Such a player is Butler High S/WR Nate Charest. Recruiters look at what they call “measureables;” height, weight and speed in particular. The big schools think that Charest, who is 5-foot-10 and 170 pounds, is just a bit lacking in each department.
Except that the kid can play football, well enough that he helped the Bulldogs to the state 4AA championship. Well enough that he made the Shrine Bowl and was a whirling special teams’ dervish in
“He might just be the best football player I’ve ever had,”
And yet the big schools continue to ignore Charest. He visited Gardner-Webb last weekend, and goes to Catawba this weekend. The weekend after that will find him at Pembroke.
So now Newsome is putting on the full-court press for Charest.
“I’m getting ready to send out 140 DVDs of Nate’s highlights, all over the country,” Newsome said earlier this week. “He’s gonna be a great football player wherever he plays, and I think that can be in Division I.”
Accordingly, Newsome is getting in touch with leagues like the MAC (Mid-American Conference), full of lower FBS schools like
“They’re always looking for sleepers; guys who can play,” Newsome said.
I saw him four times during the season, and he made critical plays in each of those games. Charest is one of those guys, as Newsome said, who can play.
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Oh, how I wish Vance had a coach that goes to bat for their kids like Newsome! Like him or dislike him, he puts in the work for his kids. PERIOD!!
i like the kid, but has anyone thought about GPA, he can play, so there must be something else, big schools are not going to offer a kid who only has a 2.0, they feel he can't handle the load of a big school, his coach and he is good at getting kids in school, now from what i'm tolded, this is the problem
Guys, I honestly don't know about the grades aspect. Coach Newsome hasn't mentioned that to me as a problem.
Charest's GPA is above average. His SAT scores are 200 points ABOVE the NCAA minimum. That is not the problem.
Good kid. Hopefully it will work out. Patience maybe his most important virtue.
dos his SAT and GPA work together...core class GPA...does he have the classes needed...would think he do being at Butler...he is good...somebody need to sign him...
GPA being above average does not get it, i just think thats why he isn't getting offers, and Newsome beating the bush isn't going to change that, Kid can play,
Please drop the grades/gpa idea. He has well above the minimum requirements for school. He has the right classes and etc. He will be cleared to play. He is small and does not possess great speed in timed events. That's why he hasn't got d1 offers.
"big schools are not going to offer a kid who only has a 2.0" Obviously you don't know about recruiting. "Big" schools offer marginal students on a regular basis and hope. Then when they don't make it they arrange juco or prep school routes for them.
This kid can play, but the recruiting process works. He is not big or as fast as they want them at the higher level. He can go to one of the smaller schools like a Gardner Webb or a CIAA school and be a hell of ball player or walk on at a Carolina and you all will never see him again. These HS coaches feel these kids with all this D1 mess and screw these kids up. These coaches at all levels work very hard and have film for days on 50 different WR from all over. They are not missing to many kids. I think he should take what is out ther for him and run with it. Good luck to the kid.
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