 In July 2005 , then @-@ Harvard assistant coach Bill Holden saw that Lin was 6 feet 3 inches ( 1 @.@ 91 m ) , which fit the physical attributes he was seeking , and he had a 4 @.@ 2 grade point average in high school , which met Harvard 's academic standards . But Holden was initially unimpressed with Lin 's on @-@ court abilities , and told Lin 's high school basketball coach , Peter Diepenbrock , that Lin was a " Division III player " . Later that week , Holden saw Lin playing in a much more competitive game , driving to the basket at every opportunity with the " instincts of a killer " , and Lin became a top priority for him . Harvard coaches feared that Stanford , close to Lin 's home , would offer Lin a scholarship , but it did not , and Lin chose to attend Harvard . " I wasn 't sitting there saying all these Division I coaches were knuckleheads , " Diepenbrock said . " There were legitimate questions about Jeremy . " Joe Lacob , incoming Warriors ' owner and Stanford booster , said Stanford 's failure to recruit Lin " was really stupid . The kid was right across the street . [ If ] you can 't recognize that , you 've got a problem . " Kerry Keating , the UCLA assistant who offered Lin the opportunity to walk @-@ on , said in hindsight that Lin would probably have ended up starting at point guard for UCLA . 
