mlaconte459 wrote:taking his 4 officials and we are not one of them.. I am starting to think that we dont have much of a shot on this one
#1) You get 5 official visits, not 4.
#2) He has visited UMass unofficially at least three times so far this year. Using simple math that's better than one visit to a place like Indiana or Xavier or Purdue or Miami.
#3) The term "official visit" means that the school can pay for travel expenses and certain entertainment expenses when the prospective student athlete is on the visit. That's all. It's not more important than an unofficial visit.
#4) Brown attends school and lives maybe an hour or two away from UMass, he doesn't need to take an official visit because he can basically come whenever he wants.
Because it has the word "official" in it people tend to view it as more important. It's not necessarily. A lot of kids do use the OVs to sort of decide their top schools, yes, but if you've been following Brown/UMass at all you'll know that the Minutemen are firmly in the picture. UMass happens to be very close to where he lives, thus he doesn't need the school to pay travel expenses to visit like he would for all these other ones.
And on top of all of that, he could STILL take an OV to UMass as his last visit if he really wanted to, because he has one more to use.
