(07-03-2018 01:04 PM)nyduke Wrote:  prep schools are becoming more and more attractive to hs players and their parents. re classifying gives kids the extra year. it used to be post grad but now more and more kids are reclassing in 10th and 11th grade.

makes recruiting more difficult for sure. not all preps deliver on their promises but most are legit.

Exactly, that is one of my points....this whole thing where kids for example re-classify when they go from a public to a private is part of the problem I see. That is just kind of 'gaming' the system so you will be a year older as a freshman. Or what is worse kids start public --- go private(reclassify) --- then come back public and play as a senior when is reality they should be out of HS.

But this diverges some between the original point of the post-grad/prep year. I get it, if it is a year to get your grades on in order, but a lot don't deliver on that. I place a lot of the blame on HS coaches that don't push these kids to do what it takes to be recruit-able by colleges. Sure they are eligible per VHSL for example but you better be off the charts good if you are sporting 3-Cs and a D and taking no college bound type classes. Sometimes if parents have not been to college they don't know, but everyone of these HS coaches know what it takes to be recruited by FBS/FCS schools. Almost every coach wants to see a transcript before they even talk to a kid....this first stop is in the front office if they don't already have it and college coaches get real pissed if a HS Coach has wasted there time on a kid that is not recruit-able.