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I may get crushed for this bit of truth, but so be it. I see a lot of social media posts about uncommitted players that have college level measurable skills and when I look at the video are guys that would genuinely be recruited. Then I see the same videos showing up month 1/
After month and I wonder to myself; I guess it’s possible that nobody has reached out to a player yet, but is it uncommitted because of lack of information to coaches; or is it uncommitted because player doesn’t have the offer an adult says they deserve yet? I know as a lower 2/
Division coach for the majority of my career, there’s nothing worse than seeing one of those posts and saying to yourself “we’ve reached out to you coach. We’ve reached out to your guy. We’ve invited him to campus. We have a home for him if he wants it” people are going to /3
Understand the landscape. With more blanket Eligiblity waivers being issued recently, the old adage of “there’s a place for everyone” or “you can hold out for a spot” is no longer true. It never was to begin with for a variety of different reasons we can discuss later, but now /4
More than ever players are going to have to decide how important it is to have one opportunity to play, let alone 10. The transfer portal will make things even worse. Roster sizes aren’t shrinking. They’ll get bigger and continue to get bigger as /5
Enrollment driven institutions look for ways to make up for what has been an absolute nightmare in 2020 financially. Decide how bad you want this and how much it’s worth it to you. Take anything that comes your way. Way too many who speak on both sides of their cheek on this
