(12-08-2020 09:15 AM)mrjoolius Wrote:  

(12-08-2020 08:51 AM)Tribe2025 Wrote:  While I agree with most of your post, I’d give the kid a Character pass for 2020. Many kids committed without seeing campus, meeting coaches in person, etc. Hard to be 100% committed to something this way.

I agree with your point about the uncertainty of who you are committing to. He did have as much opportunity to see campus/coaches at Wake as he did at ODU. I agree that there was added pressure to commit early with the uncertainty ahead in the fall. He certainly must have felt some uncertainty about ODU. Most kids that are sincerely committed aren't open to being courted by other schools. If you are uncertain about a school, then why commit? I guess I'm just old fashioned in that regard.

Kids wanted to lock into a spot to make sure they had somewhere to go. I remember reading back in May that there were more kids committed at that time this year than the last 2 years combined. I think there will be tons of freshman in the transfer portal in 2022.

At first I thought our staff was losing the recruiting war but now that I think of it we could be ahead of the game. Small solid class and save money to play another day. We will be able to hit the FBS bounce backs and FCS transfer market in a year and we can supplement with PWOs for now.