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Re: Potential SD Athlete Recruits for SDSU Men's
Understood and it was posted to give people an idea of younger kids coming up through the ranks. The three 8th graders listed will be playing HS ball next year. Most likely the Larson kid will be on the RHS varsity and doubt that either he or the Bartling kid will see a minute of Freshman ball. The Newton kid already plays Freshman or Sophomore level ball for Huron.
As for the 5 or 6 athletes signed each year, that would be impossible as there are only 13 scholarships and walkons do not sign NOI's to attend a school. If they signed 5 or 6 each year you would have 20-30 scholarship athletes in your program which can't happen. Many schools lose a handful of athletes each year due to transfers however if you looked at the % of scholarship athletes that make it all 4 years at a school I think you'd see a higher retention rate. The one's leaving are the walkon's who in most cases do not play and obviously have no scholarship to show for their efforts (not saying that scholarship athletes don't leave).
I agree that there are some aggressive parents out there, typically in the lower ranks that feel their kids need to play a ton of games. They usually don't have a good sense of the level of competition their kids can handle and typically the kid is smart enough to know they have bitten off more than they can chew. Most times the athlete understands it better than the parents.
I have a hard time seeing the kids named on the list provided giving up hoops. I understand your point and started the thread by saying the younger ranks are harder to predict. Still I'll trust my instincts and experience when posting the names and stand by that it's not an exact science, but still fun to speculate. If my Larson prediction comes true I'll let you buy me a beer some time.
Understood and it was posted to give people an idea of younger kids coming up through the ranks. The three 8th graders listed will be playing HS ball next year. Most likely the Larson kid will be on the RHS varsity and doubt that either he or the Bartling kid will see a minute of Freshman ball. The Newton kid already plays Freshman or Sophomore level ball for Huron.
As for the 5 or 6 athletes signed each year, that would be impossible as there are only 13 scholarships and walkons do not sign NOI's to attend a school. If they signed 5 or 6 each year you would have 20-30 scholarship athletes in your program which can't happen. Many schools lose a handful of athletes each year due to transfers however if you looked at the % of scholarship athletes that make it all 4 years at a school I think you'd see a higher retention rate. The one's leaving are the walkon's who in most cases do not play and obviously have no scholarship to show for their efforts (not saying that scholarship athletes don't leave).
I agree that there are some aggressive parents out there, typically in the lower ranks that feel their kids need to play a ton of games. They usually don't have a good sense of the level of competition their kids can handle and typically the kid is smart enough to know they have bitten off more than they can chew. Most times the athlete understands it better than the parents.
I have a hard time seeing the kids named on the list provided giving up hoops. I understand your point and started the thread by saying the younger ranks are harder to predict. Still I'll trust my instincts and experience when posting the names and stand by that it's not an exact science, but still fun to speculate. If my Larson prediction comes true I'll let you buy me a beer some time.
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