Two reasons we don't "deoffer" any of the "two stars":
1. I'm not one of those who just say "the coaches liked him and that's enough for me." To put it bluntly, coaches would rather get commits from their first rounds of recruits than from recruits they offered in December. Previous years have seen a bit too much of the latter and not enough of the former. However, this year, just about all our commits were our coaches' first choices and this includes the three two stars. They're only under the radar mainly because they committed to us early and thus didn't get significant interest from other BCS schools. Also, Gilbert has had to keep his weight down from wrestling and has missed many camps for personal reasons which may have raised his ranking.
2. It's a bad precedent to set for future classes when we deoffer a recruit. One year, Tommy Bowden did this to a D-IA prospect in early January when a better recruit opened up. The recruit then ended up going to a D-IAA because all his previous offers had no more scholarships to give out by early January.
Really, it makes me sick that Clemson did this. I'm sure other schools used this incident to recruit against Clemson and I know if I was a recruit, I would think twice before commiting to Clemson.
