What the Fuck.

Submitted by jcontiz on
Ok, I was alright with Newsome. Fera, was ok. McNeal hurt, and Barnes wasn't too bad. But Beaver? Seriously? I don't know what Tulsa could have done, aside from offering him the starting job, $5,000,000, and anything he wanted, to make him switch from Michigan (a top fucking-ass tier program), to Tulsa, who runs a gimmicky offense in a shitty conference USA. Like legitimately, I went through the recruiting process. Albeit it was for lacrosse, but I had offers from a lot of schools. I went through this process and I watched a lot of my friends do it too, and this is bullshit. Maybe it wouldn't have been so bad if it was earlier, but the next semester is in like 3-4 weeks? I mean we all read how he was so committed and shit. If I was a coach, I wouldn't trust any teenager. We make this recruits feel like gods, and it's starting to go to their heads. Seriously.
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jcontiz

December 19th, 2008 at 8:43 PM ^

Like how high have we placed these kids that they get treated like royalty by their elders (coaches), and they can literally lie to an entire University and it's fanbase? Ridiculous.

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jcontiz

December 19th, 2008 at 8:46 PM ^

There has to be some reason for this madness. Either Michigan football is going to have to accept these growing pains or else we are really doomed to suck. I've accepted both now.

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chillmodious

December 19th, 2008 at 8:53 PM ^

Is there any way RR hops on a flight to Texas tonight and breaks out the super-special-edition 'sex panther' snake oil? Or is that just a movie-inspired pipe dream? Flight tracker, anyone? This is really depressing. I was about to start a pleasant night of boozing and carousing. Now I'll be doing it for the wrong reasons.

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pobopo

December 19th, 2008 at 8:54 PM ^

Do I like this? No. But the kid can do what he wants, lying or no lying. This is a high school senior choosing where he wants to go to school. 17 year olds kids change their minds all the time; think back to when you were his age. The fact that he chose Tulsa is really almost unbelievable, but still.

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jcontiz

December 19th, 2008 at 8:57 PM ^

I understand and believe me I've been through it. I had a dozen schools from across the midwest to the south offer me scholarships, but this is just weird how it happened. I could understand if it was Texas Tech, or maybe Oklahoma State, but Tulsa is.. well, Tulsa.

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MinorforPresident

December 19th, 2008 at 9:09 PM ^

I'll actually be happier than if we got The Beav. /more versatile athlete, hard worker. Give him a shot to be a QB and if it doesnt't work he can be a slot, DB, etc. The full court press on Gardner in 2010.

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Magnus

December 20th, 2008 at 1:02 AM ^

I think some of you are taking this too seriously. You say these kids are treated like Gods; WE are the ones treating them like that. By paying attention to their Myspace pages, by making numerous threads about THEIR life decisions, etc. These kids do not represent our university before they ever take a class there. They should not bear the weight of the entire recruiting fanbase. I think that's going a little overboard. Kids used to be able to make decisions whenever they wanted, and nobody paid attention at all. If they changed their commitment or waited until the last minute to commit, it didn't matter to the fanbase. Just because WE started paying attention doesn't mean they bear our burden. NEVER trust a commitment until Signing Day. I learned this when I first started paying attention to recruiting. (I'm not saying Beaver should've dragged this out so long. I was taught to honor my commitments, and I think that's how people should act. But honestly, it's his life. Whatever.)

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dex

December 20th, 2008 at 5:15 PM ^

You've taken a lot of shit this weekend, but this: "Just because WE started paying attention doesn't mean they bear our burden." is spot on. Spending an afternoon parsing sentences at banquets and to creepy Rivals reporters, checking MySpace pages for signs of wavering, and then sending trash talk Facebook messages - and following it by somehow blaming the recruits themselves for being "hype machines" or "thinking they are Gods" is a tad hypocritical. Here's an idea for everyone in the "word is bond" crowd - a "verbal" is something that's only come up in the past few years. Just go back to following recruiting for what it is- a mystery until signing day.

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