February 8th, 2015 at 3:45 PM ^
While it blows what happened to Weber and Roquan Smith, it's hard to get on the high horse as a UM fan, when we've done similar in the past...most recently with Wilton Speight.
In a Nyquil haze in another thread I posted the incorrect info and was negged to hell (quite correctly). However, I knew this had happened to Speight because I remember reading a quote from Speight's mom -- which I cannot find for the life of me -- who wasn't so happy with how it went down.
That said here's what happened. Borges was Speight's lead recruiter and Speight had a close relationship with him. Some in the previous thread asserted that Speight should have known a change was coming since everyone knew that Borges was getting fired. But keep in mind as late as December Hoke was on record saying that there would be no changes to the staff. It was not a foregone conclussion that Borges was getting fired.
Wilton was an Early Enrolee and signed/enrolled on Jan 6th. Two days later UM announced Borges firing. It is highly unlikely the firing was first contemplated on Jan 7th.
Links to support all:
Dec 2 Hoke stating no coaching changes
Jan 6th Wilton Enrolls Early (Along with other O-players Canteen, Harris, and Cole)
Jan 8th Borges Fired (first day of class for Wilton, Canteen, Harris and Cole)
Wilton Did Not Know - Article indicating Wilton didn't know it was coming.
February 8th, 2015 at 4:05 PM ^
It's one thing to say to recruits "I'll be here", like Borges and hope you won't get fired. It's a whole another can of worms and classlessness when you tell recruits you'll be there and your blatantly lying to them an their families. But hey, whatever to make you sleep better at night.
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February 8th, 2015 at 4:30 PM ^
I don't disagree that Drayton was lying. But UM was deceiving by ommission at best. See the links above. Despite Borges' perfromance Hoke was publicly declaring he wasn't making any coaching staff changes (you'd have to assume he was saying the same privately to the recruits).
Borges gets fired on the 8th and Nuss gets hired the same day. This kind of hiring and firing doesn't take place in a day. There's a much longer ramp into the announcement. So you have to assume this plan was in motion -- it's clear from the Speight quotes he was not told. So like I said it deception by omission instead of flat out lying.
February 8th, 2015 at 4:35 PM ^
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