Suprier calls out negative recruiting by Big 10 School

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http://college-football.si.com/2014/02/11/steve-spurrier-negative-recruiting-big-ten/?eref=sihp

Doesn't mention the name of the institution he is accusing of negative recruiting. Think he is talking about Minnesota and Coach Kill's grab of the TE Jerry Gibson we got?

I would bet it is Urban "Slimeball" Meyer who claims he should have been given the #1 recruiting class. Can they just win a title already so he can have another panic attack and quit on them too. He is a fraud --
 

NNerland said:
http://college-football.si.com/2014/02/11/steve-spurrier-negative-recruiting-big-ten/?eref=sihp

Doesn't mention the name of the institution he is accusing of negative recruiting. Think he is talking about Minnesota and Coach Kill's grab of the TE Jerry Gibson we got?
I would bet it is Urban "Slimeball" Meyer who claims he should have been given the #1 recruiting class. Can they just win a title already so he can have another panic attack and quit on them too. He is a fraud --
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Since he says “We don’t run into much of any negative recruiting around here as SEC coaches,” Spurrier said. “We were involved with a player who was being recruited by a Big Ten school. They got negative a little bit with, ‘There’s a lot of crime in Columbia, the big city. They don’t graduate their players,’ which was completely untrue. They searched for a little bit of everything, but the player came with us anyways.” I'm guessing it wasn't Gibson
 

NNerland said:
http://college-football.si.com/2014/02/11/steve-spurrier-negative-recruiting-big-ten/?eref=sihp

Doesn't mention the name of the institution he is accusing of negative recruiting. Think he is talking about Minnesota and Coach Kill's grab of the TE Jerry Gibson we got?

I would bet it is Urban "Slimeball" Meyer who claims he should have been given the #1 recruiting class. Can they just win a title already so he can have another panic attack and quit on them too. He is a fraud --
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I don't think it is Kill. He said the player went to South Carolina despite the tactics.
 

It has to be Meyer. I don't think there is a lot of love lost between him and his former SEC colleagues.
 

Maybe I am naive, but this doesn't sound like something Coach Kill would employ in his recruiting. I have always gotten the sense he's a positive salesman for what Minnesota has to offer. I'm sure he isn't above contrasting locations when the time comes, but going all out negative, I just don't see.
 


WarriorGopher said:
Maybe I am naive, but this doesn't sound like something Coach Kill would employ in his recruiting. I have always gotten the sense he's a positive salesman for what Minnesota has to offer. I'm sure he isn't above contrasting locations when the time comes, but going all out negative, I just don't see.
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I agree with you that Kill and his staff don't come across as the type that would fight dirty but like any staff is they perceive an advantage that they can use against another school I have no doubt they would use it. Recruiting is too cutthroat to be the "nice guy".
 


This reeks of something that is totally made up, like an old fashioned stock market insider trading rumor .... Anonymous board member, from this industry, leaks profits will be up because of this factor. When it is clear that profits cannot rise for previous reason, the anonymous source somehow can never be logically nailed down to even a few candidates.

In Spurrier's Example:

Anonymous big ten school says big city crime is bad... Well using deductive logic; that eliminates MN, WI, OSU, MI, NE, MSU, NW, are all in larger cities than Colombia. So it has to be PSU, IN, IL, IA, or Purdue. However, non of these Cities are really all that much smaller than Columbia. Moreover, the recruit is logically from a small town (otherwise argument is a non starter), thus non of these are really small enough to distinguish from Colombia. They certainly do not have a small town feel.

When one considers the size of the Schools in the Big Ten, the argument stinks even more. The Size alone of each institution is generally large enough to preclude comparison with small towns in general.

Translation - Steve Spurrier is full of ****.
 




It's always amusing when an SEC coach criticizes the recruiting practices of other schools as being fishy.

My reaction: "Yeah, whatever you say coach."
 

My guesses, from reading that quote, were Nebraska, Penn State, or Indiana. However Franklin just came from the SEC so that rules out Penn State. Guessing it was Wilson or Pelini. Not that I really give a ****.
 

