Does anyone have any insight into
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I'm betting it would be better for it to stay under wraps. Seems like it would cause quite the firestorm.
I don't know if this was in chat or not but Steve posted a reply to someone over the handling of Sander's recruitment. How he was being seriously influenced by a booster of UM....the same guy who influenced J. Atterbury and Pat Patterson. I personally haven't read too many things that Steve has posted on that you could tell he was pissed about.
I have already forgotten, but did Pat commit to us too and then switch?
I have already forgotten, but did Pat commit to us too and then switch?
Terry Levy's uncle tries to influence recruits in that part of the state to go to Ole Miss. Terry Levy was an Ole Miss commit a few years ago that couldn't get into school and ended up at Holmes. He is from Kosciuosko.
Now stepping up to the plate for the pissing contest- RebelBruiser.
Now stepping up to the plate for the pissing contest- RebelBruiser.
alot of **** that has been going on has come to light recently and people from the bottom to the top are pissed about it. And it isn't just involving Sanders.
Big WR from Hoover, He was suppose to visit and was thought to be interested in State but now he is saying he might not visit at all and was really pleased with Arkansas. Sanders has shut the talk down. Apparently everyone has been getting in his ear and he is getting tired of talking about it.
....and then he committed to OM because he was bought. Bruiser will tell you as much. And it's happening with Sanders as well, except Sanders had never committed to State.
But with Clayton at Mississippi Gulf Coast I don't see any connections to the Sanders kid... Just a lot of fishy stuff with the two kids from KO and the recruitment of Pat Patterson... Like Daddy Patterson's new truck... Straight cash homie.
DowntownDawg said:
Now, I don't know anything about what actually goes down or has gone down in that area, but I did say all along that I felt like Patterson's recruitment had that 'for sale' feel to it, and we did win out.
Of course, we've had a lot of those battles that we lost too, including some to MSU. I'm not naive enough to think my school plays the game different from anyone else. I don't know about Sanders, but I'll bet his recruitment isn't a whole lot different than Patterson's if they both are shady. Of course, personally I'd rather see us buying D-linemen than WRs if that's what is going on, but that's just me.
All that said, for the sake of enjoyment of the game, I try to ignore that side of things as much as possible.
ETA: This is typically the time of year when most of these type of rumors start coming out. It's either because it's the time when bidding really gets heavy, or it's just because people get frustrated when they are losing out on a recruit, so they start throwing out allegations. You can bet that whichever side wins the Carlos Thompson battle, the other will be throwing out allegations, no matter how unfounded. That's because a lot of our fans, including our recruiting gurus, get way too caught up in the idea that there is no way they'd lose a 50/50 recruiting battle to the other school unless something fishy went on.
Personally, I wish our fans would focus more energy on bringing down Bama, Auburn, and LSU than each other, because those are the teams holding us back, not each other.
.....Sanders feels like Patterson's did. I do think that it all starts at the top of the conference with Saban, and it trickles down. Auburn is going gangbusters this year, so if you want to compete with Auburn for a player, you are in a big time bidding war. When one team does it, everybody has to do it to compete.
alot of **** that goes on behind the scenes with the rebel recruiting machine, from the money men to the propoganda spreading "journalists". Apparently alot of details were let out of the bag and the State folks were shocked and got pissed.
Yeah, by our own damn signees. This wouldn't be an issue if Jameon Lewis, Robert Johsnon, and Jay Hughes didn't post that **** on facebook.
DirtyLopez said:
Of course.....Ole Miss cheats, but not State, right? Are you serious? Everyone in the conference cheats, including Vandy. If you think differently, you are an idiot.
Don't get mad when you get outbid on a player. It happens. I have no idea who cheated on Sanders, Patterson, Eulls, or anyone else for that matter. You want to believe Ole Miss cheats, but State didn't in the Elliott saga? Why? Whats different? Is it because Rosebowl said so?
Seriously.....some of you need to get a clue. ALL SEC schools cheat. All Big 12 schools cheat. All Big 10 schools cheat......if you are in a major conference, and you arent paying some guys, you won't win. Period. Hell, the big boy on the block, USC, got caught in a major pay-for-play scandal, but you don't think State does?
if they have a guy who's an athlete who's grades are just a smidge below their standards, I bet exceptions are made.
I even think the service academies cheat. If you are a 6-5 260 pound applicant, and your application isn't that different than a 5-8 170 pound applicant, I bet you get the nudge if needed.
I even think the service academies cheat. If you are a 6-5 260 pound applicant, and your application isn't that different than a 5-8 170 pound applicant, I bet you get the nudge if needed.
jackstefano said:
I could tell you a story I know about a kid that signed with Vandy about 7-8 years ago out of Canton, but you wouldn't believe it. It's that absurd. Plus, I can tell you with 100% certainly that Tim Corbin cheats. 100% certainty. Different sport, but cheating, regardless.
The SEC cheats, no one will argue that I don't believe. But as in all things in life some do it better than others for whatever reasons; money, connections, tradition. Now the part that all of the participants in this discussion should know very well is that once you start winning, and I don't mean beating each other but Bama, LSU, Auburn and Tn, the LAW will start snooping and you will be knocked back down to no threat status. It's happened before and you guys should be familiar with this small passion play. But when it comes, you will not be allowed to play 14 games in your probation period. Don't forget one in Hawaii in December either. Sucks doesn't it.
A good friend from law school played at Vandy as a walk-on, and he would tell stories about boosters paying players.
no one in the SEC cares if State and OM try to out cheat each other for a MS kid, but if one of us was to go into AL, LA, or GA and take a stud that they wanted badly, **** would hit the fan.
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