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Tennessee high school head coaches did this to Derek Dooley when he coached at Tennessee. He told the head coaches that they would have to get his permission to visit the campus with the players that Tennessee had interest in. The high school coaches got very p*ssed off and didn't invite Derek Dooley to look at perspective signees. It took a lot of work by Butch Jones to fix relations between the Tennessee high school football coaches and the University of Tennessee.So, we would not have a problem if some, say HS BB, coach did not want his players coming to GT and would not let us on their campus?
I do not think a HS coach should have the power to do that.
not illegal. The actual offer isn't made until the school sends the LOI to the kid and they don't do that till right before signing day.Apparently his unreported -- in this link anyway -- issue is that they offered a scholarship and then rescinded it at the last minute, claiming it wasn't an offer for a free ride but an offer to come into summer camp and compete for a scholarship. That was directly from the Alabama booster blog. I surely thought that was illegal. Does it depend on who does it or am I just hallucinating about the good intentions of the NCAA again?
Wow. This sounds to me an awful much like Dodd supposedly objected to with Alabama and the SEC 60 years ago or whenever: in essence oversigning and then cutting. Oh, well. Maybe there is something to this tough love business. Profit, anyway,not illegal. The actual offer isn't made until the school sends the LOI to the kid and they don't do that till right before signing day.
Yeah Bobby Dodd didn't think GT could compete with Alabama,Auburn,Tennessee and LSU because of the academics at GT. Bobby Dodd in his book Dodd's Luck said he never could figure out how he beat UGAG every season from 1949-1956. He said UGAG had better talent most of those seasons. Bobby Dodd was brilliant at the Southern Head Coaching tradition of talking down your own team.Wow. This sounds to me an awful much like Dodd supposedly objected to with Alabama and the SEC 60 years ago or whenever: in essence oversigning and then cutting. Oh, well. Maybe there is something to this tough love business. Profit, anyway,