What in the holy hell did Scott Stricklin do to some of you?

[Political Hack]

Learfield is awful.

[FlabLoser]

I believe Alabama uses Learfield.

My aunt says Ford is awful. She got bad deal at a Ford dealership.

Maybe its in the negotiatin'.

[DownwardDawg]

He has fought for the cowbell. He gets credit for that!

[maroonmania]

Bracky Brett has been our Head of Compliance since 2002, Stricklin's only been AD since what, 2010? Brett is not Stricklin's fault completely.

Here is the deal, if the internet chatter is to be believed, it was SS who decided that our basketball program's recruiting tactics had to be "cleaned up" (even though we have had NO NCAA issues). LT didn't decide that, GB didn't decide that, apparently SS in all his wisdom decided that. So this is an issue of compliance putting us behind the 8 ball to try and compete in the sport of basketball but doesn't even directly link to Bracky. Whatever Stans did to attract players he did the whole time with Bracky as the compliance director so, for basketball, Bracky is NOT the primary issue.

[smootness]

Here is the deal, if the internet chatter is to be believed, it was SS who decided that our basketball program's recruiting tactics had to be "cleaned up" (even though we have had NO NCAA issues). LT didn't decide that, GB didn't decide that, apparently SS in all his wisdom decided that. So this is an issue of compliance putting us behind the 8 ball to try and compete in the sport of basketball but doesn't even directly link to Bracky. Whatever Stans did to attract players he did the whole time with Bracky as the compliance director so, for basketball, Bracky is NOT the primary issue.

I think, 'if the internet chatter is to be believed' is the primary statement in this post.

We either have some of the most well-connected people in the State athletic department posting on State message boards all day, or we have rumors and conjecture that has been allowed to run wild and has now been perceived as fact that can not be questioned.

Well, I question it. I don't know who anyone is on any of these boards, and I'm certainly not well-connected, so I will remain skeptical of any statement that is made on these boards as coming from 'inside knowledge'. I'm not saying it's not true, but there's no way for me to know, so I'm going to make my judgements on what I see, not what an anonymous person tells me is true.

[maroonmania]

I think, 'if the internet chatter is to be believed' is the primary statement in this post.

We either have some of the most well-connected people in the State athletic department posting on State message boards all day, or we have rumors and conjecture that has been allowed to run wild and has now been perceived as fact that can not be questioned.

Well, I question it. I don't know who anyone is on any of these boards, and I'm certainly not well-connected, so I will remain skeptical of any statement that is made on these boards as coming from 'inside knowledge'. I'm not saying it's not true, but there's no way for me to know, so I'm going to make my judgements on what I see, not what an anonymous person tells me is true.

Well I'm with you there, I certainly can't definitively say what's true and what's not true relative to our basketball hire either. What I CAN say is that so far Ray's recruiting has been lackluster at best. Is that because of the "recruiting philosophy change"? I don't know, I just know that if our recruiting doesn't significantly improve we can pretty much write off basketball as a sport we can be competitive in.

[Goat Holder]

if the internet chatter is to be believed

Come on, buddy.

Then you go off on Ray's recrootin in your next post. Agenda much? Just stop, you're embarrassing yourself. Many people in this thread are.

[Goat Holder]

He fights all the time on MSU's behalf, and does it very diplomatically. Some of your are either too young or too stupid to realize this. Sure, it sounds cool for our AD to go to B'ham and punch Slive in the face, but it doesn't work that way. Stricklin does a great job of standing up for MSU while keeping us in cahoots with the SEC. You have to play the game to an extent.

[maroonmania]

Come on, buddy.

Then you go off on Ray's recrootin in your next post. Agenda much? Just stop, you're embarrassing yourself. Many people in this thread are.

So I need an AGENDA to state that Ray's recruiting has been lackluster at best? Buddy, I don't really know what to say for you other than wake up and look at where we are with the situation. I want Ray to succeed but he has to have some players to do it.