I'm curious what the percentage might be among recruits who arrive on campus and in their first year think, "geez, what have I done? I shoulda gone to (runner-up school)"
You see lots of stories about seniors reflecting on their experience in first year with frustration because they arrive on campus as studs, don't get immediate PT or are buried in the depth chart, or get home sick and want to leave.
I would think that of a class of 20 that at least 6 or 8 feel they made a mistake and want to leave and have second thoughts about the school they might have chosen. Of that number, maybe two or three actually pick up and go and the others stick it out and 3/4 have a good experience and 1/4 still feel that things didn't turn out the way they wanted.
I'm sure there are not specific data to back this up, just seems like that's a pretty standard level of frustration that would exist among freshman coming into a new place and possibly higher among recruits who move across the country to a culture that's not immediately comfortable.
You see lots of stories about seniors reflecting on their experience in first year with frustration because they arrive on campus as studs, don't get immediate PT or are buried in the depth chart, or get home sick and want to leave.
I would think that of a class of 20 that at least 6 or 8 feel they made a mistake and want to leave and have second thoughts about the school they might have chosen. Of that number, maybe two or three actually pick up and go and the others stick it out and 3/4 have a good experience and 1/4 still feel that things didn't turn out the way they wanted.
I'm sure there are not specific data to back this up, just seems like that's a pretty standard level of frustration that would exist among freshman coming into a new place and possibly higher among recruits who move across the country to a culture that's not immediately comfortable.
