Ole Miss booster used fake female Twitter account to recruit
Some Ole Miss booster used fake female Twitter account to recruit. There are some rumors from Mississippi State message boards that the Ole Miss football department knew about it, but no concrete evidence linking them to the account. ESS-EEE-SEE.
http://mississippistate.scout.com/story/1526883-coming-undone-a-cautionary-tale
http://deadspin.com/fake-female-ole-miss-fan-used-twitter-to-recruit-athlet-1691299370
I would think that people in Mississippi would be able to spot a catfish.
That gameday sign makes me proud to be an alumnus. Among many other reasons.
utterly shocking that this has happened. The account number is wrong though, it's ESS SEE SEC.
Sorry to hijack this thread. But I was reading 11W and this hilarious comment was in the comments on a "OMG Harbaugh" thread. Thought some would need a laugh.
"David Shaw is a far better coach than Jim Harbaugh could even dream of becoming. Harbaugh with Luck equated to one really good year, and while Stanford hasn't reached anything significant since Jimmy left, that was also around the time Andrew Luck left for the NFL."
are going to be in for one helluva surprise this fall. And the next decade.
It's going to be the 1990's all over again for OSU. Undefeated teams getting their asses handed to them by Michigan in November.
Except I would hope we're not going into those games with 4 losses like in the 1990s
I think once the Harbaugh train really gets rolling, anything less than 11-1 seasons are going to be the exception, not the rule.
Although beating OSU will go a long way towards wiping the stink off of a mediocre season in the rare event we have one.
we just need a quarterback. Once we have 'that guy' the sky's the limit.
Shaw is a mediocre coach who has Harbaugh to thank for his bank account and success.
With Harbaugh, Stanford probably wins a National Title in 2012 or 2013.
Not necessary to dignify them with a response. Harbaugh's a very good coach.
David Shaw I think is a good coach too, he kept winning, but Harbaugh built the foundation.
And he was nothing at USD, where he coached them to the only 10+ win seasons in program history. Or at San Francisco which, when he took over in 2010, hadn't had a 9 game winning season since 2002. He promptly took them to 3 straight NFC championship games, including one Super Bowl.
But yeah, he sucks.
Harbaugh was a horrible player and is a horrible coach who never won anything. No one likes him or gets along with him. He'll be a bust at Michigan. None of that matters anyway because he's going to leave Michigan in 3 years to go back to the NFL to win a Superbowl and Urban Meyer will stay at OSU forever since he couldn't coach in the NFL. Oh, and some day Urban Meyer will send an OSU QB to the NFL.
Signed,
Every poster on Elevenwarriors.
Sounds like a pretty typical comment over there. I tried reading them a lot back when Harbaugh was first hired because I wanted to see them melt down, but it ended up being pretty much the opposite. And I'm not talking from one or two fans. It is hard to find a single commenter on that site who acknowledges that Jim Harbaugh might actually be a good coach. Most of them comfort themselves by saying things like "he's never won a championship" etc. The best comment I ever read though was after Jameis Winston had visited with Harbaugh in Ann Arbor and someone said something to the effect of "Harbaugh is not a QB guru, he just always has a great run game so the QB's job is always very easy."
The best part is, I distinctly remember a thread around Christmas time that was flooded with comments like "he'll never go to Michigan they have sucked for 7 years lol" they are pretty much just constantly in the rationalizing phase. I can't wait to see how they rationalize it if we win this year.
I work with a bunch of OSU fans. While they are not afraid of Harbaugh--and, truly, why should they be--they acknowledge that he will make Michigan a much tougher opponent. These folks posting on 11W must be drunk on Urban Kool Aid if they can't see that.
That may be and I have personally known some OSU fans who were pretty decent people, but when you get them in groups they are savages.
Here is the comment I was talking about, by one of their most popular commenters (it was heavily upvoted too):
Harbaugh is not a QB guru. I would even argue he's an anti-QB coach as he favors a more run-heavy, conservative game plan than he does a QB-focused offense. Yeah, he coached Andrew Luck, but Andrew Luck would make that video coordinator Tressel hired look like a good coach.
Right. He's not a QB guru.
Which is why he struggled getting Smith and Kaepernick to play.
I know some too, why would you want to post much on one of those boards? You'll just get drowned out and attacked more often than not.
I see nothing wrong here.
First comment on that deadspin article is a classic:
"'But is she single?'
-Manti Teo"
I'm pretty sure that guy won the internet today. I salute the shit out of him.
...but still not quite as much as Manti Te'o.
I'm pretty sure Ole Miss is the school that escalated "hostess" to "hostess sandwich" on recruiting visits.
Love me some Hostess Sandwiches....
It's perfect for shady recruiting. Shady enough to create a teeny tiny advantage, but not really enough for people to make a big deal about it.
Indeed...
Laquon Treadwell was wondering why that Twitter girl who sent him all the 100s never called him back.
I was under the impression that Ole Miss was running a tight ship down there.
The south is really, really weird when it comes to college football.
The south is really, really weird [ ]
You are so very Mississippi
The official explanation for why she had to keep changing her Twitter handle was harassment; the more likely truth is that it was simply an excuse to wipe out any proof Presley did not exist and start over from scratch.
The dedication that it would take to keep at this helps to affirm my belief that the South is generally a very strange place culturally when it comes to college football.
You could stop at "a strange place culturally." We were in Charleston SC for vaca last year. They still cant get over the Civil War -- er, as they call it, the War of Yankee Aggression. Talk to any local and the war will get mentioned within 5 minutes -- that, or how the south is a better place to live. The civil war is infused in the culture and history. I mean, I am from Chicago originally, and how often would you hear about the civil war there? Like: Never. Seriously, the South is still culturally messed up. I think the "passion" a small portion of SEC football fans have for their game is rooted in this general inferiority complex the South has. If they are good at something, they trip on it like acid. By contrast, a down on its luck northern city that gets good at something will embrace it but wont go overboard -- eg Pittsburg and the Steelers.
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