NU accused of dirty recruiting

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Eric the Red

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Down and Dirty - 8/26/2006 3:03:32 PM

If I were an Oklahoma football fan, I’d have some serious concerns right now about why former Arizona State quarterback Sam Keller picked Nebraska over the Sooners.

We’ll probably never know for certain, but I’m guessing two little dirty words played a role – negative recruiting.

In a recent column in the Tulsa World, I warned that the Rhett Bomar-J.D. Quinn scandal would have short- and long-term effects on the OU program. I just didn’t think it would happen this fast.

One of the long-term problems I predicted was that opposing coaches will use the Bomar-Quinn mess later this fall and winter when recruiting kicked into high gear. With the cloud of an almost certain NCAA investigation hanging over the Sooners, coach Bob Stoops’ peers will remind potential recruits that OU could be facing the possibility of going on probation.

You think that topic might have come up when Nebraska coaches learned that Keller had narrowed his list of schools down to the Huskers and Sooners?

Keller, who lost the starting job at ASU one day after Dirk “I Can’t Make Up My Mind” Koetter told him he was the starter, said he wanted to transfer to a school that has a chance to win the national championship in 2007, the only season of eligibility he has left.

I wonder if it might have been pointed out to Keller during his visit to the Land of Corn that a player can’t win a national title when his school’s on probation?

Ya think?

Hey, I don't blame Nebraska. It's all in the game nobody talkes about, but everybody plays.

I don't care how strongly they deny it, every coach uses some form of negative recruiting. It can be very subtle, but it happens even in the most pristine of programs. And nobody will ever figure out how to stop it. Not as long as a coach's secruity depends on wins and losses.

Yep, it can get down and dirty Sooners fans. But you better get used to it until the NCAA lets OU know its fate.

 
I don't think that OU has any room to talk about dirty recruiting, when players have said that Pelini talked crap about NU while recruiting them.

 
Aaah, yes. The "talking out of my a$$ with no actual evidence to back me up" argument.

This is the equivalent of claiming that Stoops gets good recruits because he "probably" pays each one of them out of his own pocket.

I don't have any evidence, but it sure makes me feel better...

 
I love how he keeps on saying things like "You wonder and mabey". You have ZERO FACTS to back up your words. SO SHUT YOUR PIE HOLE!

 
Well, I think recruiting is just not a pristine process. You're promising the world to kids when often you know you can't deliver. No coach is blameless in this; we can be as Husker prideful as we want, but recruiting is just not a wonderful, perfect system - as long as there is such a demand on bringing in the highest rated players and building the best teams.

It's unfortunate, but that's the way it is.

That said, if this (OU) writer wants to talk about dirtyness and corruption, what's more dirty? Telling a future pro prospect that his status as a pro prospect is better at a school with a pro-style offense and not facing NCAA probation, or a school where two players were booted for severely violating ethics codes?

 
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I never even thought that Oklahoma was on Keller's list so what are they talking about. Sour grapes I guess. Well too bad for them. I am glad Keller ended up with an elite program. One of his best friends is the new Texas State punter. He was an all american at AZ State who was screwed over by the coach there as well and from what I hear Keller is a great guy who made the right decision. He wouldn't have helped Oklahoma this year anyway. Hmmmm maybe Keller just didn't want to "sell cars."

 
I'm not sure about this article, but I did hear that Keller's dad did have contact with bill c. about sam coming to NU prior to sam being released from his scholly at ASU. That is possibly an NCAA violation, if true.

 
It's a freaking blog. Maybe it gets put in their paper- maybe it doesn't. Regardless, who cares if we pointed OU's situation out?

"Dirty recruiting" is a bit of a strong word for that. Dirty recruiting conjures up promises of jobs, cars, $$$, women, and who knows what else...

The guy quotes no one about those comments

Keller's dad was a former NFL player and knows Bill Callahan.

 
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That is quite possibly the dumbest "article" I've ever had the misfortune of reading. And altho Im dumber for having read it, im pretty certain the "arthur" aint getting no smarter neither.

And since I wont be a hyprocrit for not backing up my statements with evidence, heres my documentation for the fruition of this JR HIGH MEDIA CLUB drivel:

1) Madlibs sportwriter "blahgs" article a few wks ago, nearly cracking the davincis pizza code by stating..

"In a recent column in the Tulsa World, I warned that the Rhett Bomar-J.D. Quinn scandal would have short- and long-term effects on the OU program."
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YOU

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:woo

2) Self-righteous self-esteem deprived sports-righter decides its about time to self-proclaim self as smart, by releasing hard-HITTING article above which reveals THE TRUE HOLLYWOOD REASON WHY K3LL3R CHOSE NU --- (now available for limited time with purchase of penace pillz) :moreinteresting

3) Dippy mc Ding dong is rewarded for tar-tar article with links from huskerboard which quadruple readership.... and the perpetual cycle of jackhole sportswriters continue... :bang

 
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"In a recent column in the Tulsa World, I warned that the Rhett Bomar-J.D. Quinn scandal would have short- and long-term effects on the OU program."
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Oh, my. I can't believe it. I think we have found the true master of the obvious.

What a toolbag.

 
I'm not sure about this article, but I did hear that Keller's dad did have contact with bill c. about sam coming to NU prior to sam being released from his scholly at ASU. That is possibly an NCAA violation, if true.
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I highly doubt that Callahan had talked to Keller's dad before he was released. Keller was selected as the starter and then within 48 hours, there were meetings that took place with other players, carpenter being named the starter, and then Keller being released. I don't see any time in that period in which Callahan would of had the opportunity to be in contact with Keller or his family.

 
that's BS

Keller could have figured out the whole probation thing on his own. It doesn't take a genius to see these things. It's publicly known that these players were kicked off...I'm sure if the press knows about probation, a player who actually plays in the NCAA would too {{rolls eyes}}

Besides I too heard that Callahan just happened to be acquainted with him and his family when the whole thing went down. And Keller was interested in going pro and felt the WCO would help him do that.

Sounds like it was just a matter of Big C being in the right place at the right time.

 
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