Recruting Agent's perspective - Academics vs money

twoinanddone
Sun, 12 Apr 2015 17:18:59 +0000

It’s great that she liked the school.

You’ve said on a couple of threads that she wants a team where she’ll be a starter and play all the time. That’s kind of hard for the coaches to promise, especially 1.5 years in advance. My daughter is on a new team and 9 freshmen were recruited, plus there are some walk ons including one transfer who is the star. Of the 9 recruits, six are starters, one other plays a lot, and 2 rarely see game time. There are 6 freshmen coming in next year, so some current players may get bumped, including some of the starters. You never know. A friend of my daughter’s was a superstar and goes to a big D1 school. She’s played in TWO games as a freshman, and certainly not for the entire game. If she had gone to a smaller program, she would have continued to be a superstar and played all the time, but she’s where she wants to be, at a top school athletically and academically.

My daughter chose the program knowing they’d lose a lot because they are new but that she’d get a lot of playing time (and loved the academic fit). The coach didn’t promise playing time to any of them, just a spot on the team. I think the coach was a little surprised that my daughter was good and that some of those who sit weren’t as good as she thought they would be. I’m interested to see if the other 3 return to school/team next year just because the team didn’t work out as they expected.