Son #1 just finished a successful Fall baseball season at a non NCAA HA school that plays the equivalent of D3 level ball. He started about 90% of the games as a Freshman, playing well in the field(kinda his thing) and in the batting order, though nothing crazy. He's got low/mid D1 tools, FWIW (though I HATE saying that).
Around/after Thanksgiving, he got some calls from coaches that he had previously had no real contact with- filled out a recruitment form with them 2 years or so ago, maybe, and they probably saw him at Headfirst also around that time.
Two of the coaches(one an Ivy, the other a HA D3 with a good BB program)were quite cordial, asked him how things were going and either hinted at, or out and out asked if he would like to come down and take a look at their school and program.
S#1 was bit taken aback, saying something to the effect of, "You know that I'm going to school at X, right?", to which they replied(again, paraphrasing), "yeah."
Do coaches often talk to players on other teams and try to recruit them? Or is this an unusual case because S1 doesn't play NCAA(hence can transfer w/o sitting out a year), and plays a Fall season, so the coaches had the benefit of seeing how he would perform in a college setting rather than just HS?
Just trying to get a feel for what is normal.