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re: 5 of the top 10 top recruiting Classes are from the SEC
Posted on 1/25/16 at 9:00 am to Gradual_Stroke
Posted on 1/25/16 at 9:00 am to Gradual_Stroke
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I am starting to think that Ole Miss might be cheating.
It's only cheating if you get caught. 
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Posted on 1/25/16 at 9:02 am to HottyToddy7
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HottyToddy7
You actually did get caught. This year. You must have a short memory.
Posted on 1/25/16 at 9:03 am to circlerebel17
best conference in the 
Posted on 1/25/16 at 9:04 am to BhamDore
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Recruiting rankings are for entertainment.
No team has won a modern (BCS or Playoff) national title without at least one top 15 class on the roster.
Recruiting is the caste system of college football which defines the ceiling for a hundred programs. If anything there isn't enough focus on it.
Posted on 1/25/16 at 9:05 am to BhamDore
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Recruiting rankings are for entertainment. They are a decent gage of how well a team has recruited, but it is impossible to properly evaluate thousands of high school kids.
Recruiting rankings are not an exact science but loading up your roster with 80 or so 4 and 5 star guys makes it easier to find the 30 or so you need to win.
Posted on 1/25/16 at 9:07 am to cardboardboxer
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If anything there isn't enough focus on it.
+1
Posted on 1/25/16 at 9:08 am to TxTiger82
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You actually did get caught. This year. You must have a short memory.
In recruiting? No we didn't. Tunsil got caught by being given a rental car while his was in the shop and there was no paper work to go with it.
Tunsil wasn't a high school prospect.
Posted on 1/25/16 at 9:09 am to TxTiger82
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You actually did get caught. This year. You must have a short memory.
no recruiting punishment.......
Posted on 1/25/16 at 9:12 am to HottyToddy7
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In recruiting? No we didn't. Tunsil got caught by being given a rental car while his was in the shop and there was no paper work to go with it.
Tunsil wasn't a high school prospect.
But you got caught giving improper benefits to a student-athlete, which is actually worse than a run-of-the-mill recruiting violation. You guys have strike 1, for sure, and you're probably being watched.
Hell LSU was in the same boat a few years back over the Akiem Hicks bullshite. It happens. We went on our best behavior and it blew over.
But no sense in denying that you've been cheating because, technically, you have been.
Posted on 1/25/16 at 9:15 am to TxTiger82
Labeling the Tunsil situation as "cheating" is so petty. It's like the Alabama textbook shite from a couple years ago. There's no competitive advantage to either. It's hardly "cheating"
Posted on 1/25/16 at 9:15 am to circlerebel17
Ah, football in the south. I remember talking to a co-worker of mine in Mass. and he couldn't believe high schools down here have spring practice.
Posted on 1/25/16 at 9:16 am to BhamDore
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Recruiting rankings are for entertainment
As opposed to the rest of college football?
Posted on 1/25/16 at 9:22 am to Patton
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Labeling the Tunsil situation as "cheating" is so petty. It's like the Alabama textbook shite from a couple years ago. There's no competitive advantage to either. It's hardly "cheating"
And Akiem Hicks got hooked up with a summer apartment while he qualified for school because he didn't have a place to live. We got punished for that. Same deal.
Posted on 1/25/16 at 9:23 am to TxTiger82
Yea same deal. Wouldn't call any of them cheating.
Posted on 1/25/16 at 9:23 am to Patton
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Wouldn't call any of them cheating.
What would you call cheating then?
Posted on 1/25/16 at 9:29 am to TxTiger82
PEDs
Pay for play
Etc. things that give a clear competitive advantage. Selling textbooks, getting a place to live free or cheap, or getting to use a car free or cheap doesn't quite fall under my definition of cheating. Against the rules sure, but I'm hesitant to label it downright cheating.
Pay for play
Etc. things that give a clear competitive advantage. Selling textbooks, getting a place to live free or cheap, or getting to use a car free or cheap doesn't quite fall under my definition of cheating. Against the rules sure, but I'm hesitant to label it downright cheating.
Posted on 1/25/16 at 9:31 am to Patton
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doesn't quite fall under my definition of cheating
Well thank God your definiton of cheating doesn't matter.
Of course neither does the official definition as long as the NCAA is too pussy to enforce anything.
Posted on 1/25/16 at 9:33 am to Patton
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Etc. things that give a clear competitive advantage. Selling textbooks, getting a place to live free or cheap, or getting to use a car free or cheap doesn't quite fall under my definition of cheating. Against the rules sure, but I'm hesitant to label it downright cheatin
Agree with this. I think the levels of rule-breaking vary a great deal. If a student athlete sells books, it's not a big deal to me. But if his parents get paid thousands of dollars from a booster, for example, that's a very big deal.
Posted on 1/25/16 at 9:36 am to TxTiger82
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And Akiem Hicks got hooked up with a summer apartment while he qualified for school because he didn't have a place to live. We got punished for that. Same deal.
No, that's not the same deal. If it wasn't for that he wouldn't have been able to be in school to qualify. That gives you a competitive advantage, and those benefits wouldn't be available to a normal student.
That is most definitely cheating.
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