Something that's been sticking with me through this for a while now. After his official to ND I think Wiltfong said something like, "If he makes a return trip to South Bend the Irish will have a great shot to sign him. If he doesn't come back ND probably won't sign him." Robertson never re-visited.
Then he took an official to Cal and unofficial visits to Alabama and Georgia in November. For a few months in the fall ND really wasn't in a great spot. In fact, DR kept saying it was Stanford, then Alabama or Georgia.
Then in early December, as he began a round of cancelled visits, we were suddenly back in it with BK using his in-home visit to really early try and get DR to come back to South Bend. DR does not come back to ND.
Since then, we've been in this holding pattern where it's 1. Stanford 2. Notre Dame based on the academics angle and DR not taking OV's to Bama or Georgia, even though he's been to the latter two schools multiple times and more recently than ND.
I don't expect the pay sites to flip-flop on their predictions now since DR hasn't visited anywhere new yet. But it's always seemed strange to me that DR is supposed to be 'exploring all opportunities' before making a decision and yet still has 2 OV's in his pocket knowing a Stanford OV was always going to be a long shot.
As of today it's been 163 days since he's visited Notre Dame. It might be closer to 200 days before DR actually makes a decision. If he goes with the grant-in-aid process you're looking at almost 10 months since being in South Bend. That's a really, really long time to in between visiting and finally committing. I'll be very surprised if he sits on those 2 other OV's.
