'10 OK ATH Demarco Cobbs

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#927
i think the freedom of speach supercedes that,i also think a.the ncca dont or wont chase every fan down for this,as well the rules are screwed up .fans unless the donate are just fans.ncca meet constition. if i have mispelled iam srry
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bigvol77 said:
i think the freedom of speach supercedes that,i also think a.the ncca dont or wont chase every fan down for this,as well the rules are screwed up .fans unless the donate are just fans.ncca meet constition. if i have mispelled iam srry
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Ya think? Go ask Kentucky about that. As far as the NCAA is concerned if you got to a UT game, buy anything with UT on it, you are a booster.

Talking to recruits on facebook is just stupid. There is no reason at all anyone on here needs to be adding them. They will never be your friend outside of that. If you are a student who met them or knows them some other way then sure, but the average joe who follows recruiting has no reason at all to look these kids up and "add" them and have any kind of conversation. Its just asking for trouble and is just plain creepy.


Edit: http://www.volnation.com/forum/tenn...ng-very-important-you-recruiting-junkies.html

Didn't see that till after I posted.
 
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#931
Demarcos a nice kid, it doesn't surprise me that he didn't mind talking.
 
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head1 said:
Ya think? Go ask Kentucky about that. As far as the NCAA is concerned if you got to a UT game, buy anything with UT on it, you are a booster.

Talking to recruits on facebook is just stupid. There is no reason at all anyone on here needs to be adding them. They will never be your friend outside of that. If you are a student who met them or knows them some other way then sure, but the average joe who follows recruiting has no reason at all to look these kids up and "add" them and have any kind of conversation. Its just asking for trouble and is just plain creepy.


Edit: http://www.volnation.com/forum/tenn...ng-very-important-you-recruiting-junkies.html

Didn't see that till after I posted.
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I dont think the NCAA will do anything about it. They didn't do anything when UK fans were stalking and begging Patrick Patterson day after day, hour after hour on his myspace site to come to UK. There were even newspaper articles about what was going on and the NCAA did nothing. If UK fans can get away with something like that then I dont see why fans of other teams wouldn't.
 
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head1 said:
Talking to recruits on facebook is just stupid. There is no reason at all anyone on here needs to be adding them. They will never be your friend outside of that. If you are a student who met them or knows them some other way then sure, but the average joe who follows recruiting has no reason at all to look these kids up and "add" them and have any kind of conversation. Its just asking for trouble and is just plain creepy.
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...And to go along with that adding people you don't know, just in general, is just kinda weird! I mean facebook makes it so easy for everyone to know what's going on in your personal life with news feed, status updates, pictures, et al... So FYI, lay off the adding of strangers (recruits) and don't be weird! haha :)
 
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#934
Wow, it's nice to see such a close-minded state of mind coming out of TN. It's a social networking site! What do you expect? People add people that they want to know/know more about.

Nobody should be stalking recruits or harassing anybody but if the kids were not open to contact then they would have their page private or wouldn't have a FB page.

I'm trying to decide if it is more lame to stalk people on FB or to constantly complain about who/how people are in contact with each other on FB.

If you think it's weird then don't go on Facebook. Otherwise, these recruits can take care of themselves and decide on who they want to have contact with.

There is now way the NCAA is going to start implementing punishments because Joe Blow has season tickets and FB messaged a UT recruit. This is all getting a little silly when grown men are criticizing college kids for networking.

People really are too worried about what everybody else is doing like a bunch of old women who have nothing better to do.
 
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Midfielder10 said:
Yeah, because you've proven to be not a douche bag...
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Yeah, there isn't anything borderline stalking, creepy, or just plain stupid about talking to some 17 or 18 year old kid because he may choose to play football for a team you are a fan of. I mean get a life, dude. Seriously, it's pathetic. Let them have privacy.

It's like a guy I know who told me about one of his friends facebook friending Bryce Brown, then sending him a message asking what number he was going to wear so he could buy his 4 year old kid a jersey. What the f ever, dude. That is just plane creepy and sad. I think talking to them in general when you don't know them is just plain sad.
 
