You are Sean Rawlings

[Vandownbytheriver]

As a kid, I would've done the same thing had roles been reversed.

As a parent, I'd let my kid make the decisions as to where he wants to be the next 4-5 years.

As a kid, no way I could commit to a school unless I knew it's where I 100% wanted to go.

As a parent, I tell my kid the same. If you are sure, commit. If not, wait it out. If State wants you now, they will want you in February.

[Esmerelda Villalobos]

This is the problem I have with these verbal commits. If you're not 100% sure you want to play for that school, don't try to force another school into offering you by committing to a school you have no desire to play for. If his school of choice all along was Ole Miss, he should have been pissed off it took State to offer just to get his offer at Ole Miss. If it was me and my kid, I'd have told them to get ****ed. Or, if you really wanted that offer, don't commit anywhere til you are 100% convinced. If you lose your spot and end up at a Sun Belt or CUSA school, you're still getting to play college ball and a free education.

Amen

[Goat Holder]

I don't think you can handle it any better than what the Rawlings did. Came across as good folks to me. There may be hope for the Ole Miss faithful after all.

[GhostRider]

Looks like I'm late to the party but can someone post a link to where his dad was on message boards? I never saw that.

[CousinEddie]

What do you do? Me personally, my father would have never allowed me to commit and not honor it. Just how I was raised. My father loathes ole miss but he would have never allowed me to back out of my commitment. I figured the Rawlings were the same type of people. Guess not.

What would you do? No judgment either way.

Lets take Ole Miss out of the equation.

Hypothetically...you are a HS senior right now...and you commit to Southern Miss, because at the time, that is your best available offer. Ok, Southern sucks right now, but a free education is a free education.

Now, late in the process, State comes calling and offers.

You tellin me your father would make you honor your commitment to Southern...he would encourage you to not attend your dream school, the school that you grew up cheering for?

C'mon Son

[Jack Lambert]

Rawlings was waiting till tomorrow to decide what he knew immediately. We didn't allow him and OM to string us out

They could have asked him not to say anything about the offer and just do it the day before signning day.

[CJDAWG85]

Lets take Ole Miss out of the equation.

Hypothetically...you are a HS senior right now...and you commit to Southern Miss, because at the time, that is your best available offer. Ok, Southern sucks right now, but a free education is a free education.

Now, late in the process, State comes calling and offers.

You tellin me your father would make you honor your commitment to Southern...he would encourage you to not attend your dream school, the school that you grew up cheering for?

C'mon Son

See Damian Williams recruitment

[ckDOG]

In the ideal world, you make an objective decision and realize that you are likely going to have the best development and opportunity at a program that identified you early in the process and placed an emphasis on you. Fighting the stigma of backup plan isn't ideal.

But, I understand the emotional side to it as well and understand how you get to that decision. Sometimes, you just picture yourself in those school colors regardless of how you end up there. If you truly want to be some place and you don't pursue it when given the opportunity, you will end up regretting it and becoming bitter with your choice.

[Esmerelda Villalobos]

Lets take Ole Miss out of the equation.

Hypothetically...you are a HS senior right now...and you commit to Southern Miss, because at the time, that is your best available offer. Ok, Southern sucks right now, but a free education is a free education.

Now, late in the process, State comes calling and offers.

You tellin me your father would make you honor your commitment to Southern...he would encourage you to not attend your dream school, the school that you grew up cheering for?

C'mon Son

That is exactly what Im saying. This thread tells me a lot about peoples word and how people are these days....Im 30 for the record

He would have never let me commit there if I wasnt 100%. That is the point. Youdont marry a woman and 3 years later, a 10 wants to **** you and you leave your wife. You dance with who brought you.

If i had a crush on the hottest girl in school and she turns me down for prom, i ask the next best thing. Then if the original gets shot down a few times and ask me to go to prom a week before, i tell her to get ****ed.

[maroonmania]

That is exactly what Im saying. This thread tells me a lot about peoples word and how people are these days....Im 30 for the record

He would have never let me commit there if I wasnt 100%. That is the point. Youdont marry a woman and 3 years later, a 10 wants to **** you and you leave your wife. You dance with who brought you.

That was my earlier point. You don't marry when you commit, you plan to marry sort of like being engaged. Until you sign the papers you haven't taken your vows.

[Esmerelda Villalobos]

Sounds like there are a bunch of pussies in this thread that dont mind being the backup prom date.

That would piss me off and i would play at 1000% percent and want to destroy msu every time i played them.

Guess yall are wired different.

[ckDOG]

Sounds like there are a bunch of pussies in this thread that dont mind being the backup prom date.

That would piss me off and i would play at 1000% percent and want to destroy msu every time i played them.

Guess yall are wired different.

Making a commitment only to later renege is generally despicable. However, I'm not sure I have high expectations for 17 year olds in being steadfast in their moral framework when 40+ year old men are constantly promising them the world and encouraging them to back off on their prior commitment. Football recruiting is pretty much corrupted every which way you look at it.

[CJDAWG85]

Sounds like there are a bunch of pussies in this thread that dont mind being the backup prom date.

That would piss me off and i would play at 1000% percent and want to destroy msu every time i played them.

Guess yall are wired different.

No wait... In your OP you said "No judgement either way." Now you are saying everyone is a bunch pussies because they aren't as mad about it as you?

[Esmerelda Villalobos]

No wait... In your OP you said "No judgement either way." Now you are saying everyone is a bunch pussies because they aren't as mad about it as you?

Touche'

[CJDAWG85]

No worries... IMO what we should've done is pull the offer once we found out he was going up there. Would've been interesting to see what OM did after that.

[TexasDawg]

We should rename this thread beating a dead horse