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When a player visits, do they get to work out with the tem and other recruits? Seems to me that would be the best way to gauge if a recruits deserves an offer. With the two bigs visiting together, it might be an interesting visit if they play against each other.
 

1. I don't think recruits can scrimmage or do team workouts on their visit.

2. 99.9% of the time the player already has an offer if they are using one of their 5 official visits on the school.
 

They tour the campus, party with the team and go to a game if there is one.
 

It depends on if the parents are coming or not. The player will see a sporting event or two, check out the campus and facilities, go out to eat sometimes at nice places (Mason took Maroney to Murray's and almost rescinded his scholarship offer to Maroney the he acted there and for asking to grind the then $40 steak into a hamburger). If the parents are in town, you go to the coach's house as well, maybe in lieu of dinner because the Mrs. will cook up something nice. However, if the parents aren't in town then the players take the kid to a party to get drunk and maybe have sex with some girls. I know some people will call BS, but it's true. They try to get recruits laid like Jesus Shuttlesworth.
 

Gopherguy0723 said:
It depends on if the parents are coming or not. The player will see a sporting event or two, check out the campus and facilities, go out to eat sometimes at nice places (Mason took Maroney to Murray's and almost rescinded his scholarship offer to Maroney the he acted there and for asking to grind the then $40 steak into a hamburger). If the parents are in town, you go to the coach's house as well, maybe in lieu of dinner because the Mrs. will cook up something nice. However, if the parents aren't in town then the players take the kid to a party to get drunk and maybe have sex with some girls. I know some people will call BS, but it's true. They try to get recruits laid like Jesus Shuttlesworth.
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I know about the hamburger part. What is the rest of the story?
 


I think the way Mason says it was Maroney asked for a burger and they didn't have one on the menu, so Mason gets up and talks to the waiter / chef and tells them to go find a $40 steak and grind it up and make the best burger they ever made.
 


Face The Facts said:
I think the way Mason says it was Maroney asked for a burger and they didn't have one on the menu, so Mason gets up and talks to the waiter / chef and tells them to go find a $40 steak and grind it up and make the best burger they ever made.
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That is the story as I know it as well. 0723 put an "and" in there suggesting there was more to the story that evening. Maybe I inferred incorrectly.
 





MadtownGopher said:
Who was the last Gopher recruit to take an official visit to the U that did not have an offer?
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If you believe 247 to be accurate - Bakary Konate is currently on an official visit without one. Likewise, they list Joseph Uchebo as having taken one last year without an offer (and without ever receiving one). Regardless, I'm 100% certain that many borderline recruits have come on official visits over the years without having an offer. It's common sense. If a school is on the fence about whether or not they want to offer a prospect, and the prospect desperately wants a major conference offer, they're going to tell Minnesota "no thanks" if they offer an all-expenses-paid visit?
 

MadtownGopher said:
Who was the last Gopher recruit to take an official visit to the U that did not have an offer?
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Never, they would never carry the cost for an official visit for someone they hadn't or did not plan on offering, unofficial visits, the more the merrier.

The working out thing really shows the value of the summer camps, with marginal recruits getting them in between the sophomore and junior years and getting long extended look can do wonders in evaluating a player.
 

dpodoll68 said:
If you believe 247 to be accurate - Bakary Konate is currently on an official visit without one. Likewise, they list Joseph Uchebo as having taken one last year without an offer (and without ever receiving one). Regardless, I'm 100% certain that many borderline recruits have come on official visits over the years without having an offer. It's common sense. If a school is on the fence about whether or not they want to offer a prospect, and the prospect desperately wants a major conference offer, they're going to tell Minnesota "no thanks" if they offer an all-expenses-paid visit?
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Schools don't want to waste their resources on players they don't want, schools gain nothing from having kids visit they dont want, its not like they work out for the team. Trust me, MOST official visits occur after the player has an offer
 



jovs said:
Never, they would never carry the cost for an official visit for someone they hadn't or did not plan on offering, unofficial visits, the more the merrier.
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False. Happens all the time in football, less frequently in basketball, but certainly not "never".

GuyFawkes said:
Schools don't want to waste their resources on players they don't want, schools gain nothing from having kids visit they dont want, its not like they work out for the team.
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No one said otherwise. "Don't want" is a long cry from "may or may not want".

GuyFawkes said:
MOST official visits occur after the player has an offer
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Again, no one said otherwise. You guys are very good at creating strawmen and arguing against them.
 

You said that madtown saying 99% of recruits (and I hope your smart enough to realize by that he meant most and not literally 99%) have offers before their official, and you said

Not even close to accurate.
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but he was pretty much spot on accurate
 

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