Quote Originally Posted by baseballplyrmvp View Post
i just got done with my first season, and there were a couple of instances where i found myself only 1 point behind another team for a certain recruit. however, for like 3-4 weeks, no matter what i did, i would always stay 1 point behind the other school. if you get to this stage with a recruit (being only 1 point behind another school), is it pretty much guaranteed that he'll be holding out until the off-season to make his decision?
In my experience, this usually occurs when a player has made a Soft Commit. In 3 years of AA recruiting, I was able to steal 1 player away from a team to which he had given a Soft Commit. IMHO, the effort (and loss of recruiting time) is not worth the reward. Generally, I will remove a player from my board who has Soft Committed.

cdj - sorry, I didn't see this thread till now and I started a similar one in the Sliders Forum.