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IL OL Erik Swenson (Oklahoma Signee)

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While I don't particularly like pulling scholarships this late in the game, I realize it is part of what CFB has become and therefore I can live with it. What I find offensive is Harbaugh does not tell the kids he wants to shed, in no uncertain terms, that he doesn't have a scholarship for them. In this case as in dozens of cases at Stanford (and I would bet several other Michigan de-commits this year) he stops calling them or if he does call them, he tells them that the may want to explore their options or other half assed bullshit, hoping that they take the hint and look elsewhere. Anything to avoid having to tell an 18 year old, "son, your are not coming to Michigan".

If you ever had to make decisions about somebodies job performance or abilities, you would know that it is one of the hardest things you would ever have to do. But you man up and do the right thing.

Harbaugh=Coward
 
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Hairball's actions are nothing new in recruiting.

Stanford and the art of withdrawing a schoolie: In the spring of 1986 Scott Schaffner of Moeller was offered a scholarship to Stanford by Coach Jack Elway. At the time, Scott was one of the top ranked QB recruits in the nation as well as a straight A student. Stanford pulled the offer at the last minute, after most other schools had committed. He was lucky to get a last minute offer from Minnesota.

The incident left a lot of ill will toward Elway and Stanford, but since Stanford seldom recruited away from the West Coast it wasn't a big deal to Elway.
 
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sflbuck said:
While I don't particularly like pulling scholarships this late in the game, I realize it is part of what CFB has become and therefore I can live with it. What I find offensive is Harbaugh does not tell the kids he wants to shed, in no uncertain terms, that he doesn't have a scholarship for them. In this case as in dozens of cases at Stanford (and I would bet several other Michigan de-commits this year) he stops calling them or if he does call them, he tells them that the may want to explore their options or other half assed bull[Mark May], hoping that they take the hint and look elsewhere. Anything to avoid having to tell an 18 year old, "son, your are not coming to Michigan".

If you ever had to make decisions about somebodies job performance or abilities, you would know that it is one of the hardest things you would ever have to do. But you man up and do the right thing.

Harbaugh=Coward
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Bingo. Instead of manning up and doing the right thing, Harbaugh would rather grab a keyboard and use Twitter to take thinly-veiled shots at the high school kid. And, predictably, the idiot Michigan fan base eats those shots up and calls the kid who got screwed a liar. It's pathetic.
 
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BuckeyeNation27 said:
Cue the Harbaugh apologists using this as proof that it wasn't a terrible thing to do to a kid.
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They've been quite outspoken about how big of a help it is most if the time for them to get the visibility of getting a seat warming role in Michigan's class. They are usually referring to satellite camp castoffs, but the principle applies.
 
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