As a former recruiter and Director of Admissions at an HBCU, our schools do not have the bandwidth to move money around that way. The Athletics budget is set and coaches offer what they can to maximize their options. I would encourage those to apply for academic scholarships during their tenure as high school students and continue the process as active students. I would have encouraged him to walk-on but I believe there is something not being shared here. Did he ask for more scholarship money and it was not stackable at the institutions he wanted to attend? Was he the caliber player that would have garnered a full athletic scholarship? What was the role of the parents as in my experience, helicopter parents make it hard to resolve things. I hope things work out for him.
@@Ogdondiego I don’t think you fully read my comment. I asked “Was the type of athlete that would garner a scholarship?” I did not say he should have been.
He garnered bigger offers than the HBCU he asked. If they “wanted” him then they could have explained hey we only have this much athletic money to give with all the ivy’s he had on the list I’m sure he had some academic money. But why walk-on when it’s a athletic scholarship waiting somewhere else? Morehouse is a D2 so athletic budget is different but that’s communication if they wanted him.
This is a kid who attended a Academic HS in DC that didn’t have sports so he had to play for a different school. So I’m guessing he was aware of academic money throughout the school year
@@StanBuck12 if he wanted to play for them and there was no money at the time, then yes I’d tell him to walk on. There are students that do that and secure scholarships. At the end of the day, it’s his decision.
Begging a D2 school with limited scholarships at that. My man was chasing CLOUT...No stars at that...if he really wanted to go to an HBCU he couldve went Howard or anywhere else on an academic scholarship and walked on the team.
Do you think you have to beg? Even Coach Prime would tell you. You shouldn't beg no one including him. No matter where your child go he will be successful.
Similar story for my 2 son's. Both are scholar athletes, started businesses, volunteer etc. They developed and analytical model to select and rank their top 10 HBCU's (JSU included) made the list. We then visited all 10 HBCU to test theory vs reality. It made a big difference in the final selection. During the visits we also recruited the schools because we understood the budget constraints and that you have to actually recruit the HBCU's vs being recruited. They ultimately chose PVAMU and now both are 4.0 and 3.5 students in their first semester, on the team and expected to play. We need to get this out to all prospective students wanting to attend. You will have to recruit the school and visit to see if it fits. Both are having the best times of their lives and wouldn't trade it for anywhere else.
Undoubtedly, HBCUs have to be more aggressive about recruiting top talent that they consider impossible. I am an HBCU graduate, but they did not recruit my son. He's at Penn State for engineering and track.
Stop the madness lol. Tthat they operate within their budget and resources(as with any university). I would say you all should write and attend HBCUs rather than them having to stretch their tiny wallets only for you to turn them down for Penn State lol. 75% of athletes at HBCUS are Power 5 rejects. And if given the chance, they'd bolt to any Power 5 at the drop of a hat. You try recruiting kids with less than $250k. While D1 school operate on $40 million plus every year for just football alone. Big difference there.
He could’ve gotten a Academic Scholarship & walked on. What was He asking for in Scholarships, sometimes these people want more funding than available @Ivy League Univ.
@@salliedavis0420 yeah he could have gotten a academic scholarship. Who knows. He probably ain't telling the whole story. I don't see why you get accepted to five. Ive league schools but you don't get accepted to Morehouse and if he was good enough in football then yes he could have been a walk on
Based on the comments I've read there is an "Elephant" in the room that is not being talked about. I follow JSU because of Coach Prime and he has talked about the recruiting and how it works for HBCU's. But it just seems to me, we are missing some key pieces to this story.
Those 20 offers come from schools with higher recruiting budget. Some HBCU only have $15,000 dollars for recruiting. Now Morehouse has the money. The only reason they did not recruit him is schools with small budgets look for Linemen and Quaterbacks. There are plenty skill players and DBs to recruit.
Football teams offer scholarships for positions based on the team's needs. Maybe Morehouse didn't see a need at his position(s) or his skill set. Since he played almost everything, that seems unusual but hey, maybe they were looking for some guys with more size that season. That said, he's at Harvard. As a former DCPS educator, I am happy to hear DCPS sent another one to the Ivies; do great things while you are there you man.
That’s cap! football teams you get the best players no matter how many you got at the position. You let them battle it out. 😆 can’t believe this statement
@@DougTransportation That's is not true at all lmao. Every school isn't like Alabama or Ohio State. Plus, most players tend to attend a different school if that top school they were looking at has a bunch of people on their level at the same position. Nobody tries to compete for the starting job nowadays lol.
