Here is his post from the "Look Folks" thread that Yancy started when folks were complaining about OM not recruiting well. Yancy said, "If you can’t figure it out; Ole Miss is in a war with a butter knife while they are battling guys with machine guns."
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Why y'all are wasting time and space posting in code is beyond me. "bringing a butter knife to a gun fight" ... "can't play the recruiting game" ....
This is simple: Until we can get out from under the microscope, we can't pay players like we are used to paying them (just like every other major program in America). Granted, Yancy can't say that. But I can.
I've been chuckling the last few years reading all the posts on this site about the NCAA having no pay-for-play allegations against us other than Leo Lewis. Some naive dipsticks took that as evidence that we don't pay players. This reason there were no pay-for-play allegations is because, like all other programs, we know how to funnel payments to the kids' families without leaving a trail. In other words, we aren't going to get caught. Let there be no question, we pay and so does everybody else. Sometimes we get outbid, sometimes we don't. That's just modern-day, major-program recruiting in a big business that's worth hundreds of millions.
So, in summary, some of you guys are just getting a dose of reality of what probation really means. Yes, the bowl ban sucks. So does the reduction of scholarships. And don't get me started about the loss of revenues, the uncertainty, the "cloud",etc....
But the biggest sanction is that we can't conduct business as usual: we can't pay players and their families. And that, my friends, is literally being forced to fight a gun battle with a butter knife.
And to the naive posters in this thread, what's going on this recruiting cycle does not have one damn thing to do with this staff's recruiting ability. Some of you guys need to toughen up for the next couple of years. This too shall pass.
On page 4 RebAtty posts:
Why y'all are wasting time and space posting in code is beyond me. "bringing a butter knife to a gun fight" ... "can't play the recruiting game" ....
This is simple: Until we can get out from under the microscope, we can't pay players like we are used to paying them (just like every other major program in America). Granted, Yancy can't say that. But I can.
I've been chuckling the last few years reading all the posts on this site about the NCAA having no pay-for-play allegations against us other than Leo Lewis. Some naive dipsticks took that as evidence that we don't pay players. This reason there were no pay-for-play allegations is because, like all other programs, we know how to funnel payments to the kids' families without leaving a trail. In other words, we aren't going to get caught. Let there be no question, we pay and so does everybody else. Sometimes we get outbid, sometimes we don't. That's just modern-day, major-program recruiting in a big business that's worth hundreds of millions.
So, in summary, some of you guys are just getting a dose of reality of what probation really means. Yes, the bowl ban sucks. So does the reduction of scholarships. And don't get me started about the loss of revenues, the uncertainty, the "cloud",etc....
But the biggest sanction is that we can't conduct business as usual: we can't pay players and their families. And that, my friends, is literally being forced to fight a gun battle with a butter knife.
And to the naive posters in this thread, what's going on this recruiting cycle does not have one damn thing to do with this staff's recruiting ability. Some of you guys need to toughen up for the next couple of years. This too shall pass.
