[NU Sports] Recruiting

[Dennis W. Brandt]

> The article was pretty vague in its summary of the "rule," which is really 
> just an extra bureaucratic step, and it led to an incorrect assumption on 
> your part.
>
> It's not harming our recruiting in any real way, nor does it make our 
> football or basketball teams lose games they ought to win. All it does is 
> make sure we don't flunk Compliance 101. That's far more important to me 
> than anything else.

So you are saying that before Joe Paterno enters the house of any potential 
recruit that that kid must have applied for entrance into Penn State first? 
Than any blue-chip kid pursued by a dozen universities has to first apply to 
all the schools who want to visit him?  I find that hard to believe. 
Neither do I believe that trying to sell your school to a kid is, by 
definition, an unsavory act or automatically is equated to the previously 
mentioned alleged practices of SEC schools.