Posted by lvnwrth on 2/9/2015 6:30:00 PM (view original):
Posted by johnnyf on 2/6/2015 12:10:00 PM (view original):
Posted by lvnwrth on 2/6/2015 9:45:00 AM (view original):
Hmmm...wondering about all this...and what you do with this one:
When Randy Moss was dismissed from the Notre Dame football team, Lou Holtz called his friend, Bobby Bowden, and told him he should give Moss a chance to start over with a clean slate at Florida State. Collusion?
How would that be collusion? Nothing being agreed to here.
Johnnyf....your response is my point, exactly. If another coach asks me, "Are you still interested in Johnny Fumble?" and I reply, "Nope." what is being agreed to? No one has ever asked me that, and I have never asked or answered such a sitemail. But, I really don't see a problem there.
Except we're not talking about a recruit here that FSU and Notre Dame discussed. Moss was declared a transfer since he signed a LOI with Notre Dame and Holtz(or whomever, Holtz now denies that he did) pulled the scholarship offer afterwards. So Holtz(or whomever) calling Bowden suggesting that he should give Moss a chance is in no way, no how collusion. Collusion in this situation would be Bowden calling Holtz asking him to give a chance to get Moss as a transfer and telling Moss that he would block transfers to any other school by FSU. But since there's no transfer system in this game, two coaches can't collude about a player who can't switch teams.
Now in your second example, with one coach calling another about Johnny Fumble, if he's an uncommitted recruit then that would be collusion by WIS standards.