What board members should remember is that every college is different in the time, $$$'s, and personnel they will allocate to baseball recruiting. Getting a letter or any other form of contact will not mean the same thing from every college. Some colleges spend a great deal on recruiting and send out tens of thousands of letters and e-mails. The original posting mentioned one of many of these colleges. Great school, but an amazing recruiting machine that will flood mailboxes all over the country. Then there are some colleges who have told us that they do not have the budget or personnel to do this type of mass recruiting. That they will rarely send mail and only to those they are seriously interested in. You will also find that each college will start recruiting at different times, some sending letters as early as freshman year while others won't start contacting you until your junior year.
So, how will you know what a letter REALLY means? You won’t know until it counts. Relax and enjoy the letters and contacts when they come. Hopefully your player will use them as motivation to continue to improve on his game. But the only contact from a college that will be important is the one that comes after July 1st of your junior year with an offer to play baseball at a college your son really wants to attend. All the rest is only worth the entertainment value it provides you and your player.