I am in an interesting situation. Recruiting is coming up soon and I have found a recruit from my high school. Only 94 people were in my high school when I graduated. My graduating class was 21. He isn't at my talent level but I might take him anyway. Anyone here go to a high school with less than 500 total students and sign a player from that high school in WIS?

I've signed a guy from my high school (just to do so. Wasn't the best player but wasn't terrible either). We had roughly 600 kids. Just over 100 in my graduating class.

We had 30 kids in my class and about 200 in the school.......had the number 1 recruit in the state of Michigan one year.....I was unable to recruit him, though I tried.

When I first started HD there was a kid that was from my high school as a five star D1 recruit so I had no chance at him. My high school is in a very small town and it was really cool to see my hometown and high school appear on this game. We maybe have 300-350 kids. My graduation class has the school record of 97 kids.

I've seen a couple recruits from my high school, many more from surrounding high schools, especially now that I'm coaching at Indiana. I've never had the opportunity to sign them though; they were usually pretty good and never fell to me.

My high school had about 2,200 kids, my graduating class was just under 500. Nowadays it's even larger. One of the biggest high schools in the area.

My high school senior class had 200 kids back in the 80's.
I've luckily had a chance to sign 2 good players from there.
Louisville under Pitino actually signed a kid from my school, which is amazing.

If i signed players just because they went to mu high school i would be doing my University a disservice. We want Championships not scrub players.

It wasn't my High School but I noticed one time a recruit had the Twilight Academy in Trenton as his HS. That's a continuing education HS for dropouts. It has like 60 total students, many of them recent moms.

Posted by npb7768 on 1/9/2020 12:48:00 AM (view original):
My high school senior class had 200 kids back in the 80's.
I've luckily had a chance to sign 2 good players from there.
Louisville under Pitino actually signed a kid from my school, which is amazing.

did the guy actually play? he might have just needed a player to coordinate the prostitutes, its probably better for plausible deniability than having the assistants do it.

Posted by gillispie1 on 1/13/2020 4:15:00 PM (view original):

Posted by npb7768 on 1/9/2020 12:48:00 AM (view original):
My high school senior class had 200 kids back in the 80's.
I've luckily had a chance to sign 2 good players from there.
Louisville under Pitino actually signed a kid from my school, which is amazing.

did the guy actually play? he might have just needed a player to coordinate the prostitutes, its probably better for plausible deniability than having the assistants do it.

The Louisville recruit from my high school was Mike Marra, who actually did play a lot in that 2012 era. Luckily from what i understand he was pretty straight-laced and was more attracted to playing at Louisville due to Pitino and his legendary history with the Friars (along with Pitino's great coaching history). Marra played a lot as a Louisville freshman as a 3-point specialist, but blew out his knee a couple of times, and sorry to say that injuries ended his career early. He played i think three years at my alma mater, Smithfield High School (i graduated in the mid-80's from Smithfield), before playing a year for a prep school.

Couple of other local notes from northern Rhode Island:
- HD shows Smithfield recruits in the wrong uniform color. They should be green and gold. Our Sentinels' baseball uniforms back in my day were modeled after the 1974 Oakland A's... yellow shirts and stirrups at home, green on the road. Unlike the A's only a couple of Smithfield players could grow respectable mustaches, Lol.
- top legends in northern Rhode Island of course were the late Marvin Barnes from Central High School in downtown Providence, and Ernie DiGregorio from North Providence High. Marvin ('74) and Ernie ('73) led Providence to the Final Four in 1973 by upsetting Maryland. In the Final Four, the Friars were running Memphis State off the court with Ernie whipping halfcourt behind the back passes, hitting Marvin and fellow future NBA'er Kevin Stacom ('74) in full stride. Barnes dislocated his kneecap in a freak play and Memphis ultimately recovered to win... the biggest what-if in RI sports history is what if Barnes stayed healthy.
- recently the Friars have had other local heroes-- Kris Dunn went to New London High in SE Connecticut, and current star David Duke from Providence west side went to Hendricken High in Warwick.

Last season my hometown (East Millinocket, ME) had the top PF and the 7th overall rated recruit. About 30 in the graduating class and 1,600 total in the town.

I have tried a few times to recruit guys from my high school. Never was able to land any of them. I did get a walk on from my high school one season. He never saw the floor. I had a bit over 200 in my graduating class out of 600 or so total students. We were the largest class to go through the school until the next year. It has been on a steady decline after that. I graduated in 1980 we had over 26,000 people in my hometown. Population is half of that now due to losing four manufacturing company's in the late 80's and early 90's.

Posted by pallas on 1/8/2020 1:13:00 PM (view original):
I've seen a couple recruits from my high school, many more from surrounding high schools, especially now that I'm coaching at Indiana. I've never had the opportunity to sign them though; they were usually pretty good and never fell to me.

My high school had about 2,200 kids, my graduating class was just under 500. Nowadays it's even larger. One of the biggest high schools in the area.

Where in Indiana are you pallas? I am near Terre Haute now but grew up in Connersville.

When I was in High School back in the '70s, I went to the Second Largest High School (three year school) in West Virginia. I still get a kick out of recruiting kids from George Washington HS in Charleston WV. But I also get a kick recruiting kids from Small Schools that my College friends went to, or the ones I visited as part of an Athletic Team. That is one reason I love the depth of this game. Large or small, we can all identify with the recruits we seek.

Yeah, a fun part of HD is seeing tiny schools produce mega-stars. In Narragansett RI there's a school named Ocean Tides HS. Total student body is seriously like 17 kids, and the school is kind of a vocational school for disadvantaged youths. Ocean Tides HS is a boarding school, and they rent several rooms within a place known as the Christian Brothers Catholic Monastery. I doubt they have a basketball team, so having any recruits from there would be close to impossible.