posted today - release notes - I think there was some discussion of a situation like this on the forum - or perhaps like this - a few weeks ago

• Fixed an issue that in certain scenarios would cause recruits to delay signing until the end of recruiting even if only one team was considered.

Im glad this was fixed...I has a player sniped during signings because of this...

I had actually noticed this increasing in regularity as of late.  Had never happened to me, but I had seen examples of 10-20 guys per recruiting season this being the case with.

I had seen some cases that puzzled me.  I could not figure out whether it was that the player was not signing or that the coach was not offering a schollie until late late in the process as a matter of strategy or something.  Good it is fixed

In some cases it may have been related to the old "withdraw" option with starts/minutes/redshirts that they took away in the previous update.  A couple of us had players who didn't sign because of a promise withdrawn in the same cycle that it was offered messing things up in some way.  Now that the underlying problem seems to be fixed I wish they would put "withdraw" back for promises.  

Do all players that say you're a 'backup option' eventually drop? Or is it possible that they never will?  It's now 11:00 a.m. on the last day and my target hasn't yet dropped

I know there are drops as late as 5pm on the last day, and possibly 8pm.  

some never drop

Posted by rgerkin on 7/26/2013 8:09:00 PM (view original):
I know there are drops as late as 5pm on the last day, and possibly 8pm.  

interesting, as I had heard that all drops occur by 10am on the last day.  I'm rarely still involved in recruiting this late so I never really verified it myself.

HA.  Central Time.

Posted by jdno on 7/26/2013 10:41:00 PM (view original):

Posted by rgerkin on 7/26/2013 8:09:00 PM (view original):
I know there are drops as late as 5pm on the last day, and possibly 8pm.  

interesting, as I had heard that all drops occur by 10am on the last day.  I'm rarely still involved in recruiting this late so I never really verified it myself.

Actually, I'm going to retract my claim... I may have been basing it on when I noticed the dropdown message, not when it was actually sent.