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(05-31-2018 12:52 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:  

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(05-28-2018 11:10 PM)blazr Wrote:  Just some info: In high school I attended Shoop camps at Bham Southern 3 years in a row. He knew I wasn't going to play there as I wanted to study engineering. That said, he shared his code of conduct for student-athletes and it was extremely strict. I know a few players that played under Shoop at UAB and he brought most of that code of conduct with him. It's costing him on the recruiting trail. By no means should UAB abandon the consideration of a recruit's character, but the (almost) draconian religious/conduct standards eliminates UAB from consideration from some (not all, of course) highly sought after players being recruited by other secular institutions. I have always been of the opinion that Shoop will struggle at any public university/college. He's brought many players to UAB with character that the school and fans can be proud of but there is a middle, or more moderate, ground.

We need to decide if we want to compete for Championships in baseball or not. Tightened recruiting standards hurt basketball and nearly killed football. Not saying let in murderer's and degenerates. As I stated when we were under academic restrictions, when you have more strict in standards than Princeton who is FCS you have problems. There is some middle ground that can be obtained without conflicting the core values of your program.

Coach Davis, when recruiting against Calipary at Memphis, went to our AD to ask if UAB might "meet the competition" by making a similar offer regarding NLOIs "out clauses" as Memphis was willing to do. UAB decided not to do that and the rest is history. Calipary wound up at UKY with the players in question and Davis wound up in Texas. Where would you say UAB wound up? Perhaps in irony, UAB fans agreed with the AD's stand, then began griping that Davis stayed at UAB too long after fussing that he was trying to shop himself around to leave immediately with those players.

That's just stupid. This has nothing to do with letters of intent and see how well that worked out for Memphis? They agreed to the out clause and guess what? All those recruits opted out with Calipari.

This is about relaxing Wesleyan code of conduct standards at a secular institution. As I recall, your beloved drunken bahr wound up with a top-notch QB who didn't like the code of conduct standards and all-male student body at Notre Dame.

I was speaking from the perspective of what BBHC Davis was facing on the recruiting circuit in the tactics Calipary was using at that time. Davis made his proposal based on what confronted him and UAB made its choice which Davis accepted. No one could foretell the future in how it would all work out for all the parties over the next decade.

WHAT IF UAB had taken a different tack and accepted Davis proposal? UAB might have played a year or two with Cousins and company with our program being invited into a "better conference" by the time they left. We will never know what might have been -- only what was.

Dammit. You are a former educator. Learn to spell someone's name correctly.

And you are still off topic.