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Excerpt
from Bonesville.net The Magazine
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Do keyboard
jockeys
impact recruiting?
©2002
Bonesville.net
The Magazine
By Ron Cherubini
If you follow the Internet message boards during
recruiting season, a few things quickly become apparent:
• A lot of fans have an intense interest in this
aspect of college football.
• There is no shortage of differing opinions
about recruits, the programs which recruit them and the ploys and tactics of
the recruiting process.
• The message board format almost begs for the
eruption of no-holds-barred arguments over the talents, virtues, and
aptitudes of 17-to-19-year old boys.
In parallel, on these same message boards, there are participants who plead
for discretion, admonishing those posters who get a little carried away with
the commentary about individual players and their abilities.
These virtual wrist slaps inevitably lead to debate as
to whether or not commentary on message boards is read by the actual players
whose names are being held on high — or dragged through the dirt.
In short, do players give a damn about what is said on the message boards?
What follows is by no means scientific. It does, however, give some insight
into how a group of young men — this year’s East Carolina recruiting class —
feel about those comments they read or hear about second hand on message
boards...
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02/23/2007 04:00:43 PM
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