interesting article on college football recruiting

I guess this is what the recruitniks refer to as "modern football recruiting."

I like this line the best:

“The coaches mother---- the kids,” says one major college assistant coach who wished to remain anonymous. “It’s the biggest problem in our game right now. It’s bull----.”

Click here for link at https://www.si.com/college-football/2019/02/05/uncommittable

Replies:

None of them really matter - weirdo0521 2019-02-06 14:11:39
- yeah, buyer beware - jt 2019-02-06 20:05:47
  - THings have certainly changed on the athlete side - weirdo0521 2019-02-07 11:09:39
To ND's credit, they do not do this - oneill3b 2019-02-06 11:11:49
- Yes we do - HTownND 2019-02-06 13:29:29
  - I should have said ND doesn't do it intentionally - oneill3b 2019-02-06 13:41:50
    - To put an even finer point on it - HTownND 2019-02-06 13:53:07
      - Conditional vs non-commitable offers - ThreeD 2019-02-06 14:39:36
        Basically - HTownND 2019-02-06 14:51:04
        Stanford has played scholarship shenanigans - notredan 2019-02-06 15:42:09
        Thanks. Is there a difference, other than honesty - ThreeD 2019-02-06 15:11:13
        Bad analogy - ndzippy 2019-02-07 00:28:03
        the way the entire system is set up favors the schools - jt 2019-02-06 15:53:55
        Not really - HTownND 2019-02-06 15:21:45
      - this stuff is all garbage - jt 2019-02-06 14:22:04
        Yep. Total BS * - ndzippy 2019-02-07 00:22:58
Maybe some type of new system - jbrown_9999 2019-02-06 10:41:39
So, where does ND fit into this? - Notra_Dahm 2019-02-06 08:33:27
- ND does not offer players whose commitments it would not - oneill3b 2019-02-06 11:17:22
  - This is not true - HTownND 2019-02-06 13:31:37
  - So does the chart include those "unofficial" ND offers? - Notra_Dahm 2019-02-06 12:00:54
It would be really helpful to see or hear what one of these - KeoughCharles05 2019-02-05 20:46:36
- it's just complete bullsh-t - jt 2019-02-05 21:34:22
  - I didn't come here to have you call me a liar - ThreeD 2019-02-06 10:45:56
    - everyone's doing it * - jt 2019-02-06 14:22:20
  - I don't disagree. * - KeoughCharles05 2019-02-06 00:08:12
  - Why can't the NCAA require all offers to be binding? - ndzippy 2019-02-05 23:26:50
    - How could all offers be binding? - TWO 2019-02-06 09:30:30
      - I realize that football is a different animal in many ways - FL_Irish 2019-02-06 13:57:48
        This is exactly what I'm talking about - ndzippy 2019-02-07 00:21:50
      - here's a crazy idea - jt 2019-02-06 10:26:17
        That was pretty much the way it was in 1988.. - TWO 2019-02-06 10:51:05
        yeah, we wouldn't want to make things hard on the schools - jt 2019-02-06 11:05:51
        I think this whole trend has been to satisfy kids.. - TWO 2019-02-06 11:21:53
        so what? Your point about how it would "hurt" the kids - jt 2019-02-06 14:20:35
    - there's all kinds of proposals in the article - jt 2019-02-05 23:28:30
      - I think it would be bad for everybody, kids and the school. * - TWO 2019-02-06 09:31:22
        how would it be bad for the kids? * - jt 2019-02-06 10:18:12
        I think todays kids like having a lot of offers... - TWO 2019-02-06 10:40:01
        I think a lot of kids like eating ice cream 10 times a day - jt 2019-02-06 11:06:51
        Kids like it, jt, like a lot * - DakotaDomer 2019-02-06 15:41:42
Adding on: article on recruiting predicting NC's (link) - athlete37 2019-02-05 19:48:54