We Just Signed Another 2017 Recruit

[Prediction? Pain.]

Apparently he's also REALLY close with this dude...and his dad is the COO of the Vikings...starting to make a LOT more sense

http://247sports.com/Player/Daniel-Faalele-46037283

Maybe neither here nor there with recruiting, but he's from an interesting family. From his dad's bio on the Vikings' website:

Warren is the highest-ranking African-American executive working on the business side for a team in the NFL and is the first African-American COO in NFL history.

Warren earned his bachelor?s in business administration from Grand Canyon University in 1986, his MBA from Arizona State University in 1988, and his Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Notre Dame School of Law in 1990. Warren is a licensed attorney with the State Bar of Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota (House Counsel-Rule 10), and the District of Columbia.

Warren?s first exposure to sports law came after he graduated from Notre Dame Law school. He worked at a law firm that specialized in representing universities charged with NCAA violations. Warren also later worked as a sports and entertainment attorney/agent, representing various professional athletes, entertainers and broadcasters . . . .

Several members of Warren?s family have helped fuel his life-long passion for sports, including his father, the late Dr. Morrison Warren, Sr., who played professional football for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1948 during the era of the All-American Football Conference, before the league was merged with the NFL. The senior Warren would go on to be the first African-American President of a major college bowl game when he was named President of the 1982 Fiesta Bowl Board of Directors and was recently named one of Arizona State University?s 50 Greatest Football Players. Warren?s oldest brother, Morrison, Jr., was one of the first African-American scholarship athletes at Stanford, playing football for the Cardinal in the early 1960s . . . .

Philanthropy is an integral part of Warren?s life and he and his wife Greta are active members of the Minneapolis-St. Paul community. In December 2014, Kevin and Greta created Carolyn?s Comforts in conjunction with the University of Minnesota Masonic Children?s Hospital and are donating $1 million to honor the legacy of his sister Carolyn Elaine Warren-Knox who passed away of brain cancer in October of 2014.

In 2012, the Warren family ?adopted? Lucy Craft Laney Community School in Minneapolis, which is predominantly African-American and has 98% of its student population coming from underserved communities. Over the past four years, the family has donated nearly 3,000 backpacks filled with school supplies for the entire school year to every student. In addition to the backpacks and school supplies, the family has also purchased basketball uniforms for both the boys and girls basketball teams, school uniforms for some individual students and donate their time mentoring students at Lucy Laney.

His professional associations include serving on the Super Bowl LII Host Committee and . . . as a member of the selection committee to hire the next Athletic Director at the University of Minnesota . . . . Warren is a Life Member of the Fiesta Bowl Board of Directors.

Lots of favorable, national press surrounding his dad recently, too:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...egun/78527608/

http://www.foxsports.com/nfl/story/v...r-award-020517

https://www.northwesternmutual.com/l...ory-in-the-nfl

https://theundefeated.com/features/m...l-trailblazer/

Not a bad family to have in the fold.

[louisvilledawg]

Welcome to MSU. Looks like someone sees some potential in Powers. 6'4" with soft hands and 4.6 forty. Why not? You can't develop them if you don't sign them.

If he runs a 4.6 I need to get back out there and play some. I must run a 4.8***