College football recruiting is quite a tricky game. You’re relying on teenagers to make arguably one of the most important decisions of their lives (up to that point), and based on that decision, could ultimately determine the success of your school’s football team. Not every single kid a school recruits will sign with them, but how do you accurately predict that to ensure the kid isn’t screwed in the process. Well, most schools don’t seem to worry about that but the Iowa football team does.
Every year we hear stories about a kid who’s “scholarship offer” was rescinded at the last second because a bigger recruit decided to join the program or how a school crossed the line with recruiting violations in order to draw in these big-time recruits to their program.