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MTSUDaff said:
Yeah, there isn't anything borderline stalking, creepy, or just plain stupid about talking to some 17 or 18 year old kid because he may choose to play football for a team you are a fan of. I mean get a life, dude. Seriously, it's pathetic. Let them have privacy.

It's like a guy I know who told me about one of his friends facebook friending Bryce Brown, then sending him a message asking what number he was going to wear so he could buy his 4 year old kid a jersey. What the f ever, dude. That is just plane creepy and sad. I think talking to them in general when you don't know them is just plain sad.
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yeah, this guy pretty much sums it up. :good!:
 
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MTSUDaff said:
Yeah, there isn't anything borderline stalking, creepy, or just plain stupid about talking to some 17 or 18 year old kid because he may choose to play football for a team you are a fan of. I mean get a life, dude. Seriously, it's pathetic. Let them have privacy.

It's like a guy I know who told me about one of his friends facebook friending Bryce Brown, then sending him a message asking what number he was going to wear so he could buy his 4 year old kid a jersey. What the f ever, dude. That is just plane creepy and sad. I think talking to them in general when you don't know them is just plain sad.
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utvols20 said:
yeah, this guy pretty much sums it up. :good!:
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This mentality is exactly why I love living in Florida. People in FL are much more open to making friends and being social. Everyone is on FB, even people in their 30,40s,50s and 60s. It's a social networking tool that helps you stay in touch with friends/family and helps other people make friends or follow people they are interested in that they might not have contact with any other way.

Personally, I barely use Facebook except to stay in touch with people from High School or from back home.
But that doesn't mean that it isn't ok for people to make friends with recruits or anyone else in any form of media.

The people talking about it being creepy sound like they have been watching too many episodes of Dateline. You act like these recruits have no control over who they talk to, add as a contact or allow to remain a contact if that person is annnoying them.

These recruits are still just young people who are probably pretty open to meeting or having contact with other young people, potential fans and all kinds of people. If they aren't open to that then they will choose to have private accounts and won't allow people to intrude on their privacy.

Those that don't set it to private and ACCEPT friend requests from strangers are inviting that contact. Why not use Facebook as a way to get to know some of your classmates and the fanbase of your future school? This is why it is very important for people to act with class and keep in mind that they are representing the entire university in any contact they have with a recruit.

The last thing that we need is an unemotional, unaivalable fanbase and student body when dealing with recruits. Why do we paint the rock when recruits are on campus? We are trying to show them some love!

How the F is it so wrong for people to show recruits some love online when that contact is openly invited by the recruit? :crazy:

Any violation of NCAA rules is another matter but do we really see the NCAA busting schools because a season ticket holder messaged a recruit on Facebook? That would be all-time stupid even for the NCAA.
 
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gainesvol82 said:
This mentality is exactly why I love living in Florida. People in FL are much more open to making friends and being social. Everyone is on FB, even people in their 30,40s,50s and 60s. It's a social networking tool that helps you stay in touch with friends/family and helps other people make friends or follow people they are interested in that they might not have contact with any other way.

Personally, I barely use Facebook except to stay in touch with people from High School or from back home.
But that doesn't mean that it isn't ok for people to make friends with recruits or anyone else in any form of media.

The people talking about it being creepy sound like they have been watching too many episodes of Dateline. You act like these recruits have no control over who they talk to, add as a contact or allow to remain a contact if that person is annnoying them.

These recruits are still just young people who are probably pretty open to meeting or having contact with other young people, potential fans and all kinds of people. If they aren't open to that then they will choose to have private accounts and won't allow people to intrude on their privacy.

Those that don't set it to private and ACCEPT friend requests from strangers are inviting that contact. Why not use Facebook as a way to get to know some of your classmates and the fanbase of your future school? This is why it is very important for people to act with class and keep in mind that they are representing the entire university in any contact they have with a recruit.

The last thing that we need is an unemotional, unaivalable fanbase and student body when dealing with recruits. Why do we paint the rock when recruits are on campus? We are trying to show them some love!

