I wanna give a S/O to @J_Simmons22! Hope he's a future Cavalier and can meet Deshawn McCleese in the hole every year! pic.twitter.com/IXDXvfYEb8— The Come Up (@WahooRecruiting) July 17, 2014
@WahooRecruiting @LoveBlizz @J_Simmons22 too bad it'll never happen. Lol! Better luck— Flashy (@saicko_slim) July 17, 2014
Wassup with these UVA fans/ recruiters? Lol! Clearly lost they mind— Flashy (@saicko_slim) July 17, 2014
@LoveBlizz Nah its just funny how they would put my name in it like thats gone influence dude to join their program. Lol! Ok..— Flashy (@saicko_slim) July 17, 2014
I guess thats what losing does to you..— Flashy (@saicko_slim) July 17, 2014
Its not even a rivalry.! I do this mane— Flashy (@saicko_slim) July 17, 2014
Deshawn already sounding like a Hokie. I like it.
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He'll serve the legacy of James Gayle well
and yes I used that gif because she's a UVA grad #saltinthewound
Emma
I like this Guy already. Deshawn McClease gets it. UVA sucks!
I think this thread deserves the CFB dancing gif
That was probably the best GIF of all time.
Which one?
The one with him dancing over wahoo field.
In looking for this gif I searched "beamer dancing uva gif" on Google images. Half of the images returned are from TKP. We are winning the internet.
I did find these awesome images though:
Kyle telling Beamer "Ok take it easy now"- hilarious! These are all great!
Frank would dominate Dancing With the Stars
This is what Dahvoni Simmons, the guy the UVA twitter account is trying to recruit, thinks of it:
This is why fans shouldn't twitter-recruit. You'll make a boob out of yourself. The only people who should be involved with the recruiting process are the student-athlete, the parents, and the brave men and women who've faked their own death and conduct their business on burner phones. And, to a lesser extent, coaches.
Especially if you're a fan of the 3rd-best FBS team in your state.
4th* you forgot ODU
Virginia only has 3 FBS teams, including ODU. Unless I'm strangely forgetting someone else...
Honestly... when you're talking about how crappy UVa is, you really need to consider getting some of the FCS schools like Liberty in the discussion as well
Point taken.
VT
JMU
ODU
LOLUVA
JMU hasn't moved up yet.
Don't forget the Richmond Spiders have beaten TimeCop and the Fun Bunch as well
lol boob
This is @wahoorecruiting description on Twitter:
@WahooRecruiting
"Dedicated to getting the very best athletes to come restore a program thats destined for greatness! *Not affiliated with The University of Virginia* GO HOOS!!!!"
Isn't that precious? hahaha...."Destined for greatness"???
Not in this lifetime...
So the guy isn't "affiliated" with UVA and IS making a boob out of himself.
A big milestone for me....I just hit the 3k mark in legs.
I couldn't have done it without all of you...
#TheComeUp#boob#TheComeDown
ya you know those catapult melon's... "They'll get after ya"
Did you say melons?
anytime works stressing me out.... i know my TKP friends are always there to give me a laugh and cheer me up. and for that i thank you. UP votes for everyone!!!! :)
I've seen this GIF a bunch of times. It looks like she might have been seriously hurt. Does anyone know?
Pretty sure she fractured her squeedlyspooch.
YES INVADER ZIM!!!! I thought I was the only fan of this show... Legs legs legs legs!
You're not the only one...
Can I be a mongoose dog?
Dance party.
Happened on The Amazing Race. This was attempt #1... She got back up and completed the challenge.
http://insidetv.ew.com/2010/09/27/the-amazing-race-claire-champlan-aka-watermelon-girl-talks-about-that-incredible-slap-in-the-face-by-fruit/
Alright, from .20 on wtf was that? Glad she got back and finished. What ultimately happened to her face?
I held it together for the first 3 replays... but then I shot bourbon out my nose. I don't know what it is. Why does it get funnier the more you watch it?
"Riiiiiiigggggghhhht iiiiinnn thhhe kisssssssserrrr...."
Click on the "after the smash" link. Their post-mortem of the whole thing is pretty hilarious too.
I seriously can't stop watching this....just laughed out loud at my desk, thanks for that...
I think the best part of this gif is the fact that the idiot's friends don't even care about him and just immediately start climbing back up the cliff.
You're a monster. Smdh lmao. But no, I love ya
I do find it curious... @WahooRecruiting isn't affiliated with UVa... There's another account on YouTube, something like OfficialWahooFootball or something like that who comes out with videos trolling VT all the time.
