{"id":3117,"date":"2015-09-28T08:46:31","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T13:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gridironstuds.com\/blog\/?p=3117"},"modified":"2021-12-08T17:09:57","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T22:09:57","slug":"the-5-star-handicap-why-being-highly-rated-can-be-a-curse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/the-5-star-handicap-why-being-highly-rated-can-be-a-curse\/","title":{"rendered":"The 5 Star Handicap – Why Being Highly Rated Can Be A Curse"},"content":{"rendered":"

By: Chad Wilson – Editor Gridiron Studs Blog<\/strong>
\nTwitter: @GridironStuds<\/strong><\/p>\n

There’s the saying that you don’t know what you don’t know. \u00a0Nowhere is that more true than for the high school teenager. \u00a0Across the country and the globe, parents are going about the difficult task of trying to tell their teens what lies ahead of them in the real life descending upon them. \u00a0On the high school football gridiron, \u00a0football coaches are doing the same and for their top players, \u00a0the words of wisdom can fall on the deafest of ears.<\/p>\n

Being a college football recruit can be a great experience. \u00a0Human beings always thirst for acceptance whether we want to admit it or not. \u00a0What says acceptance more than newspaper articles, magazine write ups, radio interviews and television appearances. \u00a0Such is the life of a top recruit in the 21st Century. \u00a0The more publicity, \u00a0the further out of touch with reality the recruit becomes. \u00a0Some recruits have a solid support system that can do a “decent” job of keeping the teen grounded but many other recruits do not.<\/p>\n

High school football features athletes at various stages of physical and mental development. \u00a0Often times, there are players who have achieved the physical development a lot sooner than those that are around them. \u00a0In the game of football, that gives that individual a tremendous advantage. \u00a0For some top recruits it’s easy to go out and play when you are physically better than your opposition in 90 if not 100% of your games. \u00a0The games become easy, \u00a0the practices become boring and the bad habits settle in. \u00a0It becomes difficult to listen to those telling the recruit to\u00a0work hard, keep grinding, challenge yourself when what the recruit is\u00a0doing is leading to dominant performances week in and week out. \u00a0No matter how much or how hard you try to tell them that it won’t be this way in college, \u00a0they just can’t picture themselves not dominating at the next level.<\/p>\n

The situation I described is a set up for failure for a lot of some of the top recruits in the country. \u00a0A small portion do continue to get by because they are just that much of a physical force. \u00a0All top recruits think they are that type of physical force. \u00a0Reality awaits them. \u00a0Other recruits are pushed through at their colleges because those programs are hell bent on making that 5 star recruit a success. \u00a0Reality awaits this player at some point. \u00a0Along the way, \u00a0the top recruit is not picking up the tools that equal long, consistent and steady success in the game of football. \u00a0 When they land on campus that freshman season, \u00a0they are pounded in the face with reality. \u00a0Their lack of a work ethic, \u00a0intolerance for film study and distaste for conditioning makes them a 3rd team participant. \u00a0This leads to anger, despair and talk of wanting to transfer. Eventually it could lead to giving up on football altogether. The tough news is that your 1 star work ethic is not welcomed at any campus. \u00a0It may be tolerated elsewhere like a lower profile school but it will have it’s consequences.<\/p>\n

As the media spotlight on high school football players continues to grow like wildfire, \u00a0the epidemic I have described in this article continues to spread like the plague. \u00a0We are reaching the point now where by the time they have reached their senior year, \u00a0these athletes have been getting some 7-8 years of media attention for their play on the gridiron. \u00a0The job of keeping a young athlete humble and hard working is getting tougher and tougher these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By: Chad Wilson – Editor Gridiron Studs Blog Twitter: @GridironStuds There’s the saying that you don’t know what<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":4369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,767],"tags":[720],"class_list":["post-3117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-high-school","category-recruiting-school","tag-5-star-recruits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3117","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=3117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}