Why Post-Grad Spots Are a Luxury in Prep Basketball #shorts

Most families don’t realize how limited post-grad spots are.

Coach Sean Crocker (Mercersburg Academy) explains why PGs are a luxury, not a guarantee — and what coaches look for when filling those rare positions.

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Cory asks Coach Sean Crocker about managing post-grad (PG) spots at Mercersburg. Crocker explains that unlike larger New England programs, his team can only carry one or two PGs — making those positions a luxury. He discusses how PGs can bring instant impact, but the school’s long-term focus is still on developing younger reclassed players and building sustained growth around the right fits.

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What’s the challenge for you on just having two postgrads? I know we connected on a kid this year. How do you strategically figure out who you’re going to give those two spots to or offer them to or try to get? We can’t have as many postgrads as the New England schools. Postgrad almost becomes a luxury, right? So, it’s kind of a plugandplay. Our postgrads have often been our best layers, but two years ago, we chose we had seven seniors and we chose not to take any postgrads and just kind of brought in some younger guys. Uh Michael Kmers, who’s with us this year. A lot of the reason that he came in is because he was a great fit for what we had coming back for the school and for the program. I think in the Maple, I can’t speak for the other coaches obviously, but there’s a little bit less of a focus on the postgrad. We obviously want some impact postgrads and we get probably more inquiries about that than other positions. We’re much more in the market for like a reclass 11th grade or a reclass 10th grade. When we didn’t have that postgrad, we also noticed that we didn’t have that injection of two really talented kids. Now, we had a bunch of seniors, so we didn’t necessarily need that injection.