Trainers and Football Recruiting

[NorthCoastHorn]

What is this I hear about "trainers" working with elite High School recruits and receiving money from schools to steer players their way?

How is that not old SWC illegal?

Hook'em

 

[Austin180]

The Link

"The street agent is a new twist on the cheating game. In the past, if a recruit was for sale, it was because the recruit (or his family) put him out there for sale. With street agents involved, a recruit might be for sale and not even know it."

 

[CanaTigers]

This has been huge in basketball for some time, it was bound to find it's way to football.

 

[BigWill]

The Link

 

[NorthCoastHorn]

vomitous

Hook'em

 

[Burnt Orange Bevo]

Oooh, here's a gem from the BC blog article...

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[starchild]

ou took one of butler's kids? ......i'm speechless.

 

[Depotdog]

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[Austin180]

A quick search of recruiting sites doesn't show any interest in Bell by Texas and no offer. Bell was recruited to blow u by Josh Heupel and apparently didn't even visit anywhere else.

 

[Scipio Tex]

Connor Wood was offered by OU first.

When he verbaled to Texas, they moved to Bell.

 

[Depotdog]

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[LITNIN HORN]

Sorry to dispute, but if Bell was offered up by a street agent with his hand out, I believe Mack would slam the door in his face...ou would fill up that hand.

 

[Austin180]

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[Depotdog]

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[Austin180]

Brian Butler.

 

[glenn]

". . . however i'm sure . . ."

pot-dog, that is just your speculation, which isn't worth one penny more than my speculation or anybody's speculation.

what isn't speculation - but is matter of record - is what scipio said. go back and read that and mull its implications.

if the recruiting services were all that hot, colt mccoy and sam bradford would have been five-star recruits, not three-star.