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sofla free agency thread

Biggest concerns I've encountered from kids and parents during this off-season/portal season is (1) offers and (2) development... with "development" being a very distant second.

Met a parent of a 9th grader that was concerned with his kid not being recruited enough yet. Met another parent that was a little perplexed about his 9th grader not playing more snaps on varsity.

I can't promise equity, I can only promise equality.

But after talking to so many parents I'm starting to realize how bad some of these local public school programs are. There's a massive shortage on coaches, funding, organization, etc. I've met kids who played last season with no position coach. I can't blame these kids for leaving.
 
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DTP said:
That’s it.

Still my point still stands though. West Broward is ***
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West Broward went 9-4 last year, they were good.

As far as the name of your school mattering, my buddy at Goleman has Power 4 schools rolling through on the regular, and one of his '26 prospects - Tre Bell - is committed to Florida State with offers from Georgia and Michigan among others. They just lost their starting QB and a WR (brothers) to Columbus, but the point stands that if you can ball, they will find you regardless of what school you're at. Especially nowadays with social media. I could more so understand transferring back in the day when it wasn't nearly as easy to reach out to college coaches.
 
DB4 said:
West Broward went 9-4 last year, they were good.

As far as the name of your school mattering, my buddy at Goleman has Power 4 schools rolling through on the regular, and one of his '26 prospects - Tre Bell - is committed to Florida State with offers from Georgia and Michigan among others. They just lost their starting QB and a WR (brothers) to Columbus, but the point stands that if you can ball, they will find you regardless of what school you're at. Especially nowadays with social media. I could more so understand transferring back in the day when it wasn't nearly as easy to reach out to college coaches.
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West Broward is in a district with Krop, Flanigan and Miami Beach Senior High. They essentially get a free 3-0 conference schedule every year. They’re probably better than most west Broward public schools besides Western and Plantation but that’s not saying much because the vast majority of schools out west are terrible and rarely have FBS players on their roster.

But that just proves the point that Josh Moore was going to get offers regardless of where he played. Although there was a question regarding lack of competition for him. Lighting up South Broward or Everglades doesn’t prove much.
 
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DTP said:
There’s a handful of programs that are so bad, you might be hurting your chances of getting a scholarship by playing there but at a majority of the schools, even the ones that don’t win a lot of have a lot of premier players, you’ll get noticed. Didn’t we sign a really highly rated kid from Everglades this year? If P4 schools are offering you at Everglades, the idea that you need to go to STA or Chaminade to get attention is completely false.
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Exactly! To be fair, if you have multiple fbs schools; even G5’s, you can stay where you are at.
 
DTP said:
They’ll never have an issue finding kids to play there but if an elite talent leaves them to go to Heritage or Chaminade, that definitely hurts them. With NIL and college football becoming such a big business, more and more of these kids are going to try to graduate early and start getting paid ASAP.
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You’re right but I think that will be a mistake. Not everyone is Ryan Williams and be an instant impact player skipping their final year of high school. To be fair, he was the first kid that I saw re-class up and was an instant star.
 
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