Genreal recruiting question

[snydrosooner]

This is curiosity question as much as anything else. I see it alot in football.

If a player is verbally commited to another school, is there any etiquite or guidelines that coaches use to continue to recruit the committed athlete? If a player asks them to stop will coaches stop?

I am curious whats to stop a Coach from recruiting a player even after the player commetted elsewhere and has not shown the school any interest? and is there any recourse a athlete has if they ask a coach to stop recruiting them and the coach does not (still send letters, attempts to call, texting)?

 

[brettromar]

This is curiosity question as much as anything else. I see it alot in football.

If a player is verbally commited to another school, is there any etiquite or guidelines that coaches use to continue to recruit the committed athlete? If a player asks them to stop will coaches stop?

I am curious whats to stop a Coach from recruiting a player even after the player commetted elsewhere and has not shown the school any interest? and is there any recourse a athlete has if they ask a coach to stop recruiting them and the coach does not (still send letters, attempts to call, texting)?

No rules and it is up to the coach.

Most continue to recruit if they think there is a chance.

 

[oSuJeff97]

I've always assumed pretty much every coach keeps recruiting every target until they sign the LOI.

It seems silly not to, considering how many kids flip-flop before signing.

 

[HoHum]

In basketball I think there is more of a tendency to leave a player alone after committing, not so at all in football. I remember there was a minor controversy about Eric Gordon between Kelvin Sampson and Bruce Weber and Sampson's recruiting of Gordon after he was committed to Illinois.

 

[Max Power]

I've always assumed pretty much every coach keeps recruiting every target until they sign the LOI.

It seems silly not to, considering how many kids flip-flop before signing.

This, It is up to the kid to tell the others his mind is made up and to leave him alone

 

[thegreyghost]

There apparently use to be some unwritten rule in the big ten, football and hoops, dantoni and bilema got rather heated at urban legend after he took the ohio state job and poached a couple of their commits, and then as mentioned Sampson and webber had a little tift.

 

[WTSooner]

In basketball I think there is more of a tendency to leave a player alone after committing, not so at all in football. I remember there was a minor controversy about Eric Gordon between Kelvin Sampson and Bruce Weber and Sampson's recruiting of Gordon after he was committed to Illinois.

To me that is a bad example. Kelvin switched schools after Gordon committed to Illinois. Even if coaches were leaving committed kids alone, I would think such a switch with give Kelvin the leeway to at least check in with the kid.

My opinion is that it is the kid that should shut things down. And from time to time, you hear about that happening. If a kid is telling other coaches to stop calling, they should. If they are calling and the kid is still talking, and in a way, being recruited, I certainly don't fault the coaches for calling. At that point it is up to the coaches to decide if they want to keep potentially wasting their time.