Jalen Mayden to....

[HBK4life]

Miss. State

 

[northeastNebraska]

Miss. State

Not surprising. I doubt he had a commutable offer from us. Honestly I thought he would end up at Louisville.

 

[TruHusker]

Not surprising. I doubt he had a commutable offer from us. Honestly I thought he would end up at Louisville.

His offer list was good including The Ohio State and listed Nebraska as well. When is an offer not really an offer?

 

[rrthusker]

His offer list was good including The Ohio State and listed Nebraska as well. When is an offer not really an offer?

When made by Harbaugh.

 

[Tuco Salamanca]

His offer list was good including The Ohio State and listed Nebraska as well. When is an offer not really an offer?

When you have a prospect, that is higher on your board, and has still not committed anywhere. Depending on the player, position and number of spots open you may not take a commitment from the player you have 2nd or 3rd on you list.

It's not as though we only offered 15 players and hope we get all 15. Or wait until we are told no, before offering our next choice.

I don't have the exact number in front of me, but I believe Nebraska has offered in area of 75-80 players. Not all of them can be told yes. It isn't an Oklahoma land run, where it's first to say yes gets it.

 

[TruHusker]

I understand the numbers and teams offer way more than they can take, duh. But an offer is an offer. We don't offer and say well, really that wasn't really an offer. They would not have offered him if they didn't want him at least initially. I understand things happen and minds can change and we can "cool" on a recruit and pull the offer, I get that. But I don't think we are in the business of making wholesale offers and then pulling them and saying well, this was an offer but not really a "commutable" (assume meant committable?) offer. It comes down to numbers and position needs - they have to fill the needs they see coming up and then go with the best available after that.

 

[Tuco Salamanca]

Well the fact of the matter is they do exactly what you said they don't do. They offer scholarships to more players than they can take. These players are very well aware of their status in the pecking order in most cases. They have to weigh, in their worlds, if waiting for options 1, 2, 3, ahead of them, to make their decision to take the offer is an option or if they need to move on.

I have been told that G. Roberts, the RB out of Delaware and brother of a Avery Roberts, would have committed months ago, but was told that Pledger is the top choice for RB and that Nebraska will exhaust all efforts to get him before moving on to plan B. I don't expect that will be anytime soon. So Roberts can wait for Nebraska to let this play out with Pledger, or he can accept an offer from another school.

 

[Tuco Salamanca]

On a side note, this process is exactly why I, personally, have no issue with players accepting a placeholder spot.

Schools prioritize players with conditional offers, players should be able to prioritize schools with conditional commitments.

 

[jflores]

On a side note, this process is exactly why I, personally, have no issue with players accepting a placeholder spot.

Schools prioritize players with conditional offers, players should be able to prioritize schools with conditional commitments.

Which may end up working in our favor with Roberts. It seems likely to me he'll get antsy at some point about being stood up by NU and commit elsewhere. If its likely we don't land Pledger, and somehow find a RB schollie (perhaps give out Fuller's late), Roberts may well stand up his placeholder school at a late date to come to NU with Avery.

 

[ellobo]

I understand the numbers and teams offer way more than they can take, duh. But an offer is an offer. We don't offer and say well, really that wasn't really an offer. They would not have offered him if they didn't want him at least initially. I understand things happen and minds can change and we can "cool" on a recruit and pull the offer, I get that. But I don't think we are in the business of making wholesale offers and then pulling them and saying well, this was an offer but not really a "commutable" (assume meant committable?) offer. It comes down to numbers and position needs - they have to fill the needs they see coming up and then go with the best available after that.

It's a little more complex than that. There is a difference between offering a guy and "actively recruiting" him - especially if you recruit nationally. There is probably a much better analogy than this...but think of it in terms of dating: saying "we should grab a drink sometime" is different than asking "what are you doing Saturday night?"

Bad anology or not the truth is recruiting does resemble dating in certain ways...many offers are kind of like flirting to gage intersting and get to know each other better. To be less esoteric: a school might "offer" a kid half way across the country in order to get the kid on campus. If the kid shows up then the coaches do a deeper evaluation and decide if they really want him or not. It's really more an invitation to visit than a real scholarship offer (aka a non-commitable offer).

That is just one example of how this game works. The reality of the situation is that many kids won't take the time to look at a school (speaking mostly a non-local one) unless they hear some version of "we would like you to play here" vs. "you might be good enough but we don't know enough about you yet."