Ohio coaches visiting Dawson today
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.
December 12th, 2012 at 12:23 PM ^
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.
December 12th, 2012 at 12:29 PM ^
I could have sworn he originally had Dawsons twitter included in the original.
Sorry guys.
December 12th, 2012 at 1:22 PM ^
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
December 12th, 2012 at 2:05 PM ^
That's pretty obviously a retweet, not the original.
December 12th, 2012 at 3:03 PM ^
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December 12th, 2012 at 7:43 PM ^
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.
December 12th, 2012 at 12:25 PM ^
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.
December 12th, 2012 at 12:35 PM ^
Ssssssssshhhhhhhh... Hopefully he screws up and earns them some more sanctions.
Just be quiet and let the stupid Buckeyes be stupid.
December 12th, 2012 at 12:26 PM ^
Yeah, what exactly is wrong with that tweet?
December 12th, 2012 at 12:27 PM ^
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.
December 12th, 2012 at 12:43 PM ^
33 times this year alone.
December 12th, 2012 at 1:56 PM ^
December 12th, 2012 at 2:34 PM ^
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..."
December 12th, 2012 at 2:43 PM ^
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...
December 12th, 2012 at 12:28 PM ^
December 12th, 2012 at 12:33 PM ^
Bastards.
December 12th, 2012 at 12:35 PM ^
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".
December 12th, 2012 at 12:35 PM ^
Does "plant the flag" mean "bring a couple bags of money?"
December 12th, 2012 at 12:41 PM ^
I thought he was talking about drugs or sex...
December 12th, 2012 at 3:15 PM ^
December 12th, 2012 at 12:44 PM ^
I think he was talking about the Corvette flag.
December 12th, 2012 at 12:47 PM ^
By which I mean, it means "plant the flag, via permanent ink, into a recruit's skin":
December 12th, 2012 at 12:50 PM ^
December 12th, 2012 at 1:15 PM ^
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:
December 12th, 2012 at 1:17 PM ^
December 12th, 2012 at 12:37 PM ^
Uhhh, wrong thread. Excuse me. I've really been off my game lately.
December 12th, 2012 at 12:43 PM ^
always sounds really forced and contrived. I think they think that it's super clever, but it just sounds weird.
December 12th, 2012 at 12:47 PM ^
So does "Ohio."
December 12th, 2012 at 12:53 PM ^
December 12th, 2012 at 1:15 PM ^
http://bentley.umich.edu/athdept/football/umosu/rivalrep/1902osu.htm
December 12th, 2012 at 4:40 PM ^
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.
December 12th, 2012 at 5:51 PM ^
tOSU or The Ohio State University seems like more of a contrivance and they are doing it to themselves.
December 12th, 2012 at 8:04 PM ^
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.
December 13th, 2012 at 12:22 AM ^
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December 12th, 2012 at 12:55 PM ^
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
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December 12th, 2012 at 2:48 PM ^
Actually, you're welcome to call our "state" Ohio, as you said, seeing as that is, in fact, the name of the state.
December 12th, 2012 at 4:18 PM ^
at least you got the joke
December 12th, 2012 at 3:04 PM ^
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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December 12th, 2012 at 12:58 PM ^
trying to sneak in and steal recruits in Michigan......