How the F is it so wrong for people to show recruits some love online when that contact is openly invited by the recruit? :crazy:

Any violation of NCAA rules is another matter but do we really see the NCAA busting schools because a season ticket holder messaged a recruit on Facebook? That would be all-time stupid even for the NCAA.
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I agree with all of that. Well said.
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#941
gainesvol82 said:
This mentality is exactly why I love living in Florida. People in FL are much more open to making friends and being social. Everyone is on FB, even people in their 30,40s,50s and 60s. It's a social networking tool that helps you stay in touch with friends/family and helps other people make friends or follow people they are interested in that they might not have contact with any other way.

Personally, I barely use Facebook except to stay in touch with people from High School or from back home.
But that doesn't mean that it isn't ok for people to make friends with recruits or anyone else in any form of media.

The people talking about it being creepy sound like they have been watching too many episodes of Dateline. You act like these recruits have no control over who they talk to, add as a contact or allow to remain a contact if that person is annnoying them.

These recruits are still just young people who are probably pretty open to meeting or having contact with other young people, potential fans and all kinds of people. If they aren't open to that then they will choose to have private accounts and won't allow people to intrude on their privacy.

Those that don't set it to private and ACCEPT friend requests from strangers are inviting that contact. Why not use Facebook as a way to get to know some of your classmates and the fanbase of your future school? This is why it is very important for people to act with class and keep in mind that they are representing the entire university in any contact they have with a recruit.

The last thing that we need is an unemotional, unaivalable fanbase and student body when dealing with recruits. Why do we paint the rock when recruits are on campus? We are trying to show them some love!

How the F is it so wrong for people to show recruits some love online when that contact is openly invited by the recruit? :crazy:

Any violation of NCAA rules is another matter but do we really see the NCAA busting schools because a season ticket holder messaged a recruit on Facebook? That would be all-time stupid even for the NCAA.
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I agree with everything you said. I do think some people in Tennessee are still backward when it comes to meeting new people, things like that, etc...and yeah the creepy comments and all that garbage do sound rather "Dateline-ish" to me.
 
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#942
Obviously, I could not disagree more. I will reiterate..... 17 and 18 year old kids who you will never meet or hang out with. Creepy...

EDIT: And "people in Tennessee" are a lot of the people doing this. A region of the country has nothing to do with why people do what they do.
 
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MTSUDaff said:
Obviously, I could not disagree more. I will reiterate..... 17 and 18 year old kids who you will never meet or hang out with. Creepy...

EDIT: And "people in Tennessee" are a lot of the people doing this. A region of the country has nothing to do with why people do what they do.
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It absolutely has to do with how people act. What is looked at as being "weird" in some areas is socially acceptable in others.

I grew up in TN and trust me when I tell you that FL is a much more socially accepting state. Nobody really cares what anybody else is doing unless it harms them.

From experience, a lot of close-minded people in TN care how you wear your hair, the color of the person you date's skin and all kinds of other personal aspects of your life that really don't concern them.

I brought my black roommate back home to visit family in Halls and Powell. We took him to visit my wife's Grandmother in the St. Mary's assisted living center. You could hear the gasps when we all stepped off the elevator and the room went deathly quiet while everyone stared with their mouth's open. 10 mins later a worker for the community came and told my wife's grandmother that they would prefer we "not bring the colored fellow back."

You run into that a lot less here in FL and that is just one of many examples I can give you. I love East TN but I hate the redneck mentality of a lot of the people.

I guess it's just boredom that makes people give a flying F what other people do.
 
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gainesvol82 said:
It absolutely has to do with how people act. What is looked at as being "weird" in some areas is socially acceptable in others.

I grew up in TN and trust me when I tell you that FL is a much more socially accepting state. Nobody really cares what anybody else is doing unless it harms them.

From experience, a lot of close-minded people in TN care how you wear your hair, the color of the person you date's skin and all kinds of other personal aspects of your life that really don't concern them.

I brought my black roommate back home to visit family in Halls and Powell. We took him to visit my wife's Grandmother in the St. Mary's assisted living center. You could hear the gasps when we all stepped off the elevator and the room went deathly quiet while everyone stared with their mouth's open. 10 mins later a worker for the community came and told my wife's grandmother that they would prefer we "not bring the colored fellow back."

