Do you consider it a red flag if a prospect's high school team has only an average or even bad record?
With the level St. Johns is now recruiting at, I do. Even tho I'm a well-known "stats-guy", I try to look at at ALL the stats, not just the individual ones. I really think that an "elite" high school talent - and that's what we are now targeting - should guarantee an excellent team record at the high school level. They should have that kind of "impact" just to qualify as "elite" - no matter how big the individual stats are. Was looking back at some of our recruits - the year Norvel Pelle was ranked by one site as the #1 center prospect in the country, his HS team, Price High in Compton, CA lost EIGHT games. Does it say something if you've supposedly got the best center in the country and can't beat Inglewood or La Canada High School? In that same class we got Amir, who went from being a stat stuffing POY at Luezinger High School, to an uncomplaining, do-anything-to-win 6th man on a Loaded Findlay Prep team as a Senior. No question in my mind which player I'd rather have...
When you're a team struggling with recruiting, yes - if someone shows the talent to put up numbers for you, you grab him if you can, and hope you can teach a "championship mindset". But when you've reached the point of achieving high level recruiting, do you concentrate on those players that already HAVE that mindset?