A former Illinois wide receiver has landed himself at the center of college football's latest offseason recruiting controversy.
Aaron Moorehead, who caught 85 passes with the Illini from 1999 to 2002 and won a Super Bowl with the Indianapolis Colts, is currently the wide receivers coach at Texas A&M. And it's his Twitter account that's getting the attention Thursday after he sent out a string of tweets in the wake of the Class of 2017's No. 1 quarterback recruit decommiting from the Aggies on Wednesday night.
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Well, all that tweeting didn't sit so well with some other Texas A&M recruits, one of which decommitted directly because of what Moorehead tweeted.
Moorehead tweeted out an apology Thursday.
https://twitter.com/Amo8685/status/728241952035049472
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A tough day for Texas A&M and a really bad day for the former Illini wideout.