gostangs wrote:i think he is saying that is obviously a B.S. excuse. We will get poached from time to time, just like we did to UNT. Our coaches will have to make the case it is better to challenge for an AAC championship then it is to be at the bottom of the big 12
Yes to the excuse being baseless...if proximity to home were an issue than he most likely would not have committed earlier (as mrydel said, he wouldn't consider the offer). I see the Big12 cellar argument, but I was looking at those three schools listed. I decided to add the almost completely unrelated tweet by Proche to that list, and it seems the academics v purely athletics emphasis may have won out. Grass is greener somewhere else...just wondering what the actual reason is. Then again, we are dealing with teenagers so their reasons might conflict with ours when Maslow is applied. I just hope this isn't the first case of a recruit worrying whether he would remain eligible in re basketball players.
mrydel wrote:When I was being recruited I told my coach I would not go to any school in Arkansas because I wanted to be on my own and away from home. It is not necessarily bs. Then my father was transferred to Dallas the day after I signed.
mrydel wrote:When I was being recruited I told my coach I would not go to any school in Arkansas because I wanted to be on my own and away from home. It is not necessarily bs. Then my father was transferred to Dallas the day after I signed.
Any truth to the rumor that SMU formed their very own WDNWHA committee shortly after you turned down Ohio St and Woody Hayes was famously quoted as saying, 'we didn't want Rydel anyway'.
mrydel wrote:When I was being recruited I told my coach I would not go to any school in Arkansas because I wanted to be on my own and away from home. It is not necessarily bs. Then my father was transferred to Dallas the day after I signed.
Sounds like a violation. Someone should delete this thread before the NCAA pounces on it. Statute of limitations for them goes back 50 years, right?
I believe this dude messed up. Only so many people make it in the pros so you should also consider what degree you get. UCF is fancy for a commuter school.
Who knows what goes on behind the closed doors in recruiting. Coaches asking guys to greyshirt or pulling offers, grades, academic issues, a coaching change, a girlfriend, a booster. Most of the time the information will never be known other than a kid decommitiing when in actuality it might be the other way around. The coaches have to do what's best for the program and the kid has to do what he thinks is best for him and it may go down to signing day and then afterward with transfers. It is just a bad recruiting system the NCAA has set up.
Some parents do want their kids to get as far away as possible from the environment they are in because it is a bad environment. These things happen. Wish the kid the best and glad we got Alex Honey.
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