me@smu wrote:Maybe if you are UT, USC or Miami and have a 100 of the top players in the country on the team you can truly burn a scholarship on a legacy. I say the only way we offer James is if we really believe he can be a project and contribute in the future.
The flipside though is it would be nice to have someone commit to SMU nationally at the All American Game
Actually the opposite is true. Everyone that UT, USC, or Miami offers is a high rated athlete. By the time we get to our last scholarships we are signing recruits that only have offers from lower division schools. That is why we can afford to do this. When we reestablish ourselves into a force to be reckoned with in recruiting then we can be much more stingy with our scholarships. But when we are using our last scholarship to sign someone only offered by St Mary's School for Girls, I would just as soon use it for a legacy or some type of publicity signing. Many Pro teams both Basketball and Football will make "token" type of drafts with their last round choices when they feel they can not get an athlete that could contribute anyway. The Cowboys years ago knew that Carl Lewis would never play for them but they drafted him in their last round anyway in kind of a rememberance of what they had done with Bob Hayes. They got lots of Pub from that and I am sure sold a few more tickets because of it. Seems a Pro basketball team also drafted him that same year.
