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What Do You Think About Accepting Commitments From JR High?

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I think it's OK to recruit Jr High prospects but I don't think we should accept commitments from them. One reason is that your not sure a kid will be the type of recruit you need in your system in four years. Secondly, your program looks bad when you stop recruiting them four years later because you now have a better prospect in mind.
 
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It's not really relevant because the offers are not commitable and the commitments are not binding.
 
Yeah, kind of like Cubana said, I'd recruit them pretty hard (show love, send letters, texts, etc.) if I saw a special talent but I'm not sure I'd accept the commitment from a 13-14 year old. Too much can change. Can't be a cheap date...push & pull sales techniques. Make them keep earning it. "We love ya, kid, but we only have so many schollies, keep showing us you're worth one."
 
Nah, you can offer and accept commits from these kids. It might mean everything when their a Jr or Sr and if you need to go in another direction, you can do so by the time they're a Jr or Sr. Who cares?
 
Whenever I hear about these offers being handed out to 8th graders I want to kick Al Golden in the face for not landing Sony Michel.
 
Not too far fetched...I grew up loving FAMU band and wanted to join since I was in 8th grade... They (like UM) had their problems and even got the death penalty for a year and I STILL wanted to go there...Only reason I ended up not attending is because they never came down to my school to give auditions so I couldn't guarantee myself a music scholarship there before I enlisted into the Marines. I could have gotten a bigger scholarship at Bethune Cookman but I was a FAMU baby since I learned about them and didn't want anything different. Offering early could mean ALOT to someone enough to bring them here on how they look up to the school at an early age (Duke Johnson - UM).

TL;DR - If you offer a scholarship to a student allowing them to "freely" attend your college at an early age, they will take it seriously and it will mean a lot to them. So you should also take their commitment seriously.
 
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AUcane said:
It's not really relevant because the offers are not commitable and the commitments are not binding.
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Exactly. It's commitment in the loosest form of the word. These type of things are almost so meaningless that they usually only end up as talk show fodder for guys like Michael Wilbon that want to hate on all things recruiting related from his soapbox.
 
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