how did sports scouts know that high school players have the ability to skip college and play professionally?
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Scouts understand the game of basketball and they have the experience watch a player in game situations, practices, and workouts to see if the player has the potential to be a good pro. \n\nThey have system to evaluate the player on both physical and mental characteristics.
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I don't know that the high schools do it to have better teams (in Texas or anywhere else).  But it definitely happens on an individual basis that the parent(s) hold back their kids (even though NOT academically necessary) so they will have a competitive advantage when it comes to sports.
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Lots of NFL Players, and college stars started out in Junior Colleges.  Mike Anderson the running back for the Broncos (now ravens) took an even more scenic route.  He joined the marines for four years after high school and played football on base teams (where he absolutley killed me a time or two), then went on to Mt. San Jacinto Junior College where he played for two years, before going to play divison one ball at Utah.  He was eventually drafted by the Broncos, and had multiple 1000+ yard seasons.
434942
As far as I know, they sign them as soon as the draft ends. So my guess is that many teams are looking for hidden talent amongst those undrafted kids now.
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There are a couple ways to look at this: 1) you have the ability to affect youngsters in a very positive way. Not only are you helping them develop skills, you help them learn important life lessons - how to win with grace, how to loss with dignity, motivation, teamwork, etc. 2) high schoolers are mature enough (physically) to start learning more advanced baseball skills. Things like throwing a curve ball or slider, 1st and 3rd situations, defensive adjustments. Kids prior to high school do not have the mental or physical maturity to play advanced baseball.
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depends on what they want in their program...you can't adjust your game because you think so and so might be watching and so and so likes this...thats a sure fire way to not get noticed, or get noticed as the player who will never play anything above high-school.
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If you are a top rated High School basketball player, only the NBA is off limits.  A top rated HS football player, no NFL.  But there are other leagues you can get paid to play in.\n\nA HS golfer?  Sure you can.\nA HS Tennis Player?  Sure.\nA HS Baseball player?  Sure.\nA HS Soccer player?  Sure.\nA HS CC/Track athelete?  Sure.\n\nOf course, if you just mean will you EVENTUALLY have a chance at going pro, then the answer is yes.  Heck, you don teven have to be good to have an opportunity.  Just have to make the most of it when you get the chance.
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First these are nations that are extremely impoverished. There is one way out of that poverty in many of these nations and that is to play MLB. So literally many boys in these countries recieve a mit on the day they are born. It has become a custom in some of these nations. These kids practice baseball constantly. \n\nMLB has established massive training facilities that many of these kids spend years at. The best are kept from year to year until they are signed by the team hosting that camp. Many unsigned players from these camps go out as free agents and latch on in MLB tryouts. \n\nIn the US, scouts rely on High school coaches and college baseball to train players. Most Americans don't touch a mit until they are at least 5 or 6 years old. When they do the spirit of non-competitiveness makes it difficult for players to obtain the necessary level of competitiveness to make up for the lack of training they have gotten as compared to Latin American players. Then scouting is spotty at best in American schools. Many regions are copletely ignored. Stats are almost meaningless to the scouts. The level of compitition is too varied. A guy hitting .500 at one school might be lucky to hit .300 in another and access to nationwide stats difficult if not impossible. So scouts go to the same schools over and over again. Thus many players in the US have parents who literally move into scouted school districts just so thier kid actually gets looked at. This means US players are far less likely to see a scout and when they do it's often for one game only. A bad day and they are pretty much locked out of the majors unless they go to college. Latin American players once they get into a camp have full time proffesional development from MLB staff and scouts see them over the years on a frequent basis. US players often are stuck with incompentent coaching staff thier only qualification being a love of sports and graduation with a degree in Phys Ed from a university. \n\nUS players even the poorest in the US have many opportunities to get out of poverty or do not live in poverty at all. The odds of even the best athelete making the Majors at all much less becoming a star are at least 1,000,000 to 1. Few parents want to see thier children waste thier lives as an athelete when they can become doctors, lawyers, programmers, accountants and such. Latin Ameircan kids have baseball and soccer or they live desperate lives in abject poverty for the bulk of Latin Americans in nationst hat produce large numbers of Baseball players such as the Dominican Republic. \n\nThe exception to all this is Puerto Rico which is technically both American and Latin American. Peurto Rico produces an abnormally large number of players but Peurto Ricans are exempted from the draft, so they are scouted and signed by US clubs.  Puerto Rico is not exactly wealthy, but it's citizens have many options, including pretty much all that are availible to any other US Citizen. There are many Puerto Ricans working at NASA, residing on boards of directors in US companies, working in Hollywood or many other prestigious of well paying jobs on the mainland. So they have opportunity. Baseball is just a very popular sport there and kids start very young.
575590
Tony Parker did not go to High School or College. He played for a club pro team as a child.
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Joe Horn went to junior college and look at him.  You could try to contact teams, but it's much easier if you just go where they are already looking for players and that's colleges.  If you have ever had any skills, they probably already have scouting reports on you from High School before you dropped out, but most teams would probably worry that if you couldn't dedicate yourself to school, how will you dedicate yourself to a program?  It's an uphill climb. Good luck.
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It's now 19 years old or at least 1 year out of high school. We're probably going to see a lot of players now leaving the collegiate level after freshman year just to keep their stock high. NBA feels that throwing 18 year olds fresh out of high school with huge contract and money decisions isn't professional for the NBA. So now players are kind of forced to go to college and get a feel of basketball life on the road and playing at high levels with other future NBA players.
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well in collEge football is MUCH different than in highschool, and you cant just "play" for a team.  there are tryouts and you have to make the team to play on it.
67156
A student on an NCAA college sports team who was kept out of competition for a year in order to prolong his or her eligibility.\n\nIn other words, they are probably a sophomore, but are considered a freshman by the NCAA in that they still have 4 years of eligibility.
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There are certainly many athletes who seem to have no idea how to handle the riches that come with their success--and act like it.\n\nHowever, you put this question in the baseball category, and it does seem as though fewer of those players are quite as conspicuous with their wealth.  Then again, there are very few baseball players with big contracts who are just out of high school.\n\nAn increasing number of athletes are wisely permitting experienced business and money managers to handle their finances.  They often incorporate players into businesses to obtain tax advantages, invest their incomes, pay out allowances for the player, his family, and whoever else may have their hand out.
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Scouts come and watch games and stuff. If you're talented they'll offer a scholarship. When you get to highschool try out for the team all years and such. That's really the only way.
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No, in fact there are a couple of players in the NFL that did not play in high school.  Even still, they do play other sports in high school and are raw athlete material.
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Athletic scholarships are usually given by the individual university. In the US, the better athletes are scouted by the different universities so they know who to offer a scholarship. Sometimes, athletes are not scouted due to the size and/or location of their high school. Their coach can usually contact someone from a university and send them tapes of the athlete. This helps, but generally if you are good enough the scouts find you. If you are from another country, do the same. Have your coach send some film or make a tape yourself with your highlights. Baseball and basketball are looking outside the US, but football hs yet to venture there much. Also, consider smaller universities or colleges. The better athletes usually go to the big name universities so the smaller schools may be more willing to give you look.