This one is tough. His parents know this is a mistake but at the same time, if Jarin’s heart is really in this and you force him to play another year in HS his heart won’t be into it. Sure, he’ll get another year of development but he’ll probably sink in the rankings because he likely won’t be passionate about it.
And its tough, because he knows he’s talented and he’s seen other kids be One and Done’s and he knows what they say and how it looks. And he knows he works 10x harder than most of the kids he goes to school with, so he figures if he works really hard he can do it too. But what he doesn’t know is HOW MUCH HARDER he’s going to have to work at the college level, with a million new distractions, in order to reach that dream.
Its like having your first kid. You’re like “Wow, that’s a lot of work and takes up an incredible amount of my time, but I know how this works now” and then you have your second kid and you’re like “Wow, I had not appreciated how much free time I still had to lose after #1. Because its all gone now”.
Anyway, I think this is decision that won’t help him, but beyond someone successfully changing his mindset (which is really hard to do) I’m not sure there was a better decision that gave him a better shot at success given the risk of him spending the next season uninspired. Seems like a good kid, hope it works out for him.
A bunch of things in there signaled that UVA-Stevenson was a poor match:
-Tired of school and the “busy work”
wants fastest path to playing time and NBA (not necessarily development)
mixed spring/summer results and still wanted to -push to reclassify.
I’ve seen a bit of reaction that Bennet’s view on redshirting cost UVA another recruit. In my view it’s not that simple and that neither side would’ve been good for the other.
I’m not too concerned about losing Jarin. But I am concerned that Tony’s hasn’t been somewhat humbled in his ability to predict his future playing time preferences. Would January 2023 Tony have predicted that March 2023 Tony would have preferred a lineup with Papi and Taine? The details suggest: no, he absolutely would not have predicted that.
Humility pillar, Tony. You’re just as bad at predicting future you as the rest of us are predicting are future selves. So keep your options open.
I think it was used as an intentional deterrant. Basically Tony indirectly saying “We want you in 2024 you are not ready now”. Its less about predicting and more about stating the obvious. No way in hell Jarin goes from struggling against high schoolers to contributing at the ACC.
I think Jarin seems like a good kid who let his impatience get the better of him. He looked like he was very comfortable and at ease on his recruiting visit to U.Va. But CTB was straight with him: we really want you, and you have a tremendous upside, but your game needs work. So either spend another year in high school or reclassify and work on your game for a year. I think Davis told him essentially the same thing.
Bama’s coach took the low road and told him he would get plenty of PT and they would work with him to enter the draft in a year. It was total BS, but Jarin bought it. I feel bad for him cause he seems like a good kid who is perhaps a bit naive about how ruthless college hoops can be, especially when you play for your typical win at all costs SEC prototype coach.
He’ll learn the hard way. But Tony (and Hubert) both recruited him the right way. It’s too bad he won’t play for a coach that would have been his best shot to reach his dreams.
GG Jackson should be a warning. Went from #1 HS prospect to reclass to playing and putting up decent but inefficient numbers at S. Carolina to middling second round pick. That can’t be how they drew it up.
Skipping a year probably cost him millions vs. being patient.
I know I criticized Tony a bit above, but I think this gives coaches too much agency and players not enough. It didn’t take a genius to look at the three schools and see where he’d most likely get PT next year. I suspect at the end of the day, what coaches said or didn’t say wasn’t the deciding factor here.
Also, why is telling someone they will get a lot of PT “taking the low road”? That’s doesn’t make any sense and one way I know it doesn’t make sense is that nobody who asserts it even bothers to explain it.
Does anyone really convince themselves that Tony didn’t make clear to Jayden or Armaan that they would get all the PT they could handle when we recruited them?
