Riley Not Sold on Recruits Enrolling Early

Just my opinion. Work ethic is not nearly as well developed and the education of many today is nothing short of awful.
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Agreed on your description of the problem .

However, if the kids are in a place where they didn't learn anything for 12 years, why would an additional three years in the same place and not learning anything be useful?

 
I have a better idea. Let them graduate and then spend two years serving their country in some sort. Be it in the military, peace corps, or cleaning up our cities and highways. Do something to earn the gravy train they have.

Now the schools are teaching kids so differently their parents can not even help them with home work. Teachers are not allowed to teach, but just turn on the computer for the class.

Ask a high school graduate to name ten state capitols in the United States. Most will be hard pressed to do it. Ask them to go 30 minutes with out a phone, do something physical outside and it is like you are killing them.

Things have changed, not sure everything is for the good, but Coach Riley is not going to make it any different by keeping them in school and extra 4 months or so.

 
Last years talks were about making all freshman redshirt, so they could get use to college life. I wonder what the percentage looks like for what they talk about vs what gets done. It has to be amazingly low.

 
I agree with Riley. There is no need to rush these kids into college. Recently, there was reports of a kid skipping his entire senior year and going to college.

Now, I know there are individual circumstances that may make these moves make sense.

But, in general, my feelings are that the kid should finish HS, then show up to college over the summer. There is lots of time to grow up. Enjoy being a kid.

 
BigRedBuster said:
I agree with Riley. There is no need to rush these kids into college. Recently, there was reports of a kid skipping his entire senior year and going to college.

Now, I know there are individual circumstances that may make these moves make sense.

But, in general, my feelings are that the kid should finish HS, then show up to college over the summer. There is lots of time to grow up. Enjoy being a kid.
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The kid that is skipping his senior year did finish HS. As do the ones that show up for the Spring semester. They graduated.

No one seems to have a problem with this if it was a kid enrolling early for purely academic reasons. This shouldn't be a big deal if there is an athletic component to it too.

 
1995 Redux said:
I think the issue is what will this trend lead to? Skipping entire senior year?
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Maybe. But if they can graduate early because they take the proper courses, then so be it.

There just might have to be some guidelines as far as how they count toward the scholarships on a given year.

 
StPaulHusker said:
1995 Redux said:
I think the issue is what will this trend lead to? Skipping entire senior year?
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Maybe. But if they can graduate early because they take the proper courses, then so be it.
There just might have to be some guidelines as far as how they count toward the scholarships on a given year.
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Absolutely, if they are capable of graduating then no biggie. Really the biggest issue here is they lose a year of developing/growing.

 
1995 Redux said:
StPaulHusker said:
1995 Redux said:
I think the issue is what will this trend lead to? Skipping entire senior year?
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Maybe. But if they can graduate early because they take the proper courses, then so be it.
There just might have to be some guidelines as far as how they count toward the scholarships on a given year.
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Absolutely, if they are capable of graduating then no biggie. Really the biggest issue here is they lose a year of developing/growing.
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I think that's a debatable issue.

 
Obviously it depends on the kid. Some are done growing and some have yet to sprout their last few inches.

 
I agree with MR to an extent, but I personally believe this should be a decision left up to the parents and their child. If they're physically and mentally capable, and they're ready to go to college, then I don't see the issue, particularly if they've finished all the required course work for graduation. We allow students to excel in the classroom and jump to college early. I don't see much of a difference if they want to give up their high school spring and get a head start on their careers.

I don't think a player has ever given up their entire senior season to jump to college, nor do I think it is possible, but perhaps it has happened. Truthfully, it wouldn't be a very wise decision considering most people would be grossly under-developed in comparison to their classmates in the same class.

 
Enhance89 said:
I agree with MR to an extent, but I personally believe this should be a decision left up to the parents and their child. If they're physically and mentally capable, and they're ready to go to college, then I don't see the issue, particularly if they've finished all the required course work for graduation. We allow students to excel in the classroom and jump to college early. I don't see much of a difference if they want to give up their high school spring and get a head start on their careers.

I don't think a player has ever given up their entire senior season to jump to college, nor do I think it is possible, but perhaps it has happened. Truthfully, it wouldn't be a very wise decision considering most people would be grossly under-developed in comparison to their classmates in the same class.
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There is a QB that just graduated after his Jr year of HS and is enrolling at South Carolina this fall(technically his senior year.)

And I agree that the decision should be left up to the player and parent, but right now there are scholarship ramifications to consider. Like, I believe, a player enrolling early for the spring, counts against the previous years scholarship totals.

 
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