bluehaze
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Post by bluehaze on Jan 13, 2010 14:27:44 GMT -5
In my opinion, if we can't recruit good players with clear records, we should drop the football program. So we do/don't want Chris McNeil type players in the program?
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Post by numberonebrave on Jan 13, 2010 15:41:52 GMT -5
(I believe we missed out on a few players because of academic standards, but not due to the so called Hackley Rule.).....According to a member of the previous staff, at an Aggie Club meeting, A&t MISSED MORE THAN JUST A FEW PLAYERS because of the Hackley -sic- rule. He placed the number between 12-15.
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Post by DOOMS on Jan 13, 2010 16:34:32 GMT -5
I believe you have to have some type of standard. Hampton apparently has none. Despite the popular belief that they are most well known for their basketball win in the NCAA tourny or for having a bunch of kids in the combine one year, they are best known in SEC land for admitting two criminals that were kicked out of UT. No matter what their academic standing may or may not be, they're a prison farm in the eyes of a whole lot of people.
I have no interest in having my degree tarnished by having that type of image bestowed upon my alma mater. At the end of the day, nobody questions the worth of my degree over 0-27 (or whatever it was).
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Jan 13, 2010 16:48:26 GMT -5
personally, i wouldn't go so far as to say a kid has to be 100% "squeaky clean". but he sure as hail can't be a potential felon who was recently charged with armed robbery. i could even "consider" a kid who made a mistake but has spent a couple of years squeaky clean while cleaning up his act.
but in hampton's case, there's no grace period or nothing. plus, they have a pattern of accepting a bunch of outcasts, not to mention they just recently loss theo smalling (a basketball player) to gun violence...
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Post by Aggie One on Jan 13, 2010 18:56:19 GMT -5
The "General" is adamant about a player's off the field behavior. If its missing a team rule that's one thing but an arrest for criminal is another.
Dooms is on point.
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