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[quote=Anonymous]To use basketball as an example, somewhere around 2-3% of all HS seniors that play basketball will go on to play some type of college basketball (including JuCo and NAIA). The system is not perfectly efficient, so figure you need to be around top 3-4% of all basketball players to have a realistic chance. There will be some one off situations like Cal tech or MIT and possibly the service academies, but, beyond that , you need to be a fringe college level player to “back door” your way into an academically rigorous school not playing D1.

To put this in perspective, I know a kid who was second team all county in a major metro area. Set a school record by scoring 51 points in a game (this takes real, indisputable talent) and he’s playing D3.  Nothing wrong with that. He’s an amazing talent, extremely good at his sport. But that’s the level of competition we are talking about.

The NIL and transfer portal are also messing with the system in ways that we won’t fully understand for a few years, but early indications suggest high school athletes are getting squeezed. [/quote]

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