re: In the movie "The Blind Side"

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Yeah, Briarcrest's football coach begged teh headmaster to admit Oher. Over a year later, during his junior season, Oher was still living with several different families and teammates, including the Tuohys. He was also named 1st team all-state, player of the year in his district, and called "the next great left tackle" by Lemmings before the Tuohys took him in on a permanent basis. After they took him in, they paid for private tutors and a ton of BYU online courses to get him eligible, allowing him to replace years of failed courses with just hours of work. After getting all that from the Tuohys, Oher wasn't going anywhere other than Ole Miss.

As a movie fan the embellishments and misrepresentations don't matter, but as a college football fan, they do. There have been plenty of blue chip recruits that did not qualify for other shools and NCAA rules prohibit boosters from giving them help.

Yeah, Oher's life was turned around, but what about all those other recruits that didn't make it into college? What about their stories? If the NCAA allowed what the Tuohys did for Oher than the NCAA should just do away with any rules regarding recruiting.

Oh, and Oher's coach at Briarcrest was coincidentally hired by Ole Miss afte Oher signed.

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thank you. and for all the people that say "oh, it's just a movie." well if you lived in memphis and had to listen to the slurp fest that the tuohys get every day, then obviously most don't take the movie as being just that.