OT- Dirty or Smart? Cam Cameron "escorts" LA prospects on a UCLA official.
http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-UCLA-lsu-football-recr…;
Apparently Cam Cameron ensured he was on the same flight as three highly recruited Louisiana prospects as they flew to Los Angeles on a UCLA official visit and is also staying in the same hotel and going back on the same flight.
While this is legal it stinks of desperation and I have to wonder if it's not going to piss the recruits off that LSU feels the need to "chaperone" them and try to sabotage another school's official visit. Feels bush league to me, and I do wonder if it ends up being effective.
One other interesting point is that the reporter writing the article is basically to UCLA fans what Drew Sharp is to us and known as a total Trojan slappy.
February 1st, 2014 at 4:32 PM ^
ESSSS EEEE SEEEEEE
February 1st, 2014 at 4:34 PM ^
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February 1st, 2014 at 5:43 PM ^
Using LA in the title is confusing, but they are Louisiana kids that he wants at LSU.
February 1st, 2014 at 8:35 PM ^
February 1st, 2014 at 4:39 PM ^
February 1st, 2014 at 4:39 PM ^
Reason #1001 that recruiting is basically the worst.
February 1st, 2014 at 5:06 PM ^
Seriously, taken out of context, this would seem creepy at best and creepy, perverted, and/or illegal at worst.
February 1st, 2014 at 11:27 PM ^
In what context is this not creepy?
February 1st, 2014 at 4:43 PM ^
Is this what recruiting has come to?
February 1st, 2014 at 4:43 PM ^
February 1st, 2014 at 4:47 PM ^
I feel like that's something that a Penn St coach would not want to start.
February 1st, 2014 at 6:09 PM ^
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February 2nd, 2014 at 1:14 PM ^
And our coaches are on the fence about it?
February 1st, 2014 at 4:50 PM ^
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February 1st, 2014 at 5:03 PM ^
There are posters on premium forums alluding to this.
February 1st, 2014 at 5:05 PM ^
February 1st, 2014 at 4:45 PM ^
The question is "dirty or smart?"
The answer is both.
February 1st, 2014 at 5:59 PM ^
February 1st, 2014 at 4:47 PM ^
Well it's certainly not "dirty" in my book. I would only call breaking the rules "dirty". However it does seem like a desperate move that has some serious potential to backfire.
February 1st, 2014 at 4:54 PM ^
with our program, there's never been a day when I wished we had hired Les Miles.
February 1st, 2014 at 5:07 PM ^
February 1st, 2014 at 5:33 PM ^
but winning without a shred of integrity is much worse than losing in my book. There are lots of rumors involving Miles that may or may not be true. The documented cases, such as pulling scholarships from incoming freshmen like Elliot Porter, are bad enough to make them moot.
February 1st, 2014 at 6:00 PM ^
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February 1st, 2014 at 4:55 PM ^
Dirty or smart? Nah: weird.
February 1st, 2014 at 4:57 PM ^
'Croot'n
February 1st, 2014 at 5:01 PM ^
Creepy.
February 1st, 2014 at 5:03 PM ^
Oh well, at least they have hot girls.
February 1st, 2014 at 5:04 PM ^
Put me in the "very creepy" camp.
February 1st, 2014 at 5:05 PM ^
February 1st, 2014 at 5:06 PM ^
February 1st, 2014 at 7:43 PM ^
Mattison just walked in and banged your mom.
/was this a bad time?
February 1st, 2014 at 10:26 PM ^
February 2nd, 2014 at 12:06 PM ^
Yes it was.
February 1st, 2014 at 5:16 PM ^
February 1st, 2014 at 5:37 PM ^
Bruins Nation, which originally reported this as someone mentioned, also had a little fun at Cameron's expense in a few parts of the article. You can find their entire piece (HERE), but this is a passage that made me laugh a little anyway. After the author claims that he, like most D-1 coaches, are not familiar with the actual rules of recruiting, he says:
"Of course, maybe I have Cameron all wrong. Maybe he's out visiting U.C.L.A. himself and looking out for his own skin and seeing if there is a better opportunity in Westwood. Sure, it's the other side of the ball, but we do have an open defensive coordinator spot, after all. Or maybe Cameron just wanted to see what it's like when it's the end of January and the weather report says 63, sunny, and no fire ants (48 and cloudy in Baton Rouge, for reference)."
February 1st, 2014 at 5:55 PM ^
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February 1st, 2014 at 7:24 PM ^
What a creep. If I were a recruit and a coach did something like this, it would definitely make me NOT want to go to their school.
February 1st, 2014 at 8:01 PM ^
February 1st, 2014 at 9:13 PM ^
I think these actions of following recruits on a trip and making sure he rides on the same plane, while he is also staying in the same hotel as them are a bit creepy. It's just weird to me. Other posters found it peculiar and a bit creepy as well so I'm obviously not alone in that line of thinking.
February 1st, 2014 at 7:39 PM ^
If you love someone let them free.
February 1st, 2014 at 9:56 PM ^
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February 1st, 2014 at 11:30 PM ^
I was wondering the same thing about how he knew which flight they'd be on. Maybe there's only one flight between Baton Rouge and Los Angeles?