fastpitchdad05 wrote:tbjd33 wrote:AlwaysImprove wrote:Problem is you will not know early verbals are a fail until after their freshman year.
I think parents have gotten smarter about the process. There are still plenty of evidence of the breakdowns.
Still a number of teams with 30+ on the roster, 10 freshman and graduating 4. Still a number of transfers.
The problem is that 13 year old has little to do with the 18 year old that will be walking into college. At 13 kids largely live to satisfy their parents. They do not really get a say of their own in this life changing, life determining decision.
Parents are getting what they want. College coaches are getting what they want. Select coaches are getting what the want. The continuously increasing transfer rate shows that kids may be the only ones not getting what they want.
My only concern with the current petition is that NCAA is likely not going to understand it. In every other sport early verbals has allowed kids to create opportunity. Softball breaks down because once a kid verbals they are no longer recruited.
Football, Men's Basketball, Women's basketball kids are recruited right up until the NLI is signed. Verbals in these sports work much better as the kid can use the verbal to get a deal with a medium school and use that to work up to a better school.
AI everyone is more cautious and getting much smarter. I agree the first wave resulted in more than its fair share of negative outcomes. Now those numbers as a whole are different.
Take a look at the top schools. Most are finished with 2018 and will be done with 2019's by start of spring. Their numbers plate not outrageous with three or four on average. Look at the number of seniors and they will backfil this same. Look at Arkansas that's an issue... They verbal everyone and don't give $$ to it. Those kind of schools are the ones to be concerned about.
Sky isn't falling...
Assuming you are right about the numbers and that the sky is not falling, why not just change the way things are done now so that the sky doesn't have a chance to fall again?
The goal is 100% not most or even above average.
It is broken. Fix it.
I don't see it as broken... Broken implies it doesn't work for all or most. That just isn't the case. I agree it isn't perfect, but I also think there should be changes.
I like the early signing period of some sort with limitations (ie grades, performance, health etc). Those of course are reasonable to have placed in any agreement. A verbal is "their" word and it's a handshake deal at best. Coaches clearly understand a poor reputation hurts big time in recruiting. For that reason my DD eliminated Georgia because of their issues last year. We eliminate schools which we feel they double talk. We eliminate schools if they don't respond the way we feel we would want. It's our process and other families must do the same. They are recruiting my DD and she is recruiting them.
I've read in previous posts about verbals and early signing in football/basketball. The talk isn't an issue with not honoring their word it's about recruiting $$ and time. It's a round robin and is absolutely insane compared to softball. Sounds strange but Softball is somewhat civil compared to football/basketball. I've seen Kentucky at 10u AAU basketball. Now that's nuts!