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Brock Osweiler Verbals to Gonzaga?
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What are NCAA rules regarding recruiting high schoolers (i.e. - offers to underclassmen, open seasons, dead periods for no-contact, early offers, etc.)? Is this a good-faith verbal commitment or can Gonzaga legitimately offer a high school freshman 15-year old kid?
What are NCAA rules regarding recruiting high schoolers (i.e. - offers to underclassmen, open seasons, dead periods for no-contact, early offers, etc.)? Is this a good-faith verbal commitment or can Gonzaga legitimately offer a high school freshman 15-year old kid?
Mslacat
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Proud Griz Man said:
There are strict rules as to the recruiting of underclassmen that were just toughened this last year. I believe most of the correspondence has to written letter or the new thing text messages. There were some loop holes one is that a underclassmen initiated a contact a coach could talk in with a recruit. What usually happens then is that a coach would text message a recruit and tell him/her to call the coach. In any event, I believe a coach is limited to 1 person to person or coach initiated phone conversation during there junior year.
On the commitment level, offering and committing to a program is nothing more than a promise. The coach can put it in a letter that he is offering, but it means nothing until there senior year. Like wise the commitment the athlete makes means nothing legally or NCAA wise. The coach can change his mind, at any time. it is quite likely that during the senior recruiting period a coach could offer multiple athletes the same scholarship, who ever commits first (or the better athlete to commit) gets the scholarship. The key thing to remember NOTHING IS OFFICIAL unless it appears on a letter of intent or a letter of Commitment. LOI's can not be issued to an athlete before there senior year, and can not be signed until the official recruiting dates in the fall or spring. In general a coach would never issue a LOI until just before the signing period, either.
Brock commitment is just him saying I am pretty darn sure that right now I am going to sign with Gonzaga. The Griz or North Carolina could/can continue to recruit with out violating any rule, and he could sign any where he please in his senior year, Like wise Gonzaga could change their mind at any time, and Brock could not do a thing.
Purely a guess, but I would bet 60% of all High school soph. and fresh who commit to a school never end up attending that school, by the time college freshman year rolls around.
Rivals.com has comfirmed the verbal commitment this evening. Good luck Brock. If you have second thoughts I am sure you would do well in a Griz uniform.
It looks as though Gonzaga did a fine job of recruiting! I surely wish he would have been a GRIZ.
http://www.dailyinterlake.com/articles/2006/06/21/sports/sports01.txt
http://www.dailyinterlake.com/articles/2006/06/21/sports/sports01.txt
Mslacat said:
Very true....I would wager there is a good possibility he never suits up for the Zags. (These committments just make the other Programs step it up even more, or so I have heard)
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some things should not be printed...just because he (a 14 or 15 year old kid) said it, does not make it responsible journalism or in need of being put into print for the whole World to see...he is a kid. (as this article proves)
I would bet the Zags coach is not too pumped about this article.
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Mslacat said:
The camp schedule he has been invited to (and is plannning on attending I have heard) he is a top 10 recruit.
If he develops further...he could be a McDonalds A-A- and if he is not playing for the Griz then I am glad he is playing for the Zags. (Personally)
Afan said:
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