By national signing day next February, roughly 3,000 high school seniors will have signed football grant-in-aid contracts with Bowl Championship Series (BCS) schools. With early signing day roughly seven months away, about 500 kids have committed to one of the 129 colleges and universities who make up the BCS. If recent history is any guide and ignoring the definition of “commitment,” 100 or more of those 500 will probably change their mind over the next few months and eventually sign elsewhere.
Going into an important recruiting weekend (the joint camp with LSU), at least according to the recruiting services and independent twitter accounts, Tulane has offered something over 300 soon-to-be high school seniors. Of those, about 30 have committed elsewhere (though, as noted above, those “commitments” may or may not be final). Last year we offered just over 400 kids and eventually signed 25. We also had seven more who de-committed from Tulane either because they perceived better opportunities somewhere else or were encouraged by our staff to look elsewhere. At this point it hardly makes a difference.
To date, I’m unaware of any commitments to the Wave but would expect a few starting in June. But I find it interesting to look at who our offers have gone to and where they live. The best I can tell, we’ve offered at least 54 players from Louisiana. I’d guess we’ll add another 10-20 offers in-state. Since the state produces about 100 BCS scholarships annually and I’d venture that roughly half (50 or so) have the potential we really need, that sounds about right to me. I’d hate to see us take the lower level BCS or FCS players that dotted the rosters when Curtis Johnson and Jason Rollins ran recruiting.
We’ve also offered a number of kids from other states: Texas (58), Georgia (56), Florida (55), Alabama 30), Tennessee (21) Mississippi (15), Nevada (3), and one each from California, Washington DC, Maryland, Missouri, Arkansas, New Jersey, Oklahoma, and South Carolina. That appears to be a good sampling across our primary recruiting area with a few others tossed into the mix.
By position, we’ve offered every position: QB (18), RB (36), WR (35), TE (10), OL (31), DE (37), DT (13), LB (35), DB (69), and Athlete (16). Some of the wide receivers and defensive backs in particular could play the other position and many of the “athletes” play QB in high school but presumably don’t have the arm to play there in college. Since I think we need at least two tight ends this year I’m a little surprised at the low number offered to date but 6’4” 245# tight ends who can run (essentially what we’d like) are few and far between.
Anyway, many of our current “offers” may not be “actionable,” meaning we would not accept their commitment at this time—but who knows? And like I noted in the beginning, many of our offerees will eliminate us from consideration and go elsewhere. Others we will eliminate as we narrow our focus and begin to receive commitments.
We need to sign kids who are in the top half of signees in their state; that would be kids normally expected to go to P5 schools and would certainly put us at or near the top of the AAC in recruiting.
Roll Wave!!!
Going into an important recruiting weekend (the joint camp with LSU), at least according to the recruiting services and independent twitter accounts, Tulane has offered something over 300 soon-to-be high school seniors. Of those, about 30 have committed elsewhere (though, as noted above, those “commitments” may or may not be final). Last year we offered just over 400 kids and eventually signed 25. We also had seven more who de-committed from Tulane either because they perceived better opportunities somewhere else or were encouraged by our staff to look elsewhere. At this point it hardly makes a difference.
To date, I’m unaware of any commitments to the Wave but would expect a few starting in June. But I find it interesting to look at who our offers have gone to and where they live. The best I can tell, we’ve offered at least 54 players from Louisiana. I’d guess we’ll add another 10-20 offers in-state. Since the state produces about 100 BCS scholarships annually and I’d venture that roughly half (50 or so) have the potential we really need, that sounds about right to me. I’d hate to see us take the lower level BCS or FCS players that dotted the rosters when Curtis Johnson and Jason Rollins ran recruiting.
We’ve also offered a number of kids from other states: Texas (58), Georgia (56), Florida (55), Alabama 30), Tennessee (21) Mississippi (15), Nevada (3), and one each from California, Washington DC, Maryland, Missouri, Arkansas, New Jersey, Oklahoma, and South Carolina. That appears to be a good sampling across our primary recruiting area with a few others tossed into the mix.
By position, we’ve offered every position: QB (18), RB (36), WR (35), TE (10), OL (31), DE (37), DT (13), LB (35), DB (69), and Athlete (16). Some of the wide receivers and defensive backs in particular could play the other position and many of the “athletes” play QB in high school but presumably don’t have the arm to play there in college. Since I think we need at least two tight ends this year I’m a little surprised at the low number offered to date but 6’4” 245# tight ends who can run (essentially what we’d like) are few and far between.
Anyway, many of our current “offers” may not be “actionable,” meaning we would not accept their commitment at this time—but who knows? And like I noted in the beginning, many of our offerees will eliminate us from consideration and go elsewhere. Others we will eliminate as we narrow our focus and begin to receive commitments.
We need to sign kids who are in the top half of signees in their state; that would be kids normally expected to go to P5 schools and would certainly put us at or near the top of the AAC in recruiting.
Roll Wave!!!
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