If he truly wanted to attend a HBCU colleges he should have sent of called of went to some of the colleges. We have internet all he had to do is look all the HBCU colleges up online and show them his application
I personally know of many high school football players here on Ohio that were All-District and All-State. They reached out to many HBCUs multiple times via email, Twitter, Instagram, letters, etc. without 1 offer from any HBCU. They are all now playing at PWI's. As a Howard grad it was disappointing to see this.
Probably because he wanted to attend Morehouse is the reason no one has reached out to him. If I played for Coach Prime, that’s who I would have contacted since a relationship was already present.
He did get an offer from Howard, if he wanted to go to an HBCU, why not go there ? He goes to Harvard, but quit the football team. For some reason , he has given himself the title of Doctor. Good luck "Dr." Brown.
As a man that has followed college sports since I was a kid, players don’t go to hbcu because of the lack of leagues tv spotlight,facilities, competition of players on your team and in league play. Also these nfl coaches just talk to coaches at these power conference’s way more because everyone feels like they have the best players and since the 60s they have.
Great Video. I wanted to attend FAMU. They never offered me anything 😪 I had to attend Appalachian State. Shots out to North Carolina A&T they offered me. I did not know to much about them at that time.
I'm confused..he from Seattle Washington and Washington DC? Played for Prime in Texas, played at Roosevelt in DC.. My man was moving all over the place..
Yeah this is a damn shame. More HBCUs need to shoot their shot with top black athletes, not gonna lose anything but so much to gain. And Joshua isn't the only Morehouse grad that chose Morehouse over an Ivy ... Morehouse actually had a Harvard basketball transfer a couple years ago. Morehouse still has a pretty good reputation worldwide, thanks mainly to its highly accomplished alumni.
My oldest graduated from a large private high school in Houston where he was a student athlete. The school that he chose gave him an academic scholarship but he had football offers from mainly D1-AA schools and a couple of DII's but none that offered his major were HBCUs. It wasn't a big deal in our house but we noticed that none of his peer athletes from other private schools in the area didn't get offers as well. They all went to non HBCU's because that is who they were recruited by. Oh well.
I tried to transfer to Howard after my freshman season at a PWI in Kansas where I was a victim of racial favoritism. They said they didn't have any money to offer me. I told them I would walk on and earn my scholarship and they came up with every reason why they couldn't work with me. I ended up going to another PWI and became an all American receiver and kick returner. I would have much rather done that for Howard but they're hard on black people. It's crazy.
So since this young man ends the video saying he will never leave Harvard because our ancestors built it; what was the point of this video? Was it to bash HBCU’s, particularly Morehouse? The whole vibe is weird.
Very weird. Then they act like athletic scholarships are unlimited at D2 schools. Mane ain't the 36 best player on the team it's only 36 full offers. Bash the academic scholarship process at Morehouse, this take is skewed.
All this has to do with finance. They don’t have the money to offer all these athlete’s scholarships. If there was more money to circulate that would be different, but HBCU’s don’t have the same resources as a D1
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@@HBCUSpotlight It's just Ironic everyone is coming out of the woodwork now. I do not play football, but I know how Scholarships work (HBCU'S & PWI'S). Scholarships are given out on As NEED BASE'S" and(like every other extra-curriculum activities). If he really wanted to attend a HBCU, go as a Walk-on. Of your game is that good you will get a football Scholarships. I work for a school district. I know SEVERAL kids who had to change positions even Instrument's(Band Scholarships) in order to get a scholarship. 2nd if he got on on Academic's does it matter if you get football Scholarships your Education & books are paid for. Again, I work for a school district, I am a Full time student in College and I have 2 kids in college one on a Band Scholarships🤨🤨 *Ole boy SEEKING ATTENTION not a FOOTBALL SCHOLARSHIPS*
HBCU are not in the financial position to spend as much money on recruitment and advertisement as PWI, therefore HBCU miss out. Since there are more student athletes than HBCU, why not "force" exceptional student athletes upon HBCU that want to attend HBCU, even if they are not recruited by HBCU? Now for those that like to play with numbers: annually more than 310,000 high school football players graduate, there are over 70,000 college players, and there are more than 20,000 freshman positions. Now to be honest, is there a single college/university that does not miss out on a player they wish they had recruited?
Lol dude, come on man did he ever think that maybe they didn't have a need for his position? Say he's a RB and they already have 4, 2 red shirts and 1 more already committed? But here's the thing; Morehouse turns downs MANY kids. And Morehouse is a liberal arts school and NOT A FOOTBALL SCHOOL. Maybe had he researched and read the mission, he would've chosen another school. My neighbor's son didn't get in and he had 4.2 GPA and an offer from USC. Also, Morehouse is a private university and they select you based on more factors/criteria. Also, the Covid class got quite a bit of scrutiny based off the fact that many of them were just "given diplomas" despite scores due to the emergency. But honestly, I believe there's more to this story than he's telling. He also seems a bit on the entitled/condescending type. As he went live right there on campus to show his disgust rather than scheduling a second meeting with admissions staff to find the core reason of his alleged rejection. But whats sad is how far blacks will go to shame other blacks. Now they're shaming colleges lol.
