Tales from the Recruiting Trail??

Submitted by iawolve on
Before you read this, please spare the standard flame responses what would usually be written in the comments about the legitimacy of this story. I can’t prove any of it. I am simply a recorder to this event and I have no further information beyond what I wrote below. Since this conversation happened right next to me, I guess it becomes fair game to repeat. I was not paying attention until a few words jumped out “national signing day”, it was just such odd timing. I was sitting the back cubicle area in the Admiral’s Club today in O’Hare catching up on emails, scanning mgoblog and rivals for updates while waiting for my flight connection. There is a guy immediately behind me and to my left who starts phone conversation while he is shutting down his laptop. Obviously, I did not hear the person on the other end speaking. “blah, blah, blah” [I am tuning him out at this point] “I didn’t want to call you until signing day was over” “yeah… Scott was asking me about Denard, but I didn’t want to say anything to him since I knew the situation…. I just didn’t want to talk about it… he was recruiting him pretty hard… Loeffler and Gibson about came to blows on that one trip down to Florida… … it worked out ok in the end… yeah… well Luginbill has that thing with Rod… yeah, he loved Lloyd, their relationship went back almost 30 years… when he was coaching there… he wouldn’t even speak to us that the All-Star game and we always got along… I don’t know all the specifics” And the guy walked off. I didn’t follow him or ask him who he was since he was on the phone. Not even sure if he was a Michigan guy. It was all very strange. Take what you want from it, I just found it very interesting.

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Rush N Attack

February 6th, 2009 at 9:33 AM ^

interview on WTKA. He specifically mentions that Loeffler tried to get in on him late, and Turner say that coach (Dews or Gibson, I can't remember which one) put a stop to those calls immediately.