Recruiting Gets Earlier and Earlier

[Stallion]

according to Rivals 210 players from Texas have already committed-I'm sure they are missing a few too. Generally, the Texas crop ranges in the 330-350 range. So close to 60-65% have already committed and we are 4 months from signing date. Those numbers even shock me a tad.

[SMU88]

What's amazing to me is that so many in the Texas 100 buy into the bs that A&M offers. When was the last time A&M was in a BCS bowl game or won the Big 12 Championship? I wander with the impending firing of Franchione, will any of the A&M commitments open up their recruiting? Hopefully we can get a solid coach in here, one like Shannon at Miami that can place discpline on this team, get some solid players and get rid of these guys that don't want to play. Much like Miami won't have a championship caliber team for a few years, I would expect SMU would be in the same boat. But that all depends on Orisini and his new hire and the SMU Board of Trustees and these liberal ballet loving academi/professors providing the new Coach with what he needs to be succesful.

[Sasser Rules]

I know you're being tongue-in-cheek with your assessment of the faculty, but as university faculties go, ours is anything but liberal, and the faculty's political views and outside interests mean nada when it comes to whether the athletic department gets what it needs. In fact, Meadows can make a far stronger claim that it doesn't get what it needs because so many resources are committed to athletics, and it's true, there always will be those over there grumbling about exactly that. But the rant that our faculty is made up of Abbie Hoffman and Mikhail Baryshnikov is comically inaccurate.

With that said, I agree with the point of your post, if not its delivery: let's steal the best Aggie recruits.

[Stallion]

in a particularly amusing development, Mack Brown apparently is complaining that too many schools are offering kids in the 10th grade before their academic and athletic success can be properly analyzed. Brown invented early recruiting in this part of the country. I think his point, though used as an excuse, is valid. Hopefully the NCAA will limit scholarship offers at least until a player has completed his Junior academic year.

[Ponymon]

in a particularly amusing development, Mack Brown apparently is complaining that too many schools are offering kids in the 10th grade before their academic and athletic success can be properly analyzed. Brown invented early recruiting in this part of the country. I think his point, though used as an excuse, is valid. Hopefully the NCAA will limit scholarship offers at least until a player has completed his Junior academic year.

They could try limiting it, but you know that their enforcement is SELECTIVE. We would probably be the first school thrown under the bus on that one!

[HFvictory]

in a particularly amusing development, Mack Brown apparently is complaining that too many schools are offering kids in the 10th grade before their academic and athletic success can be properly analyzed. Brown invented early recruiting in this part of the country. I think his point, though used as an excuse, is valid. Hopefully the NCAA will limit scholarship offers at least until a player has completed his Junior academic year.

By NCAA rules they cannot "offer" a player until the July prior to their junior season (after they have completed the 10th grade). Players can attend school camps prior to that date and obviously talk to the coaches but no written offers or formal evaluations can be made until the summer after their soph year.

A recruit can commit to a program at any time, but if before the above dates they are doing it without a formal offer in hand.