🏈 Recruiting PSU players?

I saw a comment Friday from a coach who had said he'd already started looking at PSU players and their film to determine who they'd like to offer.

#feedingfrenzy

I realize why, but something about other schools sitting back waiting to see who they can poach just doesn't sit well with me.
 
TerryP said:
I saw a comment Friday from a coach who had said he'd already started looking at PSU players and their film to determine who they'd like to offer.

#feedingfrenzy

I realize why, but something about other schools sitting back waiting to see who they can poach just doesn't sit well with me.
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I see it as offering yet more victims a way out. One does not have to be happy for the circumstances that generated the transfers, but one can help the young men minimize the impact of something that they had no part in.

If Bonny and Clyde had a child, what should we think of a family that offers a home to that child as "Mom and Dad" are busy answering for their crimes?
 
LBS said:
I see it as offering yet more victims a way out. One does not have to be happy for the circumstances that generated the transfers, but one can help the young men minimize the impact of something that they had no part in.

If Bonny and Clyde had a child, what should we think of a family that offers a home to that child as "Mom and Dad" are busy answering for their crimes?
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I have a very hard time believing any coach who is already studying players is thinking "this is a way to help someone out." It's about seeing a chance to pull in an experience player for the coaches benefit. Looting is possibly an apt description.
 
[h=2]Penn State football student-athletes allowed easier transfers[/h] The NCAA understands that the Penn State sanctions announced today will impact both current and incoming football student-athletes. As a result, the NCAA will provide appropriate and immediate relief of some NCAA rules for all eligible football student-athletes.

If football student-athletes elect to consider transferring from Penn State, several provisions of NCAA legislation will be set aside to allow those students both a simpler transfer process and the opportunity to participate immediately wherever they choose to go:



  • Football student-athletes who transfer will not have to sit out a year of competition. Any incoming or currently enrolled football student-athlete will be immediately eligible upon transfer or initial enrollment at an NCAA institution, provided they are admitted and otherwise eligible per NCAA regulations.
  • Penn State will release any incoming student-athletes from the National Letter of Intent.
  • Permission-to-contact rules will be suspended. Penn State cannot restrict in any way a student-athlete from pursuing a possible transfer. Student-athletes must simply inform Penn State of their interest in discussing transfer options with other schools. Interested schools also must inform Penn State of their intention to open discussions with the student-athlete.
  • Official and unofficial visit rules will be loosened. Any incoming or currently enrolled football student-athletes interested in taking an official or unofficial visit will be permitted to do so during the 2012-13 academic year, no matter how many visits they took during their recruitment. Institutions seeking to provide an official visit to a student who already visited the school as many times as NCAA legislation allows can seek relief from the NCAA on a case-by-case basis.

Additionally, the NCAA is considering waiving scholarship limits for programs to which these football student-athletes transfer, provided they reduce proportionately in the next year. For example, the limit is 25 new scholarships per year to a total of 85 scholarships. If the limits are waived in 2012-13 to accommodate one Penn State student-athlete who wishes to transfer to a particular school already at the limits, in 2013-14 the school will be limited to 24 new scholarships and 84 total scholarships.


The NCAA acknowledges that a large number of transfers away from Penn State could have a negative impact on the team's Academic Progress Rate. This impact will be addressed in the future as part of an overall academic review of the program.



Underlined emphasis added.

FWIW, I don't recall at a cursory glance any kids that were "on our radar" when we were recruiting.
 
TerryP said:
I have a very hard time believing any coach who is already studying players is thinking "this is a way to help someone out." It's about seeing a chance to pull in an experience player for the coaches benefit. Looting is possibly an apt description.
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This is much like a vulture picking the meat off of the bone after the kill has been made. I don't know IF BAMA would even bother with current players, but recruits for this current recruiting cycle would be different.
 
uagrad93 said:
This is much like a vulture picking the meat off of the bone after the kill has been made. I don't know IF BAMA would even bother with current players, but recruits for this current recruiting cycle would be different.
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There are only two out of their commits I see as kids we've offered that we would still be interested in recruiting; DE and OT. Some good athletes there, but in positions we're good in and some that just don't fit our system.
 
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Exactly!! So many of their kids strictly don't fit our style or system. Good athletes in their own rights!! Just not BAMA players. I see alot of their players staying on the Eastern seaboard. I see some ACC and Big East schools taking some of these kids. I'd like to get the OT and DE commit. Those two are gonna be some good ones! Neither USC or Ohio State should be allowed to get "rich" while they are on probation. Going to be interesting IF NCAA allows kids to go to either school.
 
Brian Gaia.

OL - 6'5" 285lbs. Signed LOI.

Walsh is saying there's been contact, but it's unsure who instigated it...his high school coach or our staff. We didn't offer him last year.
 
TerryP said:
I have a very hard time believing any coach who is already studying players is thinking "this is a way to help someone out." It's about seeing a chance to pull in an experience player for the coaches benefit. Looting is possibly an apt description.
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uagrad93 said:
This is much like a vulture picking the meat off of the bone after the kill has been made. I don't know IF BAMA would even bother with current players, but recruits for this current recruiting cycle would be different.
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the most ludicrous statements i've read on this board in quite a while.

first of all, voluntary exchanges are never a zero-sum game. consensual trade benefits all members involved, otherwise they wouldn't engage in it.

secondly, you'd have a hell of a time trying to convince Saban that his program only benefited him and the university and not his players. any other confident coach would feel the same way.

thirdly, who are you guys to know what is better for the PSU players? if they believe transferring to another school is in their best interests, so be it. if anyone is looting the current PSU players, it's the NCAA who insanely thinks justice is punishing the innocent for the crimes of the guilty.
 

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