20 girls 'committed' in the 2020 class...

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Mar 1, 2015
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The NCAA, is it a business or is it in it for the student athletes?

1. TV rights to the NCAA men's basketball tournament will bring in over $1 BILLION per year, on average, for the next 16 years. The tournament, in its current format, has 68 teams. Assuming 15 players per team, that's 1,020 players. Or about $1M per player, per year, 98% of whom you don't know or will not know their names. https://www.sbnation.com/college-basketball/2016/4/12/11415764/ncaa-tournament-tv-broadcast-rights-money-payout-cbs-turner

2. TV rights to NCAA football playoff and New Year's bowls are $470M per year, on average. 16 teams, 100 players per team is about $300K per year per player, and again...98% you don't know or will not know their names. https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/espn-reaches-12-year-deal-to-air-college-football-playoffs/

3. That's about 2,600 athletes (most you'll never hear of). There are about 460,000 NCAA athletes (Student-Athletes | NCAA.org - The Official Site of the NCAA)in total in all sports and divisions. So this is about 0.006% of all NCAA athletes that generate the vast majority of the NCAA revenue.

What does this mean for softball? I don't know, other than the NCAA is not in it "for the student athletes." I'm sure there are some good people working there that really believe in the student athlete, but they are not in positions of power.


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NCAA has a 12 year deal with ESPN to air several sports, including softball, for $500M total, or about $4M per year. ESPN extends deal through 2023-24 | NCAA.com

Why do I bring all this up? Because for the NCAA powers that be and the network executives it's not about "student" athletes - it's about the money. They paint this picture, worthy of place in the Louvre, that it's about the student athlete. College. Student. Athlete. While at the same time knowing that 95% or more of their bread is buttered by less than 1% of their "student" athletes and they are trying to figure out how to keep the fox out of the hen house before anyone figures it out.
 
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Feb 26, 2016
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Sometimes there is a flip side to this. Girl has been verballed to D1 school (see my logo - LOL) since 9th grade. Pitches for B'ham Bolts. Called staff up over the summer and said she is not going to play softball in college, wants to just be a student and is enrolling at an SEC school to just be a student (2018) next year.

Now they are scratching for another P for 2018 class.
 

Top_Notch

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My daughter is 12. She doesn't know what she wants for dinner let alone which college she wants to attend. A verbal at that age is ludicrous. I don't care how good a player. I see people keep talking about the legacy of the parents. My family has a legacy to a Big 10 school too. That doesn't mean the school is right for my daughter.
 
Sep 29, 2014
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Sometimes there is a flip side to this. Girl has been verballed to D1 school (see my logo - LOL) since 9th grade. Pitches for B'ham Bolts. Called staff up over the summer and said she is not going to play softball in college, wants to just be a student and is enrolling at an SEC school to just be a student (2018) next year.

Now they are scratching for another P for 2018 class.

but since you did not call them this coming Spring at least they have hope of finding someone who was left out in the cold by another school or maybe a late bloomer that is getting overlooked.
 

marriard

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Oct 2, 2011
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but since you did not call them this coming Spring at least they have hope of finding someone who was left out in the cold by another school or maybe a late bloomer that is getting overlooked.

Nope - what they will do is raid a player committee to a different school or more likely people will hear 'so and so decommitted' and will actively engage the coach in seeing if they can get into a 'better' school. Then this will cause a chain reaction among committed and not committed players.
 
Oct 3, 2011
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Right Here For Now
I think this ends early verbals for the most part. Not allowing recruiting conversations at camps or clinics before September 1 sophomore year is big. Practically ends verbals from what I see.

Sorry to disagree but this still leaves huge loopholes for the coaches to jump through. How about reaching out to first year 14U TB coaches? It's a good start don't get me wrong but nowhere close to shutting this kind of sh!t down entirely.
 
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Sep 1, 2014
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Yesterday a local girl 'committed' to a local D1 college. She is a 2020. She also frankly isn't all that good but she is physically impressive (tall, strong, looks athletic)

From what we know, that make 20 girls in that class committed to this college. And fifteen 2019's and ten 2021.
They signed 4 NLI's last season. Incoming class this year was 7 girls.

Also this is just the 'commits' we know. This program has 50% of their current players who are not from nearby states. No idea what 'commitments' they have made elsewhere.

Anyone see something mathematically wrong with these numbers......

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BTW, we asked what was offered. Parents had no clue what the actual offer was apart from 'They offered us an opportunity to commit to XXXXX'. So no idea of what kind of scholarship, what kind of deal... nothing.


What school is this
 

obbay

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From what we know, that make 20 girls in that class committed to this college. And fifteen 2019's and ten 2021.
They signed 4 NLI's last season. Incoming class this year was 7 girls.

wouldn't they need to be 2018's to sign an NLI this fall?

I don't like this early recruiting BS. heck, they change a lot just from grades 9-12!
 
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