If you could give a numerical value to where someone was leaning, recruiting would be easy. But instead its a lot of uncertainty so you do everything you can to stack the odds in your favor.

Rodney Rice has publicly stated he and Ward have talked about playing in college together. Louisville hadnt offered Ward. So why take yourself out of the running for a prospect most feel is leaning to you?

So you offer Ward and potentially get 2 Top 100 kids for the price of 1