HS Coach Opposed To Players Signing NLI's...

[billyjack]

Might be the wave of the future...

http://zagsblog.com/articles/coach-of-k ... ore-122499

"In his 17 years as the basketball coach at St. Raymond’s High School in The Bronx, Gary DeCesare estimates that 20 of his 35 players who committed to Division 1 schools never signed a National Letter of Intent.

Instead, DeCesare advised them to sign scholarship papers only because he is staunchly opposed to the NLI.

“I’ve never encouraged kids to sign a National Letter of Intent because what a lot of parents don’t know is that there’s two pieces of paper,” DeCesare, who now coaches at St. Rita’s in Chicago, told SNY.tv. “One is the National Letter and one is the scholarship papers, and the National Letter binds you to the school, the scholarship papers binds the school to you.”

[Chalmers0]

They have been saying this is the "wave of the future" for about 2-3 years now but I still have yet to see more people take this route. I have no idea why, since it makes more sense for a recruit to sign scholarship papers but I still haven't seen it happening.

[hoyahooligan]

I agree kids should not sign an NLI. I guess the fear is that if a school says sign the NLI or we're not signing you. The top 50 more like top 25 kids have the power to say no, but lower ranked kids can't really put conditions on their commitments because schools can easily find someone else who will sign the NLI.