Southpaw

Wow. If you are interested in how College Football recruiting works at Teflon coated schools , check this story out. Keep in mind that this Williams kid is the most sought after palyer from the state of Florida.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald...ol/7696869.htm

P.S. Florida State is a bit upset with Williams disclosure. That good ol' boy Bobby Bowden sure can recruit.

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That's a pretty standard recruiting trip for the top notch athletes. You're not upset that he's now considering FSU instead of being a Miami lock are you? Also,i've heard Miameee has some pretty good recruiting trips with South Beach and the females that are there.I will say that FSU has the best looking girls i have ever seen.I was in Tallahassee golfing and went to a campus bar,Bullwinkles,and it was just unbelievable how many spetacular girls were in 1 place.I even commented at the time that no wonder FSU gets all the recruits.

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Southpaw

No, I am not upset. Why would you consider that? I thought it might be an interesting read for some. Nothing personal. Every year FSU claims to win the state of Florida recruiting war, but every year Miami seems to win the games. It is a geat rivalry and the games are fun to watch. My actual perception of the article is that a naive recruit basically spilled the beans on FSU and other colleges violating recruiting rules and in the process jeopardizes his own recruitment. FSU is a bit upset with Williams about this disclosure and Miami is losing interest real quick.

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football karma

I liked the part about how all of these under age recruits went "clubbing" and "paid for it the next morning"

You think FSU picked up the bar tab?

jon_nyaz

Yaaawwwwnn. There's nothing improper about any of this.

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Russ Smith

I don't think it actually violates any rules, unless they broke drinking age laws in a club. The dinner thing is allowed, the primary rule on that is if you have current players you can't have more current players attend than you have recruits. That's what ultimately led to the firing of Jim Harrick at UCLA, at the recruiting dinner the Collins twins attended Harrick took too many current players along(which is an illegal benefit). To cover it up, he ordered assistant coach Michael Holton to lie and say he and his wife were there instead of 2 players. Harrick had already lied on his expense report for the dinner and asked Holton to cover the lie, Holton refused and Harrick ultimately got fired.

FSU is mainly upset because like most college football programs they try to maintain the fallacy that they're looking for student athletes, this kind of article shows what they're really looking for and how they go about enticing kids to sign LOI's.

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