Comments on: Mistakes Made and Frontcourt Recruiting

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:06:07 +0000

I read in a forum that Robinson’s interest may have significantly dropped after the Taylor verbal.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:19:45 +0000

Not a “mistake” by Herrion, they talk to the reporters EVERY DAY like this, the reporters are supposed to be smart enough to know that talk like this is ALWAYS off the record - it doesn’t need repeated before every conversation. The reporter is a fucking moron for a shitty paper. The trib should be left out of all Pitt news from now on - who reads it anyways? End of story.

By: Jamie H

Jamie H — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:52:21 +0000

If they didn’t have this rule, every coach would be trying to talk as much about every possible recruit as they could, to try and prove they wanted them more than the next school. It would be a contest for “which coach gets the recruits name in the paper the most”. It would get ridiculous

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:40:24 +0000

The rule is to provide a level playing field between big (popular) schools and smaller (less popular) schools. They want to prevent coaches who appear frequently either in print or on TV from singing the praises of an unsigned player, when the coaches at the lesser schools are not afforded the same amount of air time/press. Taylor verbally committed, but he is still free to go anywhere he wants until he signs in November. The punishment is that Pitt has to contact taylor and re-iterate that he is still free to go anywhere he wants. Basically a slap on the wrist, but not something you want re-occurring very often.

By: gopittgo

gopittgo — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:23:46 +0000

Seems to me the rule protects the schools somewhat. If they are not allowed to talk about recruits in the papers, they don’t have to worry about saying nice things about one particular recruit early in the process and maybe not saying anything about another. With the “fickle” nature of recruits these days that could be misconstrued as a lower level of interest from the school.

In this case where the recruit had already verballed though, it is a pretty harmless violation of the rule.

By: Panthoor

Panthoor — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:22:37 +0000

This is going to be Dixon’s best class if Patterson and Taylor stick to their verbals. I am assuming that Dodson is on his way too?. I guess Coach figures if he can get another quality big man, he should. He’s banking that our guards play well, but I think it’s a good gamble.

I would still go through the proper channels in case the NCAA wakes up in a bad mood one morning. I mean, if it’s taking them this long to sort out Cook’s situation, they have to be backed up and obviously cranky.

Herrion should have known better, but I am sure he won’t make this mistake again. The Trib staff committed an error that should have been picked out before anything was printed. No apple crisp for you, Mr. John Grupp.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:42:04 +0000

What is the policy reason behind the rule in the first place? Why limit coaches from talking about recruits? Seems like a pointless regulation if there ever was one…

By: Brother Anthony

Brother Anthony — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:38:07 +0000

The Trib is making mistakes regularly.

Reported that the Steelers hired Russ Grimm as head coach.

Some false alarms with Hossa contract stuff, though they still blame the agent.

Now this. Why are they in such a rush that they do these things? Don’t they get 2 sources for anything?

By: Jamie H

Jamie H — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:19:39 +0000

Major mistake by Grubb - if you cover college recruiting for a living, you HAVE to know the rules. Its not like coaches don’t talk like this all the time - its just understood that you can’t quote them.

By: Wally

Wally — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:01:49 +0000

Minor mistake by Herrion or the trib. Big time ‘09 class shaping up. Any of the guys they have ships out to would be nice. My guess: Robinson or scott if they accept/are offered.