The Uncommitable offer
What is the point of an uncommitable offer? I don't see the difference between saying "we are very interested in you and may offer you soon" and saying here is an offer that means next to nothing because you can't commit to it. Am I missing something here?
Or just ask urbz, he seems to be the king of the UO.
Never seen anyone so unhappy eating a pizza.
He's sad because that's a papa john's pizza and after the last few years he tries to support dominoes as much as he can
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Sarpino's I'm guessing. Even the urbz knows the wrenching cramps and sweats that are sure to follow after consuming one of those. Call it diner's remorse. Pass the toilet paper please.
In my day it was always referred-to as [that truncation]. However I accept the neggings for having missed the prior post with its sad pizza identification. Personally, I've never eaten either Papa John's or Sarpino's - I live in Chicago and we have 4 a.m. delivery for superior inferior product. How Domino's survives here I have no idea, although I suspect they take EBT and that might help.
May I buy you guys a Papa John"s? Toilet paper not included.
Great pizza from an exciting new partnership with Queens based McDowell's.
May a'splain it. Head a'splode at the possibility.
That being said, I've negged it quietly to myself for years.
never heard it used even once.
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It was fairly, somewhat awesome to see Sad Urban when it first came out, I shared it on Facebook ha ha. But remember:
Michigan State beat him, in the year that was Michigan's last opportunity to face Ohio State in the B10CG (before moving into the same division) and MSU went on to win the 100th Rose Bowl against Stanford (the first Rose Bowl being UM defeating Stanford).
So everything about that game and what led to that moment sucked. This was funny when Urban had a 12-0 season but nothing to show for it, then proceeded to lose this game and also the Orange Bowl, right up until after the loss to Va Tech.
It is no longer is funny nor has any relevance. The guy was hungry.
So ... moving on. HARBAUGH.
It is awesome that you are the MGoBlog Official bucknut/urbz gif historian, sure the ladies at the bar eat that shit up. You are of course free to not use that gif, but since I live in HARBAUGH's United States, the rest of us still can.
It is awesome that you are the MGoBlog Official bucknut/urbz gif historian,
It is.
sure the ladies at the bar eat that shit up.
They do.
You are of course free to not use that gif,
I won't.
but since I live in HARBAUGH's United States, the rest of us still can.
Touché.
Upvote for you for being a good sport and creative with my retort!
The uncomittable offer is the nicest way of saying you aren't our top priority.
I think this is pretty close. It should be called a "conditional offer." All offers are conditional in some ways in the long run (e.g., on the kid's grades and whether there are any scholarships left when he commits). In this case, though, it's conditional even in the moment of the offer, since it depends on what other player(s) decide to do first.
To make a kid feel good about you even if you don't intend on accepting his commitment unless he gets better or you need him as a backup plan. Remember, a kid often doesn't know his offer is uncommittable until he tries to commit.
It seems more like a "conditionally commitable offer", rather than an "uncommitable offer"
It's like that college "acceptance" letter that says, "Congratulations! You're on the Wait List."
but the good thing for the athlete is that it's kind of a signal to other programs that the kid is good enough to at least be in serious consideration at a specific program.
An offer only becomes uncommitable after others have committed in your place. I think all offers are committable (to a point) when they are first given out. So a perfect example is a guy like Derrick Green. He had an offer from Ohio State, but his offer was no longer a committable offer due to Ezekiel Elliott committing first.
Is that still a win over Ohio State in recruiting? Probably not. But an offer from a big time school is definitely a good thing regardless if it becomes uncommittable in the future.
I have heard that none of Saban's QB offers are committable i.e. Jayru Campbell until after he sees them throw in person. So it's basically a way to get them to campus. "Hey, we're offering you, but it's dependent upon you coming down here and throwing in front of the staff."
No harm, no foul to that in my opinion.
That worked out well, imo.
Talk about a fall from grace. That kid was the top QB prospect in Metro Detroit, if not Michigan as a whole, for the better part of 3 years. Was committed to MSU (We bash our rivals but there are far worse places to go than MSU for football players). Then it all started to unravel. First the body slam. Then he beat up his girlfriend. Now he is going to a JUCO in Kansas. At this point I think he has a better shot at working on the line at Jefferson North than playing power 5 level football.
Means he'll play for Bill Snyder. He'll even win a bowl on Bill's 80th birthday.
IIRC, the Hoke staff cooled on Campbell before the MSU commit and subsequent shananigans. And it seemed some of this cooling coincided with Shane Morris, et. al.
to the consternation of some posters here early in the process. I fail to see what his recruitment would have to do with Shane Morris. They're two years apart.
Well, Shane was a QB and Campbell was a QB and....playing time concerns?
I think that's just a regular offer. Most normal offers have clauses that say this becomes invalid if we fill up at your position or have someone change their mind about transfering ect.
When Ohio State offers a kid, but they pick someone else.
I think you may be on to something.
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This is just baseless speculation based on the earlier thread about the huge number of decommitts from Stanford's class a while back. That said, here's a what if.
What if Harbaugh said to kids, here's an offer - you can commit if you want, but there is nothing firm on our end as we evaluate offers. We'll be in communication over the next few months, and will have a firm answer to you by October. If you want to keep looking around, sounds good - If you want to commit, maybe doing so will raise your recruiting profile a bit and get some other schools to look at you. Seems like committing is a win-win for both of us. Would that be sketchy if come October Michigan said it wasn't committable? I don't think that it would be.
National Signing Day.
It's meaningless, but it makes the other side feel warm and fuzzy like a koala bear.
If you offer 200 prospects and a worse DT wants to commit but you feel good about Rasha Gary and you only have one spot.
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humor, bro. try it sometime.
I thought fratboy douches said 'brah' instead of 'bro'!?
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I think you have this completely backwards. It's more like making it known to the girls at the bar that you'll be willing to have sex with them if they get just a little bit more attractive or if you get a little bit more desperate/drunk.
Fortunately for you, there are no arbitrary limits on the number of commits you can accept.