OSU's recruitment of Raekown McMillan: Is this allowed?

That's from McMillan's Twitter feed.

https://twitter.com/Kwon_daTRUTH/statuses/389854841436405762

Like they care? They had Griffin and Gee make a personal video for Elliott, and then were like 'whoops, totally didn't mean to so that' and then nothing happened for breaking the rules.

I doubt that they would commit recruiting violations on social media where everyone could see it while they're still on probation.

I dont know if it's allowed or not but you have to admit it's pretty damn cool.  If I was a high school kid and got that sent to me I'd be fired up to at least take a visit.

No....Ohio would never violate NCAA rules.

Is this considered a committable offer?

And just researching this young man I found a picture of this:

Could somebody please explain to me what is eating his helmet?

They did the same thing with Mike Gesicki. Pretty cool/original idea and the creator - Sammy Silverman - is a talented guy. Unfortunately (or fortunately), it wasn't able to sway Gesicki to OSU.

That's a great name

Of course its not breaking the rules. Haven't you heard that Ohio State is the NCAA's poster child for compliance?

Wasn't there a poster type thing up when we were recruiting Green? Said something along the lines of "the future of Michigan football" if I recall. Not sure how this is much different. Not trying to be sarcastic or dickish. Just curious what the difference is.

Hard to see a picture as a game day simulation. I'm sure the rule refers to things like having recruits run out of the tunnel with the team before a game.

When Oregon recruited Jonathan Stewart, they created an entire comic book for him.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/0806/cfb.orego...

This is nothing new.

Hell, You should see what Mississippi State is doing!

coaches aren't even allowed to mention guys by name till they sign, so no way in hell is that allowed

I supposed they could say it's a spring practice day since I don't see any other teams in the picture.

but Urban Meyer will eventually "Urban Meyer", and probably consume Columbus and Ohio's football program in the procss. He does everything full bore and balls out: recruiting, hiring, protecting, coaching, winning, lying and cheating.  All of it is intentional, aggressive, brutal, and with no apologies. 

This is the way the world works now.  Applause for it now drowns out questions and dissent.

Anyone in love with the idea of playing by the rules and with integrity really needs to grow up and get a freaking clue. 

provide a school jersey with the player's name on it to a recruit.  When it comes down to it, what's the difference between that, and the school sending the recruit a photo shopped picture of him wearing a team uniform?  The intended message is exactly the same.   Seems like just another shady way to skirt the rules. 

If the NCAA is the higher power consider me an atheist.  

What exactly is the reasoning behind this being an illegal activity?

...if they sent young Raekwon a picture of him in a kitchen, wearing a chef's toque in honor of his namesake.

OSU fan here. I get that he's Urban Meyer so you guys would hate him even if he saved your puppy and paid your mortgage. But all these allegations in this thread of him being a cheater? Really? Point to one time where he's been found to be a cheater? He's a lot of things but a cheater? You guys are better than that. FYI rooting for both teams to win out the rest of the way"

Double posts are lame. Apologies.

I'm betting that OSU's compliance staff has researched the image, and it isn't illegal.

It certainly shouldn't be. I can't imagine anyone being swayed to commit to a school because he sees his name photoshopped onto a drawing of a jersey.

OSU and Meyer are too smart to break the recruiting rules, especially in view of Tresselgate. And frankly, they don't need to. As a top program, OSU attracts good recruits year in and year out.

We don't benefit by pointing fingers and making the assumption that Meyer is a dirty recruiter; there's certainly very little evidence to support that conclusion. OSU may be our biggest and most important rival, but let's give credit where it's due: OSU has a hell of a good program, and an elite coach. They don't need to cheat to attract fine players.

I hope we beat OSU this year, and every year. But if we don't, it certainly isn't going to be because some recruit got some cool artwork.

Our entire conference benefits when all of its historically top teams are strong, and not under NCAA sanctions. The national perception of the conference has taken a big hit since 2008, and I honestly think our record from 2008-2010, OSU's problems, and PSU's problems contributed to the B1G's image problem. And that costs the league recruits, better bowl games, and remember, better bowl games have better payouts, so a lesser image costs the league money.

I'd like to see all of the league's teams, including OSU (but most especially us), improve. 

I'm not normally one for deregulation.  But all these byzantne rules about whether schools can put a recruit's name on a jersey, or on a poster, or whether it's okay if the school sends it directly to the recruit vs. posting it someplace, and so on and so forth really don't seem necessary or helpful.  

It seems to me that the NCAA would be much more effective if they just had a few simple, common-sense rules and focused on enforcing those, rather than a 15-lb. binder full of esoteric regulations that require an entire "compliance staff" to manage, and which are routinely viiolated out of inadvertence even by honest and well-intentioned coaches and athletes.  

EGD, what you just said makes entirely too much sense.

What a great first name. Wu-Tang Forever.

Oh come on. That could be ANY black guy naked Raekwon McMillan.

cash rules everything around me. Listening to...Ice Cream Man.