[Husker] Huskers Pull Penn Linebacker Scholarship Offer

[Skylar Dodds]

So, what about the kid's side of the commitment? Every school and I mean EVERY school over recruits knowing that some will decommit, some will fail to qualify and some will 'fall off the table'.

I feel bad for this kid.  I really do because he seems like a good kid.  But he is really a casualty of the 85-man limit PLUS a lack of an early signing period.

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Skylar

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Jaixen <mikejaixen at yahoo.com>
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 12:09 PM
To: Jim J. <jokow at cox.net>; Nick Chevance <nickchevance at gmail.com>
Cc: Huskers List <husker at tssi.com>
Subject: Re: [Husker] Huskers Pull Penn Linebacker Scholarship Offer

In a word, yes.  Recruiting has gotten WAY out of hand, IMHO.  I think if teams weren't allowed to rescind scholarship offers, we'd see teams take a much more careful approach with recruiting.  We're seeing offers made to ninth and tenth graders, and the NCAA just declared that 7th graders are classified as prospects.

Right now, coaches hand scholarship offers like youth league coaches hand out cookies after practice.  It's become an absurd process.

I won't speak to the specific situation at hand, but I believe that if Nebraska makes a commitment to a young man, Nebraska should live up to that commitment.

Mike Jaixen
http://huskermike.blogspot.com
http://www.cornnation.com

--- On Fri, 1/30/09, Nick Chevance <nickchevance at gmail.com> wrote:

His coach sure sounds sore, but if Nebraska only
has a certain number of scholarships to offer, and the kid isn't what
he once was when first recruited, then what?  We're supposed to take
him and put him on a scholarship despite being somewhat damaged goods?
 



      
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