And that's the fact that news and media outlets can dog us and Mullen or any other staff out for this kind of thing and we can't respond back as a university or as an athletic department because it would be a secondary violation or potentially more depending on what was said.

I understand recruiting is a big deal and it spans the nation, but there has to be some way to curb all of the recruiting articles being written that schools can't respond to. I know that would be very difficult to do, so I'm mainly just airing grievances, but to me this is crap.

Outlets can write whatever they want, get the headline now, and we can't talk about it until Virgil is enrolled in school. By that time the damage will have been done and us bringing it back up to address it only highlights the negative aspect of the circumstance even more.

I have a serious problem with outlets like ESPN and others that broadcast nationally when specific teams land recruits and commits during the football season, but it just seems like if something like this happens you are at the mercy of the media because they can say and do pretty much whatever they want and we can't say anything back.