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Yeah, I have been to Waco. It ain't great, but it's still better than a lot of other places...like 98% of Pennsylvania. It's still Texas, there's a major university there, and it's two hours to Dallas/Austin. It isn't as bad as being isolated in some dying, burnt-out coal mining time in the Rust Belt. Lawrence Kansas ain't much to look at, and it gets a lot colder there as well.

Waco makes Denton look like a fantastic option.

Jerusalem on the Brazos

RednBlue11 wrote:Jerusalem on the Brazos

hahaha!!!

Hey what's wrong with PA? They have mountains, lakes, rivers, lots of deer to hunt. There's a bar on every street corner. Of course they do have Philly and Pittsburgh which are the places where if America needed an enema that's where the hose would go.

Central Pennsylvania without a doubt is one of, if not the most depressing place imaginable. Short of a desert or an asteroid, it's just simply miserable.

Question: When someone retracts a verbal commitment, as in the Yenga case, can the coaching staff retract the offer, if they so choose ? Or, do we have some kind of written offer that remains outstanding until the player officially signs ?

Since we have witnessed offers pulled from kids that were committed, I am quite certain you can pull an offer from a decommit if you so desire.

panhandle_pony wrote:Question: When someone retracts a verbal commitment, as in the Yenga case, can the coaching staff retract the offer, if they so choose ? Or, do we have some kind of written offer that remains outstanding until the player officially signs ?

it looks like the only thing binding is when the Letter of Intent is executed. up until then, all 'commitments' are verbal and non-binding on all parties.
I dug this up:

"In the fickle world of college football recruiting, the only sure thing is a letter of intent"
http://www.nj.com/sports/index.ssf/2010/01/post_3.html

I think SMU found a "Brand New WLB" in Alonzo Highsmith Jr

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq_qL79lejA

We can drop the "yea, but it is Waco", but what about the obvious and what should be the most important thing for 97% of recruits--academics. Their academics ranks right down there with their football program.

i don't know why anybody would choose to go to baylor. I think UT, ATM, Tech, SMU, TCU, and maybe even UNT are clearly better choices.

Well, clearly, enough people decided on Baylor for one reason or another to keep a large, private university in business, Waco, academics and all. Unless you're doing something fine arts, thinking NTSU is better than Baylor is absolutely laughable.

if you are going to be a mediocre school, at least be good at something. UNT has their music/fine arts type stuff. what exactly is baylor's appeal?