How many total offers this year?

[Vol Horn 4 Life]

Does anyone know the total number of offers we made for the '10 class and what is typical for a top 25 football team?

I see that Tennessee made 140 offers with ONE commit which screams, "We don't know what we're doing we offered everyone".

TN offers

 

[Horns83]

Different teams have different methods when it comes to offers. IIRC, teams like Florida and USC will offer a lot more kids than we will. However, at the end of the day, the talent Texas, Florida, and USC bring in will all be pretty top notch. IMHO, the number of offers a team gives out is not nearly as important as the kids who actually commit. A top class is a top class - no matter if a team handed out 30 offers or 130 offers to get there.

My .02

 

[everybodygodeep]

aggy has 72 offers and more coming to get some players. Texas has about 29 -30

 

[toucan82]

I think I got an offer from aggy

 

[RobbyHorn]

toucan, i thought I was the only one here that got an offer from aggy. at age 48, i have a shot at aggy qb.

note to self: check the board for mention of the houston chronicle story on friday about shermie dumbing down his coaching so aggy players can understand.

 

[Bill in Sinton]

Hey Robby and toucan maybe I could go there with you and be an OL for you. I am only 60 years old and weigh 205 lbs at 6ft0in.

 

[Bill in Sinton]

On a serious note for Vol I think we have 30 offers in total so far this year. This is counting the 21 verbals we have so far and the 9 still outstanding. I don't know if there are any changes to the 9 outstanding as of today though. Maybe someone will help.

 

[OldHippie]

I'm kind of interested in how that works. Do the coaches at some point withdraw offers once they are made if a position fills up or the number in the entire class starts to fill up? Does Rivals then uncheck the box of "offer made"? Or is it, "once offered, always offered"? If Bill is right and there are 30 offers out there, and they all accept, what then?

 

[LITNIN HORN]

When a team offers 100 players, they generally wait to see who accepts early, then they will go to the top players in that position and tell them they better decide quickly or their spot might be gone.

Mack, on the other hand, has the luxury of offering only a handful of top players in his need areas, knowing he will get commitments from most. When he does lose out on one, the next guy on the list is usually comparable. He gets his commits early, and only has four or five offers on the table he is willing to wait on...but these are world beaters that anyone would take, like Seastrunk. Any team in the country would find a place for him on signing day, even if they already have ten running backs.

Mack is the best at what he does and he's in a great place to make it work. I hope this doesn't change for a long time, if ever. Pay attention Muschamp.

 

[gkp]

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[OldHippie]

Litnin. I get the general drift of what you are saying. And I understand that all 9 of the offers will not accept. But theoretically, if 4 really good players (for example Seastrunk, Jeffcoat, White, Hicks and/or Matthews) made verbal commitments in April, would UT shut it down or at least withdraw some of the outstanding offers? Or is that just something that has never happened so nobody knows?

 

[LITNIN HORN]

If three or four of the players you named committed in the next month, I think Mack would pretty much call it a done deal. What else would he need? It also depends on a lot of things we don't know about, like potential transfers, grade hazards, etc. These things always happen, and my guess is Mack knows about them long before the general public. The only other thing I can think of would be for Mack and the coaching staff to recommend to a player that he should transfer, because he would be better off elsewhere. I don't see that happening very often, if ever.

 

[Vol Horn 4 Life]

Thanks guys!

 

[Vol Horn 4 Life]

So now that my main question was answered, I was looking at another thread about the 2011 prospects and it spurred another one which I thought would be good for this thread too.

Considering our nearly 100% offer/commit success rate lately, has anyone ever heard of younger potential blue chippers (say national top 100) still a couple years away which we may not have been recruiting sending UT letters asking for an offer?

This will ultimately fall under an aggy "arrogant sips" thread, but I think it's a pretty legitimate question.

 

[eflow24]

Mack has been quoted saying that we generally offer around 30 kids a year. He says that recruits know that if they get an offer from Texas it is a big deal and that they are one of very few. I am pretty sure we offered 30 last year and got 20. This year we have offered 30 (with a pending offer for 31) and already have 21 with an excellent chance of getting 2 or more from the offers out there.

It is possible that we will go out of state and add a few more offers if some ships sail, such as Reed and Peterson.

That being said, if every player we have offered committed (pretty sure Peterson is off the table) then Mack would just take all of them. There are some players that get conditional offers with a time frame, then there are players who get offers good to NSD.

We are basically the only school who does it this way. Pretty much every other school out there will offer 50 or more kids any given year. I think Florida offered 70+ last year.

 

[LotusBlade]

We've already stopped recruiting Reed and Cobbs. Reed made a statement that Texas hadn't contacted him in a while, and he wasn't even sure his offer was still available.

The staff likely knows something we don't officially know yet.

We pull offers all the time. Our offers are only good for a short period of time generally.

 

[glenn]

some good questions.

i wonder if we actually contact a kid and tell him his position is filled for this class or does the kid figure it out when he doesn't hear from us. i don't know how that works. maybe only if the kid contacts us we tell him what the deal is.

another good one is do the recruiting services leave the box checked if the kid got an offer that was later pulled. i would assume they leave the box checked. after all, the kid did receive an offer, he just didn't respond as quickly as another. that way offers serve as kind of testaments to the kids' value. also, it would be extremely hard for the services to ascertain whether an offer was rescinded. they would look really dumb if they unchecked a box and then the kid committed.