📝 Did we just lose another top commitment to Miami?

['65 Cobra]

Caught a quick glimpse of a scroll on ESPN - didn't get the name, but I saw that someone de-committed from us and committed to Miami. Doesn't that make two now that Miami has taken? Then you have the Foster deal and the Barn... These de-commits are getting annoying. I guess these kids don't want any competition.

 

[colbyjacks]

Dodd switched to LSU.

 

[UAgrad93]

Artie Burns was the kid that committed to Miami. He had been committed to us but then decommitted several months ago. It isn't something out of the blue.

 

[LBS]

I'm picking up what '65 is putting down.
Burns, Forster, and Dodd all loved us enough to commit, but then didn't love us enough to remain committed and loved someoen else enough to commit elsewhere. That's a concerning about of significant change in thinking. We are on the wrong side of this trend.

[If it happens once its an anomoly. If it happens twice its a coincident. If it happens three times its a trend.]

Lets not forget the perception that we went from leader for Kim-DEE-Chee to not one of his top two.

The sky may not be falling but we certainly have seen brighter days.

 

[TerryP]

I'm picking up what '65 is putting down.
Burns, Forster, and Dodd all loved us enough to commit, but then didn't love us enough to remain committed and loved someoen else enough to commit elsewhere. That's a concerning about of significant change in thinking. We are on the wrong side of this trend.

[If it happens once its an anomoly. If it happens twice its a coincident. If it happens three times its a trend.]

Lets not forget the perception that we went from leader for Kim-DEE-Chee to not one of his top two.

The sky may not be falling but we certainly have seen brighter days.

Here's the thing LBS, every one of those situations/ kids you mentioned here are completely different stories. Very, very different from each other.

While they all fall under the "de-commit" category, they are in different volumes of that book.

Well, let me add one thing. Two of them have been influenced by things outside of football.

Brighter days? There's nothing cloudy about who we have verbals from. It's a hell of a class if it stood the way it is now, and it's going to get better.

 

[LBS]

Here's the thing LBS, every one of those situations/ kids you mentioned here are completely different stories. Very, very different from each other.

While they all fall under the "de-commit" category, they are in different volumes of that book.

Well, let me add one thing. Two of them have been influenced by things outside of football.

Brighter days? There's nothing cloudy about who we have verbals from. It's a hell of a class if it stood the way it is now, and it's going to get better.

No doubt brother, that who we have are really good guys. I don't dispute that the guys left almost certainly for differnent reasons. Its not losing one that bothers me. Two may be an unfortunate coincident, but three does not set well with me.

Grades issues, a parent with a history of health issues, someone who is prone to being homesick...there are excuses that should be identified before hand which serve as red flags that should cause us not run dead-long into a doomed offer. I don't know why they left. Perhaps is was three act of God events like Hurricanes hitting momma's home or sister being struck by lightening, but three is a freakish number and concerns me.

We can't get the recruiting time, energy, effort back that was spent on these three. Now we have to move on to Plan B kids that we may be behind the curve on.

 

[psychojoe]

LBS, just think about the twists and turns our recruiting has taken in the last few years. Last year Callaway and Koundjou were real dramas. T J yeldon flipped to us in the most recent class, as well as the kid who was an FSU commit. While having guys decommit isn't a positive, it is still almost six months until NSD, and there will be a lot of back and forth between now and then, possibly involving these same players. I haven't seen any speculation on how many we will take this time, but just considering the senior, and possible juniors leaving early, it would not surprise me if we signed only 21-22. I know that we are in a situation where we will be very picky about who we take.

 

[UAgrad93]

LBS, just think about the twists and turns our recruiting has taken in the last few years. Last year Callaway and Koundjou were real dramas. T J yeldon flipped to us in the most recent class, as well as the kid who was an FSU commit. While having guys decommit isn't a positive, it is still almost six months until NSD, and there will be a lot of back and forth between now and then, possibly involving these same players. I haven't seen any speculation on how many we will take this time, but just considering the senior, and possible juniors leaving early, it would not surprise me if we signed only 21-22. I know that we are in a situation where we will be very picky about who we take.

That is a GREAT problem to have in my opinion! If we do only sign 21-22 then we know that we have 21-22 kids that truly want to be here and the coaches know that as well.

 

[bamaraider]

I don't buy into summer commitments. Only until they have officially signed the fax on NSD.

Plus who knows, maybe Miami will be caught for doing something catastrophic that their coaching staff has done to get top recruits........But that's highly unlikely....

 

[LBS]

LBS, just think about the twists and turns our recruiting has taken in the last few years. Last year Callaway and Koundjou were real dramas. T J yeldon flipped to us in the most recent class, as well as the kid who was an FSU commit. While having guys decommit isn't a positive, it is still almost six months until NSD, and there will be a lot of back and forth between now and then, possibly involving these same players. I haven't seen any speculation on how many we will take this time, but just considering the senior, and possible juniors leaving early, it would not surprise me if we signed only 21-22. I know that we are in a situation where we will be very picky about who we take.

Thanks Joe.
Its not a having a kid change his mind that bugs me. Its the pattern, and as I see it an unprecedented pattern. I know about Yeldon and Kwonjo (please forgive me for misspelling the name), but those were both receives. I can go one further and recall some that we lost. But what I can't recall is run of losses like this. Even more critical is how CNS and his staff rebounded from such a streak. I can't see that this is nothing to be concerned about, but must have blind faith which is another way of saying "looks good through my Crimson colered glasses". We SEC fans as fond of saying that our 6-in-a-row is no fluke. I'm not comfortable dismissing these 3-in-a-row as a fluke.