Players are starting to speak up on twitter about satellite camps with the hastag #ChangeNCAA
Lots of basklash from Michigan, MSU, OSU, Iowa, Illinois etc. players and a ton of recruits against the NCAA. Seems like the SMSB camp really meant a lot to them and they're pissed it's over now with the banning of satellite camps.
For those on twitter it's worth checking out. Jourdan Lewis seemed to be the player who started it.
We can't let the NCAA do this. Everybody get #ChangeNCAA trending. They think they're hurting Coach but they're really hurting the kids.
— Jourdan Lewis (@JourdanJD) April 10, 2016
Retweet to spread this: #ChangeNCAA pic.twitter.com/HDimVUW9HE
— Donovan P. Jones (@dpeoplesjones) April 10, 2016
I actually disagree. It certainly hurts the guys going to MAC schools tremendously, but there are a number of MSU and OSU guys claiming that they only got an offer because of SMSB.
Right. I think a *lot* of these guys would have ended up somewhere. I mean, sure, maybe they were discovered at SMSB. But if those camps didn't exist, then coaches would have been looking elsewhere to fill their scholarship quota. And where would they look? Probably at game film/highlight tapes. And if they looked at game film/highlight tapes, they would eventually come across guys like Moe Ways, Khalid Hill, etc., anyway.
Things may shake out a bit differently. Maybe Khalid Hill would have ended up at Cincinnati, maybe Moe Ways would be at Iowa, but the cream tends to rise to the top.
It'S not that complicated. Every recruit sees himself going to a major program...but they all appreciate being wanted--even by the non-power 5 schools. Wrong and unfair are concepts equally familiar to 3 stars as well as 5 stars...this will not play well for coaches and conferences who supported the ban. Thus their silence after the ruling is deafening.
https://twitter.com/thatboylid80/status/719214047506362373
They know this is bad for their kids. Saban can talk all he wants, but what happens if coaches in the midwest refuse him on their campuses and don't take his calls?
Probably not that much. Since 2010, only Trey DePriest (Ohio), Rob Kelly (Ohio), Rob Pierschbacher (Iowa) and Derek Kief (Ohio) have come to Alabama from the Midwest.
They'd also have to freeze out the Big 12 and Pac 12, who also voted to kill the camps. I don't think that's happening.
Good thing we have a league commissioner willing to fight for us, right?
Is David Shaw saying Stanford football players have to meet the same standards as regular students there? If so, he is 100% flat out wrong. I am a HS counselor in Michigan, and Stanford is a "Nobody" school. As in, the answer to the question of "Who gets into Stanford?". (Others include Notre Dame, MIT, Duke, and Chicago.)
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Well, I didn't heed his advice and got in to Michigan and am now going to Duke for my graduate degree.
I hope you aren't that kind of counselor that tells kids their aspirations are not a reality. Those aren't nobody schools; they're work hard, stay focused, and never give up schools.
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April 10th, 2016 at 11:21 PM ^
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April 11th, 2016 at 11:09 AM ^
Actually, you seem to be the one with the chip on the shoulder. Amaizingblue is saying that there are schools for whom, as the saying goes, the answer to the consistent student question of "who gets into [schoo lX]" is "nobody." It isn't meant to be taken literally; that would be stupid. Obviously, those schools take in students.
Sotrry you got crappy advice from a counselor and your dad, but remember that the one consistent element in all your unsatisfactory relations with others is you.
Why is anyone suprised that an employee at Stanford is arrogant? Did no one pay attention to what their piece of shit band did at halftime of the Rose Bowl? If you combined the arrogance of an Notre Dame AND a Michigan grad you still wouldn't come close to the arrogance of a Stanford graduate.
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So, what's your point?
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April 10th, 2016 at 10:50 PM ^
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Sad the NCAA is taking away the opportunity for kids to learn from a variety coaches but pleased to hear the players speaking up.
is corrupt...reminds me of FIFA..bunch of rich old white guys making Millions and doing everything in their power to keep their jobs. the SEC is corrupt and they are, and have been CHEATING for decades and EVERYONE knows it and yet nothing ever changes....its allllll CORRUPT
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With a large amount of attention being paid to SMSB camps in particular, I wonder if the NCAA will make a concession for this only and miss the bigger picture entirely?
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April 10th, 2016 at 10:14 PM ^
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