It's not a conspiracy theory.
Let's take it out of the Husker context: we know for a fact that offer lists are often inaccurate. There are a million reasons people don't feel a need or desire to "correct" them.
Let me tell you a real scenario: kid gets correspondence from U of X. He communicates to recruiting "reporters" that he has an offer letter (maybe just to visit unofficially or in a camp). Maybe he even explains he's received some calls during the evaluation process. Through the telephone game, that becomes a reported offer.
At which point there's no value to anyone in correcting that.
Note, nothing nefarious motivates that errant reporting, except maybe by some recruitniks who want to goose the click throughs.
Let's take it out of the Husker context: we know for a fact that offer lists are often inaccurate. There are a million reasons people don't feel a need or desire to "correct" them.
Let me tell you a real scenario: kid gets correspondence from U of X. He communicates to recruiting "reporters" that he has an offer letter (maybe just to visit unofficially or in a camp). Maybe he even explains he's received some calls during the evaluation process. Through the telephone game, that becomes a reported offer.
At which point there's no value to anyone in correcting that.
Note, nothing nefarious motivates that errant reporting, except maybe by some recruitniks who want to goose the click throughs.
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