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Message: [QUOTE="dinosaurbbq, post: 1213692, member: 1333"] If our coaches have changed their minds on West and either have a better player to use the scholarship on or he has not developed the way they expected, I can totally understand pulling the schollie and have no problem with it. It isn't last minute at this point and if he's good enough to play P5, someone else will offer and he can go there. If we made a mistake and we are sure enough to pull the offer now, I'm glad we didn't simply follow through and waste the schollie to make the kid's dream of playing P5 FB come true at the cost of having a player who can contribute. If we had kept our offer out there, its comparable to me to asking a girl to marry you and she then demonstrates she's a total psychopath during the engagement and you nonetheless go through with it, because you asked her after all and you owe her a marriage now. You can re-evaluate and you should if it is absolutely clear to you this player won't and can't contribute here. Yes, you 'ed up with the offer to begin with and SU will have to own that because other coaches will use it against us, so again, you better be absolutely sure this kid won't and can't contribute here if you are going to pull the offer. If, on the other hand, we pulled the offer because we will now have Lester as our OC next year instead of GMcD and this kid fit GMcD's system and doesn't fit Lester's system, there is only one circumstance in which I can accept that, if we needed to take on someone at a different position. For example, the TE new signee in place of an extra unneeded WR because Lester recognizes the usefulness of a TE pass catching threat that McD didn't recognize or believe. By that I mean that if a WR fit in McD's system, I would guess he has seen in that WR pass catching ability, sufficient speed and route running ability to be a P5 D1 player and such a player should be equally valuable to Lester or any other OC. There are positions where changing OC should change the attributes you look for in a recruit, certainly QB (pocket passer vs. dual threat), TE (pass catching vs. great blocking), and even RB (inside power runner vs. spread them out shifty, speedy back). WR is not one of those positions. [/QUOTE]

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