Originally Posted by Anonymous
I also played college ball. Sorry to hear it happened at your program. I still disagree.


I have friends and acquaintances that played elsewhere and they echo the same experience in their programs. It's always the same story: a player who the coaches invested a lot of time and effort to recruit shows up, and Freshman into Sophomore year doesn't live up to what was expected - yet they give that player a much longer rope (playing time) than another player that wasn't recruited as heavily, but who, obvious to everyone else, can already produce more that the higher recruited kid. The assumption is consistently that they give the kid more rope since they have to justify the recruiting investment they made. Regardless, in these cases, the better player at that moment is not playing. (This happens in pro sports also with teams' highest salaried players.)