Such a weird thing to regulate. And then an even weirder way to legislate it. What does it matter if it’s an OV?!
Yeah that was a change requested by the coaches because the unofficial visitors would be teams of kids coming for camps or whatever and it was consuming massive amounts of resources to coordinate.
Scrub teammates tagging along with four or five stars for visits mid season and you have your resources helping them play dress up
You’ve got Oregon’s setup which looks like the room that’ll be used to revive Chalamet in the next Dune. Then Bama’s looks like the attic where Kevin McCallister was sent after getting kicked out of the family’s pizza party. Both of which are far better than Napier’s weird ass awkwardly surrounded by shoes.
Wilder canceled his OV for this weekend and is committing to Ohio State sometime in the next 48 hours. I have no idea how badly ND wanted Vallejo or that Blade kid. **i know nothing about that Vallejo guy. maybe he commits to ND? no clue
Highly rated Chicago Catholic School target goes elsewhere I assume? We assume as much every year at this point.
They really wanted Vallejo. Wilder, too, but Vallejo was always more expected. Blade seemed to have been a two-way cool off situation. They always saw him as a guy who would move inside, but that's looking less likely for him, so they seem to have other similar guys higher on the board. He cooled, too, to be fair. It's not just them. Could be the IDL thing, who knows. It's a strong DL group already, and Vallejo would have been a key IDL addition which would have given them some options to take some chances. This week just makes Elijah Golden more important, and I'd expect an expansion of the IDL board.
Ever since the Pope went to Nova we haven't gotten anything worthwhile out of Chicago Catholic schools other than a bunch of pale skin future attorneys and commodity traders
Those pale skin lawyers and commodity traders are going to help fund continued expansion into southern recruiting.
I am confused if Michigan ends up landing Vallejo, given the timeline of events. He scheduled his announcement date so he could take visits to ND and KU, but before his UM visit (previously scheduled for this weekend). Seems like that usually doesn't result in picking the school the guy didn't visit.
This is why I don't understand the schools that try to do the no visit policy stuff. Wouldn't you rather a kid use visits to other schools now than have them in the bank during the season when it's harder to replace them? If they leave now, they were probably going to later anyway.
Because you have contractual agreements in place now, that likely have clauses written in that make decommitments difficult on players
Bowden probably has his annual performance review as of June 30 year end so is pushing for his kpi to look good at that point. Nevermind what happens in December, he has 6 months to wash away that stink.
I wonder how many still do that. ND did for a couple years, but they seem to have quietly backed off of it. Doesn't stop idiot fans for throwing it out there any time a kid takes a visit, though. It seems with the changing landscape and kids getting paid to visit, coaches only cause bad blood by taking a hard line.
This doesn't make the schools look any better for pressuring guys to commit earlier than they should.