Jones sends 102 handwritten letters Stanton Truitt

Sigh.

 

Like dating women.

 

And the KB voicemail reference is made.

 

Had to complete the circle.

 

I agree. These kids expect lots of attention though.

 

Hard to imagine what will ever stop this.

 

As much as I hate regulation, I think the only thing that can stop it is the NCAA stepping in and limiting contact. Twitter and instagram are ridiclous. YOu have 500 sabs kissing the ass of these kids and they love it. The egos of these kids have to be out of control.

 

How do you regulate that? The NCAA has no real authority over Sab. He could start posing as any fan he wants to if he wants to get a school in trouble.

 

They can't control sab, unless the NCAA ban recruits from social media, which probably insn't legal. They can certainly stop a coach from sending 102 letters, texting a kid constantly (no limit for texting), or facebooking him constantly. I think that would go a long way. You currently have a system where the coach basicially lies to the recruit for a year, tells him he's great, a future nfl star, they key to his class, etc. Has to do this constantly to land the top recruits. And then when the player gets on the team the power completely reverses and a kid can't transfer even if the coach sold him a bill of goods.

 

I think allowing kids more freedom to transfer would change the dynamic, now that you mention it.

 

Free agency

 

Money would really start to change hands then

 

the only concern is you'd start seeing non bcs teams get poached by the big boys. you'd have to have some criteria to go by to eliminate the 1 year tranfer rule.

 

The problem is grown men on message boards who care about this stuff, tweet about it and so on. Semi-true, I think.

 

It's hard for me to imagine Jon Gruden doing something like this consistently - although I'm guessing he wouldn't have to in order to have equal success recruiting. Surprised Saban did this.

 

This is what it takes to win. Im thrilled he is doing it.

 

**** jon gruden

 

Has anybody ever updated the why Gruden didn't come story?

 

CardinalVol offered him a happy ending at a restaurant one night. The deal was dead in the water after that.

 

Because he is a mulimillionaire with a cush job that doesn't want to be strapped by an ncaa rulebook while having to try to convince 18 yr olds to come play, then manage their lives and be a father figure to them for 4 years.
I'm sure you will get other answers, but that one sums it up accurately.