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[quote=Anonymous]Using the number of "Commits" as a guage of the strength of the various IAC teams.

It's probably not a bad overall measure, but it's got a lot of flaws. The major problem is that recruiting is a very inexact science that contains a huge number of misses on the potential of kids.

Since the DIII schools don't give scholarships and even the DI's have only 15 and a fraction to give, recruiting and even admission doesn't mean all that much. If someone gets a basketball full-free ride it means something different.

When I look at the list of Prep "commits" above, I don't think it provides as much information as some think it does.

All of these Commit Lists:

1. Include lots of kids that really aren't going to see the field in games, except maybe at "garbage time" in games. College squads have 35 guys. Not everyone plays. Some of this is due to mis-judgements by the recruiters as to how good (fast, skilled, tough) the kid is. Some of it is the college coaches saying, "We don't really know who is going to pan out, so lets bring in the max. number of kids we can and see who can play and who wants to play when they get here".

2. Include kids that will quit the college squad pretty quickly once they see how tough the competitions is, what the demands of the program are and how relatively unimportant the sport is on many college campuses.

3. Includes schools that really don't recruit that hard and where the kid is academically good enough so that the coach doesn't have to use one of his admission "Chits" to get him in.

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