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Love grad21's assessment of the "punk"ing, but pretty much that's what the recruiting process has become. I remember the good old days as a kid, rushing to the store the day after NLOI day to but a USA Today to see where their top prospects were going, then looking at the local newspaper to check out the Buckeyes list of recruits, knowing nothing about them, but just looking to see who the new names were going to be and what positions they played.
The internet has changed alot of this, as well as these kids being placed high on pedastals and at times being made to be way too big for their britches. I liked the days when "verbal, soft-verbal, lean, and de-committ" weren't even in my vocabulary. The recruiting process itself is extremely cool, I guess there's just too much info available to us these days (and only a small portion of it accurate).
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01-10-2007, 09:43 PM
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Gronk just punked Clemson bad...
He sent an email last night to the Clemson Rivals site all but saying he was a Tiger.
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I thought that crap like that happened only to Ohio State....
Today's recruits are a different breed - they are high profile and they know it, and they milk it for what it is worth. But with our 24/7/365 interest in recruiting, we (the fans) are the root of the problem, I guess... |
01-10-2007, 09:44 PM
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From the Arizona site...Rob discusses his decision.
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01-10-2007, 09:50 PM
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we (the fans) are the root of the problem, I guess...
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I see your line of thinking, but a kid being a young adult should be on his way to acting like a man. Regardless of their unique god blessed (or evelotionary) gifts it is up to the parent to teach these kids how to handle situations in life.
Are we to blame somewhat.. of course we are but in MANY cases the parents are worse then the kids in setting the example on how to handle these things.
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01-10-2007, 09:53 PM
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Color me shocked here... There was actually decent info out there for Clemson and/or tOSU, but Arizona didn't even get an official from him... Pretty amazing... Sounds like this was another that was playing the recruiting game as well...
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01-10-2007, 09:55 PM
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Color me shocked here... There was actually decent info out there for Clemson and/or tOSU, but Arizona didn't even get an official from him... Pretty amazing... Sounds like this was another that was playing the recruiting game as well...
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Clemson was counting him in based on his actions in the last 24 hours.
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01-10-2007, 09:57 PM
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