Finebaum explains recruiting ethics to John U. Bacon on OTL

Love getting my daily dose of "Ethics and Recruiting" from an SEC talking head. You've got Bama players driving nicer cars than most business professionals, Ole Miss players blatantly saying they took money, and local New Orleans HS coaches boycotting sending players to their local school.

Listening to talking penises isn't my thing....however based on the OPs comments I can't help but be struck by Finebaum's raging hypocrisy.  His intense lack of curiosity about how recruits & their parents obtain large paydays at SEC schools is interesting.

SEC is a pond of floatsam & jetsam that smells like a 2 week old used tampon.  Harbaugh bashing is nothing but an attempt to take the spotlight off Finebaum's masters.

From this clip, followed another clip.  http://www.espn.com/video/clip/_/id/18686994

Here, they debate about Jim Harbaugh hiring the dad of the top dual threat QB.  Forget about what they say in their "debate", but the ginger on the left refers to him as Tom Harbaugh.  And then the other commentator tries to correct him by saying his name is John Harbaugh.

ESPN analysts are clowns. insert Picard double face palm.

Ethics. Non sequitur. Anybody gives this stiff time of day and you are off.

Finebaum is an ass.  There are 120 other schools that could have hired this guy.  Would they all be seen as unethical?  Don't hate Harbaugh because people are drawn to him and want to work for him in order to learn from the master!

All of Harbaugh's hires of this nature that raised eyebrows have worked out great and are still with the program . . . Momma Gwen, Partridge, and so on.

The man knows who and how to hire.

Finebaum has no case.

and this just perfectly picked me up!

This is just off season gold. Someone ask Paul about the bagmen, until we get an answer on the SEC bagmen he needs to close his pie hole.

Oh and 14 guys invted to the combine.

Let's go through this.

Is hiring the associate of a potential commit illegal?
No.

Is hiring the associate of a potential commit bad/wrong?
It doesn't seem so.  They are all qualified people who contribute positively at Michigan.  It would be wrong if we hired Momma Gwen and then fired her as soon as Wayne Lyons' paperwork was in.  It would be bad if we were to hire Chris Partridge and then fire him as soon as Jabrill Peppers had left for the NFL.
We aren't treating these people as means to an end; they are worthy ends in their own right.

Is hiring the associate of a potential commit *unfair*?
Any school could have pursued our eventual staff members.  We're paying them what other programs would pay them.  Harbaugh has a burgeoning coaching tree.  It's mutually beneficial.
Maybe it's true that Greg Mattison wouldn't have left the NFL for anywhere but Michigan.
Maybe it's true that Ty Wheatley Sr. wouldn't have left the pros to go anywhere but the school he played for.
Maybe it's true that all of Harbaugh's former associates are biased towards Harbaugh, wherever he is.
Is that unfair?

I just don't understand, everything seems to be on the up and up.  

Is DICKHEAD.

Anything that Harbaugh does that bothers Finebaum is perfect. There is no way anyone can take this guy serious. He looks to much like a tree jumper to me.

Jim Harbaugh spots talent and uses it to make his team better, it is what great leaders do. I am sure if his son decides to go somewhere else for college, Jim woulld not thow Mr. Johnson to the curb. 

He hired a qualified person for the job, that can help is team win a national championship and become good representatives for the University of Michigan. This is what that dickhead is afraid off.

This guy needs to go away.  ESPN has parted ways with many employees lately, he should be the next to go.  He is like that old uncle that sits in the corner at your Christmas gatherings that cannot shut up and has worthless comments coming out of his mouth every 10 seconds.

Name me an SEC Coach who can spell Ethics. 

(which doesn't really need defending): Gwen Bush and Chris Partridge.

Gwen Bush was the mother of an incomming senior transfer, whose hiring looked like a cheesy way to convince him to come.

Years later, Gwen Bush is KILLING it as "Team Mom," helping to take care of the team and talk with the parents of potential recruits.

Chris Partridge was hired (if you believe the press) just because of his ties to Jabrill, Rashan Gary, and the Paramus program. Oddly enough, the Linebacker corps played much, much better in his first year, while he was very instrumental in recruting players who aren't from New Jersey. 

Maybe, just maybe, Jim Harbaugh wouldn't burn an open position on someone just because their son is a good recriut.

In fact, if I had to guess, I would say that Harbaugh was looking into his son and said, "Holy hell, how is that guy a high school coach? He should be a college coach somewhere." And then, you know, hired him. 

He tricked Finebaum into saying that Ole Miss cheated and is getting deservedly punished for it.