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JCHILLTOPPERS

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It's a dirty business, where there exist cloudy rules, murky deadlines, and have gotten to a place where teenage kids are bludgeoned...
 
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johnfromthebrook

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1000% agreed.

I read this story earlier and felt the same way. Unreal.

How does this guy have a job?

I was thinking how wonderful it would be if all the high school coaches across the country could join the SC High School coach and immediately bar Petrino or other coach from their HS campuses who pulls this stunt on a high school kid.

People like Petrino DO NOT belong on HS campuses influencing kids.

I know its pretty much fantasyland thinking that coaches would all band together, but their should be some kind of penalty towards the university who does this to a kid. Maybe after a certain point in time if a University pulls an offer the University gets a substantial fine that it has to pay the player. Say $50,000 if an offer is pulled at the last minute like this. It may or may not seem drastic financially but there really is no reason the Louisville shouldnt have know well before this that they didnt have a need for the kid.

This post was edited on 2/10 6:34 PM by johnfromthebrook
 
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Jiggs

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/10 4:37 PM by ramblinman
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How does this guy have a job? Because he is the king of BS and he will continue to pull this crap for the rest of his career and get away with it. If his career as a coach would have been affected by his past hi jinks, he would have been out of coaching several years ago.
As long as he has college scholarships to give away and has winning teams all will be forgiven, and two weeks from now this may or may not be forgotten, but to the kids whose homes he shows up at recruiting them to play for Louisville or whatever college he is coaching at, it will be a long forgotten memory. He knows that and the people who hired him know it.

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LakeCtyNewt

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Unfortunately this happens WAY too often. This is one of the faults with verbal commitments. They mean absolutely nothing.

Petrino is the worst of the worst and there is no good reason why he is still coaching - oh wait, its about winning.

But he is certainly not alone in this team photo. Recruiting is a slimy, filthy, disgusting business. This is the nasty underbelly of it.
 
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ramblinman_rivals165935

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Originally posted by LakeCtyNewt:


But he is certainly not alone in this team photo. Recruiting is a slimy, filthy, disgusting business. This is the nasty underbelly of it.
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In my nastier moods, I have likened big time programs as bordellos with the head coach being the pimp and the players as the prostitutes.
 
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LHSTigers94

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Unfortunately this is why I never advised to go too far away as the coaches loyalty decrease by distance. I am sure Petrino could care less if he is banned from that school. He may not ever step foot in SC again and still be fine. On the other hand I feel it is very important for the individuals that care about this kid to be more involved. I am willing to bet the coaches stopped talking to him long before it was officially pulled. Sometimes kids want to play for the "sexiest" team that offer them and not the team that truly want them as a player. You have to educate your players and protect them from actions like this.
 
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Corey90

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Unfortunately it happens all the time. Recruiting
is a slimy business. Having lived through the process
with my 2 sons really opened my eyes to how bad it is.
Anyone who has gone through the process I am sure has
some stories to tell.

I agree what a dirt bag!
 
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