Posted by gillispie1 on 7/1/2015 12:47:00 PM (view original):
how much risk you want to take is a factor, but here is a good rule of thumb:
- all sophmores and up, and freshman with a 3.0 or better, get 0 minutes until midterms (this is very low risk and really should be done by everyone who can trust themselves to check around midterms)
- freshman between 2 and 3 you can do 0 till midterms if you can tolerate the risk. but you can also do like 5-10m if you want from the get go. i generally do 0 until mid terms, and generally have no problems except when i forget to check back in. i haven't forgotten to check in like a year, and in that time, i think ive had 1 player flunk out on a team i co-coach (so like 1 in 30-40 seasons or something). if you forget to check in it can be bad though, i had like 1 ineligible player per season for a long time there.
- if  you want to be safe, on occasion with an extremely important soph on like a championship contender, if they are also extremely dumb, ill give them like 5m from the start. ive probably done that like 2x in the last 5 years.

Once you check in at mid-terms how many minutes do you give to players that are in danger of failing?

Wow I'm not the most experienced coach but I've been around for a little while and this is the first time I've ever read that HS GPA is the determining factor in how fast recruits learn the O/D sets!! I've gone by AE's suggestion with my own little twist. I believe he suggested subtracting the HS GPA from 4 and starting there, I have found that subtracting from 3.5 keeps them out if the yellow most of the time, but I never go more than 10 and that's if the recruit comes in with a low 2 HS GPA. Crazy!! I guess I need to start cutting back. Another general rule I follow is if they are yellow at midterms I subtract their GPA from 2.4 and add that many minutes of SH and I've never had an ineligible player on any of my teams. I guess I've always been overly focused on getting these kids a good education!! Lol

I give all frosh 10 minutes. And Zero after that. Usually after the second midterm, if the frosh's GPA is above 3.2 then I drop it to zero.

If a frosh has a GPA under 2.5 then I give them 12 minutes. I seldom have to give them any minutes in their soph and above years.

Tedlucacs wrote - Don't like to recruit guys with sub-2.5, unless they have really good potential since HS GPA determines how fast they learn your sets.

Seriously?!  this is news.   I thought it started with their previous experience (the sets their HS coach used) and then had to do with WE.    Tying learning to GPA makes total sense, I have just never heard this before.