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Originally Posted by gainesvol82  "Negative recruiting" is expected and is not against the rules. It is a competition and competitions usually end up focusing on the negative. I would be disappointed to hear that Pearl was making false accusations about rival coaches, though. I'm not saying Pearl is a saint but he has a clean record with the NCAA and even though his allegations weren't proven to be true, it's pretty obvious that something was going on. People don't like a tattle tale but I would have done the same thing in his shoes. You don't have to like it but calling him unethical because of it is ridiculous and untrue. |
In the example I cited above, folks were claiming that outright falsehoods were told. So it was more than "just pointing out problems" with the other program(s).