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Serial Recruits

Nashville Cat

Nashville Cat

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There's a new breed of college basketball player emerging in light of the NCAA's easy transfer rules (i.e. The Portal). I call them serial recruits. These are the kids who thrive on the bright lights and publicity of the recruiting process. Some play for 3,4 even 5 teams before their eligibility is spent. The process often starts in the slime pits known as recruiting promotion services and is perpetuated in the many basketball factories that over-hype kids making them think they're all NBA bound. They arrive on campus and find a different reality and start the process all over again via the Portal. This doesn't describe all recruits, obviously but you know em when you see em. Serial recruits.
 
Nashville Cat said:
There's a new breed of college basketball player emerging in light of the NCAA's easy transfer rules (i.e. The Portal). I call them serial recruits. These are the kids who thrive on the bright lights and publicity of the recruiting process. Some play for 3,4 even 5 teams before their eligibility is spent. The process often starts in the slime pits known as recruiting promotion services and is perpetuated in the many basketball factories that over-hype kids making them think they're all NBA bound. They arrive on campus and find a different reality and start the process all over again via the Portal. This doesn't describe all recruits, obviously but you know em when you see em. Serial recruits.
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Let me add to that. They are also millennials that dont want to be a part of something. It is all about them. The me limelight. American kids are coddled and feel they are entitled to what is owed to them. Be a part of a team? Hell no it is all about me. Did you ever notice Wardle has good luck with foreign players. I also noticed St. Mary's out of California in the same conference as Gonzaga starts 3 of 5 players that are foreign.
 
The millennial generation ended in the mid-to-late 90s. By definition, nearly all current college athletes are not millennials, they are gen z
 
College athletes and recruits think more about playing time, getting on TV and getting noticed, and playing for a winning team, than they do about the value of the education they get for their scholarship. A diploma from a quality University like Bradley could be worth a lot more over the course of their life than not completing their degree, which is more likely to happen when players transfer, or settling for a degree from a lesser-quality school.
I wish nothing but the best for Terry and Jayson. I hope they make the best decisions and are successful.
 
Da Coach said:
College athletes and recruits think more about playing time, getting on TV and getting noticed, and playing for a winning team, than they do about the value of the education they get for their scholarship. A diploma from a quality University like Bradley could be worth a lot more over the course of their life than not completing their degree, which is more likely to happen when players transfer, or settling for a degree from a lesser-quality school.
I wish nothing but the best for Terry and Jayson. I hope they make the best decisions and are successful.
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Well said DC. Not every young man in the portal is selfish or disloyal. Some want to be closer to home, others more play time. But my original point was that there's a large number of serial recruits who are making a mockery of the process.
 
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