not really worked up about it, just think it's fairly obvious that if he's committed someone elses offer became conditional. Sledge is too good of a player to accept a wait and see if something opens up.
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You really think they are telling him, to hold off, until they can be sure there is a schollly?
They are recruiting him as though there is a scholly available.If he commits you have the following options:
1) the lowest guy on the scholly totum pole may be asked to find another school where his talents could be better used.
2) You have a 5 star guy who if he is not granted a chance to play this year, may choose to grow pro, and never don a Cyclone uniform.
3) You have like 5 Freshmen coming in, 1 of which was borderline on whether he would be eligible or not.. Lets see home sickness, grades, substance abuse, assault, have all hit the ISU hoops program in recent times
ISU got killed by all the transfers over the past 2-3 years. A good business man ( and yes college basketball is a business) plans ahead, looks at historical trends and the overall landscape of his industry.
I would be more upset if they did not over recruit. Heck sign 2 over the number because we will lose 1-2 guys for some reason or another within the next 12 months.
I would expect a 1-2 star player poss. taking a wait and see approach, but a player w/the talents and open scholarship offers from other D1 schools, I'd be less likely to take that approach. I'm not made or even upset. I'm just wanting to know the facts as to the open scholarship. You cannot tell me that he accepted our scholarship on the condition one becomes available.
He's not, there is a scholly available, again worst case scenario option 1 occurs.
Its like a salary cap you only need to be under it by a specific date.
This is about building depth, I assume this guy is going to be a much better player than #'s 11, 12 & 13 on our roster,
If he accepts the offer, then guys 12 and 13 better be checking out other schools or hope that either options 2 or 3 take place.
LOL. Swing and a miss, Paul. Must have been speaking with a different Tavon Sledge.
http://www.cyclonefanatic.com/forum...rg-lands-another-2011-guard-tavon-sledge.html
if by weird you mean good, then i agree. here's to hoping we aren't spring signing 3-4 guys ever again.
Great problem to have vs the spring signing kid who choices were Wagner,
Radford or VMI...
I think you are reacting to a misstatement. Paul Clark reported that, as of the time of his report, Sledge had not committed. He did not make comments to the effect "wasn't committed any time soon". No swing and miss there.
And it may help drive the current people on scholarship to work harder which can't hurt,even for this year.
Thanks for the response on my first question. Now here's my second.On rare occaision there are two sport athletes,even in Division 1. Which sport does the scholly count against?
Not sure of the pecking order but if they westle or play BB and Football it goes against the sport other than football. Guessing track is the same way with FB.
That is backwards. Scholarships go against the sport with the most scholarships first.
I like the strategy given the current NCAA hoops transfer merry-go-round that has developed. It seems to me that 1 extra guy every year is the number to shoot for. If you start booting number 12 & 13 off the team every year you're going to have some tough questions asked by parents who are thinking about sending little Johnny to ISU.
Can hoops and football give partials? I know the lesser sports will split up their schollies to several guys, but does that ever happen with the money makers?
Again, not true. As I recall, the scholly counts against the sport whose season competes first. Rather, that the athlete competes (rather than redshirts) in.
