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Originally Posted by Cornerback6
Maybe it's just me, but it seems like Virginia has offered everyone in the nation from the '08 class. Which prompts my question(s).
How much stock do you all put in being the 1st to offer? I personally think it makes very little to no difference for 95% of recruits.
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I think this is just the nature of the beast, that a kid that is gettitng all these offers you basically have to offer if you want a chance or the kid will feel slighted that you are not as interested as the other schools, unless of course it is an Ohio kid or a state school kid that has always had the dream of staying home and playing for the home state school.
Also I think that the first school holds weight if you sit on that offer fro a month or more, but if you get the first offer and then a couple more that day or the following week, I don't think the first offer matters much...
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On a similar note, is it just me or does it seems that recruiting has gotten significantly more cut throat every year with school's basically pushing each other to continue to offer more athletes earlier and earlier every season? How far will it go I wonder? I don't ever remember tOSU putting out this many official offers (seemingly at least) this early in the past.
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Well I don't think that it is going to go any farher than the first day that the juniors can be officially offered, but some kids are no brainers, but the problem has become schools that don't have the recruiting power of schools like tOSU, scUM, USC, Texas, Florida, etc. have to offer all these kids early to even have a real chance to get any of these kids, b/c lets say that Iowa comes with an offer say 3 months after you already received an offer from tOSU and Michigan are you going to mull over that offer or just pass it off as thanks, but no thanks, now if the roles are reversed you feel that Iowa showed early interest in you and have been with you from the beginning b4 you really blew up...
For an 18 yr. old kid you might compare this to say a g/f situation. If a decent looking girl asks you out, and you start dating her for about 3 months and then the smokin' hot girl of the school comes and ask you out 3 months later, you will for sure think about it, but if the hot girl comes to you early, you don't even think about the decent looking girl...