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traditionally TCU has been extremely conservative and tight-lipped with their early recruiting offers. But this year TCU has jumped out with two early February commitments both from 6-5 OLM named Ty Horn and John Woolridge. So far they allready made 21 reported offers probably more than they had by September last year. Others who appear to be agressively trying to push the recruiting calandar include Tulsa under Graham with 28 offers and UH with 17 offers already under Sumlin. February recruiting used to be mostly a UT and A&M affair but now it appears its reached the non-BCS schools more than ever. SMU appears to be still getting its feet wet with the new coaching staff as their are no early offers by SMU reported by Rivals.

What is the downside of this recruiting philosophy? Why aren't all schools doing it this way?

Stallion wrote:traditionally TCU has been extremely conservative and tight-lipped with their early recruiting offers. But this year TCU has jumped out with two early February commitments both from 6-5 OLM named Ty Horn and John Woolridge. So far they allready made 21 reported offers probably more than they had by September last year. Others who appear to be agressively trying to push the recruiting calandar include Tulsa under Graham with 28 offers and UH with 17 offers already under Sumlin. February recruiting used to be mostly a UT and A&M affair but now it appears its reached the non-BCS schools more than ever. SMU appears to be still getting its feet wet with the new coaching staff as their are no early offers by SMU reported by Rivals.

You are right about that. Hopefully JJ will jump in when things settle down and start evaluating the 2009 recruits. Do you have any idea what his philosophy at Hawaii was in regards to early recruitment?

The downside with early offers is of course that they might tie your hands. As we've seen pulling offers off the table gets you lots of grief. Secondly, if you make an offer early and the player has a bad year, eats too much pizza, gets caught robbing a 7-11, has a dip in grades or some other problem, then you've got this offer out there hanging. However, the upside might be worth it on some kids.

TCU has already had its Junior Day which was last Saturday-anyone know when SMU's Junior Day is?

Stallion wrote:TCU has already had its Junior Day which was last Saturday-anyone know when SMU's Junior Day is?

Is this a rhetorical question and you are going to tell us we arent good enough to have one?

Why aren't we good enough to have a rhetorical question?

Because Rhetorical questions make young women not believe in themselves. I hate Martha Satz

This really is a very funny board.

White Helmet wrote:Because Rhetorical questions make young women not believe in themselves. I hate Martha Satz

Have you come to realized that you are, in fact, a racist, as she said you were?

I believe she included other descriptions along with racist, including ignorant and bigotted...and yet I would still say no. I am not a racist, I am especially not an ignorant racist bigot

mathman wrote:You are right about that. Hopefully JJ will jump in when things settle down and start evaluating the 2009 recruits. Do you have any idea what his philosophy at Hawaii was in regards to early recruitment?

Hawaii under JJ did *not* give many early offers. Part of that was the $50k recruiting budget, which made it hard to bring too many people in. I've always wished that Hawaii would get on the early recruiting bandwagon, but they didn't do it under JJ and they don't seem to be doing it under McMackin (but he just got started). I wish Hawaii would have a Junior Day and try to lock up many of the top Hawaii juniors before the big-name schools have a chance to get started with recruiting them.

I don't think SMU has a junior day scheduled for this year so for anyway. They may wait a year to let the new coaches get to meet the high school coaches across the state and do them next year.

No there will be a Junior Day-and well as several other camps. Its an essential part of recruiting these days.

I know there will be summer camps. I hope there will be a junior day beofre the spring game at least.