Probably not put as delicately as it could have been, but there is truth to it. Put yourself in a player's shoes, are you gonna concern yourself with message board fodder? There are plenty of other factors; if a message board puts you over the top, something else would have eventually done it anyways. To boot, LSU has no monopoly on brusque chatter on boards.
I have seen to many people on this board irrate if someone boo's, leaves a game early etc.... Now go tell a 17 year old kid to go F himself.... Really! Enough is enough! No excuses. Hopefully the recruits really are not reading this site. Help us all if they are.
@SaintSlidell You say "it's better for the player" and I just don't see that. What affect did the draft grade have on Clowney tanking his senior season long before he was able to declare? All teams have players who start thinking about the next level before they leave college. I say that's a personal issue because of these players were truly dedicated it wouldn't be an issue; it's all about their personal "make-up." I can't see how changing a date is going to change a person. The "take the easy road" attitude was developed over a long period of time; seldom within a period of a few weeks.
"Clowney was still the first pick in the draft, and was hurt most of his senior season. I do not see your correlation. I believe it is just another distraction that does not need to happen. Why not move it back? How can it hurt?" So he and Spurrier have claimed. Yet, teammates said he was tanking. My correlation is the draft grade didn't have anything to do with Clowney tanking. It was a personal issue; his. You're seeing the same with Nkemdiche. Word came more than two weeks ago he was skipping the bowl game (before his "fall" from a window.) The same people who told me about RN said you can take the same attitude and it fits the Ole Miss team. Now, is that a player issue? A coaching issue? Or, a date? Why not move it back? Again, that's nothing to do with the NCAA. It's a suggestion that another organization change how they do things because you feel it might be a root cause in players not giving 100%.
You guys were big Okie State fans a few years ago. You should be pretty happy with the outcome of that bowl game. With Ole Miss, I can definitely empathize with how you feel about a team like UArk. Changing the subject a bit: I think about the Black Bear program and I picture a car running on all four wheels, but with only a single lug nut holding them on the axle. The crap they are pulling will come back and bite them. It may not be through the NCAA as weak as the enforcement arm has become though the NCAA knows they've got a group that's funneling money to recruits and players. I'm told they (those boosters at OM) lost as much as 50K last year in situations where they paid guys to visit, or not to visit, different schools. They've done the same hoping for commitments. Bo Scarborough, third stringer on the Bama squad, was suspended four games this season due to money he received from the Ole Miss clan. He's not the only one who took the money and then went to another school. (Side story: Did you know Freeze proposed to his wife on the field at Neyland? He's called the UT job his "dream job" on more than one occasion. Imagine that meltdown if they get rid of the Sargent and make a serious move on Mater.)
