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Message: [QUOTE="RF2044, post: 2179415, member: 40"] In that scenario, the staff would still have time to shift gears and continue to actively recruit alternative prospects of similar quality, and avoid getting caught holding the bag. You don't place a deadline on the recruit at the beginning of the recruiting process -- you do it when he commits to the staff but doesn't announce like Green did, and then drags the proceedings out for months and months after numerous campus visits and lots of reassurances that he's coming but no public announcement. You do it when you have backup prospects lined up so that you're negotiating [to the extent that recruiting is a negotiation] from a position of relative strength, and not getting held hostage by teenaged whim. It also doesn't have to be done confrontationally, but rather to incent closure one way or the other -- which is the goal. Even if it costs you a player here or there. [/QUOTE]