Should the NCAA limit the amount of offers a school can send out ?

[hitch_and_go]

Of the power 5 confrence teams they sent out an AVERAGE of 232 offers this year with the high end being Tennessee at 440 and the lowest Stanford @ 74. This is extremely unfair and deceptive to the high school kids getting these offers when in reality they may actually be that schools 7th option at their position and has almost no chance of actually signing on that "offer"..
In some circumstances the schools just offer as a "long shot " .
Others may just in case player A,B,C etc don't sign .
Others may just because school A doesn't want a kid to go to school B , even though school A has no interest in actually signing the player but want to just muddy the waters .

 

[hitch_and_go]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.si...ttable-offers-recruiting-national-signing-day.....I was off . It's was 237 avg

 

[FBisLife12]

I get your point, but it’ll never happen. As unfair as it may seem, it’s a by-product of the system. Most kids don’t have a clue about where they stand with colleges in the recruiting process and, to be frank, it’s not that much different than dating. Hell, it isn’t REALLY even finished until a kid shows up on a college campus, signs his FA agreement, enrolls in classes and actually attends them. Even signing a NLI in December or the first Wednesday in February only locks the kid into the school. Colleges can drop a kid even AFTER they officially under character or academic grounds.

 

[hitch_and_go]

It just seems wrong on many levels . I keep seeing people debate about recruits in kc vs stl (which I could give a rip about ) but they are talking about offers which means absolutely nothing to me being as how most offers mean nothing. Stl seems like they currently have more talent and offers but it would be nice to see how many actually sign vs how many were offered

 

[FBisLife12]

It just seems wrong on many levels . I keep seeing people debate about recruits in kc vs stl (which I could give a rip about ) but they are talking about offers which means absolutely nothing to me being as how most offers mean nothing. Stl seems like they currently have more talent and offers but it would be nice to see how many actually sign vs how many were offered

All you have to do is go to the tab and scroll to whatever graduation year you want to look at. Then you can see who signed where. It won’t tell you WHY they signed with a school, and it’s pure speculation to assume they didn’t sign with a particular school because they couldn’t.

https://247sports.com/Season/2019-Football/RecruitRankings/?InstitutionGroup=highschool&State=mo

 

[hitch_and_go]

Again, I don't really care about that .. especially as it pertains to KC vs STL . I just think the number of offers need to be regulated because it gives false hope to some or even worse , kids turn down schools that would actually sign them only to end up walking on somewhere or not going to college entirely because they thought school A gave them an offer so they mailed it in

 

[FBisLife12]

Again, I don't really care about that .. especially as it pertains to KC vs STL . I just think the number of offers need to be regulated because it gives false hope to some or even worse , kids turn down schools that would actually sign them only to end up walking on somewhere or not going to college entirely because they thought school A gave them an offer so they mailed it in

Well, you said “it would be nice to see how many were signed vs how many were offered”. That link answers that question for you. Yeah, it’d be nice ... but the NCAA is in the business of making money. Student Athletes are just free labor. Ensuring that every kid that receives attention or a verbal offer gets to play collegiate athletics just isn’t how it works.

 

[mowesten]

The NCAA is in the regulation business and pretty much every school has a team of compliance officers whose only job it is to micro-manage every minute of every day of every staff member to ensure everyone is aware of the rules.

It seems like this could be something that could be easily managed, much easier than many other rules that are in place. Make offers written, make them only available to be extended during certain periods and then make it binding for both parties if they make an agreement with stipulations.

Not that hard to do really, and in the long run, coaches would probably prefer it ... most of these guys are already working a lot of hours, and investing time trying to recruit ninth graders and countless prospects that you never intend to sign just seems like a waste of time.

Many of the NCAA recruiting rules that are currently in place exist to protect hyper active coaches from themselves, and this would be an extension of that IMO.