MBB Recruiting: Who was Beilein and staff showing around campus today?
Walking back from the SSW building today I caught Coach Beilein and staff showing an individual and his family around campus. My question: is anyone aware who this is? I didn't know we had anyone visiting campus today.
EDIT: Removed photo since the individuals in it did not give consent. My apologies.
Mike Jones
No Tom Jones....
"She's a lady! Whoa, whoa, whoa... she's a lady!"
March 31st, 2015 at 11:02 PM ^
This is creepy, no? It's one thing if you ask for a picture and they consent, but candid photography of a group of unidentified people that have no idea they will be the subject of internet discussion later that same day?
Yes this is creepy.
Not creepy. That's the whole history of photojournalism, documentary photography and street photography. Buy a clue. It's even less so because the coach is not only in public, making him fair game just like anyone else, but he's a public figure and a newsworthy figure. His being seen with a recruit in public is also newsworthy. The recruit and his family shown in public being recruited by or being with, Beilein, is newsworthy.
The teaching of photojournalism began at a place called the University of Michigan. You guys need to learn about it, and learn the law.
March 31st, 2015 at 11:05 PM ^
Not really. If you're in public, there's no such thing as giving consent for a photo. Anything that can be seen by someone standing outside is up for photography in a legal sense.
Not claiming it's illegal. Plenty of things are legal and still trigger the creep meter.
Personally, I think it's much more "creepy" when a "journalist" walks up with a TV camera to someone who has just watched her house burn down or her child get killed and says, "Could you tell us how you feel?"
Taking a pic of something that is legitimate news, such as a recruit on campus, isn't all that "creepy" to me at all. A lot of recruiting visits end up on various twitter feeds anyway.
I am thinking the "creepy" card is overplayed here at times.
and this kid may be Michigan's next star. I think you "Pro-creepy" fellows are a little over the top on this one. Now if he had a slew of pictures - Here he is at the Union, there they are crossing the diag - then we'd be getting into the creep zone. He provided the picture to see who could identify the recruit, that's all. I don't think taking a picture to sate recruit curiosity is too bad.
Substitute someone close to you (mom/wife) for the woman in that picture and ask yourself if you'd like to see the internet speculate on who it is.
I'm probably oversenstive based on the downvotes, so I'll keep my unpopular opinion to myself the remainder of the thread.
March 31st, 2015 at 10:10 PM ^
Rex kwamikazeemobrackivich
3* out of Georgia (NTG)
I just googled him because I wanted to see if he was a real person. Now I kinda feel like a idiot.
You're not the only one. Coincidentally the only result on Google was this comment.
Darker Blue had his country of origin wrong - he's actually from Estonia (YTE). Should bring up a few more hits.
I guess I didn't want to kill the conversation that was going on, in hindsight taking a picture probably was a bit much. I was relieving a fellow colleague at their post in the diag where we were passing out information about some of the events the SSW is putting on this month for Child Abuse Prevention Month.
everyone is carrying a camera with them 24/7.... to me while its a bit creppy, this is just par for the course. I don't think this is the first or the last of these kinds of moments.
March 31st, 2015 at 11:06 PM ^
March 31st, 2015 at 11:20 PM ^
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Your profile pic is rathe Columbus hawt!
taken and posted online without someones permission. Now that's never happened before.
And yea why not go say hi and introduce yourself.
. . . the Twitter
I have a 100% match that it's Sauce Castillo's cousin, Salsa.
just a shooter, they say.
As one who finds a lot of recruiting stuff creepy, this really doesn't bother me. A photo of adults on the Diag (or wherever that was) seems much more innocuous to me than grown-ass men tweeting 14-year-olds to try to get "intel."
With that, I am curious about the OP's question. Do we know about a recruit who was on campus today?
Is this one of those "I know the answer but I'm not telling anyone" posts?
Follow the posts of Leonhall , u will find the name Davis , he must be very tall. Good Luck.
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