Incredible article about FB scholarship offers. Louisville mentioned twice. Numbers that are almost unbelievable!
Louisville has handed out 2,591 FB Scholarship offers since 2012. Second most in all Colleges. Tennessee was #1.
Long Article. Read down at least to the Graph. Simply Unbelievable! You have to scroll over the various teams to see Louisville right under Tennessee.
Sports Illustrated (SI)
By ROSS DELLENGER
February 05, 2019
https://www.si.com/college-football/2019/02/05/uncommittable-offers-recruiting-national-signing-day
"Recruiting’s Biggest Bait-and-Switch: The Uncommittable Scholarship Offer"
"The average Power 5 program hands out roughly 200 more scholarship offers than it can follow through on during a recruiting cycle,"
"In what is believed to be a first for a college program, Louisville hit the 400-offer mark in 2017,"
"The Volunteers lead all major college programs in offers over this eight-year stretch (328 per year), followed by Louisville (323), Kentucky (291), Ole Miss (290) and Illinois (283). Rounding out the top 10 are Mississippi State (278), Nebraska (270), Indiana (268), Syracuse (254) and West Virginia (251)."
"There’s a reason the sport’s bluebloods are missing from the top 10. The schools passing out the most and earliest offers are typically secondary programs in competitive conferences. “They’ve got to get in early to beat the big dogs,” Simmons says. “Others try to create the narrative, ‘We don’t offer as many kids, so ours mean more!’ But that’s really hard to do.” While powerhouses may get to be more selective, some schools don’t have a choice."
Louisville has handed out 2,591 FB Scholarship offers since 2012. Second most in all Colleges. Tennessee was #1.
Long Article. Read down at least to the Graph. Simply Unbelievable! You have to scroll over the various teams to see Louisville right under Tennessee.
Sports Illustrated (SI)
By ROSS DELLENGER
February 05, 2019
https://www.si.com/college-football/2019/02/05/uncommittable-offers-recruiting-national-signing-day
"Recruiting’s Biggest Bait-and-Switch: The Uncommittable Scholarship Offer"
"The average Power 5 program hands out roughly 200 more scholarship offers than it can follow through on during a recruiting cycle,"
"In what is believed to be a first for a college program, Louisville hit the 400-offer mark in 2017,"
"The Volunteers lead all major college programs in offers over this eight-year stretch (328 per year), followed by Louisville (323), Kentucky (291), Ole Miss (290) and Illinois (283). Rounding out the top 10 are Mississippi State (278), Nebraska (270), Indiana (268), Syracuse (254) and West Virginia (251)."
"There’s a reason the sport’s bluebloods are missing from the top 10. The schools passing out the most and earliest offers are typically secondary programs in competitive conferences. “They’ve got to get in early to beat the big dogs,” Simmons says. “Others try to create the narrative, ‘We don’t offer as many kids, so ours mean more!’ But that’s really hard to do.” While powerhouses may get to be more selective, some schools don’t have a choice."
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