It is a fascinating story as to how he became national news. I wonder why important details about his playing football and college recruiting practices including dates of signing were left out. Is his 25 ACT and good GPA extremely abnormal? Anyways, good luck to him.
Because he hasn’t signed yet and actual recruiting is limited for high school juniors. He hasn’t taken his official visits.
I’m sure he will get offers to most schools (not necessarily Ivies or Stanford) Schools really do want the best academic athlete as it is one less thing to worry about (will he make grades? will he drop out?). I just watched a documentary on Netflix “Last Chance U” about the East Mississippi Community College football program. It won the JUCO national championship in 2014, has alums in the NFL but the film focused on how many of the students can’t even get a 2.5 (required for NCAA Div 1), can’t handle football and academics and don’t want to. One of the players had come from FSU after some trouble, had no problems with the academics, had a good season and transferred to Auburn. It was so much easier because his academics were solid.
Is it possible that he had a 35 ACT and the 25 is a typo that has been picked up by other media without being verified? His other stats seem worthy enough.
It’s possible, but most news organizations would have corrected it by now.
The page listing his offers is self reporting. Most of the interest is listed as ‘warm’ or ‘cool’ (including all the Ivies).
I think this article is just to promote him to more schools, either by his mother or an agent/rep.
I think D18’s HS has an average ACT of 25. This kid’s 25 sounds pretty good to me.
Ivies do get verbal commits from athletes way before the official date. I know of HS freshmen with verbal commits to play girls field hockey or lacrosse from Harvard and Princeton. Don’t know if this varies by sport or not.
The Ivies give a ‘commitment to the process.’ They are very clear about that, even for lacrosse and field hockey (and lacrosse has just switched to not allowing any commitment until Sept of junior year). Those who are not clear are the parents and the athletes. They hear ‘commit’, they feel they have committed and it’s a done deal. However, no coach at an Ivy can promise an admission or financial aid, just that they ‘commit’ to helping the athlete with the admission process. This kids could have a commit to the process promise from the Ivy coaches, but it doesn’t seem like it from the info on the recruiting webpage. He probably went to a recruiting camp last summer and had some contact with coaches who were interested in him.
In fact, all commitments to any school are verbal and verbal offers aren’t binding on either side. Every year there are students who committed to a school as sophomores or juniors, and they decommit and sign with another school or the coach decides not to offer a letter of intent or support for admissions.
The article is ridiculous.