Pressure to Commit Too Early

[oldude]

When did AEH play "great" at UCONN? She left UCONN a 38% shooter.
It does not matter who sets or enforces the rules, just that the rules are understood and followed.

I agree. There was one game when AEH knocked down 2 or 3 shots from the arc during mop-up time. That got her some regular rotation minutes in the next game, where she did not do much. There was 1 or 2 more games that AEH got limited minutes. I believe the last game she played in for the Huskies was vs DePaul and their up tempo, pressing team. She turned the ball over a couple times and did not play well. After that she wasn’t with the team. The next thing we knew was she was back home considering her options and then she was gone.

 

[Ellie]

Kids transfer for a myriad of reasons; playing time, homesickness, playing time, lifestyle differences, playing time, ego starvation, playing time, love, playing time, hate, playing time, band aids, playing time, skills, playing time, friends, playing time, injuries, playing time, immaturity and playing time. I changed jobs a number of times in 50+ years of earning, so ...

 

[Steelerone]

Isn't it sad that you have one period in your life when all you have to worry about are your grades and your relationships with your family and friends, a period where you can be something you will never be again, a teenager, that the adults of the world should see fit to prey on you and take that away.

 

[stamfordhusky]

Recruiting in many sports has been out of control, more so than basketball, as players have committed earlier and earlier because they feared that all available scholarships would be gone. In men's lacrosse, for example, many players were committing early in their freshman year of high school and almost all by their sophomore year. Coaches didn't like the whole system, but they were compelled to go along or they would find very few recruits available later on. So the coaches finally proposed a rule change where coaches and players can have no contact whatsoever until September 1st of the athlete's junior year. It was approved by the vote of the NCAA members and is now the law.

Big improvement. Previously many lax players committed to schools that ended up not being a good fit, either academically or athletically. In a number of cases, the coach would later either convince the player to decommit - since he was apparently not good enough to ever see playing time - or actually just yank the scholarship offer. And a number of players, who got better relative to the others in their class, abandoned their original school (a school like Villanova or Bucknell or a NESCA) to sign on with Duke, JHU, UNC, etc or to go to Harvard, Yale, or Princeton.