Charlie Weis = hypocrite?

Can't schools reneg after a kid gives a verbal? How's that any different then one some of these players are doing?

 

that's all we need to hate someone ... don't you know? It's all about us.

 

And if he's overweight, all the better. :

 

We need the early signing period. It'd resolve quite a few of these problems, really. And it would kill the unseemly recruiting services bit by bit.

 

Yeah, but "oral commitment" just sounds like it involves a blowjob.

 

It usually does.

Too easy.

 

Just for the record, the letter of intent has a portion to remind the students they are signing to attend the college, not to play for a particular coach. So if the coach bolts, as often happens, the kid is screwed. Then again, maybe your college choice shouldn't come down to whether the head coach is a neat guy so I want to go to school there.

 

Yeah, I know about that. It's a quaint little clause, built in as if it somehow continues the illusion that this is about education, while all the while schools rake in billions.

 

On second thought, you guys are right. There is hypcricy to this. Crusader Charlie wants to clean up college football and teach kids what a "commitment" means - but he has no problem accepting kids with open arms who didn't know what a commitment meant when that commitment was made to Iowa or South Carolina or Lousiville.

 

If you are going to hold kids to verbals, then coaches need to play by the same rules and stay away once they offer a commitment. Period.
If that's not acceptable, then leave the system the way it is..

 

Other sports have the early signing period and all it does is move the problems up several months.

 

For those who don't know, there is a book out there called Year of the Dog that details some of Weis' shady recruiting tactics. That part of it got lost in all the Mitch Mustain drama, but Weis has no place to talk about recruiting ethics.