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I went and looked at the commits for those years. Admittedly I only looked at kids we signed. I‘m sure we had lots of decommits some of those cycles but that kind of supports my point.In the vein, our best classes on paper have always had a ton of early commits. We have rarely finished with a quality class without a hot start - see '08, '12, '18, '21.
None of the kids Randy signed in ‘08 were committed by this date in ‘07.
‘12 was essentially a disaster. The high rating was largely a function of having 33 kids in it. Howard signed late. Bush did too. The best two players were Duke and Flowers and they committed earlier. But Flowers was pre-summer, not before that. Duke was the only kid we signed who was committed as of this time that cycle.
‘18 had a few kids who were committed even back to Golden ... it picked up a lot between mid-Feb - June. I suspect we’ll see the same thing this year but backloaded for the reasons I identified (covid and staff changes).