AppFan11 wrote:Hey moose, thanks for the info on Haralson. It's hard to know the "nuances" without all the info. As I have said many times, I/we really appreciate all your hard work. I know you have your reasons for withholding certain info. You said you think there will be about 4 decommitts, for clarification, is that including P. Smith and Cants leaving two more or do you think there will be four more?
Removing the fact (but keeping in mind) that anyone not already enrolled or signed could be taken if the right offer comes along; on my personal list I believe we'll have 1-3 more decoms (maybe 4 but that one would really be a surprise unless a BCS offer comes in) in addition to Smith, Canty, and Washington. One I believe is a sure bet he's gone and at least two others are jelly. One of those I've had "soft" for a while but it's where he might go if he does decom that would surprise me. I don't want to name names as this is an open board and recruits, friends, and families do read it.
It's the same reason I don't say things I know are facts if they are not in the open. Pay sites are a little more secure but I still don't say things because I know it can cause problems should they get out. I try and give everybody the best info I can but there are times I just can't say something no matter how badly I want to. Plenty of people on here have good sources but if you start giving out too much or you say something that hurts the teams or school then you don't have those sources anymore.
I know some are upset with the decoms but it's the nature of the beast and to be expected at our level now. But there will also be a few "surprises" coming in too. No matter how badly the staff hates it when someone they've worked with for so long to build a great relationship leaves them, they have backups on the board just in case. You just have to hope your backups are still available or that you can poach them yourselves. If anyone wants proof of this and of the kind of talent we've gone after this year I say go to the Main Page and take a look at the "Offered/Committed Elsewhere" section. We've put out close to, if not over now, 200 offers. Only 5 (maybe 6) of those went to FCS schools. Every other one went to an FBS school and many went to BCS schools. That shows the level of players we've gone after. I would be more worried if schools weren't trying to take our players. We'll win some battles and we'll lose some but for a transitional school with their first FBS class we're not doing all that bad, even with the decoms. We'll just have to see where we wind up on the 5th.
I mentioned it on 24/7 that it seems like they are showing a lot of late interest in players we've been showing interest in for a while. As you said they either have been poached or they lost several of their targets that they thought we're committing to them. It does speak to the talent that we are targeting that two SEC schools are working a lot of them now, in addition to several teams from all the other BCS conferences except the PAC-12.