Originally Posted by Chris R
When the head coach is out of schollies but shows up along with his two assistants to a game to see you play, he's made it clear he's not done recruiting and is telling you there's room if you want it. We can all speculate on how and why that room might become available and there are a myriad of possibilities -- most of them on the up and up.
But you're not wasting your entire coaching staff's Saturday afternoon late in the regular season, when your existing team is going down the stretch in crunch time, to watch a kid in your back yard for the umpteenth time, without any available scholarship to give him, just to make sure he's still interested in you if on the 1% chance a schollie opens up and you can slide him in.
A million things could happen. Someone could leave. Someone could choose not to take a fifth year. Someone could not qualify academically. Almost every team has attrition every season. Its the rule not the exception.
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Don't disagree with much you're saying but I think there's some contradiction here. Doubt at all that CAG knows he's got a spot available coming up. Now, he may assume he will or he'll do his part by suggesting to a certain player there's really no fit here for PT and suggest that player look around but, again, the kid from Sinclair is a 4 minute drive from CAG's office and taking 90 minutes on a Saturday after already watching hours of the RI game film and hours of the
LaSalle team is far more common for these guys than you think. Especially for a player that could be a real difference-maker in what can be a special year next season.
And, yes, even with a 1% chance a spot opens up these coaches would be ignorant to stop showing love to the kid they've already seen umpteen times. Being a JUCO there's a good chance he won't commit until late April after grades come out, iirc..That gives the entire UD program, coaches and players time to digest a bit what just happened the past 7-8 months and start talking about how they need to get better.Same for a player here in that he'll now have time to talk with family, look at other schools and their situation and even talk to other coaches.
Coaches and staffs are like GM's in baseball and other sports in that they're always looking to better their team and organization. Obviously, far easier for a GM in a pro sport as he can boot a player off the 40 man or trade a kid being that it's a business but just look at all the visits and offers (plenty are not committable on the spot) colleges make to HS players, full well knowing the 20 to 30 offers are only vying for 3-4 spots at most in most years...They're talking with these kids daily as allowable and texting non-stop with them, full-well, knowing they don't have a prayer of signing most of them and that plenty don't even have more than a token interest in UD.
