(06-05-2016 07:37 AM)emu steve Wrote:  

(06-04-2016 08:14 PM)EagleTough Wrote:  

(06-04-2016 01:47 PM)emu steve Wrote:  

(06-04-2016 12:51 PM)EagleTough Wrote:  

(06-04-2016 09:35 AM)emu79 Wrote:  Florida DE offer:

http://www.scout.com/player/208391-donov...2016&s=343

Strange offer list with Michigan on there? Looks like he just got the offer on Friday after a Michigan satellite camp in Florida.

Bet he commits to Michigan this week.

Wow. My words exactly. I wonder if "Michigan" is an error?

I didn't see "Central Michigan".

Interesting that the list is 165 (One hundred sixty five) prospects which is absurd...

Michigan not an error, he just went to a Michigan satellite camp on Friday, did well, Harbaugh offered.

Oops, I later read that article.

I need to connect some dots on my post:

Yes, UofM 'offered' him but at this stage 'offer' doesn't mean much. It is more of a 'statement of interest' than anything else.

And to support that line of reasoning, I indicated that they have offered 165 for a max of 25 openings which means that if you offer 165 you really haven't offered anyone as the 'offers' aren't what they appear to be.

A person offers to marry two persons over a two day period. Are those valid? Could someone legally marry two persons? Or is it really a sham?

165 offers is a sham.

Not sure I follow either part of your comments.

An offer is an offer, and it means a lot. If Michigan, or anyone else, offered this kid, he could commit tomorrow and take one of their available scholarships. An offer is not a statement of interest, unless they specifically tell a kid that it is not committable at that moment subject to other conditions (usually waiting for a more preferred recruit at that position). The whole situation with Harbaugh last year was an anomaly, and a big screw job by him. He basically told kids that had already committed, that he wasn't honoring the commitments because they were offers from the previous staff, and he ended up finding more highly rated guys himself. That just doesn't happen in a normal situation. If Creighton offers a kid, and he commits, you can't just come back 2 months later and say 'sorry, I've found somebody else at your position I like better, your offer is now non committable.'

The 165 offers is not a sham either. At this stage of the game, all the schools have 100's of offers out there. If you need 25 commits, probabilities say you're going to need to court many times that number in order to land your share. If EMU wants to land 2 DE's in this class, they're probably going to have 10 offers out there. Once they land their 2, they tell most of the rest their offers are non committable, subject to staff approval, just in case their is a guy they still really like and would give a 3rd scholarship to. Sometimes the big schools will kinda screw a lower rated kid that has committed, by changing his full scholarship offer to a grayshirt offer, if a much higher rated kid wants to commit at the end of the process, and the school has no spots available. All kinds of tricks and shady stuff the Sabans and Harbaughs and Meyers of the world do to 'tweak' their rosters to fit within the 85 limit.