Notre Dame Joe Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 My favorite TOBC answer to the question no one asked, was when he announced the SEC coaches all opposed ND's contract with the ACC. Lol he seriously said that? Yeah, I didn't even know they had time for that in media day. http://m.bleacherreport.com/articles/1711525-notre-dame-football-spurrier-wrong-in-criticism-of-irish-independence Quote Link to comment
Excel Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 TBS has half handily confirmed that it was Nebraska http://southcarolina.247sports.com/Article/Nebraska-was-the-B1G-program-negative-recruiting-South-Carolina-178067 Quote Link to comment
knapplc Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 Yawn. “We don’t run into much of any negative recruiting around here as SEC coaches." When he says BS like this, it's hard to take anything else he says seriously. Spurrier will also soon be calling out Lorenzo Ward for negative recruiting as well, apparently: South Carolina defensive coordinator Lorenzo Ward acknowledged last November that the gang violence in Columbia's Five Points bar district is something that he's had to answer for on the recruiting trail. Quote Link to comment
StPaulHusker Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 The comments on TBS are kind of funny. Quote Link to comment
ADS Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 At least our coach doesn't hump a yoga ball... 1 Quote Link to comment
Excel Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 Yawn. “We don’t run into much of any negative recruiting around here as SEC coaches." When he says BS like this, it's hard to take anything else he says seriously. I think it's a non-story. I'm sure "negative" recruiting happens all the time, it would only make sense, there's stuff that can be said against Lincoln as well. As far as the criticisms about USC (they were what, crime and graduation?) I'm not really offended or annoyed by it because some of it is true. Columbia is a big city for SC and there is a crime problem in certain areas just like any town but I never had any issues, not once, and I drank in 5 points at least twice week though I have heard its gotten rougher, part of that is because Five Points is just a few blocks down from a fairly large area of housing projects. Campus and the immediate areas around it, were all extremely safe and well policed in my time there. I never feared for my safety. Is it more dangerous than Lincoln, Madison or Clemson? Yes. Is it Compton, Baltimore, Chicago or Atlanta? Not even close. As far as graduation? Meh, fair. I don't know what's going on with that and I don't really care. I do have one issue with the posts here though and it's about the size of Columbia. You guys don't seem to understand metropolitan areas. City limits don't accurately capture a city's size, for example, just on city size, San Antonio is the seventh largest city in the US, as far as metros go it's 25th. So here: City Size Columbus OH - 809k Minneapolis MN - 382k Lexington KY - 305k Lincoln NE - 265k Madison WI - 240k Baton Rouge LA - 229k Knoxville TN - 182k Columbia SC - 131k Gainsville FL - 126k Athens GA - 115k Ann Arbor MI - 113k Columbia MO - 108k College Station TX - 99k Tuscaloosa AL - 93k Champaign IL - 82k Bloomington IN - 80k Fayetteville AR - 75k Evanston IL - 75k Iowa City IA - 67k Auburn AL - 56k East Lansing MI - 48k State College PA - 42k West Lafayette IN - 29k Starkville MS - 23k Oxford MS - 18k Metro Size Evanston IL - 9,522k (Chicago/Cook County) Minneapolis MN - 3,422k Columbus OH - 1,944k Knoxville TN - 848k Baton Rouge LA - 815k Columbia SC - 784k Madison WI - 620k Lexington KY - 485k East Lansing MI - 464k Fayetteville AR - 463k Ann Arbor MI - 344k Lincoln NE - 310k Gainsville FL - 268k Tuscaloosa AL - 233k Champaign IL - 231k College Station TX - 231k Athens GA - 192k West Lafayette IN - 182k Columbia MO - 175k Bloomington IN - 175k State College PA - 153k Iowa City IA - 152k Auburn AL - 147k Oxford MS - 18k Starkville MS - 23k Quote Link to comment
knapplc Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 It's actually a bigger story (or should be) that Spurrier thought it necessary to cry "negative recruiting" to the press about those statements. They're innocuous, not factually inaccurate, and they're not different than what his own DC is telling recruits. The question isn't whether any recruiter from Nebraska said these things, it's why Spurrier thought they were so horrible that he had to go public with them. There's clearly an agenda beyond "higher crime rate" and "lower graduation rate" here. Quote Link to comment
