If that is true and right now it is just an assumption by you then a Chancellor who would turn her own coach in... if shown evidence that Kirby is cheating... will sure turn him in, right? Someone has to step out and have some integrity. I'm not disappointed that it is UT. And plus... I'd take that to recruits. I would tell them what cheating is. I would make sure they knew what it looked like... and then I'd target the talented kids that didn't want to be part of cheating.In this league? If the speed limit is 65 and you aren’t going a minimum of 85 you have no chance. Now, was Pruitt and them doing 110? Maybe, probably. But it’s pretty well known that Kirby is doing 110 right now too and I don’t see the UGA chancellor up there publicly admitting to a bunch of L1 violations.
And yeah. I would have no hesitation at turning in recruits and recruiters who were breaking the rules. I have a lot less problem with the "snitch" than I do those who break the rules and gain unfair advantage in a situation like this.
You can spend the next 10 years trying to sell rationalizations for having no integrity and moral relativism... You are talking to the wrong guy.Now was Pruitt incredibly sloppy? Maybe, probably. We’ll 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 don’t think he understands how business gets done? Hell, when his AD had things rolling the “Fulmer Doctrine” was by far the best recruiting operation in the league.
Play by the rules and report those who aren't.
Yes. Which is why hiring a young up and coming coach and staff makes a lot more sense than throwing good money after bad. There are no guarantees in coaching hires. NONE. So for my money, make the $4 million hire that you can break from if you have to in 3 or 4 years rather than the $7 million hire that could sink your program and be near impossible to get rid of. Some here were panting after Malzahn. He was just fired from Auburn in large measure because he wasn't able to recruit to needs. What are the chances he'd lose for 3 years, worsen the roster, then take $40 million to buyout? I'd say pretty high.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?
Yeah. Those things are important pretty much everywhere. And on the grand scale... rationalizations like the ones you are making are why our county is in the fix it is in. It matters in small things. It matters in big things. It matters in everything in between. ALL of our institutions need to be reinfused with those ideals.“Honesty, integrity, morality, and ethics”. In college sports? But more specifically in SEC FOOTBALL!?!?!?!?? Are you insane? You’re following the wrong sport my friend.
(And I agree, Nebraska’s move to the Big 10 was absolutely devastating to their recruiting efforts. But I’m going to assume that as chancellor, she was involved in that decision)
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