I find it very curious how these guys have very official sounding names and yet somehow aren't affiliated. Something seems a little sketchy here. I know for a fact, if you had a handle like 'HokiesFootball' or 'HokiesRecruiting' for Tech, you'd get a cease and desist very quickly, unless you cleared it with the University, first.
Something seems a little shady here.
They are Coach Fondue's handles. It's the only explanation.
Whats shady is that you're not allowed to talk about recruits by name until they sign the LOI on signing day. And yet, we have these official looking twitter handles calling out recruits by name coming across as if they're representatives of the school, with only a small disclaimer saying they're not affiliated.
I dunno... something just doesn't seem right about that.
The thing is, their Twitter account only has like 100 followers. If you look at the YouTube account you referenced, the only video with more than 100 views is the one that got posted here. The only people paying any attention to these clowns are Hokies who find their efforts humorous. If they want to subtly tie that embarrassment to their University by using words like "official" in their handles, they have my full support.
I'm just sayin... it HAS to be some sort of recruiting violation (and if its not, it coming VERY close to that edge), and UVa is absolutely foolish to not try to reign it in. There's a reason our AD is so protective over the uses of the Hokies name.
Well, I think any fan recruiting on Twitter is technically a violation, because it would be pretty easy to say these fans are boosters according to the NCAA bylaw definition. For what it's worth, there is a VT-centric account that is essentially doing the same thing.
There are two i think... @VTmaroonUNi and the blackout one. the VT maroonuni one is pretty tame to me, he/she does tweet commits though but I don't think he tweets to recruits.. However he/she has mentioned TKP a lot so it might be someone on here?
I'm pretty sure both are TKP members. I seem to remember them mentioning it on the site before
Yep. http://www.thekeyplay.com/content/2014/january/22/black-uniforms-black-f...
I wasn't going to call out the specific place where it was posted, but that's it. The cat is out of the bag
Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with any Blackout twitter handle harrasing recruits. Resume discussion.
Sure yer not. J/m
I REALLY don't want to start a whole thing about this again as it's been covered 2 or 3 times now. But anyone can tweet anyone. NCAA can't limit how people use twitter or anyone's public interaction with anyone else that is not under their bylaws. They can only fine/penalize the school (which has never happened yet) or investigate the recruit and ban them from signing an LOI or penalize them once they've signed (which has never happened without illicit benefits involved). Schools can request twitter to take down the account due to trademark which Twitter can do, but are not unilaterally obliged to do.
HERE are twitter's trademark rules:
There's a lot of ambiguity there. Because Twitter is a private corporation they can sell their product, which includes a "first come, first serve" name service. From there so long as you account for the fact that you are not actually affiliated with LOLUVA or VT then they are covered and are not obliged to act if they get a request regarding trademark. And since social media provides a public audience there are lots of ways to claim your account is actually a parody and not an infringement.
I hate to be that guy, but I'm going to respond.
I don't refute anything you said, but it seems there are restrictions in the NCAA bylaws pertaining to "representatives of athletics" (i.e. boosters), so Twitter's trademark policy becomes a moot point.
Bylaw 13.1.2.1 States:
So, per the NCAA Bylaws, a representative of athletics interests cannot recruit prospective student-athletes.
A representative of athletics interest is defined in Bylaw 13.02.14:
Most fans on Twitter would meet this criteria, if for no other reason than section e is really vague.
This issue was addressed by the Michigan compliance office a few years ago and they interpreted the bylaws the same way:
For the record, as long as the Tweets are positive and respectful and don't reflect negatively on the fan base or school, I don't care if fans Tweet at recruits, and I apologize if I've re-opened this can of worms (Plus, I'm a bagman, so it's not like I'm in a position to judge). It just seems pretty clear to me that this is covered in the NCAA's bylaws, and is technically a recruiting violation, albeit one they can't and will never enforce.
The disagreement that most people have with this policy isn't the NCAA definition of boosters, but rather that the regulation as written is unenforceable and any attempt to enforce it by public institutions runs afoul of the 14th amendment, specifically in section 1 "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States."
So if the NCAA were to come to a publicly funded school and tell them they need to do something about a fan tweeting to a prospective athlete, the most the school could do is write a strongly worded letter explaining that their actions are a violation and asking them to stop. If they want to get really serious, they could ban the fan from campus events. I would think that if they took the step of banning the fan from campus, it could lead to a lawsuit by the fan against the school, since the school as a government entity is enforcing a policy in an effort to abridge their first amendment rights to freely to speak and associate with others.
