Friday, July 17, 2015

Observations about recruiting from Maine coach Bob Walsh

"You know why recruiting is hard?  Because we are talking about a 12 day window in July where we are trying to see as many kids as possible.  You can watch the kids play, but you aren’t allowed to have contact with them, so it’s not as easy to get to know them.  And recruiting is happening earlier and earlier.  With 351 schools having 13 scholarships each at the Division I level, say you are talking about 3-4 scholarships per school per year.  You are really only talking about 1,000-1,300 D1 basketball scholarships for college seniors across the country.  It’s highly competitive.  So it makes sense that kids are grabbing them up quickly.  For that reason, it happens earlier and earlier, so you have to evaluate early and quickly."

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