Will "hold outs" trickle down to HS?

In response to the original question, I can confirm that holdouts are starting to trickle down to HS.

There's a school I know with a stud RB who committed to a lower-tier D1 school over the summer.  He ran roughshod over everyone last year and was to be the centerpiece of their offense again as a senior.  However, after he committed, he suffered a minor knee injury in the preseason--the kind of nagging-but-not-serious injury that players routinely play through all the time.

Because of that injury and the fear that he might suffer something worse that puts his college career in jeopardy, he's shut down the first half of his senior season (mostly non-conference games) to heal and preserve himself for "meaningful" conference games and college.  Kids on my team who know him claim that he plans to come back for the final 4-5 games of the regular season and playoffs, but only if his team is in contention.  Right now his team has a losing record but will likely still be able to get a playoff spot if they beat 3 terrible teams in their conference.

This isn't a 5* stud who's being courted by Nick Saban.  He's a lower-tier D1 player who's committed to a place that's hardly known as a football powerhouse.

We have a kid trying to pull this....well really it's his dad but same thing
every crappy thing about recruiting coming full circle with this jabroni, his kid was full on twitter recruiting warrior the past 3 years, all the emoji's and hashtags bible verses...whole deal
so eventually this kid is on enough roids to get beefed up enough to actually get recruited to a mid-major school in the state, his dad...as we have expressed already, is a complete idiot...dad acts like he's the #1 recruit in the nation and must be treated as such, even has the poor kid graduating early so he can go there for spring ball....believe me, this kid is not anywhere near the top of that school's board, and I have no doubt that they never even asked him to grad early for spring ball...he's just doing it because that's what the big time "croots" do

so....we are like a week out from our first game and the kid gets an injury...of course it's his "back"...so the dad is immediately on the "we can't jeopardize his scholarship" train and I doubt seriously the kid will play a snap all year

so ya.....it has trickled out..the kid is holding out as a high school senior because his dad is an idiot

so he's going to miss his senior season, the  spring of his senior year, prom, graduation, all of that stuff so he can be fit and ready to go to a college that he will have to work really hard to play special teams at in a year or two and will almost certainly wash out......great plan

conference USA, not a power but a D1 program, I'm sure they wouldn't say anything since he's not officially sitting out just milking an injury, but I don't think he's even enough on their radar enough for them to care that much....he's a scholarship guy, not sure if it's a full wouldn't surprise me if it wasn't
there were a few other schools interested in the kid that I heard through the grapevine passed on recruiting him after talking to the dad, said he wasn't talented enough to deal with a high maintenance dad

Conference USA is an FBS program.  Unless something has changed recently, there are only full scholarships awarded in FBS.  

As far as not being on a school's radar enough to care...scholarships are limited quantities.  If they are considering offering (or have already offered), he is on a radar.  

fair enough, point I'm trying to make is that he's not on anybody's national top 100 list of rivals 14 star recruits, but he's acting like one, and sitting out his senior year behind a made up injury to me seems to be not in his best interest. Pardon my ignorance, I have an inherent revulsion to the entire recruiting landscape so I'm probably not as knowledgeable about it as I should be

That's a good question to be honest it's probably some deep seated resentment over my own mediocre athletic career but the party line is that I hate the vanity of the whole thing. 
In the same way I hate when an NFL guy makes a tackle after a 6 yard gain and gets up doing a dance and throat slashing move, or the same reason I hate most of what coaches put on social media....everything is me, me, me, me.....and I hate to sound like an old fogey but I think it is representative of a greater cultural shift, we just don't see selfishness as such a bad thing anymore. 

I read recently about a speech that was prepared for George Bush (the first one) when he was campaigning for president, he sent it back to the writers and asked them to take out all the references of "Me" and "I" and make the talking points more representative of the party in general, he thought people would find it unbecoming if a guy got up and talked about himself a lot, that was a common idea in his generation, the empty can rattles the loudest. Watch any politician of this era and the difference is astounding

I've had meetings with parents and really dejected kids about recruiting, and none of it has to do with actually playing college football, it's all about being able to say that you are getting recruited, it's a status thing among the parents, something to brag about at the golf course. 

I love college football, and I think it's awesome when kids who really love playing the game get a chance to continue their career, but most of the noise surrounding recruiting that I see has very little to do with football and everything to do with status symbols.


Or maybe I'm just upset I never got to tweet about being #blessed to receive an offer, who knows I'm just a regular dude with too much back hair and a dodge stratus 

On the other hand, is it possible that we coaches are so soured by the bad experiences that we miss the good? Last night I watched one of our guys play on TV. Last week I watched two play for a trade school (Their choice to learn a trade. Both could have gone to college). Two weeks ago an alum helped his D.2 team beat a local 1AA that didn't recruit him. This morning I looked up the stats of two of our guys who played 1AA. None of those guys tweeted about their recruiting. 

The stories aren't all good. We had a guy turn up his nose at D.2 offers because he and his mom thought that he was too good for that. He's running the streets now. That's not going to keep me from enjoying the good stories. 

Sure. The point is that the good outweighs the bad, maybe by a lot but we seem to be stuck on the bad. 

Then ncaa is going to be forced to change or come apart...college athletics is about be undone completely with p2p or whatever it is bill in cali. Its going to get bizzarre and worse before it gets better

Social media is a bane of existence. The negatives it has caused outweigh the positives tenfold. If not more.

I'm legitimately surprised you could get him to look away from his phone long enough to put that many pictures up AND have a conversation. You may have a keeper there.

Kids aren't any different than ever before though...

Coach...I was rereading this old thread (after reading an article about the 2019 college bowl holdouts)... Was curious if this kid signed a few weeks ago?