The Recruiting Hat Dance

[dixiehack]

Aside from the obvious stupidity of this idea, what happens when Podunk High has one ceremony for the 2-3 kids who are signing, all with different teams?

 

[Starman]

Aside from the obvious stupidity of this idea, what happens when Podunk High has one ceremony for the 2-3 kids who are signing, all with different teams?

They each wear the logo of the school they are signing with. No other logo paraphernalia in the room.

 

[da man]

I would say this is the most ridiculous idea Starman has ever come up with, but I've been around here for awhile so I know better.

It's pretty ridiculous, though.

 

[Batman]

The NCAA has a zillion ****ing rules about everything. Here's one they should adopt right now:

"At any press conference or other media event of any type conducted by a student-athlete to announce his/her choice of institution, the ONLY logo/insignia of any NCAA institution which may appear shall be the institution chosen by the student-athlete. If any article of clothing, paraphernalia, artwork or any other representation of ANY OTHER NCAA institution appears in public at any such announcement event, the student-athlete shall be ineligible for 50 percent of the scheduled contests, plus one, in the succeeding season of competition. It is the responsibility of the student-athlete to ensure, by any means necessary, nobody attending any such announcement event violates this rule."

So let's say a kid in Louisiana plans to sign with Alabama, and someone in the crowd is wearing an LSU T-shirt. By the letter of your law, the recruit ought to get dinged for that?
Or, it's up to the recruit to escort that person out of the building "by any means necessary" -- awfully vague wording for what's likely to be a 17- or 18-year-old with a large ego, sense of entitlement, and an entourage that's eager to enforce his will and unlikely to back down when the person in the audience says "no."

It's intentionally vague.

What would happen would be the recruit, not wanting his eligibility for half his freshman season to be pissed out the window because some dumb **** in the audience decided to wear some other school's T-shirt in order to conduct a ****-grabbing stage show, would direct his "entourage" that any such persons were to be removed face first from the press conference to the asphalt parking lot outside.

Which is the exact idea. If recruits know, "if anybody at my press conference makes a public show of rubbing **** in the faces of other schools, my eligibility gets ****ed up," they will put a very forceful stop to it. Problem Solved.

Sounds like a riot waiting to happen.
And the guy in the LSU shirt in my example wasn't someone engaging in "crotch-grabbing pageantry." He's someone who showed up to school, or the restaurant, or the ceremony, or wherever, who happens to be wearing the colors of a local team that's not the one the guy is signing with. You're seriously saying he ought to be thrown out of the place and possibly have the **** beaten out of him for it?

 

[Starman]

The diva-dramaqueens running the press conference get to decide who gets to stay wearing what kind of shirts.

They're hot**** hotshot high school jocks. They're used to ordering people around.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

The NCAA has a zillion ****ing rules about everything. Here's one they should adopt right now:

"At any press conference or other media event of any type conducted by a student-athlete to announce his/her choice of institution, the ONLY logo/insignia of any NCAA institution which may appear shall be the institution chosen by the student-athlete. If any article of clothing, paraphernalia, artwork or any other representation of ANY OTHER NCAA institution appears in public at any such announcement event, the student-athlete shall be ineligible for 50 percent of the scheduled contests, plus one, in the succeeding season of competition. It is the responsibility of the student-athlete to ensure, by any means necessary, nobody attending any such announcement event violates this rule."

So let's say a kid in Louisiana plans to sign with Alabama, and someone in the crowd is wearing an LSU T-shirt. By the letter of your law, the recruit ought to get dinged for that?
Or, it's up to the recruit to escort that person out of the building "by any means necessary" -- awfully vague wording for what's likely to be a 17- or 18-year-old with a large ego, sense of entitlement, and an entourage that's eager to enforce his will and unlikely to back down when the person in the audience says "no."

It's intentionally vague.

What would happen would be the recruit, not wanting his eligibility for half his freshman season to be pissed out the window because some dumb **** in the audience decided to wear some other school's T-shirt in order to conduct a ****-grabbing stage show, would direct his "entourage" that any such persons were to be removed face first from the press conference to the asphalt parking lot outside.

Which is the exact idea. If recruits know, "if anybody at my press conference makes a public show of rubbing **** in the faces of other schools, my eligibility gets ****ed up," they will put a very forceful stop to it. Problem Solved.

Sounds like a riot waiting to happen.
And the guy in the LSU shirt in my example wasn't someone engaging in "crotch-grabbing pageantry." He's someone who showed up to school, or the restaurant, or the ceremony, or wherever, who happens to be wearing the colors of a local team that's not the one the guy is signing with. You're seriously saying he ought to be thrown out of the place and possibly have the **** beaten out of him for it?

