Comments on: The New Recruiting Frontier http://www.pittblather.com/2007/04/27/the-new-recruiting-frontier/ The rantings and commentary on Pitt football and basketball ... and anything else from a distracted mind Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:45:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: geeman2001 http://www.pittblather.com/2007/04/27/the-new-recruiting-frontier/comment-page-1/#comment-20089 geeman2001 Sat, 28 Apr 2007 17:00:49 +0000 http://www.pittblather.com/2007/04/27/the-new-recruiting-frontier/#comment-20089 Read the 2nd page of the Trib's sports section today. It acknowledges what everyone knows ... the powerhouse schools rampantly abuse all the rules and the NCAA allows it to keep collecting the money. Meanwhile they persecute a small school for insignificant accidental violations. Ohio State should be on permanent death penalty status in both football and hoops, yet progress to the national championship games. Read the 2nd page of the Trib’s sports section today. It acknowledges what everyone knows … the powerhouse schools rampantly abuse all the rules and the NCAA allows it to keep collecting the money. Meanwhile they persecute a small school for insignificant accidental violations.

Ohio State should be on permanent death penalty status in both football and hoops, yet progress to the national championship games.

]]> By: Pitt Blather — The Rantings Continue Permalink » Counterpoint: Texting Ban Mistake http://www.pittblather.com/2007/04/27/the-new-recruiting-frontier/comment-page-1/#comment-19996 Pitt Blather — The Rantings Continue Permalink » Counterpoint: Texting Ban Mistake Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:19:42 +0000 http://www.pittblather.com/2007/04/27/the-new-recruiting-frontier/#comment-19996 [...] Dennis took a tepid pro-texting ban, but I disagree. I understand the outright ban on texting, insofar as the whole concept of regulating and controlling it would be extremely difficult and tricky. Limiting it to certain times, only controls when received. Last I checked, you can put text messages in a draft folder and wait to send them. Still, the reaction by the NCAA seems to be an overreaction to new means of communication — simply banning them all. The move comes a week after the NCAA’s management council recommended passage of the ban, which also eliminates communications through other electronic means such as video phones, video conferencing and message boards on social networking Web sites. [...] [...] Dennis took a tepid pro-texting ban, but I disagree. I understand the outright ban on texting, insofar as the whole concept of regulating and controlling it would be extremely difficult and tricky. Limiting it to certain times, only controls when received. Last I checked, you can put text messages in a draft folder and wait to send them. Still, the reaction by the NCAA seems to be an overreaction to new means of communication — simply banning them all. The move comes a week after the NCAA’s management council recommended passage of the ban, which also eliminates communications through other electronic means such as video phones, video conferencing and message boards on social networking Web sites. [...]

]]> By: Rex http://www.pittblather.com/2007/04/27/the-new-recruiting-frontier/comment-page-1/#comment-19995 Rex Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:00:47 +0000 http://www.pittblather.com/2007/04/27/the-new-recruiting-frontier/#comment-19995 the whole recruiting process is a big joke. The big schools violate the rules all the time....thats why they win. Look at The Oklahoma QB who was given a job that he didnt have to show up for but got paid...hmmm sounds like a rules violation to me. Yet nothing happened. How many players out their can barely read yet somehow meet academic standards? the whole recruiting process is a big joke. The big schools violate the rules all the time….thats why they win. Look at The Oklahoma QB who was given a job that he didnt have to show up for but got paid…hmmm sounds like a rules violation to me. Yet nothing happened. How many players out their can barely read yet somehow meet academic standards?

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