One of the difficulties though is you never really know where you are loved until it is too late.
I brought “go where you are loved” to the board from a conversation I had with the father of a NC State player starting as a freshman about ten years ago. Other posters had provided the same tip using different verbiage.
At the time UNC was a far superior team. They were top five. I knew one kid there and another who had verballed.
I asked the father if UNC had shown interest. I figured if a kid can start as a freshman at NC State he must have been on UNC’s radar.
The father told me UNC had made an offer early post junior summer. He said it made them think. UNC is a superior school and a superior baseball program. But NC State had been contacting the kid every week since the beginning of the previous spring. NC State offered post soph summer. The son and then father decided NC State was a good school, a good program and they loved him. UNC was interested.