Carson Field Football Board

No problem, but it is discussed in the later portion of this thread:

Hey, I personally don't have an issue and maybe it deserves it's own thread... No problem.

(I do think it's comical how Jason Hall says that UC will never be allowed on the Masillon campus so long as "Jason Hall" is there...)

Someone is really trying to make this into a MAJOR issue.

I got a personal message from someone obviously close to the situation telling me Kyle Kempt decommitted only "AFTER" his scholarship was pulled. The person basically was also implying that Darrin Hinshaw was to blame for the situation.

In reality, the problem is Kyle has said on multiple occasions to multiple reporters that he was "looking around."

He also publicly said he was going to visit other schools including Tennessee if they offered.

The new UC staff obviously couldn't view Kempt's commitment as anything close to solid so they had to also "look around." When they did, Brent Stockstill jumped at the opportunity essentially ending Kempt's recruitment to UC.

Kyle then said he "decommitted" but now is saying his UC offer was pulled. That happens and we saw it happen with the former UC staff in the recruitment of Trey Kilgore (?) of St. Xavier.

I totally understand why Kyle Kempt wanted to "look around," but he can't honestly blame UC for doing the same thing. The entire recruiting system with commits, decommits, soft verbals, hard verbals, silent verbals, commitable offers, non-commitable offers and committed but looking around pledges is flawed, but trying to lay this situation at the feet of Coach Tuberville and his staff is wrong.

The Kempts, the high school coach and any other advisor also needs to take some of the blame as well as possibly the Tennessee staff. Kempt's brother is there and they contacted him evidently leading him to think the Vols might offer. maybe they still will.

There's just plenty of blame to go around for a system that is incredibly flawed.

I hope Kyle goes on and has a great career and gets a great education. I see Oregon State is showing interest, and that's where he's originally from. I think Coach Riley is a great coach and great man. I hope it works out that Kyle ends up being a Beaver, but they need to quit the kicking and screaming that they've been treated unfairly.

The problem is coaches can't speak specifically about this situation because it would border on an NCAA violation.

Is this the coach's interview?