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Show me a message board that doesn't criticize a kid for quitting the team after 10 games. This is all nonsense!! The guy quit the team!
So end the hypocrisy. If it is ok for us to go bat$h!t crazy over this, let go of the air of superiority we showed when the BADger boards went to town on Blue. Either it is ok or it isn't.
Every single major recruit in the country has someone checking the message boards of their prospective schools. Whether they do it themselves, or their parents/relatives, friends, coaches, teachers...someone is reading the boards to try to gauge the fanbase of the school. They want to see how we talk about our players, how we talk about our coaches, how we talk about recruits. They want to see whether players get ripped after bad games, they want to see how much support players get after good games. You can pretty much guarantee that someone close to a recruit is logging into these sites every day to see what we say and how we say it.Whether or not something like a message board should factor into a kid's college decision is irrelevant, the fact of the matter is it does.In the past year alone MU has been involved in the recruitment of at least three if not more players that either committed to a school or chose not to commit to a school either in part or wholly because of comments on a message board.You can complain about it all you want or deny it all you want but to do so is to be ignorant. The reality is that what is said on message boards has an effect on the program, whether you want it to or not.
In fact, one of the top OL in the country committed to my school and one of the things he mentioned was what he and his dad read the message boards to see how the fans reacted after games. Another kid decommitted from a rival because of what his coach read on a message board about the kid.
Links?
The specific players i'm referencing in order are:1) Austin Long (2009) - his dad is actually a head coach in TN and is now a semi-regular poster on ugasports.com. His other son is a big time OL prospect.2) Jawuan James decommitted from Bama because of "questions" arising from message board speculation about potential Bama recruiting infractions.3) Jakar Hamilton (2010), Alex Ogeltree (2010), Branden Smith (2009) all have commented they read the message boards as recruits. This is not even mentioning the current players who twitter reactions to specific posters!Go do your research... it'll cost you about $120 per site (rivals - ugasports.com & scout - dawgpost.com) to get access to the premium content.
Why would I do your research, much less pay to do your research. You stated as fact that a major recruit de-committed because of something he read on a message board. If this were true, surely it would have been written about in a real publication, don't you think?Here's such a story about James' de-commitment and, lo and behold, not a single word from the young man about message boards.http://blogs.ajc.com/recruiting/2009/09/29/ex-bama-commit-james-opens-up-about-opening-up-recruitment/?cxntfid=blogs_recruitingAnd, in another interview with his high school coach, they cite a well-publicized text-book issue at Bama as the reason for his de-commitment. One hardly would have had to visit a message board to learn about that.http://blogs.ajc.com/recruiting/2009/09/14/bamas-ncaa-troubles-a-concern-for-north-gwinnetts-james/ I do find it a bit ironic, though, that the kid who claims he was so worried about probation at Alabama ended up committing to Tennessee.
Recruits select schools based on a number of more pertinent concerns to them rather than whether the posting fanbase is bunch of goofs.
Maybe he thought TENN's "hostesses" >>>>> Alabama's "hostesses"
I don't care if recruits read this message board. How's that?
This is an excellent point. Perhaps our inability to sign a purpose built, combat reday big man has something to do with our Hostess Squad. Where do we stand vis-a-vios other Big East Hostess Units? Do we have a Hostess Gap with Georgetown or Syracuse? In fact, where is the link on the MU website to our Hostess Team?
Seriously....that's the best analogy you could come up with?I do think many of us here are acting with a clear lack of perspective with the whole Maymon situation. I have no problem questioning why he is leaving and the apparent foolishness of his father, but our over the top insults about his grades and his game, and culminating with the posting of court records shows how bad we can be.And yeah, I can see how this could turn off not only Vander Blue but other potential recruits as well.
This is an excellent point. Perhaps our inability to sign a purpose built, combat ready big man has something to do with our Hostess Squad. Where do we stand vis-a-vis other Big East Hostess Units? Do we have a Hostess Gap with Georgetown or Syracuse? In fact, where is the link on the MU website to our Hostess Team?
The point of the analogy was to be rediculous, just as the thought Blue will decommit based on OUR posts. He may ask for release from scholarship because his friend left and he is now skeptical but it won't be because of what's posted on this board. Let's see what Buzz says today. Maybe we will get the story.
Let's see what Buzz says today. Maybe we will get the story.
Not sure about the rest of the big east but here's two things to love... bruce pearl and boobies aka UT hostesses!