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Per rivals:

Justin Chatman
Athlete
Mesquite (Horn), Texas
Height: 5-foot-9 
Weight: 162 pounds 
"In my game, I've got plenty of quickness and I'm also very physical. I also know my way around when playing the game."
-Horn cornerback Justin Chatman

SCHOOLS OF INTEREST: Baylor, Minnesota (offer), Northwestern, Ohio State, Texas Tech, Vanderbilt (offer), SMU (offer), Wisconsin, UTEP (offer)

Any idea which way he's leaning?

From the order of that list we appear in the second tier of interest.

I don't know. Rivals lists him as having medium interest in every school on the list, which means you would think they'd list schools alphabetically or by offers extended.

My guess is that they had him on the phone, and that's simply the order in which they came to his mind, and they wrote them down as he said them. I wouldn't read much more into that.

They always order their lists this way. If you say they are all medium, fine, but I do not think he would bring them to mind in two sets of alpha ordered lists. Just too coincidental.

The PonyGrad wrote:They always order their lists this way. If you say they are all medium, fine, but I do not think he would bring them to mind in two sets of alpha ordered lists. Just too coincidental.

So Vanderbilt is in the first tier and SMU is in the second along with Wisconsin? Does that put UTEP in a third tier by itself?

perfect example of the real posters who like to tell "half the truth"-the SMU rah-rah side only. The article clearly says that even though SMU and Rice did not make his TOP 7-he is is still 'looking hard" at those schools. So I guess we are sitting in 8th or 9th place for this kid. Now which version is more balanced and informative-and which is the more misleading?

Stallion wrote:perfect example of the real posters who like to tell "half the truth"-the SMU rah-rah side only. The article clearly says that even though SMU and Rice did not make his TOP 7-he is is still 'looking hard" at those schools. So I guess we are sitting in 8th or 9th place for this kid. Now which version is more balanced and informative-and which is the more misleading?

Where the hell did Rice come into play...they aren't even listed in the schools of interest. My point was that if you are going to put stock in the alpha order of the listing you should use the alphabet correctly...that is all. It was a joke man...lighten up.

Baylor, Minnesota (offer), Northwestern, Ohio State, Texas Tech, Vanderbilt (offer), SMU (offer), Wisconsin, UTEP (offer)

The order is BMNOTV then SWU. What is the mystery? I do not understand your post?

The PonyGrad wrote:

Baylor, Minnesota (offer), Northwestern, Ohio State, Texas Tech, Vanderbilt (offer), SMU (offer), Wisconsin, UTEP (offer)

The order is BMNOTV then SWU. What is the mystery? I do not understand your post?

Last time I looked, U comes before W....and before V unless you want to leave V in the first tier.

You got me. That woke me up last night reviewing the alphabet.

This is from today's article on Chatman:

"Things have started out pretty good so far and I already have written offers from UTEP and Minnesota as well as verbal offers from SMU, Northwestern, Vanderbilt and Rice."

"I have also been in close contact with the coaches from Ohio State, LSU and Wisconsin. I would say that all of the schools that I have mentioned besides Rice and SMU would have to be considered my leaders and I could easily see myself at any of those schools."

Nice to see us get so much respect from the kid...I love everyone oh but SMU and Rice.

Time to pull the offer? Or, leave one out there where the kids says he does not see himself there (SMU?) I am sure the coaches have a better viewpoint and can decide better but what do you all think?

Hell no don't pull the offer. Schools fill up and players drop to second choices or they get hurt How do you think we get our top players-by outrecruiting the Big 12? That's how we got McCann. David Haynes is another of many that come to mind. SMU needs to position itself as these recruits Number 1 non-BCS alternative and hope a few of the best drop to them or the recruits gets tired of waiting. SMU can win conference titles by getting that type of kid. Recruiting is relative to your competition. See TCU.

Stallion is spot on...you certainly do not pull the offer. That is just a horrible precedence to set. Let's hope that this kid falls through a couple of cracks and we can impress on his what a create option B SMU would be.