The Lions' Pride

Imagine that.

Where did Kiffin or sc drop 75k?

Lol at the down votes. I didn't even say anything disparaging about penn state.

He's a scumbag! And this kind of story should be sent to your hero, Emmert, who is one of the biggest jackasses and hypocrites to walk the face of earth.

Why is sending 6 coaches to meet Silas "unethical"?

Me thinks the topic of ethics should not be touched on this board.

A lot of misguided anger ITT.

You believe everything you read?

Roids. B1Tches U$C

Yet the NCAA insists that we are Football First and need to change our culture. Glad they helped orchestrate this demonstration of how a quality academic institution runs their athletic department.

It is way over the top. If Lane was the salesman you say he is, he could have done it with two. No need to bring the mob with him.

The misguided anger as you call it is justified in every instance. Again, don't like the conversation here, you don't have to continue to run back and visit. It's simple.

Ask Urban. He slept with a coed in Gainesville while being married to a hot wife. Don't think it doesn't happen.

I hope you know that Penn State fans are probably against Sandusky's actions moreso than anyone because it happened on our campus. A vast majority of us also agree that the inactions of Spanier, Schultz, Curley, and Paterno were heinous. So yes, yes indeed the fans who had nothing to do with it are in a perfect place to call Lame Kiffin out for being unethical.

What goes around comes around. Lame Kitten will get what's coming to him.

Back to the issue of Lane's recruiting tactics for Redd. The use of a booster provided private plane, 6 different coaches, helicopters, etc. raises a lot of issues for me.

1) How does that not create a competitive advantage? The use of a private booster plane for recruiting or a helicopter (looking at you Schiano and RU), etc. absolutely creates a competitive advantage in recruiting versus their peers. Think Temple, Old Dominion, East Carolina, etc. have access to those?

2) I am still furious that the NCAA suspended all rules regarding the recruitment of PSU players. I understand the need to allow players to freely transfer away from a program with significant sanctions, but it's the wild west out there. During recruitment of HS players, only a certain number of coaches can be off-campus recruiting at one time, there are limitations on the type, number, and location of recruiting contacts, etc. And to allow schools to go over scholarship limits to take on PSU players, how is that not a competitive advantage versus their peers?

3) I don't care what any SC fans says. Giving a former walk-on a scholarship after he worked his ass off and earned it, then yanking it away is shi**y and unethical. The NCAA should not have allowed any sanctioned program to benefit from the situation, and definitely should not have allowed school's to yank scholarships away from other kids to take on players.

Emmerts "culture of reverence for football" indeed.

"I picked up the phone, in true SC fashion and called one of our great donors Ted Jones at Fletcher Jones Mercedes and I called him when we were at the SoHo House for the PAC-12 dinner and he said, 'Let me guess, you're calling about Silas. Where y'at?'"

"So he sent his big ole Mercedes jet which was in Vegas to pick us up in LA. We got done with the PAC-12 meetings. We flew to White Plains, NY. It was myself, my dad, our running backs coach, our o-line coach."

This is what really bothers me... This clearly isn't the first favor Ted Jones was called upon to perform. This is clockwork from repetition.

'Let me guess, you're calling about Browne. Where y'at?'
'Let me guess, you're calling about Vanderdoes. Where y'at?'
'Let me guess, you're calling about Cravens. Where y'at?'
'Let me guess, you're calling about Bigelow. Where y'at?'