department left only a nebulous message about chopping wood.
