MahalNeneng

There two sides to that coin as well. Yes idaho players get shafted , but restricting it to state also has down sides ie texas, florida, cali where arguably the top 3-10 (we looked at top 10 2025 players in texas at some point in the last couple years and put their jgs in other states most of the list was on top in most states) players are #1s everywhere else. Electorial college style if they took that into account is better cause those states would get more based off of comparable rankings? Not sure what mech drives that but something similar having said all that just another jr tournament amongst the 100s that were played. qualifying for first freshman road trip starts in 3.5 weeks the wheel keeps on turning

Its always been a 1 day lottery on off the wall courses that are never indicative of where the tourney will be held. Nothing new to see here.not sure without the usga dropping big coin to ever fix that. the us open quals follow the same recipe but tend for the most part to step the venue up a notch.

We saw this very thing play out early on with someone close. first came disbelief that it was happening (this was a freshman after 1 semester drop in anticipation of ruling December portal) then trying to decide what to do (was on four year deal) then somewhat denial of current playing level situation needed a in state deal in order to afford (initial recruiting offer was very generous) ended up in state with another top 100 team, but i think that came to pass cause they were in the portal early. if that didnt happen i could totally see this family being in the same type of situation. pride is tough to fight

We had a great example of this. A in town school ranked around 130 made a fairly hard push for our boy. They should be pulling jgs class ranked 100-200 think we were like 20 something?? We definitely visited, learned all we could about the program. Coach doing his job, albeit punching above his at the time weight class. Put an offer out there and let it ride. What else can they do. Im sure his board was long, but why not try.

Pretty sure our transition from us.kids to normal heads was a prodi g makeup of some sort.

Coaches are there to see the internationals that make this a mainstay stop of the year. Cheapest international scouting trip possible.