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April Recruiting thread

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Carm said:
Sipple wrote this morning that a longtime SEC AC told him his school had over 400 UVs during their four weeks of spring practice. That's hard to believe.

OTOH, it means that if a recruit we want takes a UV to an SEC school, it may not create that much risk considering probably only 6-7% of those UVs end up signing.
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I would be interested to know if this was unique visitors or total visits. In other words did they have guys in the area go to a bunch of practices? Also, I’m curious if they had local schools come in with 10-20 guys, only a few of which they are interested in. Anyway, I can see how those numbers could be inflated as total visits but it’s still a lot of visitors and reason to take those visits with a grain of salt.

Also, Ben Scott went to St Louis HS.
 
Napkins said:
I would be interested to know if this was unique visitors or total visits. In other words did they have guys in the area go to a bunch of practices? Also, I’m curious if they had local schools come in with 10-20 guys, only a few of which they are interested in. Anyway, I can see how those numbers could be inflated as total visits but it’s still a lot of visitors and reason to take those visits with a grain of salt.

Also, Ben Scott went to St Louis HS.
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that's right - how could I forget? that's how we got him.
 
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Tywome Malone is an interesting guy but there are red flags. He plays baseball and football. He was the top-rated recruit in Ole Miss' 2021 football class, a top 45 player. Despite that, it appears he has not played a meaningful snap in two years. Last year he played mop-up, mostly in the Central Arkansas, Rice and Vandy games. He didn't break through this spring, although local media said he may make an impact this fall. He has been passed up by 3 stars and two JUCOs. The football coaches say his development is way behind because of the time he spends on baseball. They said he shows great potential "in the time we have him".

In baseball, he is on the team at Ole Miss, and has a reputation of a guy who, if he connects, can hit tape measure HRs that leave the bat at incredible velocities. In the 37 games Ole Miss has played this year, he has 10 ABs, 6 K's, and one hit - a HR.

He probably needs to quit baseball, but the fact he entered the portal suggests he isn't willing to do so.
 
LoudHogRider said:
Gotta keep that USA Today cellar dweller B1G academic status on lockdown!
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I’m all honestly. I’m always throughly impressed when athletes struggle to be academically eligible.

Like just how fucking terrible of a student are you
 
Herbie said:
I’m all honestly. I’m always throughly impressed when athletes struggle to be academically eligible.

Like just how fucking terrible of a student are you
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Parents and peer groups. Very few of them lack the intellect necessary to pull grades, but lack of parental involvement in their education and hanging out with the wrong crew can scuttle a GPA pretty quickly. Its why mentorship programs are so important for young people when traditional support structures simply aren't there for them.
 
Carm said:
supposedly USC has told him they will make his offer committable contingent on his second semester grades, which is why he hasn't committed to OU yet.
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Grades problems would probably explain why Nebraska hasn't prioritized him as much. Is Hall in the same boat?

I knew there had to be something going on as to why Rhule hasn't been hot on the trial of both of them.
 
LoudHogRider said:
Parents and peer groups. Very few of them lack the intellect necessary to pull grades, but lack of parental involvement in their education and hanging out with the wrong crew can scuttle a GPA pretty quickly. Its why mentorship programs are so important for young people when traditional support structures simply aren't there for them.
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I have been around enough students in my life to know that there are a million ways it can work out for the positive and an equal amount of combinations that can ruin a student.

Socio-economic ones are obvious.

But I have seen kids with parents who are good supportive people and the kid just can't do it.

I've seen kids with asshole parents that are good students in spite of them.

I've seen kids with overbearing parents that end up hurting the kid in numerous ways.

Dad checked out. Mom checked out. Living with grandma. Abuse. Alcoholism. Past trauma. And the elephant in the room in the last few years is the COVID education disruption. Those online lessons mostly ended up being useless and left big holes in development.

Ive seen one sibling that is excellent and a younger sibling come through from the exact same environment and situation and be clueless...and the other way around too.


You mentioned peer groups. It plays a huge role as well, so your family might run a tight ship but your kid is being influenced by someone else's total failure. And I've seen good kids drag a bad kid out of the gutter too.

Now add sports to it and the win now culture of big programs and it is just another pressure point. Not to mention that the kids can see $$$ and the illusion of riches that NIL provides.

I could go on, but probably don't need to here.
 
Carm said:
Tywome Malone is an interesting guy but there are red flags. He plays baseball and football. He was the top-rated recruit in Ole Miss' 2021 football class, a top 45 player. Despite that, it appears he has not played a meaningful snap in two years. Last year he played mop-up, mostly in the Central Arkansas, Rice and Vandy games. He didn't break through this spring, although local media said he may make an impact this fall. He has been passed up by 3 stars and two JUCOs. The football coaches say his development is way behind because of the time he spends on baseball. They said he shows great potential "in the time we have him".

In baseball, he is on the team at Ole Miss, and has a reputation of a guy who, if he connects, can hit tape measure HRs that leave the bat at incredible velocities. In the 37 games Ole Miss has played this year, he has 10 ABs, 6 K's, and one hit - a HR.

He probably needs to quit baseball, but the fact he entered the portal suggests he isn't willing to do so.
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Sounds like NU football's wet dream
 
Tsakoi said:
I have been around enough students in my life to know that there are a million ways it can work out for the positive and an equal amount of combinations that can ruin a student.

Socio-economic ones are obvious.

But I have seen kids with parents who are good supportive people and the kid just can't do it.

I've seen kids with asshole parents that are good students in spite of them.

I've seen kids with overbearing parents that end up hurting the kid in numerous ways.

Dad checked out. Mom checked out. Living with grandma. Abuse. Alcoholism. Past trauma. And the elephant in the room in the last few years is the COVID education disruption. Those online lessons mostly ended up being useless and left big holes in development.

Ive seen one sibling that is excellent and a younger sibling come through from the exact same environment and situation and be clueless...and the other way around too.


You mentioned peer groups. It plays a huge role as well, so your family might run a tight ship but your kid is being influenced by someone else's total failure. And I've seen good kids drag a bad kid out of the gutter too.

Now add sports to it and the win now culture of big programs and it is just another pressure point. Not to mention that the kids can see $$$ and the illusion of riches that NIL provides.

I could go on, but probably don't need to here.
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Agree on all of the above. Mrs. LHR works with "Resource" kids in the Bennington School District, and many of them are designated as such due to behavioral issues. As part of the process for putting an EIP in place, meetings with parents are held to review those educational improvement plans. Acorns and trees.

The COVID years - even at a largely affluent school district like Bennington - has further curbed the development for a number of kids in core academic areas (reading, writing, math, etc.). It's a problem that's slowly getting better as emphasized resources are applied to address it and general re-exposure to classroom education soaks in.

And I'm not touching the socio-economic "third rail" at all. We all see it, but any honest attempts at discussing it inevitably leads to the Hy-Vee parking lot and I'm not on a sports message board to discuss politics.
 
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