THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, January 7, 2010
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three Tennessee recruits It can become very ex- vestigations. the east coast? (answer
were playing. The comely pensive - and hurtful to Ideally, coaches will “do follows).
co-eds reportedly held innocent people. Why the right thing” on their Sportsquote
by mike moffett
up signs saying “Come to should the mother of a own. And if they need “We lost some mighty
Contributing Writer
Tennessee!” high school football player prodding, let the prods good boys from last year
The salient question have to sit through an be applied unofficially by because of paroles, but,
involves how much the interrogation by an NCAA students, parents, alumni crime being what it is,
Sports Hostesses hostesses may have been investigator concerning and the media. Not by we’ve picked up some
Last month the New coerced to travel to South how much contact her special investigators. good ones since then,
York Times reported that Carolina. 18-year-old son may have We just need fewer rules too.” - Joe Kirkpatrick, on
the NCAA is conducting It’s interesting. Perhaps had with a university stu- and more personal re- coaching the Oklahoma
a wide-ranging investiga- the hostesses were caught dent? sponsibility. The way it State Penitentiary basket-
tion into the University up in school spirit and But what if institutions used to be in N.H. ball team
of Tennessee’s football made the trip on their like the University of Ten- Live free or die!
recruiting practices, ac- own, to support the uni- nessee’s football program Sportsquiz Answer
cording to interviews with versity’s cause. It may are engaging in unethical Born Today ... Following the attack on
several prospects, their have been untoward, but conduct? … on January 7, 1800, Pearl Harbor, the 1942
family members and high was it illegal? Did it some- The better answer is was Millard Fillmore, the Rose Bowl Game was
school administrators. how violate one of the simply to shine some light 13th U.S. President, the moved to Duke Univer-
Part of the investigation NCAA’s countless recruit- on these practices. Even- immediate predecessor to sity’s Wallace Wade Sta-
is focused on the use of ing standards? tually most people will do New Hampshire’s Franklin dium in Durham, North
recruiting hostesses who That all needs to be de- the right thing, especially Pierce, the 14th Chief Ex- Carolina, as officials were
have become folk heroes termined. if they’re under scrutiny. ecutive. Pierce was born wary of allowing such a
on Tennessee Internet The NCAA has unleashed This is why an indepen- in Hillsborough, N.H., large crowd to congregate
message boards for their numerous investigators dent media is so impor- now home of the HDHS anywhere on the West
ability to help lure top who are interviewing (in- tant. Hillcats. Coast due to World War II
recruits. terrogating?) Tennessee Just do away with crap- security concerns.
This is not a new issue. officials, hostesses, high py rules. It can be done. Sportsquiz
College coaches have long school players, and their Like when the Reagan Since the first Rose Bowl A Professor of Sports
utilized pretty girls to pro- parents. Administration dropped football game in 1902, Management at NHTI, Con-
vide campus tours for pro- If you saw the wonderful the so-called “Fairness that classic gridiron event cord’s Community College,
spective recruits. There is movie “Blind Side” then Doctrine” and free speech has been played in south- Michael Moffett has just
no shortage of stories of you’ll recall a scene near subsequently flourished ern California every year been recalled to active
17-year-old high school the end of the film where on the airwaves. except one. What year duty by the Marine Corps.
boys falling in love with an NCAA investigator is Let the football coach re- was the game played on
21-year-old hostesses hounding a young high spond to a reporter, rath-
during campus visits and school football player and er than an investigator.
then subsequently enroll- his adopted parents on And woe to the coach who
ing at those schools. Of why he chose to go to col- won’t talk to the press!
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