UNC's lacrosse recruiter left over the summer. I wonder if he was smart to see this coming. Now he is in the same position at UPenn.
UPenn just publicly committed a 2018. A high school freshman with no grades, no scores. From a lacrosse evaluation perspective, the recruiting tournaments for clubs in fall don't start until this weekend.
This is lunacy. An Ivy League school allowing a coach this latitude? I am sure this kid is an exceptional lacrosse player, but if I had a UPenn degree I would feel pretty embarrassed and offended by these admissions spot hall passes for kids with junior high school transcripts. Most applicants to UPenn submit perfect grades and scores into their senior year, and most of them don't get in.
A defenseman from GC committed in early 2014 which would be Feb of 9th grade.....so this is even earlier...although not by much. Not the first time UPenn has gone after a freshman is the point. At the rate they are going they'll be committing 8th graders in the next two years! Ha!
No HS grades or scores. I wonder how enthused the admissions officers at these schools are about what is going on, or if it may bite back later.
Definitely a risk. What good is the recruit to Murphy if the kid is constantly ineligible to play because he's on academic probation or worse, drops out because it's "too hard"? I have a friend who's son played IVY lax and it was absolutely brutal balancing academics and lax. If push came to shove his kid could have dropped lax and stayed at the school. But he managed to get through, miserably. No UNC basket weaving options in sight.
