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Why don't you just become a VIP member? You seem like you want the recruiting info pretty bad, might as well cut out a $10 monthly expense and replace it with a membership here.

That is not what the VIP posts were.

In other news Texas A&M has 32 commits??

Recruiting a ton of 3* in the past has been effective, look at TCU and Boise.

Georgia is at 30. LSU is only at 24. They'll get up to 30 too.

Well they do like to brag. The truth is they can not afford to pay that many.

All I can say is actions speak louder than words, especially words on twitter. Lets see if he takes a visit to Michigan then I think right back in drivers seat. Maybe optimistic but I think Michigan is still the pick in the end

The other point, regarding teams like TCU and Utah, was that they loaded up on 3* players, moved them around to new positions (QB's became Safeties, Safeties became WRs, etc), and loaded a giant chip on their shoulder telling them how they could show those BCS teams who passed on them how wrong they were. That makes it pretty easy to get up for 1-2 big games per year playing as the underdog. From 2008-2010, Utah went 31-5, but since joining the Pac12 they have gone 12-12 in 2 seasons. TCU went 44-4 from 2008-2011, then went 7-5 this year in the Big12. Sure those teams lost some players and had some injuries, but it says a lot when you have more losses in 1 season than you did in the previous 3-4 combined with largely the same roster.

Other than scholarships being renewable annually, I don't get how they continue to skirt the rules. A&M has 18 Seniors on their roster. There is no way in hell they've got 14 Juniors going pro.
With 18 Seniors either entering the draft or graduating, and let's say 2-3 players leaving early, that's 21, normal attrition rates applying 3-4, lets figure high and say 4, we're at 24-25. How do you manufacture an additional 7 or 8 scholarships.

Yep. That seventh visit will change everything.

He's visited Michigan a half dozen times, and he has two schools (in frickin' Oklahoma!) ahead of Michigan that he hasn't even visited yet.

Be satisfied with the 2013 WR recruiting class as it is, because its likely done.

And thank you for making my point. If you visit a place that often, you like the place. You wouldnt waste your time if you didnt. You dont rank a school you never visited ahead of one you visited often and enjoyed. He's playing the recruiting game. If he schedules another visit to Michigan I feel good.

Placing them in an incubator does however accomplish a few things such as:
A) still likely to favor their original landing spot after JUCO pending coaching changes
B) removes them from the competitive market

I'm a lawyer. Enacting a law or rule doesn't solve everything. It has to be enforced and there are always creative ways to get around most rules if you put your mind to it. The new rules won't kill oversigning, but they will reduce it. And Mike Slive and Mark Emmert are not going to be happy if the year after they implement new rules one school totally thumbs its nose at them. The days of signing 36 players to a class are over.