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Dutch wrote:

ebrooks11 wrote:Why would she tweet that two hours ago? What relevance does it have now?

because the article on scout just posted a few hours ago. even though it should have been posted 2 weeks ago.

It was from an interview she did yesterday with him. Just sayin.

Seriously, raise your hand if you really did not think this was going on in December. This is old news.

jtstang wrote:Seriously, raise your hand if you really did not think this was going on in December. This is old news.

That is when the incident occurred but to my understanding but it was just speculation then. Now from all indications it is not speculation.

As much as saying "the sun will rise in the east tomorrow" is speculation.

jtstang wrote:Not going to happen. You really think Orsini and the boosters who paid his salary didn't know this was happening back then? It didn't matter to them enough then to do anything about it, and it won't now either, I'm betting.

It wasn't public knowledge. Do you really think that Penn State would have continued providing an office for Sandusky had their knowledge about his actions become public knowledge?

Its posted because it had been speculated on by so many SMU fans. This is some confirmation. Personally to me I think everything is fair in Love and Recruiting but I'd agree its a little shady. Not going to lose much sleep about it though

CalallenStang wrote:

jtstang wrote:Not going to happen. You really think Orsini and the boosters who paid his salary didn't know this was happening back then? It didn't matter to them enough then to do anything about it, and it won't now either, I'm betting.

It wasn't public knowledge. Do you really think that Penn State would have continued providing an office for Sandusky had their knowledge about his actions become public knowledge?

Well that's an apples-to-apples comparison. And it was public knowledge to anyone with a lick of sense.

jtstang wrote:

CalallenStang wrote:

jtstang wrote:Not going to happen. You really think Orsini and the boosters who paid his salary didn't know this was happening back then? It didn't matter to them enough then to do anything about it, and it won't now either, I'm betting.

It wasn't public knowledge. Do you really think that Penn State would have continued providing an office for Sandusky had their knowledge about his actions become public knowledge?

Well that's an apples-to-apples comparison. And it was public knowledge to anyone with a lick of sense.

I know, but most around here didn't have a lick of sense.

And forgive the comparison...was just trying to illustrate that decisions are often different if there is public pressure

Stallion wrote:Some people would rather hear the home team spin even when it is wrong

SAT Analogy....

Stallion : Laken ::

94 : Kate

No wonder there's a thread about what we're drinking!!

This really is old news. Gabe Marks said as much when the whole thing went down. The other recruit who switched to Nebraska was pretty direct evidence, etc. etc. etc. Let's move on for the sake of SMU.

mustangxc wrote:This really is old news. Gabe Marks said as much when the whole thing went down. The other recruit who switched to Nebraska was pretty direct evidence, etc. etc. etc. Let's move on for the sake of SMU.

+1

Dutch wrote:this is such a tired, waste of time discussion.

Exactly. What are we accomplishing here.

Can we close this thread? I keep coming back thinking someone may have added something interesting/worth reading, but I am disappointed each time.

Here's the facts. The only player we lost that really mattered was Marks. All of the others were 2 and 3 star players. True, they would have helped us, but they are replaceable. In fact, I say we still have our best 2012 recruits outside of Marks. I haven't seen these kids play, but I wrote somewhere earlier that Lewis was probably too small to be a big asset. I base this on past experience of watching 150 to 160 lb, 5'10" high school wonders. Hulick is a 2 star lineman. I'll bet you we can get several of those after 'Signing Day'. As for UCLA, if they are playing big boy ball (PAC12) and counting on 2 and 3 star recruits then they are going to have a hard time winning many games.

On that note, we could have used all of those guys, no doubt. But, SMU needs some 4 and 5 star recruits. I will get a lot more excited about 4 and 5 * guys then the ones we did loose (except for Marks).