Recruiting
Nevada’s two Division I universities — UNLV and UNR — offer the NCAA maximum number of scholarships in each sport they field. And a full ride for four years of college is like hitting a jackpot.
Title IX, which was enacted in 1972, bans sex discrimination in any educational program receiving federal funding.
Countless college-bound student-athletes who can’t meet the NCAA’s new, tougher initial eligibility requirements that took effect Aug. 1 will be on the sidelines this year.
Centennial senior Troy Brown Jr. has been drawing interest from college basketball coaches since his freshman season, making for a hectic and longer-than-normal recruiting process.
Stetson Stallworth and JD Reynolds, sons of former UNLV football players, are hoping to make an impact on the NCAA Division II level.
We will attempt to traverse that daunting and at times disturbing landscape by analyzing many of the different aspects that create the recruiting culture as it exists today, where it began and how it progressed, the good and bad of it, and the highs and lows.
Understanding the rules surrounding the recruitment of high school athletes to play in college is a nearly impossible task. But just knowing what all of the terms mean is a chore of its own.
Some of the elite high school athletes aren’t signing a national letter of intent. They’re opting instead to sign a financial aid agreement, a relatively new concept that drastically favors the athlete, not the university.
Changing a sport’s national letter of intent signing date is similar to the political structure in the nation’s capital. It can be done. It has been done. But it’s a tedious process.
Bishop Gorman running back Biaggio Ali Walsh committed to play at California on Sunday.
Coronado senior forward Kennedy Koehler made an oral commitment Saturday to play basketball at UC San Diego.
Bishop Gorman senior guard Christian Popoola made an oral commitment Wednesday to play at Brigham Young.
Desert Pines senior guard Capri Uzan made an oral committment to play basketball at Air Force on Monday, announcing his decision via Twitter.
Centennial senior quarterback Jamaal Evans has been traveling to Logan, Utah long before he started playing football. His father, Leon, routinely took high school teams he’s coached to Utah State’s football camp. Naturally, the younger Evans tagged along until he was in high school, and could participate.
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