First and foremost, thank you for all the positive feedback. It feels good to finally have some football back in our lives.
On that note, let's introduce THE BEST COLLEGE FOOTBALL TICKER EVER MADE:
That's right, folks, WERE IN THE SINGLE DIGITS. SINGLE. DIGITS.
No more baseball, no more Olympics, no more shower rape, no more T.O. Dr. Phil child support hit him with a sock full of quarters and keep hitting him and keep hitting him....
Nope, we're about to enter the most magical time of the year. The time of year where my insufferable fanboy behavior skyrockets into an explosion of gossamer teardrops in the sky.
So, without further ado, let's get to The Wood.
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| The 'Tee Pee' |
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IF YOU AIN'T CROOTIN' YOU AIN'T TRYIN' PAWWWWWWLLLLLLL
I follow recruiting. Yes, this makes me a douchebag. Caring about the movements of 16 and 17-year-old kids makes me two steps away from showing up on a Chris Hansen barstool, but I can't help it. I like to see how my team is getting better. I like to see how the competition stacks up as well.
Over the last five years, however, recruiting has taken a sharp turn from "Hey, I'm just passionate about my team and I want to know it's future players..." to "HEY, I FOLLOW YOU ON TWITTER, FACEBOOK, TUMBLR, PINTEREST (do guys Pinterest?) AND REMEMBER THAT ONE TIME YOU ACCIDENTALLY TWEETED OUT YOUR PHONE NUMBER WHEN YOU THOUGHT YOU WERE DIRECT MESSAGING, LOL, YEAH I WROTE THAT DOWN AND PUT IT NEXT TO MY HAIR DOLL OF YOU."
Look, I get it. It's a business. In fact, you easily make the argument that there are roughly thousands of people in the field of internet journalism that have managed to maintain a stable income in that tire fire of a career choice (sets his BA in Journalism on fire). I first found out about Rivals back in 2002. It was big then. It's even bigger now. Competing with Rivals is Scout, 247Sports (Former Rivals bros) MaxPreps and ESPN High School. ESPN has started making 'Nation' pages and employing people from each nation site to follow a school's recruitment. (What up, @TomVH)
A Georgia fan called a recruit. It happened. This is not a joke. This is not a 'The Onion' headline. A Georgia Bulldog fan actually had the sack to call up a recruit to check on the kids' recruitment status with the team. I can't make this shit up.
This is when social media goes wrong. The advent and growth of Twitter and Facebook make people who we shouldn't have access to widely accessible. On opposite sides of the spectrum are idiots like "GO DWAGS!" guy calling the recruit and scumbags trolling high school kids based on their school choice and people who follow the people who are paid to track recruiting. I think I sit somewhere in the far right, near the bloggers and writers who follow the recruits because it's their job and it feed their family. They do an amazing job of providing unbiased reporting and that's why I seek my information from them. I've never tweeted a recruit. It's an NCAA violation.
Crazies are going to ruin it for the rest of the mildly crazy. So, UGA fan, if you're ever considering calling a recruit again to feed that dead spot in your brain that lacks common sense, I offer you this as something to mentally masturbate to instead: Aaron Murray using a shake weight.
Now jerk off to that, you lucky so-and-so. Leave the kids alone.
/fin
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