Any way we can stop posting this nonsense. Happens? Yes. If you have evidence please post otherwise it's getting old please stop
Money 4 recruits
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Yes, because coaches like Bruce Pearl, Sean Miller or Bill Self have ever been accused of improper payments, and programs like Memphis, Miss State, LSU, Kentucky, Missouri, Miami, etc...have always been squeaky clean when it comes to the rules.
If you want to believe this doesn’t happen how did Pitt go from a complete nobody to be national champs in 76 in Fb and have the bb roster they had in late seventies and 80’s ? The money has exploded in college athletics since then with the elite coaches now making upwards of 7/8 million a year and universities making many more millions off their sports team . What’s a Tony Dorsett worth to a coaches career or the universities coffers . Money like this corrupts believe it .
Easy answers about the football program going from nothing to the NC in 1976:
They hired a REAL FB HC for the 1973 season in Johnny Majors (after the Hart and DePasqua debacles).
Said REAL FB HC brought in a recruiting class in 1973 of somewhere around 80 new players. There were NO LIMITS on the number of scholarships you could hand out then. Just whatever the school was willing to grant. That's virtually an entire new team in terms of the numbers allowed today. And it was just not the numbers. Majors went to the Deep South (FL & GA in particular) and brought in the speed and athleticism that for the most part was lacking at Pitt. He got the toughness and brawn from many of the local guys that were still being turned out around here in large numbers when the mills were still booming.
Oh, and Jackie Sherrill was spending a LOT of time in Aliquippa (also allowable per NCAA rules then) recruiting a skinny RB from Hopewell High. And ultimately, the HAWK was the guy that put the cherry on the sundae. Because he was also the GOAT.
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Good summary! And of those ~80 players a significant number--perhaps 20-30, if memory serves, were JUCOs. Subsequent recruiting classes were in the 30-35 numbers range as I recall. Back then there was no 25/85 NCAA limit. Also, if memory serves, the roster typically had around 120 players on it.
Wait, are we pretending that the Golden Panthers didn't exist? LOL.
With that said, I agree with the OP but perhaps for a different reason - in my mind, whining about other schools buying players is pointless and grating to read. Yes, it happens. It happens a lot. So what? Does it need to be mentioned in every thread about recruiting? Perhaps more troubling is the insinuation that you can't win without cheating. We came very close to winning it all in '09 and those players weren't bought. It's just really difficult, if not impossible, to sustain that kind of success against blue bloods, but the defeatist attitude is still pathetic.
With that said, I agree with the OP but perhaps for a different reason - in my mind, whining about other schools buying players is pointless and grating to read. Yes, it happens. It happens a lot. So what? Does it need to be mentioned in every thread about recruiting? Perhaps more troubling is the insinuation that you can't win without cheating. We came very close to winning it all in '09 and those players weren't bought. It's just really difficult, if not impossible, to sustain that kind of success against blue bloods, but the defeatist attitude is still pathetic.
Being a realist is not being pessimistic !
Sure there are kids who come to a school without extras , but there are kids , families and handlers who have their hands out too !
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I seriously doubt many guys outside the Top100 get paid to any real extent. Top50 now - almost all those kids get taken care of to one extent or another.
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