Recruiting Your Son

[fredthefalcon]

Hey there may be hope for the future as long as Orr Jr. can develop like a couple of mid-major coaches' sons in Michigan. It's being heavily reported in Michigan that Trey Zeigler (CMU's Ernie's son) and Ray McCallum Jr. (University of Detroit's Ray Sr.'s son) will be signing up to be coached by Dad instead of going to UofM, UCLA, Florida and the like. Both players are top five Michigan players. In fact, many observers of the high school scene thought that Ray McCallum Jr. should have been this year's Mr. Basketball rather than the MSU bound Keith Appling. I saw each player in the past and I would say McCallum has a strong overall game but Appling is the better scorer and could carry his team just on clutch shooting. Anyway, I found the recruiting info intriguing and I'm sure there were some interesting coversations around the dinner table even in the "quiet" recruiting periods.

[MarkL]

I've heard that there's one rule about recruiting your kid to play for you.

Rule #1: Don't. It creates all kinds of problems. If your kid chooses to play for you, it is on their accord, not yours, and once your kid is on your team, your kid is just another player, not a special one because its your kid.

[BGorDeath]

I've heard that there's one rule about recruiting your kid to play for you.

Rule #1: Don't. It creates all kinds of problems. If your kid chooses to play for you, it is on their accord, not yours, and once your kid is on your team, your kid is just another player, not a special one because its your kid.

Why doesn't this apply to Little League?

[Class of 61]

I've had the opportunity to coach all three of my sons at little league/CYO/ HS levels... depends on the kid AND the dad/coach as to how much "favoritism" is shown, which is what I think you're alluding to.... two of my sons were GREAT to coach, one...not so great (and he'd be the 1st to admit it now in adulthood).

Also had the chance to "informally" coach my daughter in her figure skating years..knew enough to be able to put programs together, but NOT how to do specific moves etc. That's up to the pros to do...and they got paid pretty well to do that.

[NWLB]

Jimbo had Jay playing for him at BGSU, and it was a good thing.

Can it be an issue, sure, will it, who knows.

[Warthog]

Honestly, Chauncy is a nice player but I just don't see him being a MAC level player. So I'm not too sure we would want him playing for his dad. Just my opinion and what do I know about evaluating high school basketball players?

[OSUFALCON]

Honestly, Chauncy is a nice player but I just don't see him being a MAC level player. So I'm not too sure we would want him playing for his dad. Just my opinion and what do I know about evaluating high school basketball players?

I Chauncy can play at a D1 level. He's got another year of high school plus AAU this summer. Is he going to be an instant star? No but he's as good as a couple of players on the team right now.

[VDub26Falcon]

Honestly, Chauncy is a nice player but I just don't see him being a MAC level player. So I'm not too sure we would want him playing for his dad. Just my opinion and what do I know about evaluating high school basketball players?

Probably about the same as the hacks who have blogs and claim to be experts in recruiting!