OT: Craziest offers to recruits --ESPN video
Plucked up the courage enough to take a stab at my first post.
ESPN shot a quick video of the craziest offers coaches and fans have made to potential recruits. From Ty Isaac being offered a car, to a child asking a Florida recruit to commit, and not surprisingly a recruit being accompanied by identical twins all night.
Here is the link: http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=8867174
Interesting to note the schools & conferences many of these kids are into as they heard these offers.
I will try to embed in the comments, but I am assuming I will need help.
Thanks for reading. Hope my first post wasn't a bore! Open to suggestions.
EDIT: Well, mods, feel free to take this down. Looks like ESPN has since removed the video. So much for a first impression on my part.
EDIT EDIT: Whirlwind of a first post, but turns out MgoUser TRUBLUMICH has saved the day! I'll upvote him all day.
January 22nd, 2013 at 11:36 AM ^
and yet the NCAA could care less...
January 22nd, 2013 at 11:38 AM ^
January 22nd, 2013 at 11:38 AM ^
January 22nd, 2013 at 12:49 PM ^
Gonna also add this up here for those of you who clicked the link and didn't see it. Had to do a little work but it is still working, if its deleted, I already saved a copy of the MP4. To watch in your browser your going to need Quicktime or Right Click on the link and select Save Link as then view it in Windows Media Player.
http://mvads.cdn.espn.com/now/stitched/mp4/4d993388-8b49-4f34-9e48-87906e690281/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/3a41c6e4-93a3-4108-8995-64ffca7b9106/d31cc741-18c3-424b-9d5d-03d97e1715f2/0/0/169/1935520725/content.mp4
January 22nd, 2013 at 12:54 PM ^
Upvoted again and added to the post. Many thanks again!
January 22nd, 2013 at 3:35 PM ^
How were you able to do this? And how were you able to download the video? I have tried researching how to do this (find specific link for video and/or download the video) from many sites, but to no avail. Any input, info, or advice would be great! Thanks.
January 22nd, 2013 at 5:30 PM ^
Well since this one was removed and giving a 404 redirect, I had to go to Google cache and search for a cached version of the URL, after that I Viewed Source, on ESPN theres a Twitter Meta Tag
meta name="twitter:player" content=
for some reason they had the actual MP4 linked for twitters video player
There are litteraly 100's of ways to do it and depending on the site and the skill level of the programmer, its never really that easy to get them though. Id look around for Chrome or Mozilla plugins that will automatically find them. DownThemAll!!! is a pretty good one for Firefox.
January 22nd, 2013 at 11:40 AM ^
not sure why the word "schools" got linked, but its a worthless click.
January 22nd, 2013 at 11:42 AM ^
It's not linked anymore, noob.
January 22nd, 2013 at 11:51 AM ^
January 22nd, 2013 at 12:46 PM ^
But what about Ty Isaac?
January 22nd, 2013 at 1:27 PM ^
January 22nd, 2013 at 11:53 AM ^
Hopefully not the same as touch the banner on the way onto the field...
January 22nd, 2013 at 12:28 PM ^
team onto the field, we need to reassess a few things. Fortunately, I don't suspect we have to worry about that.
January 22nd, 2013 at 11:57 AM ^
but Bill King was saying this morning that USC offered Eddie VanderDoes sister a basketball scholarship. she is in 9th grade.
January 22nd, 2013 at 12:10 PM ^
I've always rooted against USC, and for reasons like this I always will.
January 22nd, 2013 at 5:34 PM ^
If she's the size of her brother I would offer her too.
January 22nd, 2013 at 11:59 AM ^
January 22nd, 2013 at 12:38 PM ^
I've wondered the same. That's a good possibility, but you'd have to think a few attention grabbers would love what comes out of blowing the top open. Maybe they don't have proof or feel powerless and are avoiding embarrassment? Look what OSU did with Clarett (not that he didn't do plenty to himself). I've always thought these were the types of kids who probably also received something wherever they ended up going anyway and didn't want to involve themselves in any investigation. But agreed, you'd think there would be at least a couple who don't fit those.
January 22nd, 2013 at 2:13 PM ^
I'm guessing the school that they ultimately chose also would discourage them from doing this as they wouldn't want their player embroiled in this and also people would get suspicious of them as well.
January 22nd, 2013 at 12:03 PM ^
So Christian Hackenberg chuckled when schools negatively recruited using the Sandusky/Paterno issue. Not sure that sexual abuse of minors on a massive scale is all that funny, Christian.
I look forward to not seeing him in a bowl game until his Senior year (or redshirt junior year).
January 22nd, 2013 at 12:17 PM ^
January 22nd, 2013 at 12:22 PM ^
Not sure if chuckling after being reminded of rampant child abuse is ever the appropriate repsonse, no matter how many times you've heard it or for what reason it's being told to you (again).
