Recruiting Forum Football Talk [RIP 9.3.2019]

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Ron Swanson said:
Tee Martin, Brian Niedermeyer, Derrick Ansley and Jeremy Pruitt on the same staff? My goodness the recruiting at Tennessee is going to be like the good old days around here.

Phil Fulmer and JP are NOT FN AROUND. Almost brings a tear to my eye.
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Yes.
And going forward, anytime we get a staff opening, I hope we steal the best recruiter on one of our main rivals staffs.
 
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Geaux_Vols said:
Sure it does, because sports attracts some ****** people. And if it was some rando hillybilly, i'm sure nothing would have been done about it. but this was a UGA baseball player, a fellow student athlete. I think there's probably more to it, but THAT'S the public-facing part of it, the tip of the iceberg, and its awful. why do you care if he plays immediately or not, anyway?
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I guess the problem I have with it is that is not the reason he left. He was leaving anyway. Plus I don't like this whole trend of players not having to sit a year to discourage what I fear will be chaos. But maybe it will be fun to have a completely new team every year. And if it returns college football back to where there were more than 6 teams that have a chance to go to the playoffs that could be a good thing.
 
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ChismsHeadband said:
<PLAYER 3 HAS ENTERED THE GAME>

Gotta say one person out of a stadium of 85k being racist doesn't constitute an environment *fostered by the university* that is racially hostile. That one person being a UGA baseball player doesn't affect that *fostered by the university* part a significant amount, but it does blip the radar ever so slightly.

I don't think we can say UGA is a racist environment because it's one out of however many there. If anything, they did the right thing by booting that racist baseball player as soon as the story got out.

That said, if Fields wasn't comfortable there, he wasn't comfortable. "Playing the race card" leads down that same line of thinking that black people are lazy and don't want to work or wait for whatever the goal is, which is a dangerous and disingenuous slope to play on. Sometimes it can be true. Many times there's a legitimate gripe.

This case seems pretty gray to me. The following is how I see it, pure conjecture, who knows.

Fields fell out of love with UGA after the baseball player incident. Make what you will about his playing time, you could tell through his "I handed the ball off good as f---" comment that he wanted to play more. Worth transferring out over before the incident? Only Fields knows. But I don't think it's unreasonable for Fields to hear someone call him the N-word and say "F--- this, I'm out."

Now. The dude is an elite athlete. He's biding his time before he gets draft eligible and then he's going to make some serious dollars. Ohio State has a QB vacuum this year with Haskins and Martell leaving. With as inconsistent, disorganized, and unfocused as the NCAA is, why would you not even try to get that waiver? Are we going to fault him for not wasting more time riding the pine before ultimately showing out and getting paid?

Saying he "played the race card" does put that fault on the player, which I'll argue the blame would be better going to the NCAA due to how much of a joke that their governance is.

I'm not getting heated about this. Maybe Geaux and Bruin can dial it down a little and know that things like this aren't always 0 or 100.
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The good thing about the whole situation. Is that the awareness that Fields had about the situation allowed him to immediately leave UGA as soon as the environment was pointed out to him. He didn’t stick around to finish the season because it was so toxic there. A bunch of other guys left too because of the oppression...
 
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SLICKYINC said:
The good thing about the whole situation. Is that the awareness that Fields had about the situation allowed him to immediately leave UGA as soon as the environment was pointed out to him. He didn’t stick around to finish the season because it was so toxic there. A bunch of other guys left too because of the oppression...
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Lol
 
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