HIgh School Coach bans Purdue from recruiting on campus

[KPENN]

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[Ironman8]

Wow, feel terrible for that kid. Awesome that the coach is making a stand on his behalf and standing up for what he believes is right. Refreshing to see.

 

[Lou Holtz]

Danny Hope is killing Purdue football

 

[InKellyITrust]

Awesome story. The funny thing is that potential recruits from outside of that area will hear about this story as well.

 

[phork]

While I love what they did in their response, good luck holding it up.

 

[BGIF]

Awesome story. The funny thing is that potential recruits from outside of that area will hear about this story as well.

They got verbals on 1/22/11 from a pair of Florida kids.

 

[InKellyITrust]

They got verbals on 1/22/11 from a pair of Florida kids.

I think I would choose Purdue against the likes of Duke, Kansas, Memphis, Ole Miss and UCF too.

 

[fightincolts]

Good for that coach. You have to defend your players no matter what situation they're in and where they stand in it. The second that coach backs down and lets Purdue screw around with this kid, thats the second the coach loses all respect from the kid and probably teammates. The Purdouchebags are just scared to commit their time to a kid who has potential, but has a bad knee that can be repaired just because it happened to another one of their players. If they were at all smart, they would realize Robert Marve has a much different physique then this kid and therefore their knees will heal and repair different ways.

 

[Praytorian]

I think I would put Duke on the same level with Purdue academically, if not a bit higher.

 

[IrishLax]

I think I would put Duke on the same level with Purdue academically, if not a bit higher.

Purdue isn't even close to Duke. It is night and day the kind of kid that gets into Duke versus Purdue.

 

[IrishLax]

This story, for the first time ever, makes me actually dislike Purdue. I used to just find it funny how every engineer I encounter from Purdue has an over inflated sense of self worth... but this is just so classless I have lost all respect for that institution.

 

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

Purdue sucks at everything forever.

 

[irishpat183]

This is a shame for this kid..but let me offer another perspective. Purdue has a case here. While the timing isn't the best, they have 4 kids on the team with the same injury. Who's to say this kid will EVER recover? Look at Hummel, that guy can't keep he knee healthy to save his life.

I understand the screwball situation, but I also can't blame Purdue for not wanting to give a scholarship to a kid that might not ever see the field.

Good luck to the kid. I hope he has a healthy college career and rubs it in Purdue's faces.

 

[rikkitikki08]

I have hated everything about purdue since the game 2 years ago when rudy caught the game winning TD...fans and students threw cups of whatever they had at me and my 63 year old dad simply because we had ND jerseys on. I had respect for that university until that day

 

[OCIrish]

Purdue sucks at everything forever.

Not so fast my friend.....They have a top notch vet program for both large and small animals. While everything athletic I will root like hell against Purdue, their vet and engineering schools are great.

 

[OCIrish]

While I dislike and disagree with what coach Hope did, it is his program to run and he needs to do what he feels is best for the program. I certainly applaud the HS Coach and hope he sticks to his guns and doesn't let the Purdue coaches back on his campus.

 

[Sweetness34]

Danny Hope is an idiot, it won't be long until he is out of Purdue. You don't treat people like that. How do you expect to get great players there when they see how you just treated this young man. Karma is a b****. I wish the best for the young man.

 

[kmoose]

Good for that coach. You have to defend your players no matter what situation they're in and where they stand in it.

Really? So Randy Moss' high school coach should have "stood up" for him, when Lou Holtz informed him that ND would not be able to offer him a scholarship? I mean, look at what a good guy Moss turned out to be. And Lawrence Phillips, too. Perhaps those are bad examples because they are behavioral and not injury situations, like this one, but blindly supporting these kids is what has given many of them the sense of entitlement that most people have come to abhor in the last decade or so.

 

[fightincolts]

Really? So Randy Moss' high school coach should have "stood up" for him, when Lou Holtz informed him that ND would not be able to offer him a scholarship? I mean, look at what a good guy Moss turned out to be. And Lawrence Phillips, too. Perhaps those are bad examples because they are behavioral and not injury situations, like this one, but blindly supporting these kids is what has given many of them the sense of entitlement that most people have come to abhor in the last decade or so.

That is totally different. If Holtz had offered Moss a scholarship and he committed, and then Lou Holtz said well actually...we can't then it's a different ball game. Hope ****ed around with this kid, and inevitably lost out on a lot of talent and a good school.

 

[DillonHall]

I think I would put Duke on the same level with Purdue academically, if not a bit higher.

LOL

 

[kmoose]

That is totally different. If Holtz had offered Moss a scholarship and he committed, and then Lou Holtz said well actually...we can't then it's a different ball game. Hope ****ed around with this kid, and inevitably lost out on a lot of talent and a good school.

Actually, that's almost exactly what happened. Holtz had offered Moss (who already had some legal issues while in High School) a scholarship, and then Moss
went out and got busted for marijuana. At least I think it was the marijuana charge; there was an assault charge (the result of a rumble, if I remember correctly) in there somewhere, but I can't remember the exact timeline. It was at that point that Holtz informed Moss that he no longer could help him get through admissions at ND, and withdrew the scholarship offer.

 

[DillonHall]

If players can decommit, why can't coaches pull scholarships?

BTW, I think this sucks for the kid and I hope that our coaches would never do something like this.

 

[fightincolts]

Actually, that's almost exactly what happened. Holtz had offered Moss (who already had some legal issues while in High School) a scholarship, and then Moss
went out and got busted for marijuana. At least I think it was the marijuana charge; there was an assault charge (the result of a rumble, if I remember correctly) in there somewhere, but I can't remember the exact timeline. It was at that point that Holtz informed Moss that he no longer could help him get through admissions at ND, and withdrew the scholarship offer.

That was to protect the reputation of the school, not because Moss had a bad knee. Holtz wanted the best characters and athletes, not thugs that are good athletes. I'm sure if Moss had a bit of a bad knee w/o all the legal trouble, Holtz still would've offered him a scholarship and not retracted it.

 

[irishff1014]

This could back fire for the kids that actually play there. If someone really wants to go to Purdue then the coach their might say no thnaks.

 

[mick2]

6 foot 160, he could add a few punds and be a db in our system, sign him up!!

 

[Legacy]

What a load. The only way this makes sense (and probably to the coach, too) is that Purdue was ready to take a chance on a kid that had talent and was rehabing - and then they got other prospects. Hope was in a numbers crunch and dumped this kid with this excuse.

Scholarships, as we all know, are for one year. If the kid can't play or gets reinjured, then he is on a medical scholarship. Purdue only takes chances on him year by year. Talk to the doctors and trainers if they have questions.

With a pending small class and scholarships filling up in Dec where one site said they had two scholarships left to give, Purdue dumped this kid and accepted one commitment on 12/14 and four more after 1/1.

HS Coach: "Purdon't come back here."