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Reply to "Coach called Son but no offer made but wants committment"

Agree with the sentiment that there is a difference when you have that full coaches commitment versus running the risk of having to "walk on".  There is a whole series of threads about the differences in being a "recruited walk on" versus actually making it as a walk on in a Fall tryout, so I won't go there.  But as others have note about commitments, when you are at the D2 and D3 levels, there is little to no athletic money (in many D2s and all D3s) binding the coaches to their commitments.  So getting that "commitment" means different things at different levels. 

The great thing about academic money is that it applies whether the baseball thing works out or not, but it also gives coaches the ability to make roster decisions without the obligations of athletic money.  And given the high turnover rate at D1 at the freshman level, even with athletic money, there still are many situations where a kid thought they had the coaches commitment and that changed.  In the end, it all goes back to being the right school academically and the right fit financially and socially if the baseball does not work out.

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