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Post by rmcalhoun on Jul 28, 2017 21:30:40 GMT -6
Hope this link will work
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Post by BSU Card Fan in AZ on Jul 29, 2017 7:17:08 GMT -6
Wow, interesting. So if a guy says yes, I'm in, does the school then say, "yes, until we get a better response"?
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Post by bsutony on Jul 29, 2017 7:56:39 GMT -6
If you are offering 400 kids, they can't feel too special to get an offer. Interesting strategy, but I think some of those teams would be better off narrowing it down and focusing on the players they really want and think they can get.
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Post by rmcalhoun on Jul 29, 2017 8:21:11 GMT -6
Wow, interesting. So if a guy says yes, I'm in, does the school then say, "yes, until we get a better response"? They could and sometimes that might be the case but that gets your school and staff a really bad name. Most schools do what they can to "honor a verbal". No school has to accept your verbal though. This really affects the kids who wait around till the last month waiting on that dream school. If it does not come most schools have filled up. The kid may then have 15 offers but no school with any room to take them. |
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Post by rmcalhoun on Jul 29, 2017 8:22:05 GMT -6
I do not have the numbers in front of me but I would guess BSU has 150 ish offers out
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Post by BSUMike on Jul 29, 2017 9:21:07 GMT -6
I always wondered about this. It must be a huge challenge for the coaching staff trying to decide how many offers to make and to which players. You have to know that most of them will not commit to your school. On one hand, you want to make offers to the best players, but you also have to be realistic. No sense in offering the top player in Alabama. However, this system can and sometimes does benefit us I imagine. The big guys can't sign everyone.
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Post by cardfan on Jul 29, 2017 10:42:58 GMT -6
What we have to do in some cases is identify good talent like the Georgia kids we got late last year who are holding out for that big time "committable" offer that most likely isn't coming. By Feb most of their other options have moved on and there we are, offering them a good opportunity. Won't always work, but when it does we get good players.
The other risk is getting verbals in June from kids who haven't blown up yet and then sweating out all interest they get later. Lembo alleviated that by mostly only pursuing the low hanging fruit--the non Mac level players, with a handful of good talent mixed in.
Recruiting is just a crap shoot and I can't imagine my job being based on it.
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