IS A SMOKE MACHINE A SECONDARY VIOLATION?
by Orson on Jan 21, 2009 5:10 PM EST
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PrintThe University of Washington may have committed a secondary violation of NCAA recruiting rules when they decided to get soooooooo METAL with their visiting recruits over the weekend:
Specifically, the athletic department is investigating whether a violation occurred when the school set up a mock "game-day entrance'' for recruits, simulating running out of the tunnel at Husky Stadium that included smoke and noise.
These "gameday simulations" are against this rule in particular, and if it is determined that Washington's tunnel entrance equalled anything like that specified in the rules, they will self-report, self-discipline, and self-spank themselves over the whole affair, no NCAA or big whoopin' sticks needed.
What we wonder was: Was it realistic? Did it include the sound of five hundred fans wailing in unison, or did it feature "cheering," something unheard at Washington for the better part of five years now? Did it look like Richard Pryor playing "death metal" and handing out bags of pills to teenagers before gunning them down? Because we'd really like to show you what that looks like. Oh, look, here: a clip of that very thing.
If it looked like that, then the Steve Sarkisian era is off to a more awesome start than we could have imagined.
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These gameday simulations ….mmm Tyrone Willinghams whole career was then in violation since it was one big simulation of football….I think they have suffered enuff…..
by Mr. Pelican Pants on Jan 21, 2009 5:19 PM EST reply actions
They laid a litany of upturned rakes just outside the tunnel so the recruits could really get the full effect.
http://www.videosift.com/video/InfamousClassic-Sideshow-Bob-Rake-Scene
by Ray on Jan 21, 2009 5:37 PM EST reply actions
I was hoping it was a Spinal Tap clip but alas. I was also praying for the guy who descended with the wings to be light on fire by the pyro towers. I was disappointed in that too. At 45, all my dreams .. all my dreams … gone. Does anyone know how I can apply to get medicinal marijuana in Virginia?
by pfhokie on Jan 21, 2009 5:43 PM EST reply actions
@pfhokie:
Actually, that guy was set on fire, but ala crack-pipe, unassisted.
by NRBQ on Jan 21, 2009 7:26 PM EST reply actions
IIRC, Big Tex committed a similar infraction while recruiting a scrawny QB named Johnny Walker back in 1988.
by gingerballs on Jan 22, 2009 2:16 AM EST reply actions
When smoke machines are outlawed, only outlaws will have smoke machines.
by Doug on Jan 22, 2009 8:12 AM EST reply actions
We get live with it.
by Jason Richardson, a.k.a. the Purple Nightmare. on Jan 22, 2009 8:40 AM EST reply actions
We did the same thing at Clemson my freshman year with recruiting Sean Taylor, an OL who later committed to Tennessee.
by DrB on Jan 22, 2009 3:06 PM EST reply actions
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