SouthLincoln Husker Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 How is facts negative recruiting? There more crime in Columbia than Lincoln and we do graduate more student athletes than SC. I guess the truth hurts. Quote Link to comment
Junior Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 FWIW - there's a thread over on the Wisky forum at 247. They're wondering if this comment is directed at them. Frankly, if this was a Nebraska coach and they did say something like "the crime rate is higher" and "we graduate more players," I'm totally fine with that. It's how you sell your school/town, and according to the stats I posted above, both are true. Yea, that's not really negative recruiting. That's just pointing out facts. Quote Link to comment
Excel Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 It's actually a bigger story (or should be) that Spurrier thought it necessary to cry "negative recruiting" to the press about those statements. They're innocuous, not factually inaccurate, and they're not different than what his own DC is telling recruits. The question isn't whether any recruiter from Nebraska said these things, it's why Spurrier thought they were so horrible that he had to go public with them. There's clearly an agenda beyond "higher crime rate" and "lower graduation rate" here. It really isn't. He enjoys trolling sports media, other coaches and the CFB world in general. Has for a while now. He's an old successful man and he's damn good at riling people up. He clearly enjoys it. This isn't Saban and BB going to an NCAA committee to complain, this is Spurrier making a veiled suggestion to try to spin some wheels...that's how he starts ribbing people. Slight jabs to draw someone else in and Bo, like Dabo, is a perfect target. Now I said earlier that I think negative recruiting is somewhat common I think that Spurrier may be right that he doesn't encounter it that often in the SEC. His main recruiting rivals in the SEC, mainly UF, UT and UGA are all on similar levels so negative recruiting isn't going to do much and any in-state battles USC gets into with Clemson, well those kids already know the score. I could see how national recruiting battles rather than regional ones would bring out more negative recruiting. He's not the first coach to notice that B1G coaches can be a little bit squirrely with recruiting, two B1G coaches noticed it about Urban Meyer recently. Quote Link to comment
knapplc Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 You must not pay much attention to tOBC. He enjoys trolling sports media, other coaches and the CFB world in general. Has for a while now. He's an old successful man and he's damn good at riling people up. He clearly enjoys it. This isn't Saban and BB going to an NCAA committee to complain, this is Spurrier making a veiled suggestion to try to spin some wheels...that's how he starts ribbing people. Slight jabs to draw someone else in and Bo, like Dabo, is a perfect target. Those are admirable qualities in a head football coach. Quote Link to comment
knapplc Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 Also, since we seem to be maintaining the fiction that negative recruiting doesn't happen in the SEC.... I call BS on the "we don't see negative recruiting from other SEC coaches." General article on all SEC recruiting Mark Richt discussing negative recruiting SEC blog about negative recruiting SECRant forum discussing Tennessee negative recruiting There are dozens more. I'm sure you could find the same or similar articles, blogs, forum discussions & tweets about the Big Ten, PAC-12, the Texas conference, etc. The takeaway from that comment isn't that a Big Ten school negatively recruited - they all probably do - but that Spurrier said with what I'm presuming was a straight face that he doesn't see that in the SEC. Quote Link to comment
Excel Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 You must not pay much attention to tOBC. He enjoys trolling sports media, other coaches and the CFB world in general. Has for a while now. He's an old successful man and he's damn good at riling people up. He clearly enjoys it. This isn't Saban and BB going to an NCAA committee to complain, this is Spurrier making a veiled suggestion to try to spin some wheels...that's how he starts ribbing people. Slight jabs to draw someone else in and Bo, like Dabo, is a perfect target. Those are admirable qualities in a head football coach. I know you're being sarcastic and while I don't think they're "admirable" I think it's just fine. It's entertaining and his record speaks for itself. He's a very good coach. I'd rather him be relaxed with the media, enjoy his job and bring some humor to the table than be an angry barrel of gunpowder like some other coaches out there. Quote Link to comment
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