"Blue-shirting"

#26
#26
The staff says they have a plan. They haven't shared that plan with me. So I can't lay it out there. This blueshirt thing is something they have been looking at for a good while apparently.
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-VQ





Guess they are looking to take more than 30 after all.
 
#27
#27
bleedingTNorange said:
-VQ





Guess they are looking to take more than 30 after all.
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If they pull this off its a hell of a planning job by the staff. One HUGE great plan and they should be applauded immensely for it.

The one part of the rule that really worries me if the "cant arrange a phone call".

IMO schools are going to ask the NCAA to look closely at this and we better have whipped all the evidence clean if they do
 
#28
#28
It's good to hear some confirmation from the guys at VQ. It sounds like there may be some flame behind the smoke. My guess is we'll find out more once we get a final number on our EEs.
 
#29
#29
BruinVol said:
If they pull this off its a hell of a planning job by the staff. One HUGE great plan and they should be applauded immensely for it.

The one part of the rule that really worries me if the "cant arrange a phone call".

IMO schools are going to ask the NCAA to look closely at this and we better have whipped all the evidence clean if they do
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It depends on the definition of arranging a phone call. Say they informed the kid early on that they were trying to use this loophole to get a big class in and told the kid to call them often through the process but that the coaches would be very limited on the number of times they could contact the recruit. You're not arranging a specific phone call. It's more along the lines of giving a kid the ground rules in advance, and with the right recruit that's comfortable with the process it's win win.

I kind of doubt the rule would dictate the you have to keep a kid in the dark about what's going on if you are planning to blueshirt them.
 
#30
#30
jjay2518 said:
It depends on the definition of arranging a phone call. Say they informed the kid early on that they were trying to use this loophole to get a big class in and told the kid to call them often through the process but that the coaches would be very limited on the number of times they could contact the recruit. You're not arranging a specific phone call. It's more along the lines of giving a kid the ground rules in advance, and with the right recruit that's comfortable with the process it's win win.

I kind of doubt the rule would dictate the you have to keep a kid in the dark about what's going on if you are planning to blueshirt them.
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I agree this would have been discussed early on.

The arranged phone call thing is very much open to interpretation. I know some schools view asking a hs to have a kid call is arranging a call while others let that slide as being ok. That email, and twitter all is what I am speaking of when I say I worry about that
 
#31
#31
When BuTch is done with recruiting this year they may have to change the term "Blue Shirting" to "Orange Shirting"!!
 
#32
#32
How does the NCAA track this sort of thing? As far as phone calls, etc?

Usually loopholes like this one get closed when people start to really take advantage of them so I would exploit this for everything I could and with as many prospects as we are still actively recruiting it looks like this could be the case.
 
#33
#33
DaddyChad said:
How does the NCAA track this sort of thing? As far as phone calls, etc?

Usually loopholes like this one get closed when people start to really take advantage of them so I would exploit this for everything I could and with as many prospects as we are still actively recruiting it looks like this could be the case.
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All phone calls at tenn are public record and turned into compliance each year
 
#34
#34
If I'm thinking about this blue shirting stuff correctly, then it doesn't actually hurt our 2015 class size at all. It will be a small class anyhow based on the number we can sign. The only thing it does is make our 85 number tighter. Attrition will have to occur, no doubt.
 
#35
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dschult2 said:
If I'm thinking about this blue shirting stuff correctly, then it doesn't actually hurt our 2015 class size at all. It will be a small class anyhow based on the number we can sign. The only thing it does is make our 85 number tighter. Attrition will have to occur, no doubt.
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Yes they would count toward the 25 limit of the 2015 class
 
#39
#39
There has been much speculation that Butch may employ a practice known as "blue shirting" to push the total number of 2014 signees as high as, perhaps, thirty-five. Here is the link to an article which describes the concept more thoroughly than any previous explanation that I have seen: Pre-Snap Read: A College Football Blog.
 
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