re: Coaches not being completely truthful about coaching changes to recruits

Here are my thoughts, although they do not mirror the coaches decisions completely

If I was to interview for another job, I would not tell my current employer until I was leaving. I would not tell anyone being hired by the firm if I was interviewing them that I was leaving. I wouldn't tell the boss until I had at least gotten the offer.

So, in that way I understand why all these coaches don't tell the kids. Just because I know the Drayton situation the best, what if he told the kid, and the kid went and blabbed to everyone?

On the other hand, recruiting is obviously different, and a lot of kids aren't going to schools for a degree first and foremost; they are going to play for a school/coach/scheme that fits them