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Grumpyolddawg

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vhcat70 said:
If he has an "offer" from UK but can't commit, I don't see how it's that's offer at all.
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He could have gotten the offer, waited too long and the slots for his position were taken by others. Don't know if that is the case, but it does happen.
 
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DACats86

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In the shady world of recruiting, there are offers and there are commitable offers...
 
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NCukcat62

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On certain occasions coaches want to see more but like what they see so they tell them they are highly interested. A wait and see approach.
 
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DACats86

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jauk11 said:
And then there are city schools that take your commitment and hold you up until the last minute until a better criminal becomes available.
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Yes, there are several (UofL, UT, Alabama, etc.) that play the "ratchet-up" game. They will take a recruit's commitment until someone better comes along...
 
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UKSanders_rivals37733

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TrollCat said:
Similar to what we did last year with the center from Florida.
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If you are talking about Luke Hiers in the 2015 class, the (slight) differences I see is the coaching staff seemed to back off of him after he came to camp. So, that makes me wonder if he had regressed or didn't have a certain measurable previously reported to the staff?

Also, there were no commits that came in just prior to or right after Hiers decommitment, which was at the beginning of August.

I still don't like it when recruit or school breaks the commitment, but if it's in the summer prior to the player's senior season, it at least gives the other party time to recover.
 
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Grumpyolddawg

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UKSanders said:
If you are talking about Luke Hiers in the 2015 class, the (slight) differences I see is the coaching staff seemed to back off of him after he came to camp. So, that makes me wonder if he had regressed or didn't have a certain measurable previously reported to the staff?

Also, there were no commits that came in just prior to or right after Hiers decommitment, which was at the beginning of August.

I still don't like it when recruit or school breaks the commitment, but if it's in the summer prior to the player's senior season, it at least gives the other party time to recover.
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This kind of thing happens at every school, the better said school recruits the more likely it happens. It may not be as cold as telling them to look around, but more alone of the lines on not maintaining regular contact. Happened to a couple of kids at UGA last signing class, they committed to Richt's staff and were not really contacted by the new staff. The schools you hear about the most are places like Bama who recruits at such a high level and get so many high level recruits towards the end of the cycle. Lots of times they are offered greyshirts, but the hope is they move on to another school. It's not an ideal situation but it is pretty common and makes for some hard feelings. Our's was a WR the current staff wasn't high on, who ended up a USC and now hates us, but we signed what may be our best WR class in almost 20 years, no AJ Greene in it, but some kids who can play.
 
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