{"id":2277,"date":"2012-05-04T10:43:18","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T15:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gridironstuds.com\/blog\/?p=2277"},"modified":"2012-05-04T10:43:18","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T15:43:18","slug":"many-college-football-signees-fail-to-make-it-to-school-they-signed-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/many-college-football-signees-fail-to-make-it-to-school-they-signed-with\/","title":{"rendered":"Many College Football Signees Fail to Make it to School They Signed With"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"We have all seen the hoopla that surrounds National Signing Day. \u00a0Espn gives you 24 hour coverage seemingly on that date in February. \u00a0The major recruiting sites are abuzz for the month leading up to and the month after the signing date. \u00a0There’s much speculation about where the top recruits will sign and much analysis of each school’s signing class after the letter of intent day. \u00a0However, \u00a0what gets lost in the shuffle is the number of players from those signing classes that don’t make it on campus at least for their freshman year.<\/p>\n

After reading a story that one of the University of Miami’s 2012 recruits, \u00a0WR Angelo Louis Jean may have to enter a prep school, \u00a0I began wondering how many athletes like Jean each year fall into this category. \u00a0In trying to research this topic, \u00a0I found very little in terms of numbers regarding this. \u00a0I am assuming and this may be incorrectly, \u00a0that these numbers are not kept but I would like it if they were. I have seen it happen all too often. \u00a0After all of the celebration of a scholarship signing we often miss the news that the player can’t attend the school. \u00a0It’s almost like celebrating a Lotto Jackpot win and finding out that the number on the promotional check was 50% less than what the winner received (before taxes wise guys!).<\/p>\n

Prep schools are here for this purpose but it seemed back in my day that players headed to prep school didn’t sign letters of intent with major colleges. \u00a0Also, \u00a0there weren’t cameras present at signing days unless you were one of the top 3 elite players in the county. This is my way of telling you that I am getting old. \u00a0What many people don’t realize is that a number of these players that head to the prep schools don’t end up going to the school they originally signed with. \u00a0The players at the prep school can be recruited by anyone else while there. \u00a0Prep schools have incentives to protect the “property” of the universities that park players in their program but that does not always happen.<\/p>\n

Some players also fail to meet the requirements at a prep school and never end up going to college. \u00a0How often is that reported and where does that fit into the grade recruiting analysts give these college recruiting classes? \u00a0I have heard of far too many cases where players that were picking up hats in front of a large auditorium crowd and television audience never put on the uniform that matches the hat. \u00a0I will continue to research this phenomenon and hunt down some numbers. \u00a0The only numbers I could readily find was research that said 40% of the 2012 class would have failed to meet the entry requirements that will be put in place in 2016. \u00a0A quick look at the new requirements shows that a recruit will need a minimum 2.3 GPA (up from 2.0) and they will need to have completed at least 10 of the required 16 units of core classes by the start of their senior year. \u00a0 \u00a0So, with this in mind, \u00a0we could see even more desks being added to prep schools across the country if athletes don’t get more serious about their education.<\/p>\n

Stay tuned, \u00a0more to come on this topic for sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We have all seen the hoopla that surrounds National Signing Day. \u00a0Espn gives you 24 hour coverage seemingly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[152,682,681],"class_list":["post-2277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-school","tag-college-football","tag-ncaa-eligibility-requirements","tag-prep-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}