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Thinking about the unusually high attrition of late
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<blockquote data-quote="Whiskey_Clear" data-source="post: 64111" data-attributes="member: 735"><p>It's a double edged sword cheese. If you target to higher academic standards you limit the talent pool pure and simple. The difficult job our coaches have is attempting to evaluate each recruit and balance talent and the probability of academic success and character issues (a question on character shoule be a non qualifier in my book but I may be a bit unreasonable in that even). They are going to have to take some chances on kids and will accept greater risk with greater talent. Then they will have to monitor and attempt to guide said players down the right path. The kids we get who are high talent / high academics / high character....well the coaches have to thank the big man upstairs for that and count their blessings. Those kids are more rare than we would like I imagine. There are no certainties in this though. Guys that seem high academic / high talent might wash out on either talent or schoolwork.</p><p> </p><p>But to limit our potential pool even further for the purpose of limiting our risk on this kind of attrition. That is just an argument for limiting our exceptions. I don't think you can make a case for doing that based on one single year. And most of those who are gone now were not lost to academics.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Whiskey_Clear, post: 64111, member: 735"] It's a double edged sword cheese. If you target to higher academic standards you limit the talent pool pure and simple. The difficult job our coaches have is attempting to evaluate each recruit and balance talent and the probability of academic success and character issues (a question on character shoule be a non qualifier in my book but I may be a bit unreasonable in that even). They are going to have to take some chances on kids and will accept greater risk with greater talent. Then they will have to monitor and attempt to guide said players down the right path. The kids we get who are high talent / high academics / high character....well the coaches have to thank the big man upstairs for that and count their blessings. Those kids are more rare than we would like I imagine. There are no certainties in this though. Guys that seem high academic / high talent might wash out on either talent or schoolwork. But to limit our potential pool even further for the purpose of limiting our risk on this kind of attrition. That is just an argument for limiting our exceptions. I don't think you can make a case for doing that based on one single year. And most of those who are gone now were not lost to academics. [/QUOTE]
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