6-foot-7 Rutgers football commit scores 1,000th point day before early enrollment
Matawan's Jayden Elijah caps off high school career, scores 1,000th point
6-foot-7 Rutgers football commit scores 1,000th point day before early enrollment
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Another negative coming from the professionalization of college sports. Kid can’t even finish his last HS year and play hoops with his friends and teammates.
Not sure I understand the point of an offensive lineman enrolling early, who is going to redshirt anyway.
Yeah man . Wimsatt missed his whole senior year.
You don’t get senior of year back ….unless you’re Ben affleck in dazed and confused
6 extra months of team bonding, training , development & practice?
Yeah but to miss his last few months of high school …seems kinda dumb. Wimsatt would probably agree
True, but you’re giving up 1/2 your Senior Year. It makes sense if a kid has a really good chance to play right away. But for OLs, who are going to need 2-3 years of development anyway, not sure it makes so much sense.
The kids playing HS basketball as a 1,000 point scorer. That sounds like it would be a lot of fun, now missing out. Sometimes life should be allowed to wait.
Early enrollment has been happening for well over a decade.
He gets a head start on S&C and gets to participate in spring practice. He will be farther along this time next year compared to if he waited until summer to enroll.
He could if he wanted to do so.
No one is forced to enroll early. It's the kid's decision.
Right. 21 other guys doing it and there’s no pressure. I just think it’s kind of sad that we have gotten to this point. Not only do we disconnect these kids from the real college student experience but they even feel they need to cut high school short.
Schiano has made it a point that he encourages the early enrollments to still attend significant events in their HS senior years after enrolling at RU, proms and the like.
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There is no money in HS sports, there's a lot in college sports now. The faster you start, the faster you start building your value and personal equity. A D1 college football player is treated like a king on campus, just the food alone is a reson to get on campus early.
I know a bunch of kids that did early enrollment last year, missed final months of senior year with friends, no prom, etc., thrown right into the college mix…then were told to hit the transfer portal in December. We hear so many stories about the kids making serious $$$ but there are so many others that are getting cut from teams and pushed out of schools because there is no time for development and coaches can grab a seasoned older player to plug holes whenever they want.
No you don’t. And no that’s not happening.
What’s happening is you are mad at NIL, don’t understand the current landscape and makeup whoever you want to be on the internet to try to will a narrative into place that no one cares about.
Imma say the same thing now as I told you last week, you are 20 years behind
It happened here. Some kids who enrolled last January are no longer with us.
More kids are going to be cut after spring because we have to get to the roster number of 105. It’s the professionalization of college football.
I think we gotta stop with the word “professionalization”. The process is done, it’s a pro sport now. Just call it what it is
Not for the reasons of being forced out as freshman after their redshirt season to make room for a transfer.. no we have not been doing that at all Al.
I’ll actually give your boyfriend, Greg, some credit to sticking to his commitments to these kids
Okay everyone knows I'm NOT the biggest fan out here of the current setup of NIL/portal, BUT.....Nobody is forcing the kid to come out of high school early. It's his choice, period, and he had to do the work to get to this point. Most of these kids go back and attend their Sr Prom as well as "Senior Skip Day," anyway, so if this helps them adjust to the physical, social and most importantly MENTAL aspects, of life as a college football "hero," then I'm okay with it I guess.
*** not so much the full year ala Wimsatt
The rationale isn’t a solace to the kids being cut. Every year the kids are going to have to earn their roster spot, down to kid # 105.
Personally, i would have never given up my senior year spring sport.
To each his own 😊
To each his own 😊
lol...I'm thinking dad wouldn't have gone for that one either, right?
His advice was always “play em all”
I was advised by scouts way back in 1975 to skip football and hockey given my eminent draft status as a 1st round pick.
He was the first one to tell me forget that…play.
One kid, White. And the fact that a highly ranked recruit is gone after one year to Georgia Southern, shows there were bigger issues involved. The Luman twins were summer enrollees.
Things are different and as you usual, you You don’t know what you’re talking about. We have to be at 105 kids on the roster, including walk-ons. We are above that, including new enrollees. So more kids are going to be cut. It’s a whole new world.
Totally agree - all sports will continue trimming the roster and if they need to plug holes it’s hello transfer portal.
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