Also coincided with their declining ability to effectively recruit Texas and California.... Strange how being unable to sign upper tier players hurts a program's ability to compete, huh?
I have no stake in the Chancellor. But after watching mismanagement of the Athletic Department for around 20 years... I'm not displeased that she and White are doing things different.
It is amusing how you keep blaming her because Pruitt committed dozens of serious violations. I would suspect that she signed a code of conduct when she was hired that obligated her to an ethical standard. I would say that covering up blatant recruiting violations by the football HC... would be a serious violation of her contract.
Maybe my old fashioned ideals about honesty, integrity, morality, and ethics offend some... but I don't blame the police for catching the criminal.
In this league? If the speed limit is 65 and you arenāt going a minimum of 85 you have no chance. Now, was Pruitt and them doing 110? Maybe, probably. But itās pretty well known that Kirby is doing 110 right now too and I donāt see the UGA chancellor up there publicly admitting to a bunch of L1 violations.
Bama? They pull back from situations where other schools are doing 110 bc they can. They just go onto the next 4-5* on the list. (I give you Leo Lewis as a prime example).
Now was Pruitt incredibly sloppy? Maybe, probably. Weāll find out. But the guy was at Alabama, the school that has a network running at absolute peak efficiency right now. He also worked for Jimbo. You donāt think he understands how business gets done? Hell, when his AD had things rolling the āFulmer Doctrineā was by far the best recruiting operation in the league.
When Slive was running the league, if you started going 110 you got a call from him. Small guy, big big stick. Heād tell you āok Iām hearing this this and this and it stops today.ā or āyou guys are done recruiting that kid.ā Itās why he accomplished the impossible and had no SEC schools on NCAA probation on his watch. He was laughed at when he got the job and stated that that was his mission.
Do you think running a coaching search in a pandemic in late January with the chancellor publicly admitting to several Level I violations may have shallowed the candidate pool a little bit? And then also made it for the AA coach we hired nearly impossible to put together a real SEC caliber staff?
āHonesty, integrity, morality, and ethicsā. In college sports? But more specifically in SEC FOOTBALL!?!?!?!?? Are you insane? Youāre following the wrong sport my friend.
(And I agree, Nebraskaās move to the Big 10 was absolutely devastating to their recruiting efforts. But Iām going to assume that as chancellor, she was involved in that decision)