Sees nothing wrong with it

 

[Jake_Taylor]

Institute Starman's rule and instead of hats you are going to have kids walking into the press conference bulldog puppy and a gamecock pheasant under each arm, only to hand them both off and pull a baby alligator out from under the table.

 

[Versatile]

Institute Starman's rule and instead of hats you are going to have kids walking into the press conference bulldog puppy and a gamecock pheasant under each arm, only to hand them both off and pull a baby alligator out from under the table.

This would be incredible.

 

[ColdCat]

The NCAA has a zillion ****ing rules about everything. Here's one they should adopt right now:

"At any press conference or other media event of any type conducted by a student-athlete to announce his/her choice of institution, the ONLY logo/insignia of any NCAA institution which may appear shall be the institution chosen by the student-athlete. If any article of clothing, paraphernalia, artwork or any other representation of ANY OTHER NCAA institution appears in public at any such announcement event, the student-athlete shall be ineligible for 50 percent of the scheduled contests, plus one, in the succeeding season of competition. It is the responsibility of the student-athlete to ensure, by any means necessary, nobody attending any such announcement event violates this rule."

So let's say a kid in Louisiana plans to sign with Alabama, and someone in the crowd is wearing an LSU T-shirt. By the letter of your law, the recruit ought to get dinged for that?
Or, it's up to the recruit to escort that person out of the building "by any means necessary" -- awfully vague wording for what's likely to be a 17- or 18-year-old with a large ego, sense of entitlement, and an entourage that's eager to enforce his will and unlikely to back down when the person in the audience says "no."

It's intentionally vague.

What would happen would be the recruit, not wanting his eligibility for half his freshman season to be pissed out the window because some dumb **** in the audience decided to wear some other school's T-shirt in order to conduct a ****-grabbing stage show, would direct his "entourage" that any such persons were to be removed face first from the press conference to the asphalt parking lot outside.

Which is the exact idea. If recruits know, "if anybody at my press conference makes a public show of rubbing **** in the faces of other schools, my eligibility gets ****ed up," they will put a very forceful stop to it. Problem Solved.

Sounds like a riot waiting to happen.
And the guy in the LSU shirt in my example wasn't someone engaging in "crotch-grabbing pageantry." He's someone who showed up to school, or the restaurant, or the ceremony, or wherever, who happens to be wearing the colors of a local team that's not the one the guy is signing with. You're seriously saying he ought to be thrown out of the place and possibly have the **** beaten out of him for it?

or. . . .as I have seen in a signing presser I covered once. . . kid signing with tOSU, presser is in a classroom and on the back wall is a Michigan banner. they happened to be in a classroom of a teacher who graduated from UM. Is that enough to scuttle half the kids freshman year?

Also I'm sure we've all seen high school teams with logos that are blatant ripoffs of a college logo. Who gets to explain to the NCAA that the 'B' stood for the Bumble**** High Bears, not Baylor.

 

[hondo]

I wanna find the first high school kid who held a press conference for this bull**** and kick him in the ****. Now every moron with more than one offer feels the need to call all the local media to inform them he is attending Slap U. Narcissistic bull**** for a generation which already screams "Look at me!" more than any other prior.

I'm waiting for a kid to reveal his choice of college by dropping his pants to reveal boxers with that school's logo.
Of course you can see half their boxers anyway.

 

[Versatile]

Damn kids with their boxer shorts hanging out the backs of their pants.

 

[YGBFKM]

The tattoo reveal would be better.

 

[Rusty Shackleford]

Institute Starman's rule and instead of hats you are going to have kids walking into the press conference bulldog puppy and a gamecock pheasant under each arm, only to hand them both off and pull a baby alligator out from under the table.

This would be incredible.

What would Alabama be, a used tampon?

 

[Versatile]

 

[Starman]

Players can drop their shorts to reveal temporary tattoos of the 'runners-up' in the recruiting race on each of their ass cheeks.

 

[Chef2]

Nice erephant.

 

[Songbird]

Lane Kiffin just can't stop tripping over his own ****.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-dr-saturday/recruit-decommits-usc-lane-kiffin-pulls-scholarship-three-165651928--ncaaf.html

 

[Starman]

Lane Kiffin just can't stop tripping over his own ****.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-dr-saturday/recruit-decommits-usc-lane-kiffin-pulls-scholarship-three-165651928--ncaaf.html

This kid ought to commit to UCLA, call a press conference which consists of him taking a **** and wiping his ass with this: