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-bdbd
Thanks Bluedog. Interesting. I count TEN (!) offers outstanding at this point, including Hubbs and AJ. That has to be some sort of record for K and staff, who've traditionally been more "surgical" in their recruiting. I, myself, am really glad to see it. Having several near-misses in the past year may be part of it, and no doubt that we'll need a big class in 2013, but the Olympics have to be the main driver for this summer. I do hope having K and his staff on the road doing Olympic prep work and at the games won't hurt us in terms of face-time with key recruits. But Gold Medals can be persuasive too...
I do wonder if we'll revert to a narrower recruiting form next year. Any thoughts, given the number of offers outstanding, what happens with a similar-skilled/sized kid if another accepts first? I know that these things largely take care of themselves, but given that we have, for example, four offers outstanding to kids in the 6'3" - 6'5" range (true, they don't all have exactly the same set of skills), do we eventually retract some offers as similar kids start to commit?? That's a somewhat new problem do deal with (but not all bad either!).
Not all offers are created equal (this is something Airowe once discussed on a recruiting thread a while back). Offers may have been extended, but these kids and the coaching staff generally know where they stand with one another. If a kid has received an offer, but has not heard from the coaching staff in a month, then it is pretty clear that there are higher priorities for the staff. These things work out, not because they just do, but rather because there is usually pretty good communication, or lack thereof, behind the scenes. I would imagine that this is how schools like Arizona can extend 24 offers for 3 more openings in the class (as they have according to verbalcommits.com) and it ends up working out just fine.
"I don't like them when they are eating my azaleas or rhododendrons or pansies." - Coach K