NCAA Investigating UT Recruiting Practices
by Gamecock Man on Dec 9, 2009 9:42 AM EST
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PrintThe NCAA is launching a wide-ranging investigation of Lane Kiffin's staff's recruiting practices at Tennessee. The focus? Hostesses:
Interviews with multiple recruits and their family members revealed that the N.C.A.A. has strong interest in Tennessee’s use of recruiting hostesses, students who are part of a formal group at the university that hosts all manner of prospective students at campus visits, including athletes. It is not clear whether the university sent the hostesses to visit the football players.
In one case, hostesses traveled nearly 200 miles to attend a high school game in South Carolina in which at least three Tennessee recruits were playing.
This is, ahem, a suggestive story, to say the least. Many of the players involved, coincidentally, are SC targets, including Marcus Lattimore.
This one's developing. Stay tuned
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NCAA investigating Kiffin at UT? No way!
It seems like it happens every couple of weeks or so. Lane Kiffin making Rocky Top look classy as like always.
Clay Travis with a followup from the orange perspective...
here.
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"Avoiding any appearance of impropriety"
springs to mind. Even if UT isn’t found guilty of any violations, perhaps they should take a good hard look at their recruiting practices.
Also, I agree with you that this article is quite suggestive. Since when are verbal commitments called “oral” commitments?
Dum spiro spero - "While I breathe, I hope"
State motto of South Carolina
by The Feathered Warrior on Dec 9, 2009 11:25 PM EST reply actions
Yes. Even if Lane is trying to walk the straight and narrow and doesn't have these hostesses working overtime for Orange Pride...
You’d think that he had enough control of his program not to have them driving around the Southeast to help bring recruits in. Sooner or later this sort of thing will catch up with him.
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by Gamecock Man on Dec 10, 2009 12:16 AM EST up reply actions
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