Mark Hollis wakes up in puddle of vomit and regrets bad decision he made

Roundtree was contacting a guy who will attend his school.  Hollis was contacting a player at another school.  You don't see the huge potential for abuse there?  Any public contact between an AD and an athlete at a rival school should be verboten. 

is that an Athletic Director, who directs the entire Athletic Department and all the facets of compliance and whatnot, tweeted the star player of an intense rival that he should ignore advice and follow his heart (i.e. go Pro).

This is probably the biggest conflict of interest an AD can publicly profess. To put this on a level that would be understandable,  this would be the equivalent of CEO for a Microsoft urging a bright programming star in Apple to start his own business. Unethical.

Totally out of line, unsolicited and down right wrong advice. (wrong in the sense that you never give advice on a decision of that magnatude to someone not in your athletic department.

It's about the athletic director for another school giving unsolicited advice to an athlete from his school's archrival.  Forget that the "advice" concerned the athlete's decision whether to go pro.  It's just stupid.  He has no business talking to another school's players unsolicited.  If he wants to give advice, maybe he should start by advising his basketball team not to rape people and advising his football players not to 1) lead a mob attack in a dorm against other students, or 2) violently attack other athletes at your own school. But what do I know, I'm just some guy on the internet.

Would you send a public message to a key employee of one of your primary competitors encouraging him to leave his company?

The stupidity and unprofessionalism of this has nothing to do with whether it happens to violate a regulation.

I think this is more or less about common sense.

And they just happen to be our rivals? Weird.

Smith has presided over a program that has cheated for the greater part of ten years, and still has his job.  His team didn't suffer much in the way of consequences, either.  They actually could come out better by having Urban Meyer coach instead of Tressel, and could very well contend for the national "championship" next year.  

Smith is a reptile, but he certainly isn't "dumb."

I'm sure there are lots of dumb ADs.

Being serious, Hollis has done some pretty good things in his time at MSU.  I mean, they have a relevent B1G football and nationally relevent basketball team and he had some interesting/fun game ideas.  Also, Hollis didn't have any major violations against his program, that alone makes him above at least 10 programs probably.

What Hollis said isn't really bad.  It's decent advice.  The only thing about it is it doesn't seem very professional for someone in his position to do in a public manner.  It's dumb, yes, but I don't understand why that makes so many around here angry.  Who cares if he did something dumb to the point of getting angry?  That is the only issue, and it's really not as big of an issue as it's being made out to be.  It may be a small, slap-on-the-wrist secondary violation like when Michigan players tweeted newly committed recruits (a stupid rule but possibly and important one, again, depending on the context of the tweet), but nothing to get so worked up over.  I kind of wish this story would just go away.  Oh, the offseason.

The more I think about it, the more I realize that Smith-OSU and Hollis-MSU are perfect fits for each other. I hope they both get lifetime contracts.

Yeah, can you imagine Izzo's reaction if Hollis tweeted this to State's best underclassmen?  Or how about Dantonio?   My guess is that their reaction would be something less than "Great move boss."

See aaamichfan post

I think he made a stupid, unprofession mistake while possibly committing a violation and trying to say something decent.  Now he wants to do that to everyone.  He really needs to think how to word things a little before he speaks, maybe saying "It's advice that I think everyone should hear from their ADs, coaches, etc." is one thing, saying he basically wants to tell everyone is amazingly idiotic after what he did.

I almost posted this in one of the other threads but didn't want it to go unnoticed and figured when an opportunity like this comes up to continue to laugh and poke fun at lil bro it deserved a new post.