"commitment" in college recruiting

[Volgrad98]

To clear up confusion and keep kids from getting "blasted", the recruiting services and the kids should stop using the term "verbal commitment". They should just use "favorite", as in if the recruit in question had to pick a school right at that moment, then their "favorite" would be the school that they would go to then and there.

I think it is ridiculous when I read that a kid is "committed" to a school but is still looking around. They are not really committed then are they? It is their favorite.

 

[volstexans]

wrong. There is huge pressure on them to commit. Fans of schools, coaches trying to gauge their recruiting classes, the list goes on.

I can see coaches putting pressure on a recruit, but that would be it.

Whatever pressure a recruit felt by boards such as this or places like facebook is laughable.

If Ambles wanted to sign here, USC, or UNC, all three would have all taken him on NSD. No commitment needed. No pressure forced him to commit.

 

[Volunteeer]

I can see coaches putting pressure on a recruit, but that would be it.

Whatever pressure a recruit felt by boards such as this or places like facebook is laughable.

If Ambles wanted to sign here, USC, or UNC, all three would have all taken him on NSD. No commitment needed. No pressure forced him to commit.

lol of course, highschools have zero peer pressure and nobody there is a football fan! Are you nuts? Forget face book, think about the kids you see in class everyday. Or the people you see in restaraunts or the mall or at the movies. Example. Did you see all the crap regarding d rodgers down there when he committed to tenn? That wasn't about decommiting, that was about him not picking their school.
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[Volunteeer]

exactly. Stop telling the kid he doesn't have integrity because he changed his favorite, because your right, that is a much mote accurate term.

To clear up confusion and keep kids from getting "blasted", the recruiting services and the kids should stop using the term "verbal commitment". They should just use "favorite", as in if the recruit in question had to pick a school right at that moment, then their "favorite" would be the school that they would go to then and there.

I think it is ridiculous when I read that a kid is "committed" to a school but is still looking around. They are not really committed then are they? It is their favorite.

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