I apologize if not worthy of its own thread. But this tweet brought up a question on compliance. I thought it was , .....well not compliant to "mention" a recruit in twitter. Can anybody explain?
Mike Vrabel @CoachVrabel50
@OsuCoachCoombs and I are ready to #PlantTheFlag in the state up north. Can't wait to recruit with a #legend.
He didn't
Ok, I must have been looking at re-tweet
I could have sworn he originally had Dawsons twitter included in the original.
Sorry guys.
GRwolverine73
Here's the
Here's the original:
"Mike Vrabel:@OsuCoachCoombs and I are ready to #PlantTheFlagin the state up north. Can't wait to recruit with a #legend"@D3_FutureLegend
That's pretty obviously a
That's pretty obviously a retweet, not the original.
Eating is murder.
How is this not a violation?
When you add someone's handle to your post you intend on directly communicating with them AND you must know you are broadcasting it directly to your followers and beyond. To me this is like putting a recruits America on the billboard when he comes in from the airport. If its not a compliance breach it should be.
"Name" not "America".
Damn iPad spellcheck!
Thanks Mr. Miggles
You were right...that was the recruit retweeting the not so subtle reference to his visit from Ohio's coaches. Probably just unethical (bordering on compliance flag/violation) to include a clear destination/reference to a specific recruits visit...not typical OSU major tattoo for cash and cover up style violation. Nothing to see here. Now in the Magnus let them cut their own throats...Moving on camp.
I still am not sure it's in
I still am not sure it's in Vrabel's best interest to even tweet when he is going on visits. Leave it to the recruits to have the twitter fun.
Ssssssssshhhhhhhh...
Ssssssssshhhhhhhh... Hopefully he screws up and earns them some more sanctions.
Just be quiet and let the stupid Buckeyes be stupid.
Yeah, what exactly is wrong
Yeah, what exactly is wrong with that tweet?
Kevin Sumlin posts YESSIR
Kevin Sumlin posts "YESSIR" every time they get a commit. As long as its somewhat vague the NCAA isn't going to do anything about it.
So apparently he's tweeted that
33 times this year alone.
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I think it's 34 now!
I think it's up to 34 now that they got Seals-Jones!
I don't know anything about
I don't know anything about this guy, but I hope he's an offensive lineman (or at least someone who would throw a block) and goes up against someone with the last name Jones. Can you imagine the call on that? "And look here, as Seals-Jones seals Jones perfectly on the play..."
He's a wide receiver, but he
He's a wide receiver, but he might eventually be big enough to play TE (he's like 6'6" and 220), so it's possible...
Not sure
But even if it is a violation, it is probably minor. Gene Smith will immediately report it to the NCAA because OSU is the poster boy for compliance.
If it is a major violation, expect a celebration for Vrabel at the 2014 installment of the Game in Columbus.
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Bastards.
Bastards.
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Klemm(OL coach at UCLA)
Posts an 8-clap on twitter every time they get a new recruit. Don't see the problem here. Just hope our staff nails down Dawson this week and clears up this nonsense about "planting a flag".
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Hmmm
Does "plant the flag" mean "bring a couple bags of money?"
I thought he was talking
I thought he was talking about drugs or sex...
Yes, it's definitely code
for Planting some crops up here, as our soil is lush and fertile. He needs some cannabis to ease the pain of that head wound he self inflicted.
I think he was talking about
I think he was talking about the Corvette flag.
Nope - It Means Plant The Flag
By which I mean, it means "plant the flag, via permanent ink, into a recruit's skin":
isn't Vrabel the guy that got
isn't Vrabel the guy that got busted walking out of an Indiana casino without paying for a bottle or two of wine? if so then maybe they're stopping at the wineries.
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Vrabel
Didn't hear about the wine story, but he's certainly the guy who split his head open before The Game this year by headbutting a Buckeye player that was wearing a helmet:
Here is a
Here is a link...
http://kansascity.sbnation.com/kansas-city-chiefs/2011/4/5/2091879/mike-...
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Sorry double post.
Sorry double post.
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EDIT
Uhhh, wrong thread. Excuse me. I've really been off my game lately.
