My 2020 committed to a D1 mid-major over the weekend (separate thread called "nearly perfect offer, but...") and someone posted to be ready during senior year to get some chants of "over-rated" during games. Hadn't thought of that. 2020 will be able to handle it, but it's very helpful to know what might happen!
I searched through the posts, but couldn't find more on this topic. Are there things beyond preparing mentally, physically, etc. for college that we should be ready for? I'm thinking more of the social aspects of committing.
For instance, 2020 has always been extremely careful with his social media. It's squeaky clean. But since he did his "commitment post," he is getting a lot more people following him. Some are people who look to be selling training services. One guy looks a little off and has started retweeting every tweet my son has done in the last month!
Another example: We also are dealing with some issues of a coach wanting to be "the one" who gets him ready for college, "the one" who communicates back to the coach about his progress, etc. I think my son can do this for himself, and should be establishing a relationship with them. But there's definitely some tension there.
One more example: My son is the first on his high school team to commit (from 2019 through 2022) and I told him that he needs to remain humble (has never been an issue for him) and be overly careful about how he acts, because people may be looking for a chance to say he's cocky, etc.
My son has a very good plan of how to train in the off-season, gain weight, etc., but I want to make sure that my husband and I are aware of any other issues that may arise.
Anyone have suggestions about things that happened to you (like the "over-rated" chant, just so we can be aware)? We're not going to try to helicopter parent by any means, but my husband and I just want to think through how we're guiding him...before we get caught off-guard.
We've worked too hard to get to this point to mess up now!
Thanks.