Recruiting Red Flags

[MsProudSooner]

They are talking to football coaches but the points they make apply to basketball, as well.

http://footballscoop.com/news/12-recruiting-red-flags-according-college-coaches-across-country/

 

[Soonerinkc]

yup, my son played D1 juco baseball in Ks, 2 years. One coach told him if he didn't LOVE baseball don't play...

Fall through Spring - 6 days a week, some 7...min 3 hrs a day.

1 fall day traveled left at 7 am, played 2 games got back at 6 pm, played 7 - one inning games after that because of the poor showing at the games. 13 hrs of baseball...lol.

I was proud he tried, but as a youngster he didn't "WANT" to practice much. Only during his Jr yr in HS he thought about playing college ball. Needless to say we didn't do top club ball...but one of his teammates from K thru 6th grade plays at WSU now. During his fall Sr yr he struck him out...so I always wonder the what if...but if a kid doesn't want it, not paying for it.

Where I teach all these guys think they "work" to get to college ball (course most the drive is a pro career) but they don't do 1/4th of what they need to do, not only on the field but in the classroom. We even have former D1 players who coach them tell them this all the time...they don't listen.

When I was coaching HS bball (JV) one of the first things coaches asked was about their "attitude" "work ethic"...and that was juco/small school.

 

[MsProudSooner]

I remember the high school coaches where my daughters went to school telling them the same thing - if you aren't passionate about your sport, if you don't live and breathe basketball or football, don't pursue playing in college.

 

[SoonerTraveler]

I wonder how common these are in basketball. Also, I wonder if OU has dropped off recruits because of these red flags.

1 – Prospects who have middle-men / trainers / handlers that want to be involved in the decisions of the recruiting process with the kid

Coaches at every level of football shared this concern, and it’s clearly becoming a bigger and bigger trend. Having to deal with a middle-man of some form doesn’t allow the coaches to get to know the prospect like they need to, and a lot of times that middle-man is trying to vicariously live through the prospect and feeds off the attention and it’s a relationship that will continue through their days on campus and something coaches will have to continue to deal with the next 4-5 years.

5 – Prospects with overbearing and over-involved parents

Over the last few years, I’ve heard this viewpoint more and more as well. Some coaches will flat out drop a prospect for their parents behavior, and for others it will certainly serve as cause for concern moving forward. Either way, it’s something that is being evaluated in prospect nowadays, and if all is even except the behavior of the parents, there are a lot of programs that will choose to go the path of the least amount of headaches.

 

[schoonerdriver]

I wonder how common these are in basketball. Also, I wonder if OU has dropped off recruits because of these red flags.

Depends on the coach. I know of one that knew no red flags.

 

[MsProudSooner]

I wonder how common these are in basketball. Also, I wonder if OU has dropped off recruits because of these red flags.

When Kelvin was still here, there was an article in the paper that stated that both OU and OSU refused to recruit players who had middle-men or handlers.