CSNbbs

Folks have the Broncos ranked #1 in the MAC.

The question may be at what?

Artilce

Here's the DFP article refered to in the above:
http://www.freep.com/story/sports/high-s.../79141858/

It's gotta be tough on coaches when the player gets injured, but man that sure does sound fishy. How is it that one coach can help find a scholarship for a player at a different school ... one of course that doesn't compete at all with the coach's school?

I get the bad luck part of it but don't think I follow on the "shady" part. According to the kid, Fleck himself laid out the situation. Thoughts changed as they can. He might never have played at WMU or gotten hurt worse. Fleck offered an opportunity to go to WMU but asked the kid what was more important, being at WMU or playing football. The kid said "football." Do I have that wrong?

I don't think he got "run off." I think Fleck knows better than to burn bridges with Brother Rice and I don't think anyone would be shaking in their boots at the thought of playing against a kid with that many injuries, given how much talent at that position the MAC is able to bring in from anywhere in the country.

Maybe I'm missing something in the timeline of things? As far as I can see, the kid and his father should be thanking their lucky stars.

Was there any real doubt about Fleck? He is a snake oil salesman that is "branding" himself with all the Row The Boat/RTB crap while he is at Western. Sprinting down the sidelines, copying pre-game speeches from movie dialogue (and getting them mixed up) and always offering a sound bite. Fleck is acting like he is righteous, but UM and Harbaugh are not - yet he is the one that left this kid with no options, while the UM kid ended up at Western.

What a sleezeball. He can spin it all he wants, it's pretty clear he is lying (or misremembering things)...

Is it any shadier to withdraw an offer when a better player becomes available than for a player who gets an offer from a better program to withdraw his verbal commitment?

Why aren't recruits allowed to sign a scholarship offer any time after their Junior year? If the player had signed before he was injured, then it would be shady for Fleck to run him off.

(01-31-2016 02:59 PM)RocketJeff Wrote: [ -> ]Is it any shadier to withdraw an offer when a better player becomes available than for a player who gets an offer from a better program to withdraw his verbal commitment?

I would say yes. The coach is an adult representing a university and is being paid millions of dollars, I assume, to be running a program that reflects well on the school. Enter joke here.....

The player is likely 17 or 18, often from a disadvantaged background, and even with family support may not understand all of the intricacies of recruiting.

It's the fact that Fleck and his coaches lied to the kid. I see no problem with a coach pulling a scholarship offer for legitimate reasons. But, until kids are held to a verbal commitment - which I think needs to be locked in by say midnight on 12/31- then this is going to continue on. It all comes down to how a situation is handled and if WMU felt like the kid was going to be damaged goods after the knee injury, then they should have de-committed then and let the kid try to get other offers. Instead, they locked him up with promises and after asking him to greyshirt - then decided he was not going to be able to play D-I football (of course, that was after they found a replacement for him).

For him to "bristle" at being compared to what Harbaugh did just indicates more to me that he has an over sized ego and will stop at nothing to keep promoting his "branding image".