Silent Commitments

Any idea if those commitments are more or less likely to actually sign than those who openly announce? Does it usually come out after signing day which guys were a silent commitment?

Why wouldn’t you want to make it pulic? Then you could actively help “recruit “ other players who would want to play with you to that school. Some player might be on the fence on committing, but if they see that 5 Star Player X committed, then that might be the tipping point to get them to follow.

Depending on the kid, a silent commit could be just as strong a as a verbal. Neither is binding. Both amount to the recruit giving his word or indication to a coach of his intent to play there.

There are three main reasons for silent commits. The first often has to do with all star games where the kids get to do that hats on the table thing.

The second related reason is attention. Kids who are not verbally committed get more hype. Most highly rated kids want to play pro ball. Some kids enjoy the attention and the hype of being on the market. Kids who hold out can see their rankings spike, because recruiting services are money driven and late commitments drive traffic to their sites.

Many schools will let kids give a verbal and still shop around. The better you are, the more likely a school will let you shop. Some kids think of a silent commit as something less than a verbal, they can enjoy their free visits to other schools more without be8ng formally committed.

It’s kind of dumb to think silent commits don’t mean anything, that would presume every kid who tells a coach he is coming is lying. It’s also dumb to think all kids who give silent commits are coming. Nkemdiche is one example of a kid who supposedly was silently committed to LSU, but was likely never coming here.

In general a verbal > silent > no verbal or silent.

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Typically from area hostile to you or something and kid doesn’t want all the bullshite

Attention whoring.
That is all.