In the 2017-18 season, there were 5,537 athletes playing Division I men’s basketball — and 689 of them transferred. Of that number, 331 left for another Division I program. And there were only 32 request for waivers submitted.
Here’s link to full article by Andy Katz on ESPN.
Does the NCAA count pluses (B+) and minuses (C-) when calculating eligibility?
This from a longtime Athletic Director in an urban school district, one that produces many scholarship athletes. Neither the AD or the school counselor knew the answer, and they’re not alone. This happens at schools all over the country.
The University of Chicago now provides full tuition scholarships to families making less than $125,000, as of June 2018.
You know the two things that will make a smart dad crazy? A beautiful woman and the athletic recruitment of his kid.
This from a coach at a big-time college football program, one you see on TV on a regular basis.
Question: What was the median family income of Yale College students in 2016? (This is presumably similar for most Ivy League schools.)
Answer: $193,000
The Patriot League has an academic index (a minimum academic requirement) that athletes must meet to be admissible and eligible to compete. Army West Point and the Naval Academy have fairly unique admissions processes that are much more involved/stringent/difficult than the rest of the Patriot League.
Question: Do Army West Point and Naval Academy athletes still have to meet the Patriot League Academic Index, or is admission to the Academy enough?
Answer: Yes. It’s possible to be admitted to the Academy and NOT be eligible to compete in Patriot League sports, although that would be a rare occurrence.
Bonus question: Do athletes have to meet the AI even if they come through the Academy prep schools?
Answer: Yes, there’s no difference between being admitted directly to the Academy vs entering through the prep school.
Did you know? Of all FCS schools, Harvard had the most players on 2017 NFL opening day rosters with 9. The next closest had 7.
One of the most effective ways we all learn is by watching others and their mistakes.
Here’s an email I wrote recently to a high school senior. Overall, he’s a solid, likable kid from a good family. Like a lot of kids (and families), in this case he’s beating himself. The recruiting process is tough enough without beating yourself. Much of it is out of your control. Take care of those things that you can control. This email is packed with important concepts that every family can benefit from.
Kenny,
You’re worried about getting a D1 offer and frustrated by things currently out of your control, but you’re not doing what you need to do to help yourself. I emailed you a couple weeks ago about fixing your HUDL page, but nothing’s changed. If you’re lucky enough to get a scholarship coach to visit your page, they are going to leave before they ever see what you want them to see. It’s a disorganized mess. When you make coaches go looking for what they want, when you make it hard on them, they just leave and go looking at videos of other kids. It needs to have some order and simplicity. Right now it’s just what I call a vanity page. It’s designed for you, your family and friends. If you do get serious about prep school, this page as it currently stands is making it harder for us to find one. Prep school coaches have all the same problems with it that the college coaches have with it. They need to see certain things and they’re not there.
You must have a highlight video from THIS year available and at the top of the page. At the very least you need to pin last year’s highlight video to the top instead of the video that’s there now. The problem with last year’s is when coaches see only last year’s video, they think you’re hiding something about this year, something you don’t want them to see. That makes them nervous. That’s a problem for you. You also need to get rid of some of the other short videos. They’re adding nothing but confusion.
Finally, the 4.5 40 time is still listed in the left hand column. We talked about that before and you told me you didn’t know how it got there. You need to delete that. It’s false advertising.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks.
Mike
Michael A. Stone
Prep School Sports Connection
Matching Athletes With Prep Schools
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The transfer rate for women’s D1 basketball is up 33% over a ten year period.
In 2003 the rate was 6.8%. In 2013 it was 9.2%. Those numbers are still about 1/4 of the men’s numbers. As with many other parts of the game, the women’s game seems to be following the men’s.
Perhaps most interesting is that 6 of the top 10 rated girls in the 2013 recruiting class have transferred. A number of those 6 committed to colleges as sophomores (also similar to the boys) and some say they now realize that what they considered a dream school as high school sophomores is much different than where they want to be playing as 20 year olds. This is a pretty strong case that kids (and parents) are picking a college at too young an age.
I returned recently from a major east coast summer basketball camp where I had a lengthy discussion about the recruiting process with the mother of a talented junior. Her son is a good student who already holds offers from D1 schools, none of them big-time. A single mom with two kids who never went to college and never played sports, she told me she has little awareness of colleges or basketball programs. Working two jobs (they are a low income family) leaves her precious little time to deal with the recruiting process. I told her I’d had a conversation at the camp with a coach who said she was not returning his calls. She acknowledged that was a problem and said she feels overwhelmed by all the attention. “There are so many schools”, she said, “how do I handle this”?
The answer is simple, although a surprisingly large number of families never figure it out. Start with the schools offering the most highly rated educations. (See separate blog showing list). This quickly shrinks the list while having the added benefit of keeping priorities straight, often next to impossible in this process, even for those who are good at it. Focusing on the top-rated academic schools cuts the number of possible schools from approximately 265 (outside the big-time basketball conferences) to about 45, while maintaining priorities. For most, only about half of those 45 will actually show recruiting interest. Now the list is manageable and efficient, goals are intact and focus is tight. The chance of success has increased greatly.