2020 Macadoodle's Mailbag: 26th Edition
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Every week, PowerMizzou.com publisher Gabe DeArmond answers questions from Tiger fans in the mailbag. This format allows for a more expansive answer than a message board post. Keep your eye out each week to submit your question for the mailbag or send them to powermizzou@gmail.com. On to this week's inquiries.
ragarm asks: Given all the various comments that we make on this board about recruits, it makes me wonder. 1) Do you give any access to the premium board to any recruits?2) How do you see "guaranteeing" to be done among college athletes, especially at Mizzou?
GD: 1) It is an NCAA violation for me to provide free access to recruits. They're welcome to pay and either they or their family members often do, but a free membership is not permissible.
2) I don't know what you mean by "guaranteeing."
longhorns1231 asks: Do you ever get tired of probably 90% of the questions you get are asking you to predict the future? Like predicting the future was easy.
GD: Of all the things that have changed about journalism, the one I hate most is this idea that we should be fortune tellers. And there's blame for it on both sides. The truth is, people don't read to find out what happened anymore. They already know what happened either because they watched it themselves or it was on Twitter the second it happened. They're reading to find out what it means and what's going to happen. One of my favorite phrases is "I won't hold you to this, but..."
There's blame on our side too. Nobody wants to say "I don't know" anymore. It's okay to say that. Sometimes it's the best thing you can say. Because a lot of times, we really don't know. What's going to happen in three days or three weeks or three months or three years? If I knew that, I'd fly to Vegas and be rich and I wouldn't be here answering questions. But I don't know is an answer that irritates people and so we commit to an answer when the truth is we really don't have any idea.
That was the long answer to your question. The short answer is yes.
Bear_P_I asks: You've been doing this for a while, and things have obviously changed in covering HS recruits since you started....Name some things that you miss about the "old days", and some things that you definitely do not miss.
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