(10-06-2021 05:36 PM)TGTiger Wrote:  

(10-06-2021 02:08 PM)macgar32 Wrote:  

(10-06-2021 10:26 AM)Tiger87 Wrote:  

(10-06-2021 09:55 AM)macgar32 Wrote:  

(10-06-2021 09:39 AM)Tiger87 Wrote:  Nah, issues is Memphis swooped in and landed 2 lotto guys. Not an eyelash would have been batted had UK landed these guys and a booster was running around saying how much he was paying them.

We see this every time Memphis lands a top guy in basketball (Wiseman, Rose, Wagner, even Keith Lee). We are held to a different standard - and sometimes investigated.

Our local paper reported the FedEx stuff.

Yeah, but are they the only local media in the country throwing out NIL names? You know not. Yet that is the only one we hear about.

Different standard.

Honestly I have seen things about Miami guaranteeing deals...I have heard about local shops offering deals...Other schools papers may throw out NIL names (haven't seen them) but it really isn't a national story without a top 5 recruiting class to go along with it.

I have heard Saban vaguely hint at deals his players get

But I have not heard of other schools...But I honestly don't follow other schools like that...And also since I am plugged into Memphis some of the stories I do see may not be National.

Saban’s QB was already committed when he got the NIL so Saban had every right to say what kind of NIL deal he got - it actually helps recruiting (not that Alabama needs help).

The fundamental difference is timing. People were implying an NIL FedEx deal was the reason Penny pulled in a big class and they were implying a) that Penny used FedEx NIL $ to win the kids over (not true and a recruiting violation) and b) that $ was the sole reason for the recruits deciding on Memphis.

In short it was a smear campaign.

I don't know if it was meant to be a smear campaign, but it was false. This article is simply one more example of the original media report being falsely perpetuated.

The original report was put out by Joe Tipton, the guy who does graphics for commitment announcements, who recently got a reporting job. Somebody at FedEx refuted his story, and he deleted that part, but didn't really issue a retraction, iirc.