@RJM posted:The question was, “What is your experience?” My daughter’s offer was in the summer of 2004. She was a 2007. By offer I mean verbal. Nothing is official until an NLI is signed senior year.
The timeline is ridiculous. Most kids this young don’t have a clue what they want to do for a major. Fortunately, my daughter did. It made it easy for her to select the school she chose.
The 9/1 junior year rule is still a bunch of BS. