Fox Sports: Urban Meyer calls early commitment trend 'very alarming'

[BleedGopher]

per Fox Sports:

Ohio State football coach Urban Meyer is arguably doing it better than anybody these days, but he still can barely stand having to recruit prospects too early.

How early is too early?

"Juniors are committing and I'm not allowed to go out in the spring and recruit, so you try to get them to come to your campus," Meyer said last week during Big Ten Media Days in Chicago. "I think it's very risky. I'm concerned about it. Mark Pantoni is our director of that part of our program and is very concerned about it. If you start taking commitments and getting a ton of commitments as sophomores, I don't like that. It's not what we try to do. We have to be very cautious because what happens? My son has grown that much."

The Buckeyes have not only 19 players for the 2016 class who have verbally committed prior to playing their senior seasons but also 10 for 2017 who are yet to begin their junior years of high school.

http://www.foxsports.com/college-fo...-urban-meyer-recruiting-early-alarming-080515

Go Gophers!!

 

[Unregistered User]

per Fox Sports:

Ohio State football coach Urban Meyer is arguably doing it better than anybody these days, but he still can barely stand having to recruit prospects too early.

How early is too early?

"Juniors are committing and I'm not allowed to go out in the spring and recruit, so you try to get them to come to your campus," Meyer said last week during Big Ten Media Days in Chicago. "I think it's very risky. I'm concerned about it. Mark Pantoni is our director of that part of our program and is very concerned about it. If you start taking commitments and getting a ton of commitments as sophomores, I don't like that. It's not what we try to do. We have to be very cautious because what happens? My son has grown that much."

The Buckeyes have not only 19 players for the 2016 class who have verbally committed prior to playing their senior seasons but also 10 for 2017 who are yet to begin their junior years of high school.

http://www.foxsports.com/college-fo...-urban-meyer-recruiting-early-alarming-080515

Go Gophers!!

Then don't make them an offer.

Pretty simple, you jack-hole.

 

[beavergopher]

In other news, Kim Kardashian is speaking out against our superficial culture.

 

[WanderingGopher]

Then don't make them an offer.

Pretty simple, you jack-hole.

Then somebody else will snatch them up.

I'm 100% with Meyer on this one, and you should be too, because I'm sure Coach Kill is.

This is all about the southern schools taking a zillion commitments early in the process, before southern recruits can build relationships with northern schools. Then as the year goes on the southern schools (namely SEC) slowly cull their list down and jettison the guys who didn't grow as expected or didn't have great senior years.

If you're going to let schools take commitments prior to a kid's senior year, then you need to let coaches recruit them (go to them) and let them take officials visits in that same timeframe. It really is a simple concept IMO and the system is broken right now because a lot of southern schools LIKE it broken.

 

[Some guy]

In my humble opinion coaches should not be allowed to have contact until the first day of school their senior year.

 

[nsmike]

I think that the ultimate answer may be a late July signing date, either a school signs the kid or he's a free agent, none of this one sided sorting that's going on. There would need to be late spring or early summer official visits , limited coaches visits allowed, but the exact details could be worked out with a mid April to mid July window.

 

[IAGopherfan]

I think that the ultimate answer may be a late July signing date, either a school signs the kid or he's a free agent, none of this one sided sorting that's going on. There would need to be late spring or early summer official visits , limited coaches visits allowed, but the exact details could be worked out with a mid April to mid July window.

I think an early signing period is definitely the way to go. It benefits both sides. As for sophomores being recruited, I think that is just too young. They shouldn't be receiving offers until after their Junior year.

 

[KGF]

Meyer is concerned that he won't have the pick of the litter when they can best be evaluated. He's worried that he'll miss out on late bloomers b/c his class will be filled too soon. An early signing period benefits the "have nots" b/c they can lock up a real good player that won't be able to de-commit from a "have not" to a "have" program after a big senior year.
Urban Meyer isn't concerned for the kid, he's concerned about himself.

 

[SaintLouisGopher]

Meyer is concerned that he won't have the pick of the litter when they can best be evaluated. He's worried that he'll miss out on late bloomers b/c his class will be filled too soon. An early signing period benefits the "have nots" b/c they can lock up a real good player that won't be able to de-commit from a "have not" to a "have" program after a big senior year.
Urban Meyer isn't concerned for the kid, he's concerned about himself.

Exactly!

 

[nsmike]

Meyer is concerned that he won't have the pick of the litter when they can best be evaluated. He's worried that he'll miss out on late bloomers b/c his class will be filled too soon. An early signing period benefits the "have nots" b/c they can lock up a real good player that won't be able to de-commit from a "have not" to a "have" program after a big senior year.
Urban Meyer isn't concerned for the kid, he's concerned about himself.

I believe that Meyer has a reputation for flipping kids late in the game so his take is completely selfish.

 

[dpodoll68]

Urban Meyer isn't concerned for the kid, he's concerned about himself.

Where does he claim otherwise?