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Post by wildcat1997 on May 15, 2017 17:14:21 GMT -6
WR/S Rusty Rudd from Oklahoma has been offered.
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Post by wildcat1997 on May 16, 2017 20:29:09 GMT -6
DE Cameron Valentine has been offered.
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Post by wildcat1997 on May 17, 2017 18:44:20 GMT -6
OL Kameron King has been offered.
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Post by bogeyman on May 17, 2017 20:18:38 GMT -6
The offers just keep coming. I talked to one of the Coastal Carolina coaches tonight at church and he said CC has about 80 offers out right now to current juniors (seniors next year).
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Post by wildcat1997 on May 17, 2017 20:56:25 GMT -6
The offers just keep coming. I talked to one of the Coastal Carolina coaches tonight at church and he said CC has about 80 offers out right now to current juniors (seniors next year). If you're interested I found this tweet that lists the # of offers given by P5 schools. It's a little out of date but It's interesting to see the wide disparity in offers by school. Iowa State is the highest at 334 and Stanford is the lowest at 27.
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Post by wildcat1997 on May 17, 2017 20:59:38 GMT -6
OL Trace Oldner has been offered.
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Post by bogeyman on May 17, 2017 21:25:25 GMT -6
Wow. 334 offers from Iowa State. I guess numbers don't equate to success.
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Post by wildcat1997 on May 18, 2017 18:12:36 GMT -6
OL Kylar Cooks has been offered.
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Post by wildcat1997 on May 18, 2017 21:37:20 GMT -6
DL Dennis Osagiede has been offered.
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Post by OscarWildeCat, Admin on May 21, 2017 13:16:36 GMT -6
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Post by Cap'n on May 21, 2017 17:17:48 GMT -6
I was really surprised and confused by the vast number of offers until 1997 posted the number of offers from the various schools around. Since offers are not binding, I guess this plays to the prospect's ego and is designed to get commitments as early as possible - also not binding.
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Post by OscarWildeCat, Admin on May 21, 2017 17:35:12 GMT -6
I was really surprised and confused by the vast number of offers until 1997 posted the number of offers from the various schools around. Since offers are not binding, I guess this plays to the prospect's ego and is designed to get commitments as early as possible - also not binding. There seems to exist two fundamentally different approaches to recruiting--get the offers out early and often or later and more conservatively. Our previous staff was of the latter camp. It appears our current staff falls squarely in the former group. What's different this year is the early signing period. If a G5 or P5 school offers 200 kids, obviously they have a number of "back ups" in this number. Kids they want to keep hanging around until their prime targets decide one way or the other. Come December, if a kid submits his letter of intent and it isn't accepted by the offering school, he will know he is a back up and may want to accept an offer from a FCS program rather than waiting around to see if a big school gets serious about him in the spring.
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Post by Cap'n on May 21, 2017 18:07:05 GMT -6
So Oscar, it works out that at the larger schools, most "offers" are not offers at all - they are hedge funds full of naive teenagers.
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Post by OscarWildeCat, Admin on May 21, 2017 18:16:09 GMT -6
So Oscar, it works out that at the larger schools, most "offers" are not offers at all - they are hedge funds full of naive teenagers. Exactly. If a school like Iowa State has already extended 300 offers and there is a cap of 85 total, they couldn't possibly accept more than 30-35 incoming freshmen even with a lot of attrition from previous classes. So about 270 of those offers aren't real. They are as you put it so well--hedge funds. We want to keep you around kid, in case the kid/s we really want goes somewhere else. With the early signing period, naive kids will find out for sure whether they are back up insurance or if their school of choice is serious about them. This should help FCS schools a lot, and it is no wonder schools like Alabama are now saying they don't like the early signing period. Of course they don't. Bama has been able to string dozens, may hundreds of kids along until the last minute in the past. Recruiting doublespeak works both ways though. Offers by schools aren't really offers and commitments by athletes aren't really commitments. edited to add: I checked the number of reported offers by each FBS school. Stanford is the only FBS program that could possibly honor all its offers (27). Virtually every other FBS program would be in serious trouble with the NCAA is they passed out a scholly to every kid they have offered. Not sure even Alabama ever had 330 kids on scholarship back in the day before the NCAA imposed limits....
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Post by OscarWildeCat, Admin on May 23, 2017 10:22:58 GMT -6
It seems not all kids are naive. There are those like Unique Bissett whose whole recruiting story was fiction. Kind of funny that when he announced he had narrowed his list to 7 schools, fan forums from those schools did stories about him or retweeted his announcement. None of those schools had actually offered him and 247 no longer lists him as a 3 Star recruit. ACU was not on Unique's short list but in light of our conversation about recruiting in general I posted it here. Also, after all the bad news we have had lately we/I need a chuckle. www.saturdaydownsouth.com/sec-football/fake-recruit-causes-confusion-releasing-top-8-impressive-highlight-reel/
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