Cassanova McKinzy Cites Chick-Fil-A In Choosing Auburn Over Clemson (VIDEO)

My, my has Chick-Fil-A been kind to the Auburn Tigers this year.

Exactly one month after demolishing Virginia 43-24 in the Chick-Fil-A bowl, the Tigers signed a top-rated linebacker recruit based partially on, and we're not making this up, the conveniently located Chick-Fil-A on its campus.

Cassanova McKinzy is a 6'2" 225 pound outside linebacker from Birmingham who held scholarship offers from most schools in the SEC. By signing day on Wednesday, McKinzy had narrowed down his choice to two schools -- Auburn and Clemson -- before announcing that he would be staying in-state and attending Auburn.

But things got interesting when McKinzy was asked how he ultimately chose between the two schools.

"They had no Chick-Fil-A on campus," McKinzy remarked about Clemson. "You had to go 15 minutes off-campus to go to a real restaurant."

Regardless of whether or not the relative location of a Chick-Fil-A should ever factor into one's decision about where to attend college, it would at least seem wise to extensively research whatever criteria being used. Oddly, it seems that McKinzy did not do his fast food homework since there actually is a Chick-Fil-A location on the Clemson campus, according to the restaurant's website.

But what's done is done, and the main lessons to be learned from this announcement are that Clemson's on campus Chick-Fil-A needs to increase its marketing presence, and Auburn's strength and conditioning staff might want to keep a close watch on their newest fast food inclined pupil.

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Comments

[BrwnSknGurl4]

12:05 PM on 02/07/2012

This is a classic example of why I cannot stand the NCAA and the disservice it does to young black men, in particular. Clearly, this kid needs an education, but he won't get one playing football at either school, but neither school views him as a student athlete, but a means to an end - to make more money for the school. His parents have not asked much of him academically, except to get by enough to play ball so they too can feed from the troth and get whatever benefits his athletic prowess affords them. And then what happens when he blows his knee out, or breaks his neck and there's no more football, and because academics were never stressed or viewed as important as football, he'll lose the chance at an education as well when they pull his scholarship. Choosing athletics over academics is so costly for uniformed and misguided parents (who were clearly misguided when naming their child), especially black parents because the epidemic of uneducated, washed up college athletes. The failure of his parents to stress education IN ADDITION to football will come back to haunt them and him forever. And how do I know this? His video and college selection decision are Exhibits 1 and 2!

[Aubie01]

08:19 PM on 02/06/2012

War Eagle man! Er, I mean chic... never mind.

[cameron d]

06:25 PM on 02/06/2012

If he doesn't make the NFL I'd say that based on his intelligence gathered from his statement there's a good chance he could be working at the Chick-Fil-A.

[frogluv73]

04:16 PM on 02/06/2012

And he'll never step into a classroom the whole time he's there I bet...even though he clearly needs to.

[blackgrl71]

12:01 PM on 02/06/2012

Well no one has EVER accused football programs for selecting players based on intelligence... let's hope he was joking.

[TravelinMatt]

11:16 AM on 02/06/2012

His tastes will improve once the boosters start taking him out to dinner. Oh wait, that's not allowed....

[SeptimusDSX]

09:57 AM on 02/06/2012

He was probably joking. But, whats up with the name? What were his parents thinking?

[DanoX]

08:01 AM on 02/06/2012

LOL! Eat more Chiken!

[markopolio]

05:05 PM on 02/05/2012

Well they do have pretty good chicken...

[tanya11111]

10:28 AM on 02/05/2012

they do have those free milkshakes on mondays...

[FireThemAll2012]

08:07 AM on 02/05/2012

Who names their kid Cassanova?

[white dude lulz]

07:14 AM on 02/05/2012

I'm glad to attend a university where no dunces can get scholarships just for being able to run.

[tanya11111]

10:28 AM on 02/05/2012

I went to school where they had no gym... figured it would cut down on that stuff... turned out the main sport was drug and alcohol consumption... ya got s.t.u.p.i.d people everywhere. No escape!

[eddy joe]

06:26 AM on 02/05/2012

My guess is that it was a moral decision, not one of the appetite.

[cameron d]

06:27 PM on 02/06/2012

He was morally opposed to going to a better school?

[Barton Masterson]

11:25 PM on 02/04/2012

Apparently you guys don't understand sarcasm. Wow, he completely trolled you all.

[Quis Custodiet]

01:44 PM on 02/04/2012

Ladies and gentlemen. This is a classic case of retardation. Observe.