BJN said:
My guesses, from reading that quote, were Nebraska, Penn State, or Indiana. However Franklin just came from the SEC so that rules out Penn State. Guessing it was Wilson or Pelini. Not that I really give a ****.
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Lincoln, NE is a bigger city than Colombia, SC.
 




When it comes to recruiting ethics and standards, any SEC coach has a lot of chutzpah being critical of BIG schools.
 

Columbia is an awful city. Even most people in South Carolina hate Columbia.
 

Gopherprof said:
Columbia is an awful city. Even most people in South Carolina hate Columbia.
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There's a WalMart off of 494 by the airport in Bloomington that I never felt quite right in. No matter what time of the day, it always felt dirty, people yelling, people fighting, I only went into there if I had to. Then I stepped inside a WalMart in Columbia on New Year's Eve. That made the Bloomington store look like Mr. Hooper's shop on Sesame Street.
 

Is Spurier really complaining about recruiting do's and dont's? This man has been oversigning with commits like a mad man in the past, which leaves recruits out to dry when that schooly is not actually available when it is all said and done. Its difficult to take what he says serious, when we all know he is not the most ethical of individuals out there himself.
 

No way it was Kill. We are probably the biggest victim of negative recruiting. It's not hard to imagine rival coaches bringing up Kill's condition.
 

Gopherprof said:
Columbia is an awful city. Even most people in South Carolina hate Columbia.
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I have lived in several places, including Columbia, SC (for 7 years). Every place has good and not so good aspects. Speaking from experience I can say without reservation that there are a lot of wonderful people in Columbia, SC.
 

This could have been any number of assistant coaches in the Big Ten.
 

Spurrier must be confused, Bielema isn't at Wisconsin anymore, it sure sounds like something Butthead would do.
 


Chris Lammons who Becky thought they were going to get is my guess.
 

denguegopher said:
I have lived in several places, including Columbia, SC (for 7 years). Every place has good and not so good aspects. Speaking from experience I can say without reservation that there are a lot of wonderful people in Columbia, SC.
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I was in a restaurant in Columbia. The white waitress asked where we were from. We told her Minnesota. She said it must be nice to live in an area without many (most derogatory term for African-Americans). This happened a few years before Obama was president. I can say with confidence that I will never go back, and the experience confirmed my beliefs of the south. Unless it's Disney World for the kids, Miami for the beaches, or football for the Gophers I don't plan to go back to the south at all.
 

Gopherguy0723 said:
I was in a restaurant in Columbia. The white waitress asked where we were from. We told her Minnesota. She said it must be nice to live in an area without many (most derogatory term for African-Americans). This happened a few years before Obama was president. I can say with confidence that I will never go back, and the experience confirmed my beliefs of the south. Unless it's Disney World for the kids, Miami for the beaches, or football for the Gophers I don't plan to go back to the south at all.
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Her intolerance about one group of Americans was so offensive to you that it spawned your own intolerance about another group of Americans?
 


Breakin' The Plane said:
There's a WalMart off of 494 by the airport in Bloomington that I never felt quite right in. No matter what time of the day, it always felt dirty, people yelling, people fighting, I only went into there if I had to. Then I stepped inside a WalMart in Columbia on New Year's Eve. That made the Bloomington store look like Mr. Hooper's shop on Sesame Street.
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Shopping at Walmart, of all places, appears to be your problem. Stop going there, like the rest of civilized America.
 

bleedsmaroonandgold said:
Her intolerance about one group of Americans was so offensive to you that it spawned your own intolerance about another group of Americans?
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I didn't state what my beliefs about the south are and how widely I perceive them to be. You're inferring too much.
 

Gopherguy0723 said:
I didn't state what my beliefs about the south are and how widely I perceive them to be. You're inferring too much.
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It seemed like a very safe assumption to me, given the context of the statement. Care to elaborate on your beliefs in order to clear the air?
 

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