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Oversigning (capacity 25, everyone welcome! maybe)

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SloopyHangOn;1866240; said:
No no no, I obviously meant Tom Berenger's [censored].

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Well, I liked the movie, but I think he needs to let that whole Dog Men thing go now.....
 
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Diego-Bucks;1866098; said:
Hey Smoov,

This is from oversigning.com's site as a disclaimer to their recruiting numbers budget:



The LSU guy who had an issue with the site's numbers and insulted the site because of that easily could have e-mailed the correction. He didn't want to, probably because that requires still acknowledging on a hot-topic website that the Tigers are still projected to over-sign in 2011.

I won't disagree that the auther of the site might have an agenda against the SEC. However, it seems that much of their numbers (while not 100% accurate all the time) indicate a trend that I think most people would find difficult to completely ignore.

I don't read an article on trophy bass living in hydrilla and dismiss it out of hand for one day's worth of bad data collection.
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[sarcasm]Everybody knows that Trophy bass fishing and HS football recruiting are both sciences.[/sarcasm]

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TS10HTW;1866259; said:
[sarcasm]Everybody knows that Trophy bass fishing and HS football recruiting are both sciences.[/sarcasm]

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Speakin' of which, they are opening a Gi-f'n-Normous BassProShop near my office - about five block away on the river near the Convention Center.

Now I won't have to drive for an hour to get to the Cabelas in Gonzalez, Louisiana :banger:
 
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Decent article from USA Today and some quotes from UF Pres. I wonder why he'd be so against it, if it wasn't detrimental to the kids?

Rules fail to curb schools from oversigning football players

UF President Bernie Machen said:
"I don't think the rule we passed is going to solve the problem," Florida President Bernie Machen says. "There are still universities that will oversign and it's going to end up with a student athlete being left out. I think we either have to get the universities to be more serious about it, or the league and the NCAA are going to have to pass more stringent punishments for those who do oversign."
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Florida President J. Bernard Machen weighs in on the topic.

NOTE - he wrote this article.

My opinion - Simply calling all grayshirting as wrong is an oversimplification. Grayshirting is OK as long as the kid is told up front (before NLOID) that he will be a grayshirt until January, and that the schollie is provided in January. But he's right in that revoking an LOI is morally reprehensible.

SI.com

Florida president: grayshirting is morally reprehensible practice

For most young people, the decision on where to attend college is one of life's most important events. It involves analysis and contemplation by the student and a contract of acceptance (and scholarship in the case of student-athletes) by the institution.​

Once this contract is agreed to there is a great joy and it represents the beginning of a new journey for the student. It is a life-changing event.
Imagine the feeling if the student finds out, literally a few months before enrolling, that the institution is backing out of the contract. It is too late in the summer to go back to one's second choice. The student is told he will have to wait until next year. Sorry, but no acceptance, no scholarship. That's it.​

In Division I college football this practice is known as "grayshirting" and, unfortunately, there are universities that sanction this activity. The universities, with full knowledge of what they are doing, extend more athletic scholarships than they have. These schools play roulette with the lives of talented young people. If they run out of scholarships, too bad. The letter-of-intent signed by the university the previous February is voided.
Technically, it's legal to do this. Morally, it is reprehensible.​

Associated with "grayshirting" -- and equally disgusting -- is the nefarious practice of prematurely ending student-athletes' scholarships. Some are just not renewed even though the student-athlete is doing what is asked of him.​

Some students are mysteriously given a "medical exemption" which ends their athletic careers -- and makes another scholarship available for the football coach to hand out.​

There are, to be sure, some legitimate circumstances that result in scholarship non-renewal but regardless of the situation it is the student athlete who is impacted and the university that benefits.​

No university would allow this for the general student body. Imagine the uproar it would cause! What needs to happen in intercollegiate athletics is that universities must accept the moral responsibility to stop and prevent "grayshirting" and its associated actions. The football programs must be accountable and should honor institutional commitments to students. It is, after all, a moral contract.​


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