Today is a significant day on the football recruiting calendar. Sept. 1 marks the first day that college programs can directly contact 2017 recruits. Previously recruits could take unofficial visits or initiate contact with programs, but colleges can now send recruits direct messages over Twitter as well as mail. (They still can't call recruits.)
This allows colleges like Stanford to really start building relationships with the junior class. The Cardinal has already established connections with a handful of their top 2017 targets (Foster Sarell, Darnay Holmes, Sione Heimuli-Lund to name a few), but things should pick up with a number of the guys who have not visited yet now that contact is permitted. Additionally, a few more 2017 offers should trickle out; given the contact restrictions on rising juniors prior to the Sept. 1, it was sometimes difficult for Stanford (or any staff) to actually reach a kid to inform him of the offer.
Here's one example:
Also, Stanford has done a nice job sending some pretty neat graphics to their offered targets, which seem to be well received.
This allows colleges like Stanford to really start building relationships with the junior class. The Cardinal has already established connections with a handful of their top 2017 targets (Foster Sarell, Darnay Holmes, Sione Heimuli-Lund to name a few), but things should pick up with a number of the guys who have not visited yet now that contact is permitted. Additionally, a few more 2017 offers should trickle out; given the contact restrictions on rising juniors prior to the Sept. 1, it was sometimes difficult for Stanford (or any staff) to actually reach a kid to inform him of the offer.
Here's one example:
Also, Stanford has done a nice job sending some pretty neat graphics to their offered targets, which seem to be well received.
