WR Bryson Baker Commits

It’s the timing. You have to do some serious pretzel logic to get yourself to him choosing Utah over the other schools you listed AFTER the early signing period has ended. Without looking at his commitment history, it’s more plausible that he received those offers but was plan B, C or D for those schools and when they filled their HS needs he was told to look elsewhere.

Utah offered over 150 kids this cycle. Not every one of them was a first choice or had a committable offer. Otherwise the lowest rated kid at every position would have given their verbal immediately and the class would be full in 10 minutes. Because why wouldn’t you take that offer if you were a low 3* or unrated?

You extend an offer but tell the kid it’s contingent on someone else choosing a different school. The kid is more than willing to put the offer on his instametatiktokchat because it brings him attention and will hopefully get other schools interested when they do no more than @Anfernee did and look at the offer list.

As I said above, if you were a low 3* kid and you got a Utah offer, why wouldn’t you take it immediately? That may be the best offer you will ever get and you can always decommit if something better does come along. The reason you don’t is because the school tells you that they won’t honor your commitment unless circumstances dictate.

I haven’t looked at his page, I’m just talking in general.

So he committed on Wednesday, the same day Beck was hired, but didn’t sign yet?

edit: I see the confusion. @Anfernee said “commits” in the thread title so I assumed he wouldn’t be signing until February since Early Signing was done. Just went to his 247 page and his timeline is all screwy. It says Utah offered on October 8 and he visited October 19, that he signed on December 4 and then committed on December 7.

Offers until May were MW/PAC2/FCS. Visits over the summer were MW. Cal/Michigan State offered in September, UCLA/Utah October, never committed anywhere until this week. Doesn’t change what I said about committable offers in general or the supposition that since Utah was the only P4 school he visited, those other offers were committable.