Perhaps you were not Top Talent. HBCUs have always gone after TOP TALENT, but they can't offer everybody. Don't spread this about HBCUs when only one didn't offer you. And while Morehouse is a great school their football program isn't great, so there were a number of other hbcus with more successful programs that you could have gone after/walked on. Stop spewing this negativity for clout!
Countless top players have already stated over decades that HBCUs never once reached out to them. HBCUs themselves have admitted to focusing on players they think they can get and not wasting resources chasing highly recruited players. But we'll see who was right in this case soon enough.
Go where your education is being paid. Parents do not know that athletic scholarships are year to year. If the coach “thinks” another player is better your scholarship can be reduced or eliminated. Always take an academic scholarship over athletic and if you want to collegiate sports then play. There is more to it than people know.
I don't believe HBCUs have those kind of finances to support players like them. Even if they did I believe most of them feel like they'll lose out on them anyway to these top schools like Penn Ohio Alabama etc so they don't bother going after them. I would love to see more top tier players on an HBCU team. On another note maybe those HBCUs know that those students have a better shot in the big leagues in those top schools and don't want to get in the way. We all know HBCUs rarely have players drafted even though over half of the athletes drafted are bust including top picks. There are a lot of HBCU athletes looked over for players from big time schools.
This video is confusing… on one hand he’s complaining about not getting a football scholarship at an HBCU and at the same time stating he’s received several offers from other schools. BUT the school he eventually enrolls at doesn’t even give athletic scholarships. Did you really want a scholarship or was the only one you was hanging your hat on from Morehouse? Hell I would’ve taken a scholarship from “directional U” and been just fine with it.
Many ppl work in many roles and is okay in all of them. 🤣 u can play all positions and be okay. He was recruited on his academic abilities. HU offered him and he didn't take it.
@@antonio706ga As smart and Athletic as he is I’m sure he would earn that scholarship for academics as well as football. Walk ons can still get scholarships either during the year or after I’m sure
Not everyone is fit for a school even if they think they are for an HBCU. Obviously, you were not "Morehouse" caliber. You went were you chose to go and also may not have been what they needed on the football field.
I will be absolutely livid if my son chose to go to a jigaboo school as opposed to Harvard Columbia or Brown.... Say what you want but a doctorate degree looks much better from them three prestigious ivy League school as opposed to Morehouse and etc 💯
And keep this young man in prayer in the name of Jesus him and his family he's doing such a wonderful job as a young black man where we need more like him so right now we lift you up young man in the name of Jesus or that you would lead in guy him into where you will have him to go on this day touch him in the mighty way Lord pray for him and his family in the works that he is doing this day and protect cover sheel and got him under your precious blood and his family we pray we ask that you send your Angels Camp around him wherever he go and who he's around himself with each and every day of his life and his loved ones and family because all things possible with God nothing is impossible with God what's a possible a man is impossible with God in Jesus name amen🙏
Is he saying we don't offer guys like him. I'm sure HBCUs don't recruit heavily in Washington state. Also, if he graduated during Covid it was even less likely. He wasn't highly recruited. Did he put himself out there?
Well he reached out to Morehouse and Morehouse ignored a stellar STUDENT-athlete that really wanted to be there, that's the problem. But maybe Morehouse didn't need him for his position so that's that too ... but a full ignore is tacky .. a thank you for your interest would've been better.
@@SonicBoomC98 fact still remains that Morehouse dropped the ball if he reached out and no one took 2 minutes to check his value. Like they so stacked and on top that they don't even need to bother.
HBCUs have been growing strong for over 150+ years, and they will continue growing strong. Let's stop trying to compare HBCUs to white universities. There is no comparison to the love, respect, and mental/cultural acceptance black people feel at HBCUs. He will never get that love at an ivy league school, or any other predominantly white university.
Seems 2 me this is something that they r playing out so that they can say something negative about HBCU'S recruiting purposely. Their will b some recruit's that fall through the cracks @ all levels. Recruiter goes 4 one player ends up recruiting a hole nother player when he gets there. Player is a bust. Player he went 4 goes somewhere else b comes star athlete.
@@HBCUSpotlight He could've applied as a regular student and walked on the football team. He made good grades to be accepted into Morehouse and by the way ivy league schools don't give out athletic scholarships. He from DC as well mane come on the whole meac and the ciaa on the east coast if he really wanted to play for an hbcu.
