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Originally Posted by rockyroad
But you will probably boo more against a player who first says he will go to Michigan and then changes that later - right? Especially if that player makes a big show out of it and has a big media circus surrounding the whole changing and signing thing, than if the kid just quietly signed with Ohio State or Purdue or whoever...
And that's my point. When these "big name" athletes and their families do all this media-grabbing, they have to expect that there will be the negative sides to that also.
Just to be clear, since we seem to have some people on this thread who didn't do so well in their reading comprehension classes, the idiots who were talked about in the article should be dealt with. But the booing and catcalls should be expected by the people who put themselves out there.
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For the record I am going to boo them because they are going to Ohio State. And who cares about Purdue, we beat them all the time anyway.
And I do not agree about the term "media grabbing." The media is in their face anyway. I go to games during the summer with some of the "bigger names" and it is amazing who is in their face from the Dad to the siblings. And now that high school games are on national TV, the media is even more in their face. Kevin Love played a game in California and there was so much hype around the game, fire codes were violated and the game was delayed for about 45 minutes. I do not think he brought that on himself, the media made a connection and anything the kid did was under a microscope.
Peace