The inexactness of recruiting reports

It was recently reported that Cody McDavis, a prep frontcourter out of Arizona has agreed to sign a letter-of-intent with Northern Colorado of the Big Sky Conference. As it was written: "McDavis also had offers to UC Davis, Cal State Northridge, and UC Riverside ..."

All good and true but allow us to make an observation on the vagaries of college basketball recruiting.

That's because what we'll never know is the were the other offers still in effect for McDavis?

Isolating UC Davis specifically, the Aggies now have agreements with 6-foot-8 Clint Bozner, a freshman from a southern California community college plus 6-foot-9 sophomore Spencer Clayton, out of the Oregon community college ranks, after Clayton gave a verbal last week.

Our 'sense' is that UC Davis, with Clayton in the fold, closed up shop for bigs this recruiting period. So the Aggie offer to McDavis became moot as either Clayton committed first or Coach Jim Les preferred Clayton over McDavis.

So did the Aggies offer McDavis.

Yes, that's confirmable.

So did the Aggies 'lose' McDavis?

The timing makes it appear not to be true.

Maybe that's a small point but one worth distinguishing. Offers that are pulled or declined are generally never reported or updated even though recruiting statuses change daily.