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Jack Burton said:
It stinks for some guys to be processed like that, but that’s how it goes at the top level.
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yea, but siap, i almost thing it's by design for some of hte kids. there's no camps to go to, so not near as many opportunities for unraked or lower rated kids to get noticed. getting the offer and committment early only like we did with some of these kids helps them get on the radar screens at other places they would not have otherwise.

so i think we've sort of used that as a tool this year...i think some of hte kids that are committed know what's up, know they're likely not gonna be part of the class and the earlier they were able to hit other's radar screens, the better.....
again, that's just an opinion, i have no idea if that's true or not, but it does potentially explain a lot of the good will out there from prospects, and why we maybe look to have taken fliers on some of the kids we got committments from very early on.

suffice to say, the earlier the better for the kid if you're gonna get processed. and they can stay committed as long as they want or until they get an offer they can commit to. that way it at least appears it's the kid's decision.....

JMO
 
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Bassmaster_Vol said:
You hate to see it

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jakez4ut said:
something i was thinking about yesterday as we moved to 21 commits, and the topic of attrition continues to be a thing, and likely will be until it's not.

we took several early committments from guys that most of us kinda shook our head at and immediately correlate some of those to a kid like Roman Harrison or the WR that ultimatley wound up at FSU in the first cycle.....

i have taken a little different thought process to it though as i've now seen what's come the past 10 dyas or so.

i think taking some of those early committments was, in some cases maybe, a strategy to help bridge the gap during the shut downs. no on campus camps, no all star camps etc....so how can a kid that no one's heard of get heard of in this environment?

well, i give you TN recruiting. we talk about the pruitt bump right....well, it has happened, and we've all see how often we offer a kid and literally w/in a week, some of our main competitors offer. point being...an offer from Pruitt and co. puts eyes on a kid that otherwise may have not been rated, or evaluated, by a recruiting service, or by other programs.

so i wouldn't be surprised if some of the offers we've made weren't made simply for that reason. that there was an understanding between the recruit and us that "hey, we do like you as a prospect, and we'll take your committment (for all these reasons), but definitely keep your options open....we can't gurantee you'll have a spot, but use this time to get noticed, take your phone calls and we'll see what happens at hte end of the road"

i think that may also help explain why there's a lot of "good will" it seems amongst prospects right now. and i wouldn't really be surprised to find out this isn't the first time we've done something like that....just might be a little more pronounced right now simply because of covid shutting the off season camps down.

or im fos.
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IMO, early commitments that are marginal probably understand they are on the bubble. I have no idea what they are actually told. However, if coaches told me they were offering a scholarship to a P5 SEC school and I wanted to have a higher profile as a player, I would accept it even when the same coaches told me I should continue to take visits to make sure. It's still a win-win even if it is unlikely to happen.
 
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secking said:
I’m not Rusty but common sense will tell you that narrative is false. Otherwise, Arik Gilbert would have been a dawg. Rusty and Arik’s family are REALLY close. Kids in Ga rely heavily on Rusty. He puts on camps for these kids to get noticed. Kids from UTC level to UT. There is another recruit this cycle that is leaning on Rusty for recruiting advice and is a top choice for UGA, kid isn’t leaning UGA.
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“I’m not Rusty and to prove it I will tell you something only Rusty would know.”
 
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