HS class of 2020. Recruiting experience

twoinanddone
Fri, 03 Jan 2020 08:30:04 +0000

The above is more of a D3 recruiting schedule. Coaches do get recruiting questionnaires from the high school kids, but also build their lists from referrals from other coaches, from showcases, tournaments, camps. I doubt LeBron’s son will be filling out many questionnaires. Even my daughter got a lot of recruiting calls after tournaments from schools she had never expressed any interest in (never even heard of) and never filled out a questionnaire, and she was a good but not spectacular player. The coach at her college liked the coach of D’s club team and started recruiting heavily from that club.

NLI can be signed before the student has even applied to the school. It is not an indication of acceptance or even probably acceptance, it’s just an agreement that IF the student is admitted, the financial agreement is $X, and the athlete is agreeing to play for that school if admitted. If the student doesn’t want to go to that school after signing, that’s fine but cannot play for another “NLI school” for a year. Student is free to go to another school such as an Ivy, a service academy, or a D3 school. No penalty.

D1 and D2 recruiting is different than outlined above, even at Duke and Stanford. Admissions has the power to admit and turn down some athletes, but I doubt Coach K is having to plead the case for many of his recruits or that they are sweating getting a ‘likely letter’.