Not sure how many of the 'offers' reported and listed in the recruiting forum are still current but how many "offers" are normal for a given recruiting year? I am just curious because it seems like we have a LOT of pending offers when we're looking for around 20 recruits? We have roughly 230 offers out on the list and I realize this list is those that board members have picked up on and quite a number are from the previous staff so there could well be a significant perentage that are NOT real or no longer effective?
Is it common practice for most schools to 'shotgun' so many offers to seemingly a large portion of the the highly regarded players?
Are the offers only made after detailed preparatory contacts, reviews, etc or do we make a large bunch of offers initially and then gage the interest by the recruits replay back?