re: Jimmy Detail is on the warpath...

Can coaches reach out to kids directly, or must they go through the coach?

Have them fill out their home address on camp info and the questionnaire they fill out for your school. No questionnaire, no camp, no info.

Right... Reinforces my belief that camps should be opened up to where they are easy to attend.

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I couldn't understand what motive or why a coach would do this.

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My high school coach withheld letters from former A&M DE Jay Arnold his freshman year until spring practices ended. But that was likely because he knew Jay could be special and didn't want him to get a big head. Now this is different then what JimmyD is talking about, but not giving a kid the letters at all is just wrong.

That's absolutely repugnant, and in another field would be considered malpractice. Hurting the future of 17 year olds for crying out loud.

I do not know how any of this works BUT


If i was a coach, I would have the Kid and His legal guardians sign permission to release his address to colleges who request it.

I would not want to be a go between. Its not part of the job.


This tells me that some HS coaches might/must be on the take.

Certainly Colleges know the possible influence a HS coach may have........why would they keep going thru the corches and just send it directly to the players home?

And how did the Dad in the video "Stumble across a box of letters in a coaches class room"?

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That's absolutely repugnant, and in another field would be considered malpractice. Hurting the future of 17 year olds for crying out loud.

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I pretty much agree with shea and those of you who say it's reprehensible for a coach to withhold letters from a high school athlete based upon the coach's bias, but I can see a flip-side to it, as well. Good coaches who care about their players could temper the rate and amount of letters that a player receives based on the the player's best interests. Say, for instance, a HS coach knows that his player can be successful in a structured environment but that such and such college coach lets the inmates run the asylum. The HS coach might de-emphasize that coach/college insofar as he thinks that doing so is in the player's best long-term interests. I'm just hypothesizing, though, and have no idea how likely or unlikely this scenario is. Further, my hypothetical isn't aimed at the situation Shea is pointing out, but is just an observation about why some coach's discretion might not be an inherently bad thing for HS players.

It's not the right of a coach to make that call. Imo that coach has no right to restrict a kids future based on what he thinks he knows best.

Maybe I'm old school, but I don't think a journalist should be playing an active role in recruitments anyway. I believe Jimmy has good intentions, but all his involvement in Louisiana high school football is a conflict of interest to his journalistic duty IMO.