Players are starting to speak up on twitter about satellite camps with the hastag #ChangeNCAA
Lots of basklash from Michigan, MSU, OSU, Iowa, Illinois etc. players and a ton of recruits against the NCAA. Seems like the SMSB camp really meant a lot to them and they're pissed it's over now with the banning of satellite camps.
For those on twitter it's worth checking out. Jourdan Lewis seemed to be the player who started it.
We can't let the NCAA do this. Everybody get #ChangeNCAA trending. They think they're hurting Coach but they're really hurting the kids.
— Jourdan Lewis (@JourdanJD) April 10, 2016
Tweet #ChangeNCAA
Or how about #DumpNCAA or #FuckNCAA would also seem to be viable options.
But if we dump the NCAA who is going to make all that money off of amateur athletes. Er, I mean fairly govern amateur athletes
I wouldn't be surprised if someone was brave enough to do it anyway.
In my dream scenario someone does these camps anyway and when sanctions are placed on them, refuse to comply. Also, after refusing to comply and getting banned, teams play them anyway and the bowl game still invites them.
Like I said....it's a dream.
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Refuse to comply, tell the NCAA to go pound sand and leave.
Although, that would take a conference to do that which means there would have to be a commissioner with guts. So you can rule out the B1G doing that.
Why would you need a conference to do it? One team could challenge the ruling if they thought they had the law on its side. Sue the NCAA and ask for an injunction.
I agree we don't need a balding commissioner to take up the cause.
Obviously the NCAA would probably sanction us, but what if we one upped them again and made a real scene about how the NCAA is once again grasping at east stuff when they're allowing convincted cheaters in Syracuse and UNC to continue unimpeded. I'd have to think we'd win the PR battle there, no? In that game of chicken, I wonder who folds first
April 11th, 2016 at 10:39 AM ^
Alfred University to the B1G. You know...to get mid-state New York television ratings.
Let's face it, we can't change this stupid rule, but if anyone can it's the kids. It is really nice seeing a team leader doing this too. Great job $ec and NCAA, coach doubled our win total last year when he was happy, just wait and see what he does this year when he is angry and ready to work even harder. We all know he isn't taking June off, I can't wait to see what he does next.
Agree 100%
Hill had some nice, choice words too. Well done on the part of these athletes.
All I got to say.... pic.twitter.com/HOVhsIJhw4
— Khalid Hill (@Thatboylid80) April 10, 2016
borne back ceaselessly into the past.
Outstanding finish, Khalid!
This may be one of those moments that ultimately cause long lasting changes.
1. This may help Harbaugh and Michigan indirectly. It may have that hard to measure positive word-of-mouth.
2. It may lead to inadvertent BAD things - I'm not a big basketball fan, but aren't there criticism that there are groups that run defacto scouting camps because the rules limit what a coach can do officially? These in turn are unregulated and rife with accusations of influence peddling. Could this happen to football? Anytime there is a lot of money to be made someone will think of a way.
Great quote by the way!
Retweet to spread this: #ChangeNCAA pic.twitter.com/HDimVUW9HE
— Donovan P. Jones (@dpeoplesjones) April 10, 2016
Wow, and this guy jumped over 3 people in a dunk contest?
Jourdan, Ty Wheatley, Dylan M., and Harbaugh...PLEASE get this kid to A2 in a Michigan uniform!
Amari Cooper 2.0
He's the type of guy who was going to get a look no matter what, but he is still taking a stand for his peers. I have a lot of respect for him putting it on the line like this. Obviously I hope he chooses Michigan but I get the sense that no matter where he goes, he is going to succeed.
David Shaw is garbage
David Shaw says no reason for satellite camps "where there might be one person in the entire state that's eligible to get into Stanford."
— Ted Miller (@TedMillerRK) April 10, 2016
He should be very thankful Harbaugh handed him the keys to the Rolls Royce and not the Yugo.
