Michigan Signing Day LOI's

negative recruiting thing common knowledge? if it was where and when was it posted? i try to read everything on here but sometimes i miss somethings...

The Franklin negative recruiting is news to me, but here's how I imagine it would go down:

JF:  Jabrill, you have to understand that Coach Hoke had a player accused of sexual misconduct. 

JP:  Yeah - I read about that.  Sounds like a bad situation for all involved, especially the girl.  I heard the AAPD was informed right away, no charges were brought against the kicker.

JF:  Right, but you're missing the point.  Coach Hoke, apparently on the advice of counsel, said the player would miss their bowl game for "family reasons" after a follow-up investigation resulted in that player's expulsion from Michigan.

JP:  Wow.  I mean the alleged rape, that's deadly-serious stuff.  But you're saying Coach Hoke is on the hot seat because he followed internal counsel's directions on handling the situation?

JF:  I know, right?  I mean what kind of place are they running up there in Ann Arbor?

JP:  Well, if I read it correctly, one where even though the prosecutor declined to bring charges the school followed up and expelled a player based on a lower burden of proof and lower evidentiary standards.  I mean, it's an awful situation and it took too long to resolve, but it's also one that was turned over to law enforcement right away.  So it sounds like they are running a school that knows that expelling Gibbons will result in negative publicity and hurt the school's image, but did it anyway because it was the right thing to do.

JF:    All I'm saying is that's not how we do things here at PSU.

<Crickets sound in the distance, even though it's winter.  A lone coyote howls.  A tumbleweed goes through Franklin's office.>

JP:  OK, where's Ashton Kutcher? 

JF:  What?

JP:  I'm being punked, right? 

I mean holy tap-dancing Jebus.  The Gibbons situation is a shitshow, and after reading the police reports I tend to believe the victim (I also understand why the case wasn't prosecuted, between the victim's initial reluctance and other factors at play).  Like I said, a shitshow. 

But PSU criticising how UofM handled the situation?  PSU?!?  That's some wild, wacky stuff right there. 

At one time I had hopes that Penn State would be another classy team in the B1G to add to Michigan, Wisconsin, and Nebraska.  Oh, how my opinion has changed.  

I am proud to have a coach like Hoke.  Win or lose, I'd be embarassed to have a coach like Franklin.