To those complaining about the June hearing date: We have 90 days to respond. June is about as good as it can get. And as far as an October resolution date, that shouldnt hurt recruiting at all, considering signing day is in Feb (assuming we dont get more sanctions, of course).
Nothing about the timeline released today is bad. I'm glad we can finally see daylight.
If this drags through the summer, as it sounds like it will, that will impact recruiting. A lot of recruiting is done over the summer. That's when staffs can spend time with kids at camps, and have less day to day to focus on than in the fall during the season. If this summer like the past several opposing coaches can tell prospects about how the U will get hammered, etc., and tell their parents about 'lack of institutional control', that will hurt us. We may make up the ground later, but don't kid yourself about this. It's shaping up to be an uphill battle for another long while. And if the U has to appeal the COI decision, it's an entire nother recruiting season....
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Agree about it will hurt if we have to appeal, which is why I said "assuming we don't get more sanctions."
Every year we watch kids flip up until and including signing day. If you think a coach negative recruiting us in July about getting hammered with sanctions will hurt us in Feb if we get off in October with no sanctions, you are kidding yourself.
Not sure what you are so ****ed off at this week, but you are losing your grip on reality.
My grip on reality? Hombre, you're the one with a problem if that's something that makes sense for you to say in this exchange. You sound like a an arrogant prick.
I simply stated and explained a view of the impact of the remaining months of this process on our recruiting. If you disagree, so be it. I'm not telling you you're a dumb **** for disagreeing with me. But I will say I've followed recruiting for a long time, and my view is in fact quite reasonable. While many kids stay undecided until late in the year, others commit early and stick. And momentum can be very important in building and holding a class together -- as we saw negatively last season for us -- the pending investigation led to little momentum and a very disappointing fishing on NSD. I'm not claiming AG won't plow on and recover to an extent, but, to borrow your phrasing, if you think our recruiting class will be the same if we were free and clear right now compared to if we're still waiting for a decision into October, then you're the one who's kidding yourself. Have a good evening.
Didnt mean for you to get all butthurt about it.
We have 90 days to file a response to the NOA. That puts us at 5/21/13. We just heard that the hearing date is 3 weeks later. Obviously the NCAA and COI will (rightfully) get a chance to review our response. You aren't going to do much better than getting a hearing 3 weeks out from a quasi-legal due date.
Answer and penalties by September or October. Would I like it to be faster? Of course I would. But this investigation has lasted 2.5 years, and the hearing is obviously going to be confrontational, for lack of a better word. Both parties will present their cases, a ruling needs to be made, and a decision (which will have serious implications on precedent) needs to be written. I think Sept or Oct is reasonable.
What does that mean for recruiting? All I am saying is we were in it for a lot of big names this year, and it appears we lost out in January/February, after a so-so season. That was before we knew of the NCAA blunders or received the NOA.
Now, we have an end date in sight. Just can't see how we can still be negatively recruited. If we win on the field this year, and we have our penalties set in stone (which, when taking into account what we did already self imposition-wise, is almost certainly better than the
uncertainty we faced this recruiting season), I don't think it has a negative impact. And to the extent it does, we are definitely better off with the timeline we now have then we were a week ago when we didnt know ****.
Not sure how you can argue with this, short of saying you want the COI to meet us this weekend and give us our penalties.