"That school/state up north"
always sounds really forced and contrived. I think they think that it's super clever, but it just sounds weird.
So does "Ohio."
So does "Ohio."
In all fairness they call
In all fairness they call themselves Ohio.
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What we called them back in the day - Ohio!!
See this article of the 1902 bludgeoning:
http://bentley.umich.edu/athdept/football/umosu/rivalrep/1902osu.htm
I'm with Magnus on "Ohio" as a thing.
I don't do it; it feels like such a contrivance to me.
But yeah; in the Woody Hayes era, and probably long before and maybe since, "Ohio" was in general use. Behold; the scoreboard in Ohio Stadium (see how I did that?) from the 1968 "couldn't go for three" game:
(Although the Buckeyes get pretty uppity about it now, particularly since Brady Hoke has made a thing out of it; what better way to get the whole state of Ohio to hate something, like having the head football coach at the University of Michigan endorse it?)
It's been my own theory all along that "Ohio" was a term used by Michigan's own Ohioans. Schembechler; Moeller; Hanlon; etc. And that they probably didn't mean it as an insult or an epithet; they just did it. And that Hoke does it, because it became a thing, dating back to those guys. Of which Hoke, an Ohioan who isn't all that far removed from at least the Coach Moeller days, is very close to being a part.
As I do so often in these instances, I'll say that I'd be quite happy to hear from anybody else who thinks that they know better. But that's my story and I'm stickin' to it.
tOSU
tOSU or The Ohio State University seems like more of a contrivance and they are doing it to themselves.
Eating is murder.
I went there for four years,
I went to OSU for four years, grew up down the street from two professors at OSU, and never heard anyone refer to Ohio State as "Ohio" until Brady Hoke. I have heard lots of people refer to Ohio University as Ohio - they actually copyrighted "Ohio" back in the '90s.
In point of fact,
Ohio U won a trademark battle brought against them by OSU, since Ohio U began using Ohio first.
I promise you'll not see another game like that from us again. - Craig Roh
Did you not see the band or
Did you not see the band or the Ohio version of the ymca while you were there?
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No
Ohio flows a lot better as a nickname. It's weird to make a nickname that adds several syllables to the original name, that's when it sounds forced to me
Some folks, like Jim Brandstatter
call them Ohiah State... which annoys me more. Ohio is fine, it's like an abbreviation and anything to shorten and deemphasize their name is fine by me. On the other hand, "That state up North" is stupid because it places more emphasis on us and, it was manufactured by a true asshole... Woody Hayes.
couple questions
What does their band spell out? What do their flags spell put after touchdowns? Finally, what word do their fans spell out with their hand signals and chants?
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I like where your head is at.
Up vote for you.
just like when we say ohio?
just like when we say ohio?
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ok
So if they stop calling our state "that state up north" then we will stop calling their state "ohio." Sound fair?
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deal. let me know how that
deal. let me know how that goes.
It's been a lot. Its been a roller coaster that for some reason seemed like it would never get good. But you know what? We kept fighting. It's like that old saying goes, "Those Who Stay Will Be Champions." -David Molk
Actually, you're welcome to
Actually, you're welcome to call our "state" Ohio, as you said, seeing as that is, in fact, the name of the state.
Well
at least you got the joke
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I will continue to call their
I will continue to call their school ohio, mainly because it in most cases pisses them off. I know that's childish, but so is the clever use of a word referring to the filmy layer of extraneous or impure matter with the University of Michigan's initials embedded in it. If its frowned upon to use a similar naming convention that rhymes with buckeyes that is much less flattering, as it should be, then I say we should consider the audience. In here, I play above the board, no problem. I'll never fire unless fired upon first.
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Remember that one time we played at Ohio State Stadium?
Neither do I.
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Eh. I think hell come back
Eh. I think hell come back to Michigan. All he wanted to do was take his visits, and I honestly don't blame him.
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That darn Frank Solich
trying to sneak in and steal recruits in Michigan......
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He didn't mention "A" recruit. He mentioned recruting. Bacari does this all the time, tweeting to recruits in general. It would have been another thing if he said he was going to visit @DavidDawson or something.
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