NLI event

Son's HS has multiple NLI events throughout the year based on sports and signing dates.

Hope to get alot of replys on this.Here at our school theres no involvement from the school.To me it would seem like good publicity on how well the school does.But thats just me.

Son's school has the draped table, call in some press, coaches speak, team, family and friends attend.  Athlete signs at the table with parents sitting with him.  Can't wait for November when mine signs his!

Congratulations to your son & family.

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School had the draped table, did all sports at once,

asked kids to wear college shirt/jersey.

made the local papers/press, web notices, etc.

Believe they do two, in November and spring.

Cool for the kids and the school.

 

 

Same here.  School does nothing.  When my son signed his, we had to arrange everything.

County does it for all six school and all sports twice a year.  Very nice and organized. Breakfast for all and lasts about three hours.  

 

 

The high school baseball coach was a good guy, but not too big on all the extracurricular stuff. For our son, he went to the library after school, they draped a table and we had the coach, his grandparents, wife, my daughters him and me behind the table for a picture.  I threw a hat on the table of his college.  The district has a PR guy and he asked my son a few questions and then sent an article to the local paper with the picture. It was nice.  Funny part was that he was already signed so he grabbed a math test out of his back pack to make it look like he was signing the actual NLI.

 

 

That's really unfortunate that your school and FoxDad's school don't do anything.  As Mizzoubaseball said, many times, the kids aren't even signing an actual NLI.  Many times, they are just signing an academic scholarship agreement with the school, or are signing a preferred walk-on agreement from the college athletic department.

 

You may need to contact the sports editor of the local paper on your own, or perhaps a travel ball coach can help get the word out to the media in the area.

Rick - to be fair there have not been many student-athletes that have signed NLI's over the years so it's understandable why the school doesn't go out of their way on signing day.  Our baseball program is not a powerhouse (yet - coach is in his 6th year) and football is up and down.  I can only think of maybe a half dozen kids in the past 10 years that have had genuine scholarship offers.

 

What we ended up doing was contacting the local sports writer of the weekly paper and arranged for the signing at the school (in the library) with the college coach.

Son had 4 at his fall signing day (2 baseball, 1 swimming, 1 softball).  Draped table, parents and grandparents of some, pictures with school hats/ties, and continental type breakfast.  Some of the senior teammates came in to stand behind players for some pictures, which was touching.

 

No newspaper media or announcements.  However, another city school got some big publicity in the newspaper when a good amount of players were all going to the same military college.  

 

Our son's travel team posted pictures of the signings on Facebook.  Most were at schools, but some were at the dining room table.

 

Later that night we hosted the out of town family at Olive Garden for dinner and celebratory cake.

Our school does absolutely nothing in regards to NLI. I had to arrange everything myself,calling the newspapers etc, the athletic director showed up at the cafeteria where we had the signing and he asked what was going on !!!! LOL. The players we have in any sport at our school that go on to play college ball are few and far between. You would think they would try to promote the programs and the school but they choose not to. To me that falls mostly on the athletic director.