[ColoradoTree]

[quote author=amartinsu13 link=topic=9617.msg152655#msg152655 date=1452667527]

I think you misinterpret my question.  Obviously I know that they know more about the program and their recruitment than I do. 

I'm wondering, as a curious fan, what they know.  I'd like to be enlightened as to what they may be hearing that is causing them to decommit. 

Well, the obvious answer is the one that often happens this time of year with regard to Stanford, but we'll never know if that is true. 

The other point is that during the recent same period we've lost three guys, we've gained three commits in Swann, Schaffer, and Kafusi.  We have 19 commits still, are ranked #1 in the Pac-12, and both McCulloch and Stewart were recently admitted putting them in the "more like than not to commit" category.  So if the guys leaving know something we don't, do they also know something the guys committing don't?
[/quote]

Often, I think it's less what they're hearing from Stanford and more what they're not hearing--i.e., getting frustrated that they haven't yet gotten the thumbs up from Admissions despite Signing Day being right around the corner.  I'd open things up if I were in their shoes, too.  When you have good options elsewhere and your top choice hasn't yet said you can come, it would be unwise to be fully committed to your top choice. 

Sure, sometimes a decommitment is because they got dinged by admissions.  But sometimes it's just frustration with not knowing, frustration no doubt helped along by other schools' recruiters.  And sometimes it's because an admitted kid realizes he'd like a different situation better.  All of that happens, and there's nothing we can really do about it.  Thus, while I follow this stuff with great interest, I'm not going to start worrying about decommitments until there's an observable trend (such as a critical mass of recruits over a few years decommitting and then committing to a particular school, or the sheer number of January decommitments threatening to leave us in a compromised competitive position).  I'll still be bummed out by the academic ones, and I'll still be agog over someone legitimately preferring another school, particularly in the Pac-12, to Stanford, but I have a lot of faith in both the football program here as well as Admissions, so I'll do my best to defer to their decisionmaking. 

[ColoradoTree]

[quote author=amartinsu13 link=topic=9617.msg152655#msg152655 date=1452667527]

I think you misinterpret my question.  Obviously I know that they know more about the program and their recruitment than I do. 

I'm wondering, as a curious fan, what they know.  I'd like to be enlightened as to what they may be hearing that is causing them to decommit. 

Well, the obvious answer is the one that often happens this time of year with regard to Stanford, but we'll never know if that is true. 

The other point is that during the recent same period we've lost three guys, we've gained three commits in Swann, Schaffer, and Kafusi.  We have 19 commits still, are ranked #1 in the Pac-12, and both McCulloch and Stewart were recently admitted putting them in the "more like than not to commit" category.  So if the guys leaving know something we don't, do they also know something the guys committing don't?
[/quote]

Often, I think it's less what they're hearing from Stanford and more what they're not hearing--i.e., getting frustrated that they haven't yet gotten the thumbs up from Admissions despite Signing Day being right around the corner.  I'd open things up if I were in their shoes, too.  When you have good options elsewhere and your top choice hasn't yet said you can come, it would be unwise to be fully committed to your top choice. 

Sure, sometimes a decommitment is because they got dinged by admissions.  But sometimes it's just frustration with not knowing, frustration no doubt helped along by other schools' recruiters.  And sometimes it's because an admitted kid realizes he'd like a different situation better.  All of that happens, and there's nothing we can really do about it.  Thus, while I follow this stuff with great interest, I'm not going to start worrying about decommitments until there's an observable trend (such as a critical mass of recruits over a few years decommitting and then committing to a particular school, or the sheer number of January decommitments threatening to leave us in a compromised competitive position).  I'll still be bummed out by the academic ones, and I'll still be agog over someone legitimately preferring another school, particularly in the Pac-12, to Stanford, but I have a lot of faith in both the football program here as well as Admissions, so I'll do my best to defer to their decisionmaking.