Bama SBNation - Prattville camp was set up for sole purpose of evaluating Dytarious Johnson

Submitted by EastCoast Esq. on

After the putz at RollBamaRoll was called out for getting the Dytarious Johnson story wrong, he responded in the most reasonable way possible...

By doubling down on his claim that Harbaugh is evil incarnate.

While my title SLIGHTLY exaggerates his argument, it doesn't do so by much.

What makes this excellent is that instead of a true "light bulb" feel-good story, we have Michigan all but setting up a "camp" for the sole purpose of reviewing players they were considering offering. It was never about having a true teaching camp.

The Michigan fans who've given us feedback can be upset about a prior mischaracterized sentence, and that's fine, because in the end the fact that the Prattville junket catered to these kind of targets makes Harbaugh's behavior worse, not better. Finding a diamond in the rough is one thing - intentional obfuscation and shady-as-hell torturing of the rule to turn this "camp" into a specific recruitment visit is quite another.

It might even be an NCAA violation.

 

There you go. The Prattville Camp was set up to evaluate a single, two-star recruit (since I'm unaware of any others who were nearing an offer) and therefore Harbaugh is dabbling in NCAA violations.

Also, to reemphasize the point, Dytarious was the ONLY recruit who went to this camp because of the coaches telling him he was on the precipice of an offer. So the entire thing was a charade (which included hundreds of athletes, coaches from a number of schools, etc.) to evaluate one possible recruit

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myblueheaven

June 10th, 2015 at 11:45 AM ^

Ha Ha..so ridiculous! Bet all the other players at the camp don't feel they didn't have a learning experience. Maybe it's an attempt to program perception knowing similar claims in regards to Caleb Kelly are floating around. Conspiracy theory is the only reasonable justification as to why someone would make such a vacuous accusation no?

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SMart WolveFan

June 10th, 2015 at 11:51 AM ^

.......this goes waaaaaay back.

In '06, in anticipation of getting the Mich HC job, Harbaugh placed a talent dampening device that he stole from the CIA (they used it to win "Miracle on Ice") in the Prattville area. This specifically caused all of the SEC and all recruiting services (except rivals) to ignore the most talented football player of all time so far, Keith Washington! This lead him to come up with the idea to have the next greatest player of all time Dytarious Johnson on a visit, but does Jim offer than?

Ha, laughable man.

He "creates" the idea of a "camp" and sets them up all over the big football areas in the country, just so the SEC doesn't realize how "lazy" he is.

Harbrilliant!

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mmc22

June 10th, 2015 at 11:53 AM ^

I wonder what are they gonna say next year when SEC will start doing these types of camps too. We all know they are going to remove that 50 mile radius rule soon. Are they gonna change their mind 180 degrees?

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EGD

June 10th, 2015 at 9:52 PM ^

Having their own camps isn't really going to help the SEC. They already have enough good players in the Southeast; being able to recruit more guys from the Midwest or West Coast is a pretty marginal gain--and would not offset the potential detriment of losing southern recruits to other regions. So, even if the SEC does remove its 50-mile rule, they will still whine about the camps.

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LSAClassOf2000

June 10th, 2015 at 12:02 PM ^

You know, my father likes to tell people that if you're going to bury your head in the sand as this guy seems to be doing, just remember which part of you is being displayed to the world (as this guy seems to be forgetting). This passage quoted in the OP isn't even a leap of logic - it is bereft of logic. Roll Bama Roll sure knows how to shake its fist at imaginary things. 

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EastCoast Esq.

June 10th, 2015 at 2:04 PM ^

I appreciate your kind words Mr. Yost, but arguing with this guy would be akin to bashing my head into a brickwall to soften it.

It's not going to affect the brickwall and my head will just hurt in the end.

 

Idiots are going to be idiots.

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Chipper1221

June 10th, 2015 at 12:19 PM ^

im patiently waiting for Baumgardner to fire back at this clown, Last time Baumgardner wrote about this stuff he got a call from Finebaum who agreed with Nick and had him on his show. 

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bronxblue

June 10th, 2015 at 12:24 PM ^

Call me when Bama fans can do basic math and figure out how 90+ scholarship players become 85 every f*cking year in the last week as guys mysteriously start breaking numerous team rules and suffer career-ending injuries.

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ghostofhoke

June 10th, 2015 at 12:32 PM ^

More than anything this is your fault for paying attention to what anyone down here thinks. Im not from here but I live in Bham and I've never seen anything like the Bama fandom. You really can't understand who these people are and the way their minds work until you walk amongst them. I don't blame you for thinking this is news or interesting but it's not. These people are the most delusional collection of mouth breathers you could ever imagine. Just completing daily tasks are a struggle let alone wrapping their mind around a conspiracy theory like this--or nonconspiracy I guess



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samdrussBLUE

June 10th, 2015 at 12:35 PM ^

Even if it was the primary/sole purpose, who cares? We got to look at a guy we wanted and other coaches and programs got to look at tons of other players and those players got exposure. This guy does know that not every kid that attends a camp can go to the school that is hosting right!?



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