Juco recruiting story

[Da Coach]

Interesting recruiting story about some sleazy recruiting actions by a junior college from the perspective of Roy and Harv Schmidt of Illinois Prep Bullseye.
This is from their basketball recruiting blog in the Chicago Sun Times.
http://blogs.suntimes.com/illinois/2009/01/the-sad-saga-of-troynell-adams.html

 

[Da Coach]

Also, as for false indignity, probably nowhere in the country does more illegal sleazy recruiting go on than between high school coaches than in the Chicago Public League. They are notorious for their schenanigans, and illegal inducements. In recent years, a number of CPL coahes have been suspended and punished for recruiting and illegal inducements to players.

But where have Roy and Harv been while all this was going on? They would rather focus on an isolated case involving a kid who had already quit basketball, dropped out of school, and is not on target for graduating anyway, and would not have gotten a scholarship for college because of his academic shortcomings, which are rampant in the CPL schools.
It seems to me there is plaenty of things wrong with the system in Chicago that the Schmidts really should focus their wrath on their own backyard first.

Cavan Walsh, who posts here occasionally, wrote about this with a more objective veiwpoint almost a couple weeks ago-
http://illinoishsbasketball.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=789&Itemid=1

and more-
http://yourseason.suntimes.com/boys...oysbasketball-farragut-troynell-adams.article

 

[Da Coach]

Now he will return to school in Chicago, and he will not be eligible to play any more. Despite what the Schmidts wrote, he says he is not on track to graduate, so he will not be able to get a college or juco scholarship, and even if he does complete summer school and get a diploma, his grade point average will be too low for a D1 offer, and that late in the summer he won't find many places with an offer of any kind.

So did the Chicago coaches do this kid any favor? I doubt it. I think they were just looking out for themselves.

I have one final question- if this kid was doing so poorly in classes that he was not going to graduate this spring, how did he retain eligibility to play basketball on the Farragut team? Don't they have any academic standards? I guess I already know that answer if the kid has talent.