(06-09-2013 08:42 PM)Coopdaddy67 Wrote:  

(06-09-2013 05:37 PM)Bearhawkeye Wrote:  Well I doubt anyone actually forced any of them to commit. Change your comment to "until they sign on the dotted line" and it's a fair point -albeit it's obviously a point that can be said about any school. But let me ask this: shouldn't the same concept apply to the "woe is UC" crew? Should they save their doom and gloom recruiting comments (which obviously inspired my post and can be seen throughout this thread) until after signing day?

As rath pointed out, your post doesn't make much sense because his offer list doesn't include any ACC schools.

Doesn't make sense? So you don't think a Big 10 offer is at least roughly equivalent to an ACC offer? And as I clearly pointed out, but seems to have been ignored, my point was much broader than one player.

Quote: "Interest" doesn't mean much of anything either.
The only way you know an offer is legitimate is if they accept your commitment, which is what the "woe is UC" (as you named them) crowd can look at. So while I don't think you can look at a recruiting class until signing day, mainly because a commitment has become a placeholder of sorts in the recruiting game, you can get a general idea of how UC views their recruiting based on who they'll accept commits from this early on in the process.

The real test for UC is what happens if/when UC commits blow up and get offers from major conference programs during or after their senior season. Will they stick around? Who knows, but it's going to be a hell of a lot tougher given the current conference situation. The Alabama's of the world don't have to really worry about that, UC does.

Thanks for explaining recruiting to me, but I think you need some perspective. What makes you think UC is the only school that has to worry about commitments following through? Again as I said, it's a threat AND opportunity everywhere, for a variety of reasons, regardless of conference. I hate to ruin your smug pessimism, but yeah that even includes ALABAMA (which I presume qualifies as one of the "Alabama's of the world" if that "makes sense").

Quote:All part of the game?
Tide both won and lost in the commitment flipping arena in 2013
Updated: February 19, 2013, 10:03 AM ET
By Alex Scarborough
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- No one is immune to the discombobulated nature of recruiting. Not the University of Alabama, despite back-to-back No. 1-ranked classes. Not Nick Saban, who has coached college football for the better part of three decades....

....Alabama saw Andy Dodd, Artie Burns and DeMarcus Walker go back on their pledge and sign elsewhere in 2013.

A fluke? Well before that it looks like it was: Justin Thomas, Brent Calloway, and Keenan Allen who decommitted from Alabama. I won't even bring up Alabama de-commit and current UC commit Casey Gladney since he attended JUCO in the interim. And that's just based on a quick check.

UC simply can't win with some of you. If they get no commitments, it's because nobody wants to play in the AAC. If they get a commitment, even from players with BCS opportunities (like 3/4 of our HS commits and 6/8 overall), the first comments from some of you are doubts about the viability of other opportunities and/or doubts that they will follow through if they are any good. Nobody is claiming UC has it easy or even that UC is going to have a Top 10 class. But there are doom and gloomers repeatedly saying we won't get anybody worthwhile and need to get used to it. As I said, and as you seem intent upon ignoring except from a negative perspective, I'm fine with waiting to see how it all ends up.