Gary Pinkel's humorous take on satellite camps.
Missouri coach Gary Pinkel had to have his say on satellite camps.
"All of this is a recruiting tool so you can talk to recruits and illegally recruit, that’s all this is. It’s illegal visits, lots of discussions in which you bring parents down and they have home visits in their schools, etc. For all this connection stuff, they’re circumventing the national rule.
Jim Harbaugh, James Franklin and others are not doing anything new here. They're just making it more prominent. But popular or not, Pinkel believes the integrity of the game is being violated.
Among other things, the rule is there in order to keep larger, more successful programs from generating unfair recruiting advantages.
Gary is Drunk again...needs to go to bed...or Toys R Us
I don't know if making fun of a guy for getting a DUI is ever in good taste.
Especially since those in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
glasshouses....rabble rabble
are assholes
Francis. It's "Ligthen Up, Francis".
No. It's "Lighten Up, Francis."
And, if I catch any of youze guys correctin' my emphasis of a Stripes reference ... I'll kill ya.
You just made the list, buddy.
Making fun of a guy for getting cancer is never in good taste. Getting a DUI is subject to ridicule however. And the glass houses thing. If that were so, most internet snark would cease to exist immediately.
That you take execption with the portion of the joke referencing a DUI, but not the Toys R Us bit.
Also, DUI's can be funny. I'm sure clowns have been pulled over drunk before.
Imagine all of them drunk and piling out of the car.
Coming home from UTL 2 I saw a truck of Carnival workers get pulled over for DUI. They were hauling the ferris wheel and damn was I scared of that shit plowing into me.
Please...
I'm sure he hates to be "that guy" but...
SEC coaches talking about the "integrity of the game" is beyond laughable. The bottom line questions is: Do these camps help football recruits (and coaches) reach their full football and academic potential? Clearly the answer is YES.
"The SEC has based their rule on having integrity and doing the right thing." Did he actually say that with a straight face?
He said that....almost gagged when i read the line in the piece.
Is he writing comedy?
No, the SEC based their rule on keeping the SEC coaches out of each other's back yards. It wasn't to protect Nick Saban from James Franklin, it was to protect Nick Saban from Les Miles.
But now thanks to all their whining, the SEC is going to rescind the rule.
So congrats, Nick. Jim Harbaugh will come down there once a year for 4 hours and then go home. But Les and Gus and Butch and Kevin will set up camp in Tuscaloosa and never leave.
Ha. Pinkel.
Might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.
Amazing that all these whiny coaches just like to throw out the illegal recruiting/unfair advantage bullshit. No one in the media ever has asked, that I have seen, whether it benefits the kids. Even if all these kids who attend these camp do not get an offer to a Michigan, there are other coaches from other small schools who they get exposed to and can get offers from them. Why do you want to limit the kids exposure to college coaches - unless you are afriad.
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not sure but I vaguely recall Houston stating after getting grilled about his 35+ man recruiting classes at Ole Miss that everything was fine because the staff expected 5-7 guys to not qualify academically
http://blog.al.com/solomon/2010/02/sec_teams_adjust_to_houston_nu.html
all over the country. It's much easier and more discreet to have the money in a safe on campus location.
Thank goodness we have Gary Pinkel and the SEC to protect "the integrity of the game". I applaud the man for sharing his views, and taking time away from banging coeds while a university employee (and, until he divorced, while married).
Please Gary, tell us more about integrity.
"Him, him, Fuck Him."*
*I don't know how familiar folks are with this, but we (3rd rank of trombone players in the MMB) did sing this hymn for refs and others
I think MGoBlog would explode if Harbaugh just one-up'd everyone next year but having them right in college towns. My brain would overload if he had a camp in Auburn
The national rule that only the SEC has? Get your facts straight Pinkel. All that these satellite camps have really shown is just how stupid and petty the SEC really is. I mean, Harbaugh had camps all over the country, but the only people bitching about it is the SEC because they're the only one handicapped by their own moronic rule. That 50 mile rule is effectively eliminating recruiting competition between the SEC teams and limiting the options of the kids in those areas. That's pretty much Comcast/Time Warner's business model. That's how bad you are SEC. You're as bad as comcast.
Overruled.
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"The SEC has based their rule on having integrity and doing the right thing."
See, Pinkel muffed this right in the first sentence then it went downhill from there. Yet again, we have an example of someone in the SEC who it seems cannot really figure out why they don't like this except that it potentially hurts them from a talent standpoint. The rule was implemented in part to mitigate midnight raids of other backyards, if I am not mistaken, and here is Pinkel speaking as if it was actually an NCAA-wide rule.
I can't wait for Pinkel to expound on meatier topics like asparagus or high-milage synthetic oils and which one is right for your car.
The after-effects of asparagus consumption will forever come to mind.
Brandon had the common sense not to hire Ferentz as coach when old Mary Sue wanted him to.
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