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Recruiting Is Fun, Honest: UCLA Recruit Requests An Innocent Layover

By: Magnolia Tribune - December 9, 2008

Recruiting Is Fun, Honest: UCLA Recruit Requests An Innocent Layover

Recruiting in college football should creep you out, since it combines elements of our society universally regarded as skeevy: the judging element of a beauty pageant, the uncomfortable ooze of a sales pitch, the paranoia and demands of stage mothers/fathers, and worst of all, outright fraud and corruption. Take paying players out of the equation — as college does by rule — then you have what is effectively a black market for gifted young athletes looking for somewhere to ply their craft and hone their talent.

sportingnews.com
12/9/08

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