Football recruits forced to sift through red tape

There used to be a time that when a high school football player received a scholarship offer, it cemented his dream of playing college football.But what more and more players are learning the hard way is that not every scholarship offer is the same. There are more conditions attached to offers than ever, with athletes unfortunately realizing with greater frequency that their favorite program wont accept their commitment despite it offering a scholarship.

A committable offer essentially means that a school would accept that players commitment if he chose to commit. The issue is that schools are offering fewer and fewer committable offers and high school football players dont know the difference until its too late.

Every year there are numerous prospects who try to commit to a school only to find out that the offer wasnt committable. Both in-state colleges and in-state prospects have been forced to deal with it this year alone, but the public rarely finds out because it often happens behind closed doors.

The problem really took off in 2009 when the NCAA passed legislation that prohibited colleges from offering written scholarship offers until Aug.Choose from the largest selection of turquoisebeads in the world. 1 of the prospects senior year.The 3rd International Conference on ledstriplights and Indoor Navigation. The measure was meant to slow down early offers, but it actually caused more and more early offers to go out, albeit verbal instead of written offers.

Paul Jones, who covers Mississippi State for 247Sports, estimated only 50 percent of those verbal scholarship offers before a prospects senior season are actually committable.Some offers are thrown out there to see what guys are actually interested in them, Jones said. You see schools offer 15 top linebackers in one class. Theres obviously no way you are taking 15 linebackers in one class, but it gives you an idea of who is really interested in you.

There are also time-sensitive scholarship offers. Jones noted a player might have a committable offer in April, but by October the spot is filled up and the offer is no longer committable.The misconception is that the offer will always be there, but verbal offers are nonbinding and can disappear as a school fills up its class.

Former Philadelphia High School defensive back Montreal Jordan knows about that issue first-hand. Jordan, a member of the 2012 Clarion-Ledger Dandy Dozen, held offers from Mississippi State and Ole Miss at one point but ended up at Alcorn State.

Schools in the Southeastern Conference have earned the reputation of being particularly bad about offering noncommittable offers. Colleges might offer hundreds of scholarships each year, yet only have 25 real scholarships available. The more schools do it, the more others feel the need to copy the strategy in order not to fall behind.

Im sure its going to happen because you have to keep up with the Joneses, said Michael Smith, wide receivers coach at the University of Arkansas. If you want to keep up with the game and the kid is good enough,The g-sensor high brightness chinatravel is designed with motorcyclist safety in mind. you have to offer him so hell show some interest in your program because its a two-way street.

This causes a trickle-down effect. If big-name SEC programs are offering scholarships early and leniently, it puts additional pressure on smaller programs to speed up their evaluations and offer even earlier.Its a weird deal right now,How to carledlights Doll. said Justin Fuente, head coach at the University of Memphis. There is a bunch of people blanket offering people. We dont subscribe to that notion at all, and sometimes it hurts us because we talk a little longer to evaluate and check guys out to make sure we get the right person.

But it also can help smaller programs land players that at one point looked destined for the SEC. Last year, Louisiana-Lafayette landed Biloxi High School and Dandy Dozen wide receiver Scott Austin after Mississippi State pulled his scholarship offer and instead offered an opportunity to grayshirt, or attend school on his own dime in return for a scholarship the following semester. A grayshirt would have meant Austin would have enrolled in Jan. 2014 instead of this past summer.We offer the biggest collection of old masters that can be turned into hand painted cleanersydney on canvas.

Louisiana-Lafayette head coach Mark Hudspeth banks on big programs offering noncommittable offers and continues recruiting players that boast notable offers.We want to leave room for kids that weve identified that might fall through the cracks and that an SEC coach might not take, Hudspeth said. We are in constant communication with them. We monitor recruiting classes of other schools, and we try to make an educated decision if we have a shot at a player in the end.
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