High Schools Feeding Into College...

[Rebel-Fan-74]

Nick Saban has said something to the effect that college coaches need to do their part to keep high school football as the top recruiting pipeline and not AAU style travel teams, 7on7, etc.

This is twice I've seen this type of statement recently and in the other instance, it was referring to NIL payments to players legitimizing what has been going on for ages "under the table" payments to players and in his mind, especially at the BIGGER SEC SCHOOLS!

His solution was to do some sort of draft for college football like the NFL. My first thought was the logistics and administration of this would be impossible. Start thinking about how this would be set up and managed and you come up with hundreds of issues within minutes. NCAA doesn't really do a good job of regulating the current set up, imagine how it would be with additional issues of a draft!

NIL payments are just going to help the Alabama, Ohio State, Southern Cal, type schools that are marketing giants.

Exhibit #1 is the kid who went to Ohio State with a huge NIL deal and played two snaps this season before entering the transfer portal last week and will play next year at Texas.

Exhibit #2 Alabama red-shirt freshman quarterback signed a huge deal before playing his first snap (now he's a Heisman winner).

Both QBs signed huge NIL deals but only one did anything on the field. There were quite a few other QBs who had great seasons that signed no NIL deals because they were not at Ohio State or Alabama.

So if you are a highly rated player in a "marketable" position, (I mean we don't see 5 star DL signing NIL deals) the evidence shows you need to get to Ohio State, Alabama and the likes to get the NIL deal...

High Schools are facing take over by the IMG type schools, college is being dominated by 12 to 15 schools (let's face it, if we tried to pick the Final Four for next year and we all submitted the list of teams that we really expect to compete for the CFP next season, there wouldn't be more than 12-15 teams who got more than 5% mentions).

Those Travel Baseball teams, Soccer teams, Softball teams, will likely be expanding to include football before long. Basketball is still big in high schools, but not nearly as big as the AAU Teams. When you have the ability to play basketball and your grade point ratio is 4.5 or 0.0 (not a stat that anyone is tracking) it becomes obvious what is happening.

I see big issues looming for both college and high school, heck for that matter, all of "amateur" sports

[Fortfor5]

Nick Saban has said something to the effect that college coaches need to do their part to keep high school football as the top recruiting pipeline and not AAU style travel teams, 7on7, etc.

This is twice I've seen this type of statement recently and in the other instance, it was referring to NIL payments to players legitimizing what has been going on for ages "under the table" payments to players and in his mind, especially at the BIGGER SEC SCHOOLS!

His solution was to do some sort of draft for college football like the NFL. My first thought was the logistics and administration of this would be impossible. Start thinking about how this would be set up and managed and you come up with hundreds of issues within minutes. NCAA doesn't really do a good job of regulating the current set up, imagine how it would be with additional issues of a draft!

NIL payments are just going to help the Alabama, Ohio State, Southern Cal, type schools that are marketing giants.

Exhibit #1 is the kid who went to Ohio State with a huge NIL deal and played two snaps this season before entering the transfer portal last week and will play next year at Texas.

Exhibit #2 Alabama red-shirt freshman quarterback signed a huge deal before playing his first snap (now he's a Heisman winner).

Both QBs signed huge NIL deals but only one did anything on the field. There were quite a few other QBs who had great seasons that signed no NIL deals because they were not at Ohio State or Alabama.

So if you are a highly rated player in a "marketable" position, (I mean we don't see 5 star DL signing NIL deals) the evidence shows you need to get to Ohio State, Alabama and the likes to get the NIL deal...

High Schools are facing take over by the IMG type schools, college is being dominated by 12 to 15 schools (let's face it, if we tried to pick the Final Four for next year and we all submitted the list of teams that we really expect to compete for the CFP next season, there wouldn't be more than 12-15 teams who got more than 5% mentions).

Those Travel Baseball teams, Soccer teams, Softball teams, will likely be expanding to include football before long. Basketball is still big in high schools, but not nearly as big as the AAU Teams. When you have the ability to play basketball and your grade point ratio is 4.5 or 0.0 (not a stat that anyone is tracking) it becomes obvious what is happening.

I see big issues looming for both college and high school, heck for that matter, all of "amateur" sports

Football travel has already started on full team lower levels and 7 on 7 teams higher levels.
Our youth leagues is full of travel football .
Hell they went to fla last week and whipped ass.
10 and 12 u.
Boys had a bus like gray .

[AngryMax]

Another thing happening, and it’s especially prevalent in smaller schools, is the number of coaches who don’t work in the buildings. Head coaches in the smaller sports and assistants in football.

[Onion Rings]

(this is an example) So my travel football team includes players from the surrounding area and has great success. They grow up playing together. When it's time for high school, many decide they want to continue playing together, so they all enroll/move to one school/district. To me that's not "recruiting" but something that just happens naturally