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Lifelong Frog
ESPN: Players watch and wait with realignment
By Mitch Sherman
ESPN Recruiting
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Imagine the decision now for a TCU recruit. The Horned Frogs continue on track to join the Big East, less attractive after the departure to the ACC of Syracuse and Pittsburgh. But will the Big 12 -- a better geographic fit, and likely to include just nine teams upon Texas A&M's expected departure to the SEC -- come calling?
And with schools jumping leagues seemingly with more ease than recruits can escape letters of intent, recruits owe it to themselves to think hard about their situations before signing day.
TCU pledge Daje Johnson, a defensive back from Pflugerville, Texas, is doing just that. He turned down offers from the schools in the back of the Big 12 bus -- Baylor, Texas Tech, Iowa State and Kansas State -- for a chance to play in what he considered a more stable league.
Johnson picked TCU in part because of its move to the Big East. He wanted to play games on the East Coast so his mother, who lives in North Carolina, could travel more easily to see him.
"If something happens," Johnson said, "if they change from going to the Big East, it would probably make me reconsider." ...
By Mitch Sherman
ESPN Recruiting
...
Imagine the decision now for a TCU recruit. The Horned Frogs continue on track to join the Big East, less attractive after the departure to the ACC of Syracuse and Pittsburgh. But will the Big 12 -- a better geographic fit, and likely to include just nine teams upon Texas A&M's expected departure to the SEC -- come calling?
And with schools jumping leagues seemingly with more ease than recruits can escape letters of intent, recruits owe it to themselves to think hard about their situations before signing day.
TCU pledge Daje Johnson, a defensive back from Pflugerville, Texas, is doing just that. He turned down offers from the schools in the back of the Big 12 bus -- Baylor, Texas Tech, Iowa State and Kansas State -- for a chance to play in what he considered a more stable league.
Johnson picked TCU in part because of its move to the Big East. He wanted to play games on the East Coast so his mother, who lives in North Carolina, could travel more easily to see him.
"If something happens," Johnson said, "if they change from going to the Big East, it would probably make me reconsider." ...