He seems to take shots at Harbaugh a decent amount when he would be going 7-6 every year at best if Harbaugh hadn't built that juggernaut.
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Stanford is a joke program without Harbaugh coming there.
They were, what, 1-11 the year prior to him getting there?
They lost to UC Davis......
Do you still believe David Shaw is a terrible football coach as you proclaimed after week 1 last year?
Has nothing to do with his distasteful statement, I am just curious.
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Shaw, born on 3rd base and thinks he hit a triple. But I encourage all of you to go out and buy Dave's new autobiography Gravy Training.
Such a lame point of view on Shaw's part. Well, guys, it doesn't help Stanford so who cares about the kids getting opportunities to go to other schools. I did not expect that from him to be honest. Of course I am slightly biased because its Harbaugh that made this a phenomenon but realistically, any coach with any sort of morals should be able to understand the exact thing Hill had stated if it is really about the kids and it SHOULD be about dem kids.
As well as the others that voted against it. The whole thing is pretty disgusting just how openly selfish these guys cab be. I'm embarrassed for them.
April 11th, 2016 at 12:43 PM ^
Well at least someone is, because they sure aren't.
Fuck David Shaw for making such a bullshit statement. What a shitty thing to say.
That's not what Shaw said. The quote is taken out of context and WD just posted the tweet without following up at all. Here is Shaw's quote:
"I'm great with whatever college football says, because it doesn't affect us," Shaw said when asked about satellite camps after Saturday's spring game. "It doesn't make sense for us to go hold a camp some place where there might be one person in the entire state that's eligible to get into Stanford."
He's saying that satellite camps aren't useful to Stanford, which seems clearly true, not that no one should do them.
You mean that context is relevant? Up vote for digging out what was actually said.
I guess some states are too dumb for Stanford. It was my experience that there were plenty of Stanford quality kids who were overlooked because they played in small schools are for pretty sucky private school teams.
Have you seen Mississippi?
Florida is down there too. Over half the state thought Ted Cruz was the Zodiac killer and another 10-15% weren't sure.
If you lived in Florida with all those lunatics you would realize it's best to just assume everyone is the Zodiac killer until proven otherwise.
as well.
Wait, what, he isn't?
I think the point was that there remain 35-40% of Floridians who think he's not the Zodiac killer. And what kind of a stupd state would have over one-third of the people think that?
I must be in the other half of Florida that thinks Ted Cruz looks like Marty McFly's dad.
but let's lump everyone together because it's simpler to think that way. (Not to mention the irony of engaging in tribalism in one form while likely condeming it in another.)
Someone should ask Shaw, which states don't have 2 students that could get into Stanford. Would be good to put that on the record.
But of course for your 1 reasonable comment that decided to dig only slightly below the surface, there are 10 comments trashing Shaw purely off a single out of context tweet. SMH
Still, doesn't that sound idiotic? If we are going to have one kid in poverty with excellent academic skills, isn't that your service to the society? I know I sound idealistic, but Shaw playing odds of majority bothers me.
the context provided doesn't really change anything in my view. there are plenty of brilliant athletes everywhere and for him to say that comes off as extremely arrogant and condescending.
Agreed. Smart people only come from large urban areas in big states?
How the hell does he know there is nobody in Pratville worthy of Stanford?
He didn't say that. And actually it's quite easy to identify the smart kid in Pratville without a camp.
All he is saying though is that it doesn't make sense for Stanford to spend thousands of dollars setting up camp across country for the possibility of that one kid being there.
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I agree WD just has it out for Shaw...since he made the idiotic statement that he should've been fired after the NW loss
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He's just trying to find himself, okay?
Full quote still makes him out to be a douche canoe.
That was my same exact though. Context did nothing for Shaw regarding that quote. He still said he doesnt care about satellite camps because none of the kids who attend them are intelligent enough to attend his school.
I think it's about time that Harbaugh go off on David Shaw. Shaw seems to have "shot one over our bow", if you will.
Time to remind him who built the ship.