I know everyone hates the rash of decommits that have happened to ISU in the past couple of months, but, were not alone - this is an epidemic in college football.
Lets look at a couple of schools in particular:
Texas A&M - 9 de-commits
Oklahoma State - 5 de-commits
Miami 6 de-commits in the past 2.5 months
K-State -6 decommits
Except for Kstate, those other schools are in warm climates and name recognition to their programs and they're dealing with the same problems we're dealing with. I also think the notion of "If you take additional visits we will retract our schollie" is not a new methodology and in the list above both Texas A&M and Miami has retracted schollies from 4* athletes in the last month because they were looking.
I think in order to be fair to both sides, they need to agree to this prior to making that verbal. From the coaches side, if they get a verbal they reduce the recruiting at that position. A coach cannot hold that schollie until signing day when he knows that athlete is visiting other schools because he could drop them at the last minute and if thats done, the losing school is left to scramble for someone to fill that schollie and may take risks on development players or academic risks. For the player, he should be able to understand the university's position - Take all the visits you want, but, when your done and you've made the decision that ISU is the school for you, then if you take another visit we have to protect ourselves and release you from that commitment. How will Jared Edwards and Leonard Johnson be treated???
It will be interesting to see how the commits change over the next two weeks, hopefully in our favor!!!!!
Lets look at a couple of schools in particular:
Texas A&M - 9 de-commits
Oklahoma State - 5 de-commits
Miami 6 de-commits in the past 2.5 months
K-State -6 decommits
Except for Kstate, those other schools are in warm climates and name recognition to their programs and they're dealing with the same problems we're dealing with. I also think the notion of "If you take additional visits we will retract our schollie" is not a new methodology and in the list above both Texas A&M and Miami has retracted schollies from 4* athletes in the last month because they were looking.
I think in order to be fair to both sides, they need to agree to this prior to making that verbal. From the coaches side, if they get a verbal they reduce the recruiting at that position. A coach cannot hold that schollie until signing day when he knows that athlete is visiting other schools because he could drop them at the last minute and if thats done, the losing school is left to scramble for someone to fill that schollie and may take risks on development players or academic risks. For the player, he should be able to understand the university's position - Take all the visits you want, but, when your done and you've made the decision that ISU is the school for you, then if you take another visit we have to protect ourselves and release you from that commitment. How will Jared Edwards and Leonard Johnson be treated???
It will be interesting to see how the commits change over the next two weeks, hopefully in our favor!!!!!
