Recruiting coordinators?

[hawkeyebob62]

There is a growing power in academia that have their own agenda

"Growing"? That's been the case from time immemorial.

 

[hawkeyebob62]

I am a bit confused. Recruiting coordinators seem to be just another step in the "arms race" that has continued to define college football. I have seen what the race has done to high school sports, first hand...specialization, parents shelling out thousands of $'s for "camps" and "elite teams" that travel all over the place, kids who burn out before they even graduate from high school, weight rooms that are out of this world, artificial turf, large stadiums, booster clubs that raise thousands of $'s to support their athletic programs, high school coaches fired because they don't win enough games; the list goes on.

Look at Iowa's athletic facilities...my goodness! They are absolutely spectacular. And, others have actually surpassed what we have. So, why debate this issue of recruiting coordinators? We are already "all in" from middle school on up. We have only ourselves to blame; we demand elite, winning programs and professional, highly paid coaches; then when we don't win enough games, we demand that the head coach, the athletic director, and now, the college president, be dismissed. And then some of us complain loudly when yet another step is taken to improve recruiting for the Hawkeyes.

One more thing: I would like at least two concrete examples of Sally Mason not being supportive of the athletic programs at the University of Iowa. Honest question. I read the complaints, but never supporting evidence. In fact, not even sure I want/need her to be much involved in the athletic programs.

Beautiful. In fact, poetic. This should be a "sticky" on each forum.

 

[hawkeyebob62]

We can debate ethics, coaching skills, budgets, etc., all we want. It's simpler, though, to look at the evidence.

Such as, when something looks like, acts like, walks like and talks like a duck, chances are, it's a duck.

Such as: when John Calipari leaves UMass, then UMass ends up on probation, it's likely John Calipari might have cut a corner or two. When John Calipari subsequently leaves Memphis, and Memphis ends up with issues, it starts to llook like John Calipari might not fully understand the rules. When he ends up at Kentucky with a bigger budget and gets 5 kids all ranked in the top 10, we have enough evidence to know that John Calipari is a cheating scumbag.

When Nick Saban leaves MSU for LSU and LSU starts winning big and going to BCS title games (after decades of "almost"), we see ol' Nick as wunderkind. When he leaves for the Dolphins and sucks, we know he ain't. When he goes to Alabama--a school with a history of putting football before philosophy, in a conference that could write a guide to surviving NCAA probation, if you will--and wins a few BCS titles, gets top recruits from states like Texas, Florida and Pennsylvania, we know he is neither a wunderkind nor particularly worried about dotting every "i" and crossing every "t".

Just like, when Usain Bolt smashed 100-meter and 200-meter dash records, it was, "Wow, tall, strong, perfect form!". When Yohan Blake beat him a few races, it was, "Wow, a new kid trying to beat his teammate at his own game!". When Jamaican teams start sweeping or merely dominating the medals count in both men's and women's sprints, we understand it's merely getting better at hiding steroid use.

Fact is, many schools cheat. The question becomes, who is better/best at suppressing any guilt over it...