Ohio State cannot continue to recruit a highly ranked player.....

[droner]

.........because they let him visit with an ESPN Gameday member. Who was it? Why it was Herbie.

http://www.espn.com/college-sports/recruiting/football/story/_/id/21817816/ohio-state-buckeyes-report-recruiting-violation-involving-micah-parsons-college-gameday-visit

[volsboy]

NCAA has so many rules that are head scratchers. So does this mean if the kid really, really still wants to be a Buckeye, they can't sign him? Hmm.

[BanditVol]

.........because they let him visit with an ESPN Gameday member. Who was it? Why it was Herbie.

http://www.espn.com/college-sports/recruiting/football/story/_/id/21817816/ohio-state-buckeyes-report-recruiting-violation-involving-micah-parsons-college-gameday-visit

In fairness, the NCAA rules are complex and this violation apparently involved an exception to an existing rule (a recruit can visit a former player but not one in the media).

But...really funny this happened to Herbie.     Maybe Big Al or John Henderson can go meet with this kid and get him to Tennessee 

[JeffCountyVolFan]

From what I understand, the violation was not that he met with Herbstreit.  The kid told the coaches that he wanted to go to see the Gameday event.  One of the assitant coaches took the kid to the site, but went further in that he got the player access to actually go on the set. The violation was that he was taken onto the set of Gameday - something that the average person doesn't have access to do.  I very well could have heard this incorrectly, but that is what I heard explained on ESPN.

[Tnphil]

Geno gets his UConn recruits tours of the ESPN facilities. I guess that's ok

[BanditVol]

From what I understand, the violation was not that he met with Herbstreit.  The kid told the coaches that he wanted to go to see the Gameday event.  One of the assitant coaches took the kid to the site, but went further in that he got the player access to actually go on the set. The violation was that he was taken onto the set of Gameday - something that the average person doesn't have access to do.  I very well could have heard this incorrectly, but that is what I heard explained on ESPN.

ESPN/Herbstreit CYA

[JeffCountyVolFan]

ESPN/Herbstreit CYA

After reading several other articles on this incident, it  seems that you are most likely completely accurate, Bandit.