(12-19-2017 03:32 PM)JCGSU Wrote:  

(12-19-2017 12:43 PM)TheEagleWay Wrote:  

(12-19-2017 12:27 PM)JCGSU Wrote:  

(12-19-2017 11:45 AM)eaglewraith Wrote:  

(12-19-2017 10:03 AM)JCGSU Wrote:  Yes for some reason folks that think recruit rankings and team rankings are crap and if the coach likes a kid then that is all they need cant seem to keep themselves from posting in threads about that subject they think is meaningless, including mods. I hate the endless flexbone threads so I stay out of them, dont know why grown adults could not do the same concerning recruiting threads Not a problem at all on here or other sites, being 114th in the country is bad and so was last year. Some just want to stick their fingers in their ears and cant stand calling a spade a spade on this subject. Nobody talked about individual players in the last thread or any thread other than they committed or signed yet it got moved, if we were 88th in the country like GaSt is I have a feeling some mods would let it ride. Said it since 2001, your board your call as usual, the end.

No. They wouldn't.

Because we have some really dumb fans who can't resist hating on everything, and that kind of negativity is not welcome when discussing recruits (not the only thing, but this is one of the most sensitive). Like it or not the things publicly said by our fanbase can be used against us. Other coaches do use our online presence against us.

It's hard to separate speaking in general with recruiting, especially when a thread is started to discuss a specific recruit.

The more that type of discourse is protected from public view, the better. The people who are capable of good conversation/debate on most topics are donators to the site anyway. The recruiting discussion has been much improved since being put back behind the paywall.

LOL the people that pay are the ones capable of good conversation. Or is it you can control the message better when things are not sunshine and rainbows which was the problem....with some mods. Calling a class in the 100's plus unacceptable is not being negative it is the truth. I agree talking about a specific recruit and or player for that matter is bad business but calling a spade a spade is not. I am pretty sure talking in general terms about recruiting on message board has about 1/1000000th the effect on recruiting than the current coach..or the previous years results. I think it is laughable at best some kid is not going to sign with a team because some random person posted something on a message board...Plenty of negativity bashing of Fritz in 2015 yet we signed the best class in Sun Belt and GS history for the 2016 class IIRC. Had a long convo with Eagle22 about it he actually made some rationale points on the decision even though I did not agree but understand none of which is what you and others are asserting why it happened BTW. I paid before back in the day...with twitter and the 24/7 site no reason to anymore really for recruiting info or conversation that is for sure.

I'm confused on how you found our Dev meeting minutes which held the secrets of our dastardly plan.

Lets get this back to recruiting and not the policies of another site

This is the 2nd thread you've derailed today.. let it be your last.

All three teams will likely lean on the traditional signing day way more than the early one. Who knows maybe a benefit to wait in the end.

That's a good point. Not only does the early signing period enable the G5's to lock up their recruits before the lower level P5's get desperate in January and start flipping them, it also forces those same P5's to sign their recruits early, leaving them less spots for their pre-February raiding.