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Originally Posted by BGIF  Excuse me, but BS!
ND has made a "No other offers to LBs" Pact with 7 (8) guys?
Since when has an ND offer become a unilateral commitment obligation on ND?
ND is free to extend offers to whomever, whenever. Prospects are free to accept, reject, or ponder til NSD. The 8 LBs offered are in the same boat Mustain was. IF the slots are filled before they're ready they won't get an ND scholarship regardless of an offer. Jevon Kearse can attest to that better than Mustain can.
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Those other offers are guaranteed either. Offers at other schools get rescinded as slots get filled. Urban (and others) dump verbals for better prospects. Keep in mind a number of events triggered Brian Smith's second chance. A couple of high profile recruits said NO late in the game and Minter was axed. ND has more LB offers out already this year. They appear to be in better shape with those offered. There are others eager for an ND offer and they aren't as eager as Nagel to pull the trigger.
Right now ND has 4 or 5 LB slots OPEN. All the slots are available. "If you're looking; we're looking!" |
I think IUB's point is that the staff has other guys that they want more than Nagel, and so they don't want to offer Nagel and have him commit and take up a schollie that could have been used for one of them. (Right?) We're not going to offer him and then pull it, Meyer-style, if something better comes up down the line. So the point isn't that we have a "No other LB offers" pact with the other guys we've offered -- though we might do something like that if they'd committed! -- but that they're regarded as especially high-priority and we're just not a school that will throw around scholarship offers like candy. This all seems pretty much uncontroversial to me.
Fankly, at the end of the day I'm not exactly sure that the argument between BGIF and IUB really comes to ...