Official College Football 2015 Thread!

In a single move today Harbaugh made Saban, Dantonio and Urban his recruiting bitch. They bitched about Michigan's satellite camp in the south, so he invited them to come speak. If they are in a league that prohibits a coach from doing a camp more than 50 miles from their campus they will be keynote speakers. This forces Saban et al to do one of two things.

1. not go and in the end have nothing to complain about
2. show up and in the end make Michigan's camp a massive draw for recruits.

He essentially blackmailed the college coaching world into making his programs camp a premier event.

Already big name coaches are checking in.
 
Wouldn't that give the coaches you mentioned access to those same recruits though? Sounds to me more like these guys are setting up UM to foot the bill for a camp that they'd be the keynote speakers at, all while they're cherry picking the recruits that they have the most interest in. I also doubt that these highly successful coaches put too much stock in any of Ann Arbor's favorite attention whore's rhetoric anyway. His schtick wears on people everywhere he goes.....and it will at UM.
 
I'm bored with Harbaugh already. Enjoy your 6-6 year...

The University of Michigan. The best 4th place team in the B1G...
 
I thought player and class rankings meant nothing?

Jim, don't know if you followed the story or not, but the SEC, ACC, Dantonio and Urban have been crying that football camps gives Michigan a competitive advantage in recruiting. By opening up the camps to other coaches, it pulls even more attention to the camp thus bringing even more recruits to the camp and it has Michigan's name stamped on the front. The SEC does not allow its coaches to coach camps more than 50 miles away from their campus. So by doing this, he allows the pull of SEC coaches like Saban without letting them have full access to the players. Again, if the coaches don't do it, they miss out on an opportunity. If they do do it, they add pull to the camp that Michigan is running. It should silence the people bitching the most (Looking at Saban and the ACC) though we know it won't. I mean Saban is always looking out for the morally right thing to do when it comes to recruiting. Like recruiting women beaters and oversigning.
 
And just like that Meyer has changed his tune from a few days ago and as now announced OSU will now host a camp in Florida. A few days ago he preached it was a horrible practice but suddenly it's the thing to do.
 
Sounds to me like he's just maintaining his competitive edge. I'd bet the SEC will change their rules on this directly.
 
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And just like that Meyer has changed his tune from a few days ago and as now announced OSU will now host a camp in Florida. A few days ago he preached it was a horrible practice but suddenly it's the thing to do.
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oddly enough their camp location is in between a bank and a tattoo parlor
 
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Sounds to me like he's just maintaining his competitive edge. I'd bet the SEC will change their rules on this directly.
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it does keep his edge, but it's a complete 180 from what he was preaching a few days ago. Not that Urban changing his word is a shock to anyone including early enrolees
 
So....it's ok for Harbaugh?......but not for Urban?.....Sounds like the usual "By God we're Michigan" double standard. Sure you're not a closet Notre Dame fan? That's the kind of holier than thou crap that they spew.
 
Pay attention Jim... Nobody is saying that it's not OK for Urban. Merely pointing out that he was whining and crying about it at first and then realized it might be a good idea, so he changed his tune.

You know, like how Dantonio cried about flipping recruits and then went and did it? Same idea.
 
All a bunch of nothing... Maybe Harbaugh can tie up another 6 scholarships with QB's... Let him do what he wants.
 
This is some funny stuff.....

Michigan football self-reports four secondary NCAA violations
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Not to bore anyone with the details here, but the ease to excuse the Messiah for his "newness" is laughable. Do they have an alternate set of NCAA rules between UM and Stanford?.........:roll:

"As relatively new personnel, (Harbaugh and associate AD for football Jim Minick) had not yet been briefed on the institution's process for reviewing donation requests," the report reads. "But have now been and will use that system in the future to ensure donations are reviewed by compliance."
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Being newly hired, it did not occur to the football staff that the area was considered premium seating until the compliance personnel inquired about it. By that point there was only about a minute left in the competition."
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These are all extremely minor violations that are not all that surprising to see given a new staff coming in and being out of the college game for a few years. The NCAA has a very thick rule book, so it appears the staff has been educated on these incidents and will move forward without and problems.
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when it comes to changes, yes they happen very very very regularly. Every year I'm given a new set of rules JUST on communicating with a potential athlete, and I'm just a donor and season ticket holder. The overarching rules generally apply (Don't talk to a potential athlete about anything that would persuade him to come) but the nuances change. I can tweet to him, but not reference certain things. This stuff changes year to year. It's not all that far fetched to believe that he's not 100% up to speed on all of the nuances that have changed over the last 5 years.
 
Michigan self reported four violations.

The violations include:

- In March, Harbaugh sent a signed Michigan helmet and jersey to a former high school classmate to help raise money to benefit suicide prevention and awareness. What Harbaugh didn't know is that the money was used to set up a scholarship in the name of a student who had committed suicide. Per NCAA rules couches may not personally donate items to help high school scholarship funds
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Yes, what a scumbag he is!
 
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No one called Harbaugh or any previous head coach at Michigan a scumbag. I do find it funny that he's committed a violation for every month that he's been the coach. Maybe he should rename his camp tour the 'Self Reporting Tour'...
 
If he's the head coach at a major college like UM, it's his job to be up to speed on the rules. Just to shrug them off as, "Well, he's new", is laughable....at best. Just another example of the entitlement mentality in A2.....it's just so...typical.....
 
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