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That is stretching things to the max. You don't "schedule" offers with kids, you offer them when you feel you need to.

That said, our old staff was lazy with recruiting outside of Chris Wilson, it is not surprising that they screwed this up, I felt they offered him much too late and started really trying to recruit him much later than they should have. They absolutely screwed up, but that line is hilarious.

LOL now who's stretching? Even most on the UGA board here admit that UGA does it pretty much like the USC staff does it, when it comes to in-state prospects: they hold off on offering them unless those prospects are clear-cut #1 on their board for their position, and/or that school has a serious need to replenish depth.

The idea is that giving an offer to an in-state kid when there's others at his position that are higher on your board is a bad thing to do. What if that higher-rated prospect also chooses to come to your program? Will you have the room on the roster to accept him? What if you don't, and you have to pass on him due to giving the scholarship to another at his position that YOU feel is several levels lower?

And if you choose to pull the offer from the in-state kid who committed first to make room for the better prospect, then that's a PR disaster for your program that can hurt in-state recruiting for years to come. The hope typically is that those in-state prospects will still hold your program above others from out of state, because they grew up following and favoring your school, and have family and friends surrounding them that are all lifetime fans of your school. It's a built-in advantage...

That's what USC's staff under Spurrier has done with several of our in-state prospects, and it's also burned us a time or two. It's nothing new....