Negative Recruiting Tactics and Silent Verbals (split then merged)

[DaBuckMD]

Originally Posted by edbuck51

IMO, this whole thread is trying to make Carroll look like something he is not, which I believe comes from the Davis situation.

I think the first few posts were sour grapes regarding PC, but then the discussion turned into general thoughts about silent verbals. I think that was Mililani's point.

What's unethical about it ?

I was referring to the suggestion that a coach would actually encourage silent verbals to mislead other recruits. I would find that unethical and doubt than any coach would use that strategy.

[MegaWoody]

I'm hard pressed to find anything laudable about a silent verbal -- on either end, from the coach or the recruit.

If the coach is asking the recruit to keep it quiet, he's obviously trying to manipulate someone somewhere. If the player insists on it, he wants to take his visits and his commitment means about as much as a politician's election year promise -- "Read ...My ...Lips".

It's a BS way of doing business from any perspective. I don't now whether Petey does it, or if JT does it for that matter. I just know that when 45-year olds and 17-year olds conspire to keep something quiet, it's probably not something either should be proud of.

A great man once said "Let your Yes mean Yes, and your No mean No. Anything else is from the devil."

[BuckNutty]

What's "good" about a silent verbal?

I split this thread off of the Ashley thread. I thought the discussion about silents was warranted, just not on the Ashley thread. I couldn't really come up with a good title and obviously the one I decided on wasn't "good"

I'll change the title.

[AKAKBUCK]

I just know that when 45-year olds and 17-year olds conspire to keep something quiet, it's probably not something either should be proud of.

Does this include 45 year old men and 17 (Let's say 18 for arguments sake) teenage pretties?

[MegaWoody]

Bucknutty: I wasn't even thinking about your title. I was just considering the larger question. So many were trying to say why it might not be "wrong", so I took the view of "How can it possibly be 'good'?"

Akak: Sure does! Kids is kids and grown ups is grown ups. You can't expect a kid to act like a grown up and it's embarrassing to see grown ups act like kids.

[exhawg]

What would be really bad is if a coach got a commitment form a player then encouraged them to give a verbal to a rival and renege on signing day. Maybe I should delete this post before Pete gets a hold of it.

[MililaniBuckeye]

Originally Posted by exhawg

What would be really bad is if a coach got a commitment form a player then encouraged them to give a verbal to a rival and renege on signing day. Maybe I should delete this post before Pete gets a hold of it.

If that were to happen and it was proved, there would be some serious sanctions handed out by the NCAA...

[tundra1]

Originally Posted by Oh8ch

Fact is that by rule the coach must remain silent on ALL verbals. It is the kid who has to decide what he is going to tell the 'public'.

Since no kid has ever said Carrol encouraged them to remain silent there is no basis to suggest he has. However, I have little doubt that form time coaches do encourage a player to keep it mum. I find that unethical.

Here's the part I don't get. Let's say you're an 18-year-old HS senior, and you're a 5* RB.

You let the coaches at one school know that you're going to give them your commitment. The head coach asks you to keep it quiet.

Should you keep it quiet? You know that this fictional coach is asking you to keep it quiet so he can recruit 1 or 2 other highly rated RBs to compete against you for playing time.

So, you can keep quiet and possibly end up in a logjam at your position, fighting for playing time, or you can announce your commitment, and maybe there's less competition at RB for you.

Less competition = a higher chance you'll be playing on Saturdays = a higher chance you'll get a chance to play on Sundays later.

So what does the recruit get for agreeing to be a "silent verbal"? Why would a recruit do this?

The only answer I can think of is that the recruit is doing it so that he can play the "hat game" on NLOI day...and that's thinking really short-term.