David Dawson seems to love recruiting and social media. Just a few weeks ago he wanted to go to a camp at Florida and cancelled his trip after he spoke to the Michigan coaches. In the past, he has put the Wolverine Recruiting followers on notice that they should be on commit watch for DT Maurice Hurst.
Well David is back at it again and yesterday tweeted that we should be on commit watch for the BBQ at the Big House a week from Sunday (July 29th). That there even could be a couple of commits at the BBQ. The best guess is he is talking about a couple 2014 guys. David's best recruiting effort hopefully is focused on his new friend Derrick Green, who is planning to be at the BBQ. David and Derrick have been talking all most everyday since the Opening.
- Damon Webb 2014 CB from Cass Tech is at LSU's camp and performing well. He could leave there with an offer. He is planning on attending the BBQ at the Big House.
- Michigan has dropped from the #1 recruiting class on Rivals. USC has knocked Michigan from the top spot.
- Laquon Treadwell says he is planning an Oklahoma State visit soon. Which probably means before the season.
- Mark Emmert, NCAA President addressed some of his feelings on Penn State:
"We'll hold in abeyance all of those decisions until we've actually decided what we want to do with the actual charges should there be any. And I don't want to take anything off the table."
"This is completely different than an impermissible benefits scandal like happened at SMU, or anything else we've dealt with," Emmert said. "This is as systemic a cultural problem as it is a football problem. There have been people that said this wasn't a football scandal.
"Well it was more than a football scandal, much more than a football scandal. It was that but much more. And we'll have to figure out exactly what the right penalties are. I don't know that past precedent makes particularly good sense in this case, because it's really an unprecedented problem."
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The issue at least in part appears to be that PSU knowingly and permissively placed young minor children within harms way. From the President of the University on down through the janitorial staff who refused to follow up and report what they saw, they all knew that children particularly the young boys were not safe when left alone around this particular football coach in question. I'm not a lawyer, but I would think that there is a law that forbids parents and or a responsible adult from knowingly placing a child in their care or on their premises within harms way.
Therefore, in my opinion this is a football issue. The university made it a university issue, when the powers that be became aware of the problem and instead of remedying the problem they chose to cover it up thereby exposing even more children to the same dangers which apparently happened. It became a football issue when the perpetrator was a football coach who used his position as a football coach and he used the football facilities to gain access to young children for the specific purposes of violating their innocence.
This is a direct reflection of the lack of integrity from the Pennsylvania State University. It shows us that there is a win at all cost mentality and that the football program comes first, even above the safety and welfare of the children and the students that come through their campus. When we look underneath the covers of schools like this, we see that schools with this type of mentality will characteristically cheat in their recruiting, they will cheat academically with their student athletes grades and it will eventually erode their professional and ethical integrity to the place where even the safety of children are compromised.
Colleges and universities have a fiduciary responsibility to provide the best reasonable care when accepting these children and students into their schools and onto their campuses. It is unfortunate that this happened at any school anywhere, however, I am proud to say that I am an alumnus of the University of Michigan where ethics and integrity count for something.
The NCAA will show what type of message that it will give to the college community through their direct action or the lack of action to the Penn State scandal. This no doubt will set another precedent from which other schools will take their cue, in other words schools will ask themselves, “Just how far we can go with this based upon what was allowed by the NCAA with Penn State.” Therefore, this is not just about Penn State; it’s about the integrity of the NCAA.
[Sorry for the diatribe]
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