January 22nd, 2013 at 12:19 PM ^
January 22nd, 2013 at 12:34 PM ^
I'm sure you're right, but how can anyone separate the two?
The negative recruiting we often hear about is conjecture along the lines of, "So and so is old and probably will retire in a year, who knows what the new coach will think of you."
In this case, the negative recruiting is just reading from the AP wire - the program has associated itself with a known pedophile and swept it under the rug for a decade, allowed its facilities to be used for illegal acts of child molestation, etc. As a result, if you attend PSU, you won't be seeing a bowl game until 2016 at the earliest and you'll have to live with the knowledge you are going to a program not far removed from some of the ugliest behavior in the history of the sport." I don't care how many times different recruiters recited this to me, it wouldn't get funny at any point.
January 22nd, 2013 at 12:51 PM ^
You must be a real bore at parties.
People laugh at off-color things all the time - jokes about Jews, jokes about gays, jokes about rape, etc. Just because the kid "laughed" at comments about child abuse doesn't mean you can automatically jump to the conclusion that he thinks it's hilarious.
Some of you people look for any reason you can to criticize players who go to other schools (Manti Te'o, Christian Hackenberg, etc.). But if the same things were said or done by Michigan players, you'd probably jump in line to defend them and explain the context of their words/actions.
January 22nd, 2013 at 12:55 PM ^
Touche. I am almost assuredly a bore at parties when I don't laugh at racism or homophobia.
Meanwhile, you're a bore at blog writing. Touch the Ba....zzzzzzzz.
January 22nd, 2013 at 1:05 PM ^
Magnus has another enemy. This is always fun to watch.
January 22nd, 2013 at 1:12 PM ^
I'm not an enemy and won't be an enemy until such time that the internet's finite number of domain names fills up and TTB begins taking up space from somebody actually worth reading.
January 22nd, 2013 at 2:04 PM ^
January 22nd, 2013 at 1:18 PM ^
Yet another thing you took too seriously...
You can't honestly claim that you never laugh at anything that's off-color AND that you never laughed at anything off-color when you were 18 years old. You do, and you have. Everyone has. It's just that right now you're choosing to be uptight, because it serves the purpose of degrading a kid who's headed to play for Penn State.
January 22nd, 2013 at 3:06 PM ^
I think if he actually knew what is being said in the locker room, on the sidelines, and on the field itself... he would forever stop watching football...
January 22nd, 2013 at 3:20 PM ^
January 22nd, 2013 at 12:58 PM ^
and that he then laughed and chuckled. The PSU comment was the sentence before. You are not only mischaracterizing it, you are really stretching to get there.
January 22nd, 2013 at 1:03 PM ^
Transcript:
"You know probably all the fans going in on the Penn State situation that happened, you know I've heard some ridiculous things and I just sort of laugh and chuckle."
One sentence, one continuous thought.
January 22nd, 2013 at 1:13 PM ^
I bow to your superior skillz.
January 22nd, 2013 at 1:15 PM ^
I heard zero pause and a natural continuation in his voice that I have chosen to represent as a comma.
January 22nd, 2013 at 1:18 PM ^
a recruit, by choice.
January 22nd, 2013 at 1:22 PM ^
Yeah, when he says that, he clearly means "Child molestation is hilarious!"
One time my friend backed into a trash can, and I laughed at him. I guess that means I think all car accidents are funny...right?
January 22nd, 2013 at 12:06 PM ^
Video not found? Thats what it says when I click the link
January 22nd, 2013 at 12:16 PM ^
Probably because ESPN realized it showed their cash cows in USC and the SEC in a negative light, and thats of course bad business
January 22nd, 2013 at 12:22 PM ^
Not sure what happened. Searching for it.
January 22nd, 2013 at 12:22 PM ^
January 22nd, 2013 at 12:37 PM ^
Not sure how long this is going to last, but as long as they don't delete it from thier server you should be able to see it.
January 22nd, 2013 at 12:41 PM ^
It appears to have not lasted long...
January 22nd, 2013 at 12:48 PM ^
If you don't have Quicktime installed, need to Right Click on the link and select Save as and the view it in Windows Media Player.
January 22nd, 2013 at 12:54 PM ^
Great tip, thanks.
January 22nd, 2013 at 12:45 PM ^
Great find and I cannot thank you enough!
January 22nd, 2013 at 12:36 PM ^
know how to get around YouTube videos that were made private?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDc_CSV3HLQ&feature=youtu.be&a
January 22nd, 2013 at 1:07 PM ^
That ones Impossible, You Tube actually has programmers that know what they are doing. ESPN's web site is a joke when it comes to security and file mangement.