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[QUOTE="pfister1, post: 2168151, member: 285"]
I'd like this post 100x if I could.

So many things go into the offer/no offer decision and we know virtually none of them.    Yet we rip the staff apart because they did or did not offer a kid.    You didn't even touch on the biggest decision point and that is that the staff's evaluation of a kid's ability may differ from the recruiting services and they don't feel he is going to be the type of player that will be able to contribute in the ACC.   That doesn't mean the staff is always going to be right, but they need to be able to trust/rely on their own judgment rather than just blindly following the herd.

I felt like this was the case with HW.   Clearly he was a marginal prospect.   Yet the longer we went with scholarships available and the more times he said he wanted to come the louder the din became around what is the staff doing, they are nuts, how can they not snap up this kid that wants to come here??     Maybe the answer was the staff had serious doubts about whether he will be able to contribute here and they were desperately looking for Plan A, B, C and D before settling on Plan E.
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