[NU Sports] Recruiting

[Eric West]

On 1/13/2011 12:15 PM, Dennis W. Brandt wrote:
>> 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.

I don't recall mentioning Joe Paterno at all in my message above, nor 
claiming anything else that you are talking about. But if you wish to 
pretend that the "rule" is something that it isn't, based on a vague 
reference in a newspaper article by a reporter who surely does not have 
all the facts, that is your privilege.


Eric West
e-west at northwestern.edu