Freeze and Dabo negative religious recruit UT

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Swain this morning saying that all schools that recruit against Vols are using the Title Nine lawsuit story against us.
Saying that Hugh Freeze and Dabo Swinney, who heavily emphasize religion in their recruiting, will really jump on Vols about not having a Christian family values culture like Ole Miss and Clemson have.
 
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Kids rarely care

Parents almost always care

It's a great strategy for those coaches that are openly Christ followers to use
 
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Win and out players into the NFL and nobody will care if your head coach worships a Flying Spaghetti Monster.

Them using religion to negative recruit is a non-issue IMO.
 
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PEPPERJAX said:
Even if Dabo and Freeze found Jesus once upon a time, they both lost him a long time ago.
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I'm sure they use about everything in recruiting. It was pretty much common knowledge here in Georgia that Mark Richt talked a lot about religion in recruiting.
I hadn't really heard that about Clemson and Ole Miss until Swain and Stokes were talking about it.
 
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PEPPERJAX said:
Even if Dabo and Freeze found Jesus once upon a time, they both lost him a long time ago.
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Wow just wow

Unreal the assumptions the sports world makes

I mean good grief our coach had self imposed penalties for waving to the crowd at a basketball game.

Breaking NCAA rules doesn't make anyone less of a Christ follower and in fact in many cases it might mean the opposite
 
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Freeze needs to quit trying to take the moral high ground considering he's got his own scandal to worry about. He needs to convince parents that he isn't a cheating dirtbag first. Tend to your own garden.
 
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BruinVol said:
Wow just wow

Unreal the assumptions the sports world makes

I mean good grief our coach had self imposed penalties for waving to the crowd at a basketball game.

Breaking NCAA rules doesn't make anyone less of a Christ follower and in fact in many cases it might mean the opposite
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Your last point isn't a bad one given that Dabo has gone about as far as a state employee can go using taxpayer money to promote his religion to his players.

If he wasn't in the Bible Belt, there's a decent chance he would've been reprimanded once or twice by now.
 
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Darth_Shiveman said:
Your last point isn't a bad one given that Dabo has gone about as far as a state employee can go using taxpayer money to promote his religion to his players.

If he wasn't in the Bible Belt, there's a decent chance he would've been reprimanded once or twice by now.
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Yep for Dabo for sure it's not just recruiting he actually does push the envelop and really tries to impact his players in this way
 
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BruinVol said:
Wow just wow

Unreal the assumptions the sports world makes

I mean good grief our coach had self imposed penalties for waving to the crowd at a basketball game.

Breaking NCAA rules doesn't make anyone less of a Christ follower and in fact in many cases it might mean the opposite
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Struck a nerve? My apologies.
 
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Vfl2407 said:
I'm sure they use about everything in recruiting. It was pretty much common knowledge here in Georgia that Mark Richt talked a lot about religion in recruiting.
I hadn't really heard that about Clemson and Ole Miss until Swain and Stokes were talking about it.
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At least Mark Richt is who he says he is even behind closed doors
 
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Being a minister I will say without reservation, that more damage is done to the cause of Christ by proclaimed "Christians" using it as a vehicle for selfish gain, than anything else. They leave a slimy trail of broken faith, distrust and cynicism behind. Once someone's innocent faith has been broken, it is almost impossible to win them back.
 
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Ulysees E. McGill said:
Being a minister I will say without reservation, that more damage is done to the cause of Christ by proclaimed "Christians" using it as a vehicle for selfish gain, than anything else. They leave a slimy trail of broken faith, distrust and cynicism behind. Once someone's innocent faith has been broken, it is almost impossible to win them back.
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So a coach that doesn't act "Christlike" at all times is causing destruction when they proclaim their faith?


If you don't follow freeze on twitter I would love for your take as a minister of his tweets. Does it come off to you as a man all about personal gain by pushing his faith
 
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Ulysees E. McGill said:
Being a minister I will say without reservation, that more damage is done to the cause of Christ by proclaimed "Christians" using it as a vehicle for selfish gain, than anything else. They leave a slimy trail of broken faith, distrust and cynicism behind. Once someone's innocent faith has been broken, it is almost impossible to win them back.
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This. It's so cringey sometimes.
 
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BruinVol said:
So a coach that doesn't act "Christlike" at all times is causing destruction when they proclaim their faith?


If you don't follow freeze on twitter I would love for your take as a minister of his tweets. Does it come off to you as a man all about personal gain by pushing his faith
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He's saying that more damage is done by the "Chrisitians" that use their religion for selfish gain.

ziti beat me to it.
 
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BruinVol said:
Wow just wow

Unreal the assumptions the sports world makes

I mean good grief our coach had self imposed penalties for waving to the crowd at a basketball game.

Breaking NCAA rules doesn't make anyone less of a Christ follower and in fact in many cases it might mean the opposite
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That makes absolutely no sense.
 
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