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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is D1 (UVA, Duke, UNC, Michigan) and there is D1 (schools you’ve never heard of with zero academic rigor), and there is minimal money for these schools. A lot of this region’s D1 recruits (outside of Metro) fall into the second category. In the basis that these kids won’t play pro volleyball and will need to get a job, I am surprised that parents don’t counsel them better and use their talents to get into a top D3 school (NYU, Chicago, Tufts, Johns Hopkins etc). Is it parents wanting a D1 kid for their own ego? Seems crazy to me.[/quote]

As soon as a high academic D3 coach looks at you for few minutes and determines that you could potentially play at their level, their very next thought is "Can this kid get into my school?"  There are a lot of good players where the answer to that question is no.  Where do those players go? Lower D1, D2 and NAIA.

The old trope of athletics allow bad students to get into great colleges has never been less true than it is now. Sure, it does still happen sometimes but you aren't getting into top D3 schools (or top D1 schools now) solely on the basis of your volleyball ability. At the true top academic schools in D3 many of the coaches will tell you that you'll have a spot on the team, but you'll need to get in first and they don't have much influence over the admissions processes. That's why they do pre-reads. Even at the D1 level the talent pool is so deep that coaches can just move on to the next player who meets their academic requirements.

The reverse situation is probably more common in our area. High academic students that could play for a competitive D1 volleyball school, but choose to go to a less competitive D1 volleyball program because the academics are so much better.  Think choosing an Ivy over choosing a school at the bottom of the power 5, or choosing a small liberal arts D3 over a mid-tier D1. And there a lot of good players who don't play volleyball in college at all because they want to go to a high academic school and they didn't recruited for that type of school.

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