Bennubird
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Just seeing this. I just see this as another tool for institutions to have more leverage on their future laborers. It won't help with the big boys as you point out because they are going to hold out for the best deal ($$$/promises/etc.) regardless. Locking in kids that are under the radar is risky at best. In fact, personally I would be less likely to offer an under the radar kid early for the exact reason that they might not work out and we'd be stuck with them. All of this would correct itself if kids would honor their commitments.
Or let them out if the HC or position coach of the recruit gets fired or takes another job.
But I don't see this happening because it would require more than we can reasonably expect from the NCAA. Besides kids would just wait to commit rather than committing early.
I wish they could sign now and not allow them to decommitt but they should put something in the contract if you get hurt your senior we will still honor you with a 4 year scholarship!
I think many kids would sign early because they want to insure a ship. Sure the top end kids would probably still milk all the drama, but at least the coaches could get most of class in and spend less time just protecting commits. It would put pressure on coaches and players to get business done. Plus, since it seems many of our early offers blow up and get stolen, it might benefit us. If nothing else, it would cause the sec $$ men to spend more and earlier. System doesn't seem to favor us right now so change it.