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Things are getting interesting with Rakim Jarrett. There is growing concern out of Baton Rouge that he will not end up in their class. They believe that he wants to stay close to home and go to Maryland.....but most of the noise from East Coast recruiting people is Bama. Rumors are out that he will secretly sign next Wednesday and announce in February.
 
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Also, Darnell Washington will sign Wednesday with the school of his choice, but will not announce until January at the Army All American game.
 
BirminghamBAMA said:
Things are getting interesting with Rakim Jarrett. There is growing concern out of Baton Rouge that he will not end up in their class. They believe that he wants to stay close to home and go to Maryland.....but most of the noise from East Coast recruiting people is Bama. Rumors are out that he will secretly sign next Wednesday and announce in February.
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BirminghamBAMA said:
Also, Darnell Washington will sign Wednesday with the school of his choice, but will not announce until January at the Army All American game.
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How does that work? Once a player signs, no other school is allowed to contact him anymore by NCAA rule. So how can a player secretly sign without putting other schools in jeopardy of breaking this rule?
 
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B1GTide said:
How does that work? Once a player signs, no other school is allowed to contact him anymore by NCAA rule. So how can a player secretly sign without putting other schools in jeopardy of breaking this rule?
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I was wondering the same thing. Also, if not announcing until Feb, he must not be an early enrollee. Regardless, it will be difficult to keep it secret, I would imagine. Why does he want to wait that long to announce? I am sure the coaches have this all figured out though.
 
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B1GTide said:
How does that work? Once a player signs, no other school is allowed to contact him anymore by NCAA rule. So how can a player secretly sign without putting other schools in jeopardy of breaking this rule?
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Saban4Ever said:
I was wondering the same thing. Also, if not announcing until Feb, he must not be an early enrollee. Regardless, it will be difficult to keep it secret, I would imagine. Why does he want to wait that long to announce? I am sure the coaches have this all figured out though.
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It happened last year with Marcus Banks. He signed with Alabama during the early signing period, but waited to announce at the Army All American game. No one had a clue until Alabama announced him as a signee after his announcement. Rakim Jarrett's school (same as Keilan Robinson from last year's recruiting class) has a policy that signing ceremonies must be held in February. He would let the other schools know, and wait to announce.
 
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BirminghamBAMA said:
It happened last year with Marcus Banks. He signed with Alabama during the early signing period, but waited to announce at the Army All American game. No one had a clue until Alabama announced him as a signee after his announcement. Rakim Jarrett's school (same as Keilan Robinson from last year's recruiting class) has a policy that signing ceremonies must be held in February. He would let the other schools know, and wait to announce.
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OK, but what about the teams that contact him? Aren't they committing unknown violations then?
 
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The Ols said:
OK, but what about the teams that contact him? Aren't they committing unknown violations then?
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B1GTide said:
That is my point. As long as they let the schools pursuing him know then I can see how issues would be avoided, but I am not sure why a rival school would agree to keep a secret like this.
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If he is signed, other schools wouldn't contact him. The player also would cut off communications with the other schools once they are signed. Yeah, you have the potential of a leak, but then you end up looking bad to other recruits like Auburn did with Javion Cohen. The kid also isn't obligated to tell where he has signed. He can let other schools know that he has signed elsewhere and leave it at that....he doesn't have to tell them where.
 
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If you want to be an EE, you must sign early but you do not have to announce what school it is. some guys want to announce at the all star game, you are on tv, family is there, and it's good for the game that selected you to play, a win for everyone.
 
Guido said:
If you want to be an EE, you must sign early but you do not have to announce what school it is. some guys want to announce at the all star game, you are on tv, family is there, and it's good for the game that selected you to play, a win for everyone.
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So you announce that you signed but tell no one which school you selected (except the school that you chose)? That at least makes some sense. An official announcement that a player signed makes it clear that the player can no longer be contacted by any school other then the school with the NLI. If you didn't get the NLI, you know the truth - he is not coming to your school and you can no longer contact him.

That said - this would leak out for any 5 star.
 
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BirminghamBAMA said:
If he is signed, other schools wouldn't contact him. The player also would cut off communications with the other schools once they are signed. Yeah, you have the potential of a leak, but then you end up looking bad to other recruits like Auburn did with Javion Cohen. The kid also isn't obligated to tell where he has signed. He can let other schools know that he has signed elsewhere and leave it at that....he doesn't have to tell them where.
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But it's a secret...they're not supposed to know that they cannot contact him...
 
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That said - this would leak out for any 5 star.
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I don't think schools / coaches are supposed to comment on guys not signed to their school, so the only way it could LEGALLY leak is if it came from the school who signed him. Not to say that the leaking of information is ever done in a legal / ethical manner.
 
B1GTide said:
So you announce that you signed but tell no one which school you selected (except the school that you chose)? That at least makes some sense. An official announcement that a player signed makes it clear that the player can no longer be contacted by any school other then the school with the NLI. If you didn't get the NLI, you know the truth - he is not coming to your school and you can no longer contact him.

That said - this would leak out for any 5 star.
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If you signed, why waste other schools time? That to me sounds hokie and should be addressed by a list of the Early Signees on an NCAA website or something. 🤔

I guess if the recruit told the schools that he had already signed (elsewhere obviously) then they would simply withdraw the offer and it would become known early anyways... :rolleyes:
 
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