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02-08-2005, 03:29 PM
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Buckeyes still #1 with me!
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02-08-2005, 03:47 PM
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Verbal Early or Verbal Later
If I had the big talent and was highly sought .....
I would visit other campuses, even if I had a favorite with a nice blend of athletics, academics and social life. You just never know what's out there.
I would filter all my recruiting phone calls through my high school coach or parents and I would never, and I mean never, engage in any discussions with any media recruiting services.
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02-08-2005, 04:25 PM
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I would take all my visits. I had the chance to go with Steve down to Miami (Fl.) for camp. I wouldn't have minded to find out how an Offical went down there.
When you commit early you get most coaches off your back, but you still have the one's who really want you to come to their school still calling. You also seem to drop in your recruiting rankings.... not that people look at Lemmings to seriously now a days.
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02-08-2005, 04:30 PM
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I would be one that loves the attention... I would talk to all the internet recruit rumor mongerers and the radio/newpaper guys. Of course I would get down to between Ohio State, USC, and Notre Dame. Then... as I shuffle between hats rip off my jacket and announce that I am going to Athens to play for the Ohio University Bobcats and Frank Solich.
Of course in the news 2 years later people in Columbus will be happy they didn't get the kid that went to Athens as I have been kicked off the team for binge drinking and an incident regarding a bachelor party and a rumored video tape of a huge orgy with him being the star. 
Hey, I know my limits... I wasn't a good football player so why hurt the Ohio State football team... plus I did enjoy my 4 years of drinking down in Athens.
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02-08-2005, 04:32 PM
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Give a Silent Verbal to Coach T and take the following trips
1) USC need to check out the Song Girls
2) Texas - need to see Austin
3) the sh*thole up North - so I can waste their $$$ and laugh at them
4) Miami - see what all this Florida Speed is
5) tOSU last visit and sign then
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02-08-2005, 04:51 PM
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Herbie for President
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I'd commit if it was the school I really wanted to attend. If my only options were MAC level schools I'd wait to see if something better came along. (although if a good school was filling up, and that school was my top choice of offers outstanding, I'd prob. verbal to that school to secure a spot... ie. if Duke offered and I only had offers from Ohio U, Miami, Toledo, BG, and Duke... I'd verbal to Duke if their class was filling up/my position was filling up).
If I ever received an offer from Stanford, I'd verbal on the spot. Nothing like the second best education in the nation free of charge  ...
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02-08-2005, 04:54 PM
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We'll know how far that program has fallen the minute Gbear does get a Stanford offer.
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02-08-2005, 05:04 PM
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The coaches, as opposed to the recruiting services, push for early verbals. If you were a Texas boy at heart, a Buckeye from Ohio, or a Trojan from Cali, there is a very good chance that you would verbal early when pressed by the staff because you know that you were going there anyways. That's what we often see in early verbals: local players that already know they are sold verballing to coaches who want building blocks for a class. Tressel commented on the importance of having Boone and O'Neal early in terms of recruiting the rest of the team.
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02-08-2005, 05:14 PM
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You know..Dont get me wrong here but if OSU asked me to come play for them there wouldnt be any question!...But what I think alot of recruits do is wait around to see what options they have....Or sometimes they will verbally commit somewhere and see if anyone else really wants you that bad as to where you might pull out and go to the other school or keep looking!
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02-08-2005, 05:25 PM
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Originally Posted by gbearbuck
I'd commit if it was the school I really wanted to attend. If my only options were MAC level schools I'd wait to see if something better came along. (although if a good school was filling up, and that school was my top choice of offers outstanding, I'd prob. verbal to that school to secure a spot... ie. if Duke offered and I only had offers from Ohio U, Miami, Toledo, BG, and Duke... I'd verbal to Duke if their class was filling up/my position was filling up).
If I ever received an offer from Stanford, I'd verbal on the spot. Nothing like the second best education in the nation free of charge ... |
You know, that's something I've never understood. Admission plus a full ride to a school like Stanford, Duke, Rice or Northwestern ought to be a serious lure for some kids. I mean, if the football thing doesn't work out you've still got a degree from a fairly elite place. Not to mention that being private schools, the scholarship value is massively higher in actual dollar terms.
I mean, let's see...I can go to East Carolina or Duke...hrmmm. How about North Texas or Rice? Northern Illinois or Northwestern? Fresno State or Stanford? Come on!
Obviously, those schools are a lot more limited in who they can take than your run of the mill mid-major, but still you'd think the draw of a world-renown degree would land some talent. Northwestern is the only one on that list to have really put together much of a team in recent years, and I'd argue that it's probably not up to the level of the other three in terms of selectivity anyway.
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