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Moorehead is the adult and the professional in the situation, and should act accordingly. Period.

That is badass! Is that legal on boats offshore or in the bay (weather permitting)? Awesome tool for the arsenal.

But you cant give a coach you plan on playing for your word and then back off of it, that tells a lot about a person right there

Coaches do that to players ALL THE TIME

Right? Wrong? It's definitely interesting to hear him judging others for their loyalty. Regardless, I can't believe he went to that level and honestly, I am embarrassed for the guy. This is not going to escape him any time soon. Bad decision.

I completely agree, I just didn't want to overstate my case. I would like to see the NCAA ban non-commitable offers. It's a sleazy practice to send out an official-looking offer letter that relies on sketchy wording to give the program an escape hatch. Verbally saying if things work out, there will be a place for a recruit is one thing; at least then you know until you have that paper in your hand, you don't have an offer. But no recruit should have to go through what Hoshun Gaines had to go through. (In his recruitment, not his recent possession charge.)

At least we expect them to be bad. It's the Nats that are the baseball equivalent to the Caps, with the best records and no playoff wins.

Agree with you 100%. Nobody is held accountable for anything anymore. Even in high school you should know better than to "commit" somewhere if you think you are going to change your mind later, whether its a new scholarship or whatever. Coaching changes and things like that are a little different. But you cant give a coach you plan on playing for your word and then back off of it, that tells a lot about a person right there. Just because they are young doesnt mean they shouldnt have any sense of whats the right way to do something and a wrong way.

It's a VERBAL commitment.

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That's why. As one of the recruits said....

2.Commitment: an engagement or obligation that restricts freedom of action.
"business commitments"
synonyms: responsibility, obligation, duty, tie, liability; More

One thing that should be brought up about point #2 is that the people running concessions are often schools, teams, churches, etc. from the Blacksburg community. VT provides them the opportunity to use the leverage of a football game to earn some much-needed cash in the best way to do it. This talk of VT Dining taking over concessions would require some changes to that operation, unless VT Dining were to literally just replace the food and still allow volunteers to sell it. But I don't see that happening; maintaining sales of cheap hot dogs and nachos is a lot easier than making a West End wrap.

Most verbal contracts are binding (if it was believed both sides). Houses are actually a carved out exception to that law.

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