CBS: Nothing golden about Kelly playing hard ball w waffling recruit; Kelly a "phony"

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CBS: Nothing golden about Kelly playing hard ball w waffling recruit; Kelly a "phony"

per Doyel:

The system is broken, and not by accident. It's broken on purpose. The system allows coaches like Brian Kelly to switch schools as they please -- and for more money -- but players who want to switch schools are at the mercy of those same coaches. Because the system sucks.

But Notre Dame doesn't have to follow the system. Notre Dame, leader that it considers itself among institutions of higher learning, could refuse to follow along. It could allow the system to work for an 18-year-old high school senior, but it won't. Notre Dame is playing hard ball with five-star recruit Eddie Vanderdoes, which means Notre Dame is part of the problem.

So it's not just the system that sucks. For playing along with the system, Notre Dame sucks too.

Kelly's a self-serving phony, is one way of saying it. He flirted with the Philadelphia Eagles after the BCS title game, which was his right. A person should have the freedom to pursue his options, and Brian Kelly exercised that freedom. He pursued the NFL. Then backed off.

But Eddie Vanderdoes cannot flirt with UCLA. Cannot pursue that option. Cannot decide to go to school there -- not if he expects to play football this season, or for the four years entitled to college athletes.

And this is where Brian Kelly is a complete phony. How can I say that? You wouldn't believe how easy it is for me to say that. See, on National Signing Day in 2012, Kelly had this to say about receiver Deontay Greenberry, who was committed to Notre Dame but signed instead with Houston:

"I used to have a saying [about situations like this one]," Kelly said on Feb. 1, 2012. "I'd rather play against him four times than have to have him with us four years if he's not the right kind of fit."

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoo...kelly-playing-hard-ball-with-waffling-recruit

Go Gophers!!
 

kelly is operating within the rules of the ncaa and the contract he signed...whats the problem?
 


The restrictions put on players because the NCAA maintains a monopoly on D-1 football is criminal. Scholarships are year to year and can be pulled without notice...but a kid loses a year of his life if he wants to transfer? Total bs.
 

GopherinPhilly said:
The restrictions put on players because the NCAA maintains a monopoly on D-1 football is criminal. Scholarships are year to year and can be pulled without notice...but a kid loses a year of his life if he wants to transfer? Total bs.
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I think opening it up and letting guys transfer as the please would create total chaos though. Not getting enough playing time? See you later.

I agree there is a problem, I just don't know what the solution is.
 


GophersInIowa said:
I think opening it up and letting guys transfer as the please would create total chaos though. Not getting enough playing time? See you later.

I agree there is a problem, I just don't know what the solution is.
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There are consequences for every decision. On the whole, scholarship football players have it pretty good in college. There are a few goofy rules that do not necessarily benefit the athlete, but why does everything have to be set up from the player's perspective? They can go to SCHOOL wherever they want, whenever they want. I think the NCAA's only moral responsibility is to protect the education of the athlete (I know how backwards that sentence sounds). Outside of that, you play by their rules.
 


I think Ferentz plays the same theme in a different key when he pulls offers from kids who visit other schools after they've given a verbal. The power that resides with these coaches is pretty ridiculous when it comes right down to it. Adult men brow-beating 18-year-olds before they are actually in a supervisory position to them.

I don't have a problem with the transfer rules, but I just wish a lot of these coaches would either shut their pie hole or the media would quit sticking microphones in their faces.
 



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