(10-01-2013 03:45 PM)NYNightOwl Wrote: Love the GPA (3.98), but how is that 84 out of 292? In any case, hope his jumper is top of class.
I would guess advanced classes are 5 point A's, so the top 10 is probably around a 4.3 or 4.4 gpa (2d year of foreign languages, 2d year chemistry, 2d year physics, etc are 5 point A's, while first year are 4 point A's).
Exactly! Plus if he takes non-AP/pre-AP classes such as electives or, I don't know, basketball class, which don't carry the bonus points, even if he scores 100% in the class, such grades still dilute the GPA and impact class rank.
For a kid who is blessed with athletic abilities, it's not a big deal. He still gets the free ride. For a kid with only academic skills, it makes it really tough to deal with the quotas, i.e., top 10%, top 8% or the whatever the cut-offs are these days.
Yes, I have a senior who recently dropped from top 8% to top 10.5% because of drop outs or departures even though his GPA went up.
I understand. I have a kid who was a starter on both the varsity soccer and varsity basketball teams as a freshman and as a sophomore. She dropped both sports prior to her junior year because continuing would hurt her GPA. But she stayed with Division 1 soccer and AAU basketball until she graduated, then turned down D1 scholarships in both sports in favor of academic scholarships at a D3 school. It about killed me to see her drop high school sports to avoid having her GPA dinged, but I could understand it and accept it.
Agreed! I hate to see kids have to choose between GPA/class rank and playing high school sports, perhaps their last opportunity to play a sport they love at a competitve level, or taking an elective to explore a previously unknown area for them, but it's part of the game that has to played today.
(09-30-2013 10:49 PM)mrbig Wrote: Wait, Braun signed a Texan?!? Pigs are flying, he'll is freezing over, and Greenspan is gone...
A byproduct of Braun's seeming (and actual, per one situation I know about) indifference to recruiting Houston is that we have had zero transfers in from D-1 programs to mitigate the stampede of transfers out.
One positive attribute of the WTW regime that--it seems to me--could be maintained is the annual or bi-annual transfer of a Greater Houston kid who had gone far away, and then for whatever reason not had it work out. Trey Stanton wasn't good enough to build a program around but he was a decent role player with plus size. IIRC, there was a kid from Okie State who played a key role on one of our NIT teams.
(09-30-2013 10:49 PM)mrbig Wrote: Wait, Braun signed a Texan?!? Pigs are flying, he'll is freezing over, and Greenspan is gone...
A byproduct of Braun's seeming (and actual, per one situation I know about) indifference to recruiting Houston is that we have had zero transfers in from D-1 programs to mitigate the stampede of transfers out.
One positive attribute of the WTW regime that--it seems to me--could be maintained is the annual or bi-annual transfer of a Greater Houston kid who had gone far away, and then for whatever reason not had it work out. Trey Stanton wasn't good enough to build a program around but he was a decent role player with plus size. IIRC, there was a kid from Okie State who played a key role on one of our NIT teams.
Jason Skaer, whose father was here one year before transferring. Jason is now pastor of a church in the Woodlands.
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Jackson Davis, a 6-foot-8 power forward from Lexington, Ky., has verbally committed to #Rice, according to multiple reports
Rice hoops commit Jackson Davis, whose dad Jonathan Davis played at Kentucky, is rated fifth-best 2014 prospect in Kentucky by 247Sports
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Quote:Lafayette forward Jackson Davis, the best senior basketball prospect in Lexington and a candidate for 2014 Kentucky Mr. Basketball honors, will announce his college decision on Twitter (@MrDouble_Double) at noon ET Monday, his father, former UK player Jonathan Davis, said.
Texas Tech, Vanderbilt, Columbia, Pennsylvania, Princeton, Harvard and Rice are his final options. He has taken official visits to Rice and Columbia.
The 6-foot-7 Davis averaged 20.1 points last season in making The Courier-Journal’s All-State third team.
Quote:Lafayette forward Jackson Davis, the best senior basketball prospect in Lexington and a candidate for 2014 Kentucky Mr. Basketball honors, will announce his college decision on Twitter (@MrDouble_Double) at noon ET Monday, his father, former UK player Jonathan Davis, said.
Texas Tech, Vanderbilt, Columbia, Pennsylvania, Princeton, Harvard and Rice are his final options. He has taken official visits to Rice and Columbia.
The 6-foot-7 Davis averaged 20.1 points last season in making The Courier-Journal’s All-State third team.
Men sign 2 in early signing period but Davis isn't listed yet. I think we have 3 scholarships available (?) so it's possible we announce him later. I haven't seen anything that suggests he signed with someone else.
Hopefully, Davis will wait to see who Rice gets as new Head Coach and let him have a crack at him. Rice is still the same university as it was academically, which was supposedly very important to Davis, now it arguably will be a better Coaching situation as well:
According to this (free) Scout.com article, Rice isn't one of Jackson Davis's final 7. Still 2 really good academic schools on the list, with some others that are at least decent enough.
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