RichRod questions the need for a NSD
What are the pro's/con's to NSD?
How is the system failing currently?
- Uncommittable offers are just toying with kids emotions and Gamecock Blocking all the non-major programs.
- Junior year (or earlier) offers are required for all schools, which can commit a school to a player before their development is done and puts the kids in a position to need to decommit once the coaching staff changes.
- Corollary of filling your classes by summer is that fewer and fewer kids are able to blossom in their senior year (as Kam Chancellor did) and earn those late offers. These are children. Many not even 18 by their senior year. Evaluate them as late as you can.
- NSD sets an arbitrary deadline that isn't needed. If a coach is going to bounce, they should do it in broad daylight, not the day after NSD.
The pros are that it offers some protection for a kid and it creates a Draft Day type of event in the middle of winter. That's not a bad thing, IMO. I don't want to give up a kids protection, but for every kid who didn't develop his senior year who needs that protection is a kid who did develop with one less scholarship to accept.
