semi-interesting rumor

We have a school offering every recruit's best friend a scholarship, a mentor/coach/advisor in Miami pushing a stud toward Whisky/FSU and people adopting football players and you all crap all over this is as impossible - Why?

So a high school "coach" tells a prized recruit it is better to be put up in a hotel for a few days to avoid the craziness of recruiting and whatever other relatively easy to believe story he could have told him, and we think there is no way a player does it?

Today, in 2012, reading these boards daily -- we think this could not happen?

exactly. its not a matter of holding or physically restraining a kid but rather telling a kid he should just get away from it all and sit back at a cushy hotel watching tv and getting room service for a couple days. plays to the kid's feeling of anxiety concerning all the stuff going on around him and convinces him to get away from it all. i find it completely plausible really in todays shady recruiting.

ya know colleges are actually paying people to monitor websites and social media concerning recruits which makes it highly likely that people are sitting at universities and getting paid to make up accounts and negative recruit and tweet and try to shift kids' minds away from and towards schools. it just goes to show you what lengths schools are going to get kids. and to Toke's point, i also find it not only plausible but highly likely that people are getting paid off the books and under the table for various "services" and "jobs"
 
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lol at people focusing on the first part where the guy said himself he cannot vouch for the credibility of the rumor

i highlighted a part of the rumor in bold for a reason. Who cares about the one, for the most part, baseless rumor...the part that matters is what is in bold because that can be substantiated

does it matter if he literally "locked him in a room"? the implication of him being at USC shortly after his player committing there is the point

kid is at USC
coach gets a job at USC

usc doing shady ****?

that is the focus...whether he put the kid up in a hotel..who gives a ****
 
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which also makes it highly important for us a fanbase not to perpetuate any negative recruiting online and to stop people from using this site and others of ours to do that. such as the Keith Bryant thread in the WEZ. Kids' minds are very fragile and easily influenced, especially by social media. I'm so sick of hearing the old adage, "well if a kid can't handle something somebody says on the internet then we don't want him." 'And then he goes somewhere else and balls out bc we acted like asses or let others do it posing undercover and we didn't call it out. We've got to realize that the internet and social media like it or not play A HUGE ROLE in this at times. obviously it depends on the recruit but if it's the difference in losing one or two guys a year, then that's a game changer.
 
Toke I wasn't discounting either of your points. I was agreeing with you that it was highly likely that a guys gets a job and uses its opportunity to come up and/or gets paid off the books(which i find completely believable) all the while doing it under the guise of merit when if fact it was completely recruit based. I was just agreeing with another poster that I also found the rumor to be plausible in nature.
 
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i know brother..i was ranting towards others that are focusing on the minutia and not the substance
 
People are joking around about this because I don't think anyone really cares about USC or Len Williams at this point. I think it's pretty clear to any college football fan that USC and Lane *****in are scumbags who are up to no good. *****in is part snail because he leaves a trail of slime everywhere he goes.
 
People are joking around about this because I don't think anyone really cares about USC or Len Williams at this point. I think it's pretty clear to any college football fan that USC and Lane *****in are scumbags who are up to no good. *****in is part snail because he leaves a trail of slime everywhere he goes.

true but bringing these things into light are exactly how stories are picked up by the media and people are caught and/or called out for their indiscretions. or at the very least rumors pile up and people get investigated. see Auburn the last few years
 
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People are joking around about this because I don't think anyone really cares about USC or Len Williams at this point. I think it's pretty clear to any college football fan that USC and Lane *****in are scumbags who are up to no good. *****in is part snail because he leaves a trail of slime everywhere he goes.

true but bringing these things into light are exactly how stories are picked up by the media and people are caught and/or called out for their indiscretions. or at the very least rumors pile up and people get investigated. see Auburn the last few years

Hammer away at them, my man. I'm all for ripping down all those maggot-infested programs. I simply find nothing even remotely surprising about a slime ball like *****in acting like a slime ball.
 
People are joking around about this because I don't think anyone really cares about USC or Len Williams at this point. I think it's pretty clear to any college football fan that USC and Lane *****in are scumbags who are up to no good. *****in is part snail because he leaves a trail of slime everywhere he goes.

true but bringing these things into light are exactly how stories are picked up by the media and people are caught and/or called out for their indiscretions. or at the very least rumors pile up and people get investigated. see Auburn the last few years

Hammer away at them, my man. I'm all for ripping down all those maggot-infested programs. I simply find nothing even remotely surprising about a slime ball like *****in acting like a slime ball.

buddy you are dead on balls accurate about the lack of surprise concerning that slime ball. i mean I don't think he's fooling too many people anymore. I feel confident that any recruits that are buying into him aren't doing it on the belief that he's on some moral high ground while operating but rather doing it out of what he can do for them
 
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