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Should recruits commit early?

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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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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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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. :beer:

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. :drunks:
 
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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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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 :wink2: ...
 
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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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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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gbearbuck said:
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 :wink2: ...
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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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Bobcat

It has been a long time since I was recruited.
I had straight A's in HS and got a 31 or 32 on my ACT.
Duke, Virginia Tech and Northwestern were schools that recruited me along with some non scholarship places like Princeton, Brown and Cornell. Of course then they all sucked and I did not want to play for any of them. Wish I knew then what I know now.

I would have loved to be recruited by OSU but I was tall and skinny without blazing speed. I still wanted to go away but be close and I wanted to play early. The number of girls and the academic major fit in there also.

I did not sign until the last day and took a couple of trips.
My parents hated the phone ringing non stop.
We used to get bags of mail.
Recruiters would visit our school and pull you out of class.
It was hectic and a little intimidating.

I think I had related earlier that people would stop us in McDonalds and ask where I was going. When I announced some lady I did not know approached me and said I made a good choice.

That was along time ago before all the ratings and internet BS.
I imagine the level of intensity is 10-100 times what I faced.

We have a speed and strength clinic at my health spa and a kid that signed with LSU works out there. He had a sort of rock star attitude about him.

I am sure it is exciting but it also has to be incredibly annoying.
 
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MililaniBuckeye said:
If a recruit tells a school to stop calling, then that school has to legally stop calling. If they don't, the recruit contacts the NCAA to file a complaint, and also goes to court to issue a TRO against the school. It's that simple.
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How many guys do you think actually do this? What I am saying is if you verbal to OSU and tell all other interested parties to not call you or you will file a complaint. Then after you graduate, you then want to make trips to Hawaii, USC, Texas, Miami, and LSU for instance. I would think you'd be walking around campus by yourself if they knew that you were uninterested in the program.
 
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bobcat84 said:
Wad,
You would think...till I throw out the name "Joe Thomas"......when faced with the opportunity to play at OSU vs. Pitt----he is still claiming he is solid with Pitt...you've got to be kidding me!
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Yeah - but Joe Thomas to Pitt is a local boy makes good kind of story (and who knows yet where Thomas' LOI will really go). By contrast, McCarthy is very open to OOS schools. Smart kid, so he surely sees that the Huskers have huge question marks going into the off-season, while the Buckeyes are re-loading and he can be a part of that.

(Plus you have the whole Lincoln vs Columbus - in which contest Columbus offers more).
 
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bobcat84 said:
Wad,
You would think...till I throw out the name "Joe Thomas"......when faced with the opportunity to play at OSU vs. Pitt----he is still claiming he is solid with Pitt...you've got to be kidding me!
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the Thomas situation also has more to do about the timing of the offer. if all things were equal (meaning we offered Joe the same time as Pitt did) you really think he would still be headed there? Joe made an early decision to commit to a school that was pursuing him hard early in the process and has decided to honor that commitment (something I admire). Colin, on the other hand, received his offers from Nebraska and Ohio State roughly around the same time.
 
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