Well worth watching...
https://www.flosoftball.com/video/990909-sue-enquist-takes-on-early-recruiting
https://www.flosoftball.com/video/990909-sue-enquist-takes-on-early-recruiting
In 2006, Sue Enquist at UCLA was committing high school juniors. 10 years ago.
While I agree with Sue in some ways (though her proposed solution is very different to mine), she is the wrong person to be delivering this and talking about accountability, oversight and everything else to do with recruiting and scholarships.
Because I - and many others - remember when she and co-head coach Sharon Backus used a hired gun in Tanya Harding to win one national championship (a player who was literally at UCLA for the softball season) and was forced to vacate that same '95 championship because they were using soccer scholarships to get some extra money for softball players by listing them as multi-sports athlete even though they many had never even played soccer - and certainly were never on the UCLA soccer team.
Love the line "I am not perfect" and then uses a speeding example and brushes right over what her program did under her leadership (although I am sure she will use the 'not named in any allegations' defense' she was using back in 1995-1998)
While I agree with Sue in some ways (though her proposed solution is very different to mine), she is the wrong person to be delivering this and talking about accountability, oversight and everything else to do with recruiting and scholarships.
Because I - and many others - remember when she and co-head coach Sharon Backus used a hired gun in Tanya Harding to win one national championship (a player who was literally at UCLA for the softball season) and was forced to vacate that same '95 championship because they were using soccer scholarships to get some extra money for softball players by listing them as multi-sports athlete even though they many had never even played soccer - and certainly were never on the UCLA soccer team.
Love the line "I am not perfect" and then uses a speeding example and brushes right over what her program did under her leadership (although I am sure she will use the 'not named in any allegations' defense' she was using back in 1995-1998)
JAD- Maybe I misunderstood her, I took that to mean she was verballing them or talking to them in junior year.
I don't know of any D-1's in 2016 that have money left for the recruiting class that is in their junior year of hs. My 2020 is getting college interest but the big top program sb schools are supposedly done recruiting 2020's. Before my 2020 has ever been to a showcase. (First one in a few weeks). Are we talking about the same thing? Or have I been misinformed?