Another year and the program would of been DEAD!maheo30;n196187 said:Muschamp under-recruited? I refuse to believe such nonsense. Another year he'd have turned it around.
There is a huge difference between an "offer" and a "commitable offer". Most offers are contingent on certain things, usually including camping, meeting with coaches etc.Jand3k;n195881 said:How do you offer, in one year, 60+ when you can only accept 25?
Law98gator;n196386 said:There is a huge difference between an "offer" and a "commitable offer". Most offers are contingent on certain things, usually including camping, meeting with coaches etc.
crosscreekcooter;n196161 said:Schools offer a lot of athletes each year. The difference is usually whether they are actually commitable offers, offers loaded with contingencies. Like IF you stay in school and graduate with certain credits, and IF you stay out of trouble, and IF you don't suffer any serious injury during your high school career, and IF we don't sign any players at your position that we deem better than you (which unfortunately may happen on National signing day)
Marianna said:In 2013 UF only offered 56 players from the state, 2014 UF offered 60. In the 16 class UF has already offered 64 from the state so I think it's safe to say Mac is focusing on recruiting the state.
About 2/3 of the offers were for the defensive side of the ball. Lol!The Original DC;n196438 said:And of the 56 and 60, I'd guess about 40 of them were defensive players both years.
Marianna said:No link, just research i done myself. It's not that hard to count who received a offer from UF in the state and who didn't.
Jand3k;n195881 said:How do you offer, in one year, 60+ when you can only accept 25?
They both get pretty much whoever they want so I doubt they had to offer a 100+ kids.TLB;n197077 said:Yeah, blew me away. I knew we offered more than available, just like other schools, but I had not idea it was that many. I didn't bother to look at what schools like FSU or ALA offered.
The reality, of course: an offer that is not committable is not an true offer. It's a mere expression of interest by the school in the recruit.
Kids with supposed verbal offers are rejected all the time when they attempt to commit. Fans rarely hear about it since schools are prohibited by NCAA rule from speaking about recruits to the media, recruits are the only source of this sort of news. On the record, at least. And most recruits, out of fear of embarrassment, won't publicly admit that they've been rejected by a school to which they hold a verbal offer.
Early next month will be a particularly big evaluation period for quarterback prospects, whose offers are not committable until Saban sees them work in person in Tuscaloosa. "It is our philosophy at certain positions that we really like to learn a lot about players and one of the best ways to learn about a player is when they come and visit you, because you're limited in terms of the contact you can have with them off-campus," Saban said. "To get some of them to come here in the summer I think is a really big tool in evaluation as well as an opportunity to get to know guys, to see if they have the right character and attitude to fit in your program."