There’s always an exception to the rule but 1 instance hardly makes it commonplace.
I turned down my dream school as well... So even in this small online community, you have two examples... Perhaps is it more common than you believe...
Looks like it is. My wife worked with kids for a long time, I’ve worked with a ton of people with kids & neither of us ever heard of a kid turning down their dream school once. We’ve lived a lot of places so we thought it was nearly as rare as a unicorn. Not getting accepted has been a frequent occurrence as is not liking it once they got there, but having your heart set on something and changing your mind at the last minute. Odd it’s so prevalent & we’ve never seen it. Looks like we’re the unicorns.
So technically, you attended your dream school.
Thanks for the sentiment. Fortunately, it didn't really cost me anything except heartburn. She had some incredible offers.
Do u go on coach collins twitter ?
Second things first, Dabo won 10 games in 2011 and has not won less than double digits since. 2010 is the only year that might be considered mediocre, with six wins and a bunch of close losses. As to the second part, one drive over that campus dodging and ducking construction zones tells you they are pouring money into far more than football. But yes, they spend bunches of money on the program and are content that they get it back. Dabo with the MBA shows his negotiating skills every year with Alabama as his hardly hidden hole card and among other things gets money for a DC -- $2 million plus -- and two OC -- $1 million plus for each, so while Saban fires half a dozen coaches every year -- somebody has to be blamed -- including his coordinators, Swinney has replaced something like two assistants. That speaks to a lot, beginning with his skill at hiring assistants.
You do know, don't you, that you just opened the door to the critics who say Johnson couldn't recruit anyway so they weren't sought by others in the first place?
I liked CPJ and I also like CGC, it was done to show what Tech had done and that is all. I am a Tech fan not a coaching fan.
Of note, UGA last won the Fulmer Cup in 2010 and could win this year with some timely drug busts, bar fights, and domestic violence incidents.[/QUOTE]
Great for you if you just want to prove someone wrong . Read what I said ( IF 247 was right ) second those the first two were not flips their offer was pulled because they took another visit after CPJ told everyone not to commit and then take a visit. IT was not them Tech pulled the offer . As for Damon Mitchell I have no idea who he is and don't care.
Remember the now infamous “Don’t get on that plane, Dante...”
Somewhere I recall a quote from Johnson somewhere to the effect that if a "committed" player was visiting elsewhere, then he wasn't committed. It was both a recognition of his own recruits and his recruiting of other players supposedly "committed" to other schools. The logic of it was so astounding I was surprised it got little reaction. My own was that, sure, of course he's right.
I think we all want to find a logical reason for perhaps illogical events, and most of the time it's just Occam's Razor at work. Lacking any credible accusation, and with a bit of anecdotal evidence to the contrary, I have to go with the integrity of the Clemson program. (The others I confess sometimes make me so blind mad I accused them of everything. For instance, I think Urban Meyer is a disgrace and has proved it in two major programs, and to read he is going to teach a college course on ethics is pretty sick. I mean, at a base level this is a guy who blamed his wife for supposedly not informing him that he had an abusive coach on staff.) My only evidence is that I have a close friend whom I trust implicitly, on the faculty at Clemson, and he in turn is a friend of Swinney. He swears by him and the honesty of his program. As to his intellect critics once love to spoof, he swears if Swinney were to attend faculty meetings, "most times he would be the smartest man in the room." That would go a long way to explaining his success.