Thoughts of Everyone Else

[PaulNewman]

How dare he speculate on the college decisions of high school athletes. Such disregard for their privacy is unheard of... or wait... https://www.rivals.com/
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dacac, I've moved your response over here so that I do not further interfere with the purity of the mission in the other thread.

You clearly have confused the concern.  I am all for more information being published about where D3 athletes choose to attend college with hopes/intentions of playing, and I have no objection to the publishing of rankings of players (although rankings of players especially those in the D3 realm are notoriously haphazard, poorly researched, and often a function of which parents/coaches paid for entry to certain sites and advocated for their players). 

I really appreciate when the colleges announce their recruiting classes and provide bios for their recruits.  I enjoy reading about these recruiting classes and the specific kids, and just off the top of my head I recall enjoying reading this past year about the incoming classes for Messiah, SLU, and Brandeis.  I wish more schools did this.  I also wish more colleges would publish feature articles about outstanding student-athletes and interesting stories about them.  I wish a site like this one had more resources to devote to this sort of thing (but I have a decent idea about how much work goes into this site already and the number of volunteer hours provided by just 2-3 people to produce what we all enjoy here now).  If I had more time, I'd love to go around the country to various D3 colleges and research and write feature stories about student-athletes (whether it is about the summer mission of a Messiah or Wheaton or Calvin player, the background story of an international student/player from Williams, Kenyon, Christopher Newport, Willamette, North Park, or Gustavus Adolphus, a team with a senior group that has an unusual number of stellar pre-med students who have gone through 4 years of playing, studying and living together, etc, etc.  At any rate, the effort required for many of these kids to navigate the true student-athlete ideal and play all 4 years while maintaining high academic standards is pretty impressive, and any of you parents out there with sons and daughters who have traversed this road know what I mean.

None of the above has a thing to do with "talking out of school" about what colleges supposedly did not want and/or did not accept (via admissions) specific kids.  I've never seen any publication, other than regarding D1 prospects in the major sports who were academic non-qualifiers, publish information about students being denied admission to specific schools due to grades, test scores, or for other reasons, AND/OR specific coaches/colleges not wanting specific kids at all or enough to support them with admissions.  I don't think it is anyone's business what colleges my kid was accepted to or denied admission unless we choose to make that information known.  That was the point.  If you'd like to offer a different view on that point I'd love to hear it.

[Corazon]

This is a great post, NCAC.

As for Mr. Right, do not be offended by anything he posts. I actually think he means well and does not mean to offend. You may recall I was the direct beneficiary of LaPaz' anger resulting in him changing his name. The ironic thing is that we really weren't that far apart in our views that led to our "disagreement."  Best not to engage him when he is one of his moods. He definitely makes this forum more interesting for sure!

[stlawus]

Can someone fill me in what happened?  I know Mr. Right can polarize people every now and then, but I've never had any issue with him.