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Article - New NCAA football rules: 15k attendance, no jets, etc.

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College-Football Notebook

Some of the highlights:

Division I schools must average 15,000 fans or risk being dropped to Div. II
According to this: Football attendance statistics... Kent State, Bowling Green, and Akron are all at risk. Even Miami of Ohio missed 15k at least one year in the last 10.

Sorry Petie, but...
Schools can't use private or chartered airplanes when transporting recruits, and can only use standard vehicles to drive them around on official visits. Prospects and their parents have to be housed in standard lodging and offered meals similar to those offered on campus. Schools also can't use jerseys or scoreboard presentations to entice recruits during campus visits.

I wonder what this will do to USC recruiting (and ours for that matter)? It does seem like it will level the playing field a bit.


Also in this article:
Defensive lineman Chris McDuffie of Clemson was reinstated to the team yesterday after being arrested last month on drug charges.

McDuffie had been suspended since the charges, but was reinstated by Coach Tommy Bowden. He joins the Tigers just in time for practice, which begins today.

McDuffie, a 19-year-old reserve, from Danville, Va., turned himself in to Clemson police last month and was charged with possession of marijuana with intent to distribute and possession of marijuana with intent to distribute within proximity of a school.

Bowden said if McDuffie is punished it will be handled internally and may be announced later.

What the heck?!?! He's charged with possession of marijuana with intent to distribute and gets no punishment?
 
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Intent to distribut is based solely (ok, maybe not solely but in most cases that is the basis) on the ammount of weed he had, also if he was stoopid enough to have a scale. I would suggest that maybe it was something like he bought a half that was in 2 quarters. But I never touch the stuff :biggrin:
 
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The private jet thing won't affect USC.

Pete can still fly to wherever he wants. I don't believe that USC has used the jet to fly the recruits anywhere - that's what got banned.
 
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BuckeyeBill73 said:
The private jet thing won't affect USC.

Pete can still fly to wherever he wants. I don't believe that USC has used the jet to fly the recruits anywhere - that's what got banned.

Not true! Here's an excerpt from Chris Leak's recruiting diary:

Two weeks ago, I visited Los Angeles for Southern Cal's game against Notre Dame and walked away totally impressed with the program.

Aside from all the great meals and impressive perks, the thing that stood out the most is how so many different USC players pulled me aside to explain to me what a joy it is to play for Coach Carroll. That really stuck with me.

The red carpet treatment wasn't bad, either, though. The school sent a private jet to pick me up in Charlotte. And just like my trip to Florida, I was the only passenger. The plane had a kitchen, a couch, leather seats and my own stewardess. Total luxury.

During the flight, I ate a full breakfast -- eggs, hash browns and sausage. There was a DVD player, too, so I watched two movies, "Spider Man" and "Enough" with Jennifer Lopez.

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we went back to the Coliseum, where the USC staff put the names of each recruit on the giant scoreboard.

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During and after dinner, there was live entertainment -- yet another first. We watched a tap dancer and then some sort of hula or belly dancer. I'm not sure what it was, something with a grass skirt and fast-moving hips.


USC is EXACTLY the type of school that got these rules on the books!
 
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IntheBoro,

Thanks for the correction. Apparently I've been misled by some overzealous USC posters that were defending their program.
 
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BB73, No worries! I had to look it up, but I knew I had read it somewhere.

Boro: It makes me smile when I think about them not being able to use that recruiting tool (Jet).....it obviously makes a big impression on recruits when they send a private jet to pick you up........
No kidding! Re-reading the Chris Leak piece I'm thinking, "How in the heck did this kid wind up at Florida over USC?" With that recruiting experience even I might have gone to USC... well, OK me at 18... never mind I still wouldn't have gone, but it would have been fun! :wink2:
 
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BuckeyeInTheBoro said:
BB73, No worries! I had to look it up, but I knew I had read it somewhere.

No kidding! Re-reading the Chris Leak piece I'm thinking, "How in the heck did this kid wind up at Florida over USC?" With that recruiting experience even I might have gone to USC... well, OK me at 18... never mind I still wouldn't have gone, but it would have been fun! :wink2:
I think he received similar treatment. I remember reading his recruiting diary on ESPN.com about his trip to Florida and Iowa. There was defenitely mention of Zook using their jet.
 
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