In other words won't be able to make the jump. I saw this on a small scale with my own daughter. She was a better than average cross country runner in Arizona her junior and senior year. She was offering a small scholarship to run at community College. The level of training and commitmentb was much greater than she was ready for and the reality was there were runners that were better than her. We talked about it, and she never blamed coaches or anything like that. Rather, she just realized that while she was good she was losing the love for running and decided to go a different path.

As someone said in the original thread. College athletics is replete with highly touted recruits who don't make it at the next level. I've been connected tangently to high school athletics for a long time, and I see it repeated. Quite often the most talented high school athletes just dominate because of their superior gifts and many don't have to work that hard to be dominant. They are treated like kings and courted by universities to come and play at the next level. This certainly is not the case concerning all high school athletes, but it does happen quite a bit.

They get to the university and then they are surrounded by athletes who are just like them. Superior, equal or nearly equal in talent to them. At this point it comes down to how hard a player works at all aspects of his game which determines whether or not he will succeed and get a shot at the highest level. I think it's one of the reasons why you see so many guys that were two and three star high score recruits who make it to the NFL. They knew they were behind those more highly touted recruits and had to work harder and then pass them up.

While it is quite possible that coaches may have been less than truthful with a player. What is more likely the case is that they're trying to tell that kid what they wanted to hear, making promises based on potential improvement. It then becomes a matter of perception for the player. The player may think that he is doing the things that he needed to do, but the coaches aren't seeing it.

Coaches put players on the field that they can trust. And if a player doesn't show what they can do in practice, and show their dedication by working their butts off, that player is less likely to get playing time, regardless of the number of stars they got as a recruit.

I mean how many of us have heard our friends say even in high school who are bench warmers and weren't playing, that the coaches just don't like them, or the coaches lied to them or whatever. The reality is that they just weren't that good or weren't working hard enough to get the chance that they wanted.