The Commitment Project: studying recruits – college football edition

The Commitment Project: studying recruits, college football edition

During a visit to Clemson in August 2008, I asked then-coach Tommy Bowden why basketball coaches got so much more offended when recruits broke commitments than football coaches did. Bowden laughed, and he explained that most college football coaches understand that a verbal commitment is essentially meaningless until the player signs the National Letter of Intent that forbids other schools from recruiting him.

“Especially in this part of the country,” Bowden said, “no means go.”

Yet every time a high-profile player flips to another school, the outrage mounts. When Columbus, Ind., quarterback Gunner Kiel — who had already decommitted from Indiana to commit to LSU — flipped on the Tigers and enrolled at Notre Dame, Kiel was labeled a wimp (for fleeing from the mighty SEC), an attention seeker (for announcing the two previous commitments) and worse. LSU coach Les Miles, who actually put effort into recruiting Kiel instead of just reading about it on the Internet, cut through his disappointment to offer one of the most mature reactions to the situation. “The only thing I can tell you is there’s a guy in the Midwest who felt staying close to home was the right thing, or maybe there’s a guy in any number of places where the decision comes down to staying close to family and representing a stadium or team nearby,” Miles told reporters. “I understand that very much. If that’s the case, then we need to have people that are going to be happy here in Louisiana.”

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