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[quote=Anonymous]You haven't gone into the 2 most critical areas of selection.  How good a player is he, meaning is he good enough to be a scholarship recruit at a D2? And,  financial ability to pay.  D3 has no athletic scholarships.  If the student is full pay ability then you have lots of choices at D3, the minority factor won't hurt and even if he is not the strongest athlete the full pay is helpful.  The other side of the coin is need based financial aid.  If the student needs financial aid to pay the bills then you are going to have to get through the admissions office with the grades and the football coach.  So here the better athlete he is the more likely the coach will really push.  Not all schools are full need as well, so you would need to keep that in mind.

Assuming you figure out the above the next question would be geography.  Locally not too many D2 schools.  Shepherd, Alderson-Broaddus both in West Virginia, UVA Wise in VA, Catawba and Lenoir Rhyne in NC are some sort of close.  More choice in NE and midwest.  This is very good quality football and they offer athletic scholarships.  Mainly recruited athletes at these schools.  Some of these players have D1 talent but not D1 grades.  The students grades would be between fine and excellent at all of those.  There are also some D2s in midwest that are private schools like Findlay, Tiffin, Hillsdale.  They are moving to an all private conference next fall.  This might be more of the campus feel you are looking for.

D3 depending on preference for geography you have ODAC schools (Shenandoah, Catholic, Hampden-Sydney, W&L, Bridgewater) but most are small towns.  Catholic is in DC.  Centennial conference schools a little bigger towns with Gettysburg, Dickinson, Franklin&Marshall.  These schools have average grades and boards a little above but certainly worth talking to.  Gettysburg has a marching band--unusual for a D3.  Then you've got tons of Ohio and Pennsylvania D3s which those grades would be fine.  Denison, Ohio Wesleyan, Hiram.  If he could buckle down and get into Case Western Reserve in Cleveland that's an urban setting with D3 football.  Tons of smart kids there and a very nice stadium.

The other place I would look in D3 is the SAA schools including WashU and Chicago.  Not sure those grades would get you into WashU or Chicago but worth a discussion and Rhodes, Centre, Sewanee, Berry, Hendrix, Birmingham Southern all have good campus settings.   These are not inexpensive places though but coming from private there may not be sticker shock.  This is kind of a southern/midwest version of the Centennial conference.  The thing with all of these D3 schools is the football team is similar academically to the student body.  This is much more so than at Michigan or Florida.  The kids on the team will give a good reference to the kids in the school because they can only bend so much at admission, so pay attention to the prospective teammates both athletically and socially.  You don't have the "football bubble" like the big D1 schools.

Try to encourage to get the grades up as best they can.  At these levels grades are very important and once the coach likes you even a little bit athletically the next question will be about grades.  But also, across the traditional football recruiting board those grades are really pretty good.  If he's a solid player and a good citizen I would expect you would find some matches that are appealing.  Also coming from a private you should have access to college placement services that are better than most.  I would lean on them a little bit for any pipelines they would have available.  In 10th grade you have plenty of time.  A year from now you should have another ACT score, and updated GPA, and a pretty good plan of attack.[/quote]

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