Makes sense. I have no argument against any of that.
You can be that guy, but you're wrong ;) The NCAA is not the government. No matter what bylaw they write they cannot infringe upon Twitter's own corporate governance. So I get what you're saying but none of it matters to Twitter. To them it's just white noise of some other company.
If you want to say that NCAA can classify "anyone" as a booster at their choosing, then this is also incorrect. Again no matter NCAA's bylaws unless I enter into a formal agreement with them, the school or any of their bodies I am not bound by their bylaws. (And buying merchandise or tickets is not a formal contract.) If this were the case then each and everyone one of us would be bound by the bylaws of a hundreds of thousands of corporations, institutions and in NCAA's case non-profits. The NCAA does not get some special dispensation to police the populace. It just isn't so.
So again, the NCAA has zero power to regulate my contacting another person in any way, no matter how much they want to, on twitter. They simply cannot. And the reason you have not seen the NCAA penalize any school, player or recruit simply for someone fan, alumni, student, etc for tweets sent to recruits is because they cannot infringe on that person's use of another corporate body's private property. Again the NCAA is not the government. It has no power to do these things. And if they did penalize one school, player or recruit then they would have to penalize all of them. Which means a) they would have investigations for each tweet to verify if @screwdaNCAA is really a booster or not and b) it opens them up to lawsuits from both Twitter and class action from people using Twitter. Simply will not happen.
Haha I appreciate the response. I agree with this, but to nitpick, I would say that it is still technically a violation of NCAA bylaws, even if the bylaws carry absolutely no weight in court. I could make a 5 mph speed limit sign with a paper plate and a Sharpie and post in my yard. Drivers would blow by it at speeds of up to 25 mph, and I couldn't legally do anything about it, but they would still be in violation of my sign. I do agree with your larger point, though--the NCAA can't legally regulate who fans Tweet. I'm sorry for starting up this debate again. Hopefully someday we can look back on this over a pile of burritos and laugh.
No worries dude. yes, totally agree with your point. Definitely a violation of NCAA bylaws. I think the trouble for them is how they enforce. I really don't see any way they could do that and not be in legal trouble. And they are having a hard enough time in the courts these days! haha
I think Daniel L Crandall would be that guy that would respond to legal issues, and bylaws. So you are doing the right thing.
Couldn't help but notice that the guy successfully negotiating the treadmill has a maroon shirt on.....nice work finding this one! Have a leg!
He did a little 1 -2 twirl like BUZZ did.. Wrong school but Its hate week!
Still counts, just shows he was a Hokie before he knew he was a Hokie...
to hell with WVU
And this little kid here was born to be a Wahoo...
This symbolizes the state of the UVA football program...
15 years later:
nevermind, worked. Disregard...
The guy is a clear jerk. He symbolizes everything wrong with recruiting, man what a piece of work.
UVA fans are going to hate this clown once he costs them a recruit or two.
and booommm just what we need. some twitter beef. well to have beef the other side has to at least be mediocre. so maybe its more like spam
I feel like this needs to be put on this thread
Yeah this needs to be sent or tweeted to @WahooRecruiting, stat.
My favorite ownership picture of all time. This was great.
And then when (whoever) added the Beams dancing overtop of it made it the absolute fucking BEST! The 50 pt blowout that season didn't hurt either.
Who remembers 1995 in Charlottesville when the morning after our big win, someone stenciled a 'T' next to all of the 'V's painted into the main roads through campus?!? That was one of the best gifts I could have asked for after such a huge win. The T on the field is great but to do it through the campus is legendary.
Anyone have a picture of this?
Speaking of gifts, I can't thank these guys enough.
I'd even pass on them girls...
How certain are you that they're real, actual females?
shit, pass em my way boys!
Now let's see what they are saying on the sabre. Seems like most blame the fan while some blame both sides (haha.) Also here is an article on it. IMO it's all the fans fault and anyone blaming and calling McClease and idiot or moron is just ignorant. I don't care who you are but if you attack a recruit you should get all of the blame.
I just think there was no point for mcclease to go further after the initial tweets. By the time it gets to gifs being posted you arent proving a point anymore. The wahoo is either too dumb to realize he is an idiot or trolling to get a recruit to respond.
Help me out here, how am I supposed to follow the replies in that thread?