You run into that a lot less here in FL and that is just one of many examples I can give you. I love East TN but I hate the redneck mentality of a lot of the people.

I guess it's just boredom that makes people give a flying F what other people do.
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It is boredom or the fact that they aren't happy with their lives so they feel the need to ***** and complain about everything everyone else does. Either way, parts of Tennessee are without a doubt very much backwards, especially among the 'billies and there are a lot of them.
 
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The funny part of it is the the bored people who contact these prospects, not for friendship but to post on some board that they think they got some info. It is one thing to connect with others. As others have pointed out to keep contact with friends or family out of the area. We all come to these forum boards to get updated info that we hope has some validity. The issue is people that are so desperate to get info or to brag to gain credibilty obsess to the point as to befriend these prospects. If you want to be a friend than so be it, but this discussion is about people who take their so called new friendship and overstep their boundaries to report information. I guess it makes them feel good to do this, but to each his own. Some do it some don't.
 
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gainesvol82 said:
It absolutely has to do with how people act. What is looked at as being "weird" in some areas is socially acceptable in others.

I grew up in TN and trust me when I tell you that FL is a much more socially accepting state. Nobody really cares what anybody else is doing unless it harms them.

From experience, a lot of close-minded people in TN care how you wear your hair, the color of the person you date's skin and all kinds of other personal aspects of your life that really don't concern them.

I brought my black roommate back home to visit family in Halls and Powell. We took him to visit my wife's Grandmother in the St. Mary's assisted living center. You could hear the gasps when we all stepped off the elevator and the room went deathly quiet while everyone stared with their mouth's open. 10 mins later a worker for the community came and told my wife's grandmother that they would prefer we "not bring the colored fellow back."

You run into that a lot less here in FL and that is just one of many examples I can give you. I love East TN but I hate the redneck mentality of a lot of the people.

I guess it's just boredom that makes people give a flying F what other people do.
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Just a little info about the openness of FL. All states have these groups and people but FL is the third highest for Hate Groups in the country.

SPLCenter.org: Hate Groups Map
 
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Yes, you are right about this being a Cobbs thread. As a Bama fan I believe that Cobbs is UT bound. Who knows when he will commit, but I do believe it will be UT. I think he will enjoy his season and visits, but as of right now I believe he knows that UT is the place for him. Adding him with Ambles and Milton will be a nice class. Not to mention any QB will look good with these targets to throw to.
 
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gainesvol82 said:
It absolutely has to do with how people act. What is looked at as being "weird" in some areas is socially acceptable in others.

I grew up in TN and trust me when I tell you that FL is a much more socially accepting state. Nobody really cares what anybody else is doing unless it harms them.

From experience, a lot of close-minded people in TN care how you wear your hair, the color of the person you date's skin and all kinds of other personal aspects of your life that really don't concern them.

I brought my black roommate back home to visit family in Halls and Powell. We took him to visit my wife's Grandmother in the St. Mary's assisted living center. You could hear the gasps when we all stepped off the elevator and the room went deathly quiet while everyone stared with their mouth's open. 10 mins later a worker for the community came and told my wife's grandmother that they would prefer we "not bring the colored fellow back."

You run into that a lot less here in FL and that is just one of many examples I can give you. I love East TN but I hate the redneck mentality of a lot of the people.

I guess it's just boredom that makes people give a flying F what other people do.
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I lived in Florida for a few years and disagree with a lot of what you said. First thing that stood out is the hair thing, in Florida if you don't have a half a gallon of gel you get looked at. The racism is just as bad. I lived in Daytona Beach and I am assuming you live/lived in Gainsville the two areas are very similar except Daytona probably gets more tourist. I lived in Halls growing up probably the area with the most racial tension in the Knoxville area and Florida was just as bad except that the were more black people and they look at the white folks just like the white folks look at the black folks in east TN. I just did not get the same impression as you at all. I actually thought that Florida had way more Redneck mentality.
 
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