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Fleck89
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Question, so i am recruiting a kid and I am leading with him with moderate interest. I offer him a scholarship and inform he that he is redshirt and the next recruiting cycle, all the interest is gone and he is no longer considering me. I withdraw the redshirt and he still is not interested me. What do I now?
5/3/2020 11:16 PM
Trentonjoe
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You can try putting more effort in but usually those guys are lost forever. Did he have a wants to play preference? Those guys usually don’t take well to the red shirt.
5/3/2020 11:35 PM
topdogggbm
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I would throw in the towel on this recruit this time. If you're new it's just part of learning. But generally speaking, that redshirt option is not a good idea to use. Being new and trying to figure the game out, just move on to other recruits in this case and take it on the chin.
5/4/2020 7:52 AM
JLKennedy44
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I have had that happen too. My experience has been that if I'm at D3, I can only safely offer a redshirt to D3 level recruits. D2/D1 recruits will ghost me if I try the redshirt.
5/4/2020 12:21 PM
2xRedRaider
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Experience says "inform of redshirt" during recruiting is bad. Save it until player is on campus, then just try it as part of pre-season efforts.
5/4/2020 1:22 PM
Trentonjoe
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I only inform of red shirt JUCOs without playing preference
5/4/2020 2:34 PM
tgblackw
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Same thing happened to me on a guy last season. Best to just move on to a back up option. Like others have said, informing of redshirt is rarely worth it. Just wait until he is on campus and throw the redshirt on him. If he pitches a fit you can always take it off with no penalty.
5/4/2020 3:09 PM
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The only time I’ve ever used inform redshirt is when I’d only take the player if he’d take the RS.
5/4/2020 3:45 PM
Trentonjoe
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Posted by Sportsbulls on 5/4/2020 3:45:00 PM (view original):
The only time I’ve ever used inform redshirt is when I’d only take the player if he’d take the RS.
That’s a pretty solid plan.
5/4/2020 5:29 PM
cubcub113
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Posted by Sportsbulls on 5/4/2020 3:45:00 PM (view original):
The only time I’ve ever used inform redshirt is when I’d only take the player if he’d take the RS.
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5/4/2020 11:05 PM
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