Stones cast in glass houses

[Bretski]

Not suggesting anything... but ESPN doesn't offer tours to the general public. Anybody off the street just can't walk up and request a tour... you have to know an employee who then requests the tour for you, which is then given by a tour guide (or somebody with a corner office if it's a VIP tour).. "regular" employees are no longer even allowed to give tours. Security issues caused ESPN to really tighten it up.

Like literally thousands of other people, I have had a tour of ESPN (i'm from Bristol originally). It wasn't particularly hard to do in the 90s/early 00s. Nowadays...different story.

Dukie V and Digger were eating chips in a conference room. Lots of boring hallways. The sets were cool though

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

Wow, I really hope you are just kidding.--- but if you aren't, recruiting is crazier than I thought.

Actually, I know of most of those, back when they were ok (I didn't know they weren't any more, actually).

One of RU's minor violations was they set up a locker with the PSA's name on a jersey - this was ok at the time, but it coincided with a tour of the locker-room for fans, who of course were not supposed to see the display. PSA went elsewhere in any case. It would not have been ok to give the PSA the jersey, but at the time having it on display for her was perfectly ok.

Yeah, Tennessee dropped a scholarship offer from their interior blimp at some point. It was in an article about recruiting practices of the day - article included having the players on the team lay on the floor spelling out the recruits name (not sure of the school on that one). Coaches behaving with much silliness in the article, in addition to Pat, were actually Sherri Coale and Marsha Sharp, Rene Portland and probably some others. At least some of the coaches interviewed were complaining about what they had to do to "keep up with the Jones" if you will, which may have led to some of the current restrictions.

 

[Paesano]

Smoke...fire. I guess we now know how Tenn is still pulling in monster classes.

 

[LesMis89]

One of my favorite recruiting stories was when the school put pink flamingos in the PSA's yard. IIRC, that also was Ann Strother and the coach was Andy Landers. I think the fake flamingos had some message attached to their bills or something like that.

 

[DaddyChoc]

Maya has keys to ESPN these days