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Message: [QUOTE="tep624, post: 574261, member: 430"] First and foremost, the point I was trying to make in my original post about this topic was that not every kid who commits to a school is committing solely because of the staff that they're committing to. I never said that any of the JUCO's that signed early weren't happy with their decisions or were considering backing out. What I did say was that I was excluding them because they were already signed at that time. Hypothetically they could have transferred, which I mentioned, but that's not really to their advantage, so even if they weren't happy, it's likely they wouldn't have left anyway. And Burton, whether he was happy with his decision or not, really didn't have any alternatives from what's been reported so I lumped him in with them - a kid who backing out provided no real advantage to. Nowhere did I say any of them were going to back out - but I excluded them from the commits I was considering because their situations were different than the high school kids that were verballed. That being said, the point was that there were 4 guys that didn't sign early that decommitted and 7 that didn't sign early that stayed committed out of the recruits that committed prior to Marrone leaving. If kids commit strictly to a school simply because of the staff currently at that school, which is what was implied by some in this thread, then we would have lost 11 recruits, not 4. Especially considering the general misinformation, confusion, etc that was going on during the period between Marrone interviewing and Shafer not only being named HC but getting his staff solidified. That was the whole point I was trying to get across. You can't assume that every single kid that commits to a school does so 100% because of the staff that he verballed to. [/QUOTE]

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