Clearly, you can see what is ahead with Pasqualoni by looking at his past. RE: George.
But ... further ... he made use of Prep Schools while at Syracuse. He liked that process. This is not surprising and I bet he discussed this with the parents. It doesn't always have to be poor academics.
Having more kids committed verbally to your school, than you've got scholarships for is a very, very common thing in FBS football. It simply good business. You'd rather have too many players than too few. Your reputation is all you got in recruiting. It doesn't go any further than that. WHen you are Nick Saban at Alabama, you can offer way more scholarships than you've got room for, accept a kid's committment and then use the process to make sure that when you get into the fall, that you've got a full healthy roster, and anybody that's not physically 100% isn't on scholarship, and hte kids are left waiting in the wings with nothing to fall back on except the hope of making the roster the next semester...... Not much different than the NFL. Why? Because they're alabama and they win national titles.
When you're building a program like we are, to get into the top 25 regularly, in our location of the country, using prep schools, to line up players 6 and 7 rows deep for your program, is a win win situation, and necessary. Why? Because when you need players, you've got them in back pocket ready to go, adn you want to have as many possible local home grown players as possible, and there aren't enough coming out of high schools, so you need to add the prep schools. If they don't end up with a roster spot available on scholarship - they've spent time in a prep school, gotten their academics better, gotten themselves better as players, and are more attractive recruiting prospects across the country, than they were before they committed to UCONN, and went through the process.
Everybody wins. In another year or so, we at UCONN, because of the way Pasqualoni recruits, are going to have more players available to our rosters, ready to compete from the moment they step on campus, going into the future, than we've ever had. Quality players that we can keep track of their development.
Sooner than later, though, it needs to translate to wins on the field and bowl games.
