@Master P posted:I know baseball is very different from football and basketball and people don't want to believe it. I have a close friend who's son did that exact move, in football. A P5 coach gave him permission to post he received a PWO offer from the school. He parlayed that into a full ride at a FCS school.
That being said, baseball kids only announce commitments, not offers. If they do, they are publicly shamed. Which is crazy because every football and basketball kid posts every visit and offer.
There is a good reason that it’s frowned on for baseball recruits to post about offers when it’s accepted (although obnoxious IMO) with football and basketball recruits. Football and basketball are head count sports. They provide revenue to the school and are able to offer full scholarships to all key members of their teams (well in excess of that for football). Baseball is in a different category. It is an equivalency sport - which by definition is a cash drain. Baseball has a limited number of scholarships and those are chopped into pieces. Because scholarships are limited baseball counts on contributions from non scholarship athletes. A walk on offer in baseball can be (but isn’t always) the best a school may be able to offer a player they really want. When a baseball recruit posts on social media about an offer the perception is that he is trying to use the post as leverage to secure a better offer. Whether that is the intent or not, it will be viewed that way. And it will 100 times out of 100 piss off the coach that extended the offer. Sometimes to the point of the offer being rescinded. So it’s not worth the risk of losing an offer on the off chance that posting about it may generate something else. Baseball just doesn’t work like that.