Whatever happened to recruiting athletes from the hood?

[daboywonder2002]

Everyone can't afford AAU, private school or some high priced basketball camp. Before you had recruiters going to hoods nobody wanted to go to. Even now that's not an excuse because you can do zoom calls. Dajuan Wagner jr might be one exception. I just don't get why more recruiters don't come to the hood to get ATHLETES. Simple local public school. The transfer portal and AAU are nice but i think coming to the hood and urban cities has gotten lost.

 

[King]

There’s a whole system of recruitment that starts off in elementary school, usually scouts pick off all the talent from public schools at an early age and sends em to these private schools and camps on scholarship

The good players in still in public schools weren’t good enough to get recruited out of them

 

[Rell Lauren]

Why if you don't have to? The kids from the hood are at prep schools early on if they're that good.

 

[get these nets]

Dejuan Wagner is no exception
He's a third generation blue chip athlete.
His grandfather won an NCAA ring at Louisville, his dad played for Coach Cal at Memphis

 

[G-Zeus]

Talent based now..

The moment talent is detected ur recruited from age 7-8 up

AAU will be recruiting u first.

So by the time u reach highscool ur already a college prospect.

 

[AlbertPullhoez]

Athletes don't even go to hood schools like that no more. Nowadays you got schools from the suburbs taking the talent out of the hoods/ghettos and bringing them to their schools. I know it happens a lot in Texas

 

[get these nets]

Talent based now..

The moment talent is detected ur recruited from age 7-8 up

AAU will be recruiting u first.

So by the time u reach highscool ur already a college prospect.

Exactly, they track these kids early.

Only ones who go undetected are guys who have mid-teen growth spurts.

 

[Flight]

Like mentioned earlier the elite talent is identified even earlier due to AAU and etc. By the time most of these kids are in 8th grade they already know what type of school they’re going to go..ie Oak Hill, Montverde or Sierra Canyon.

 

[Tim2520]

They still do, it just starts much earlier. These kids are being chosen outta elementary and junior high school

 

[Big Boss]

Athletes don't even go to hood schools like that no more. Nowadays you got schools from the suburbs taking the talent out of the hoods/ghettos and bringing them to their schools. I know it happens a lot in Texas

Yep it happens in Alabama too

 

[desjardins]

Athletes don't even go to hood schools like that no more. Nowadays you got schools from the suburbs taking the talent out of the hoods/ghettos and bringing them to their schools. I know it happens a lot in Texas

same in my city
i wonder if there is any economic impact related to this.
the days of a rasheed wallace caliber recruit going to public school in the middle of north philly are done with

 

[get these nets]

same in my city
i wonder if there is any economic impact related to this.
the days of a rasheed wallace caliber recruit going to public school in the middle of north philly are done with

Simon Gratz, right?

 

[El Coupeacabra]

Everyone can't afford AAU, private school or some high priced basketball camp. Before you had recruiters going to hoods nobody wanted to go to. Even now that's not an excuse because you can do zoom calls. Dajuan Wagner jr might be one exception. I just don't get why more recruiters don't come to the hood to get ATHLETES. Simple local public school. The transfer portal and AAU are nice but i think coming to the hood and urban cities has gotten lost.

They DO pull kids out of the hood


They just do it at 7, 8, 9, 10 instead of 17.

My cousin's husband is a youth coach and regularly has kids staying with him who don't have stable situations.

 

[filial_piety]

.the game has changed over the decades....recruiters pick them off early and put them through a process...there's still players from the hood...but those days of a recruit getting word of mouth of someone on the playground is long dead.

if you check the resume of a lot of NBA players..a lot of them came out of Catholic Schools because those schools are private and can recruit playrs with scholarships

On rare occasion you get a Tony Romo or Joel Embiid type who didn't start playing until HS...but the rest of them dudes start in youth programs

I'll never forget...when I use to run track and Kevin Jones (RB Lions/VTech) was 16 at the time running for Cardinal O'Hara HS....he was built like a pro and had two personal trainers/coaches watching his every move... before he was even known to anyone...we all looked at him like and asked ourselves "who tf is that" like a scene out of coming to america 3 or some shyt.....they clearly knew what they were doing because he became the #1 Top NCAA football recruit in the nation in his senior year after mike vick left.., and went 1st round in the NFL

 

[Noriega]

The days of your high school around the corner producing a highly recruited college star are over.

Prep schools crushed the buildings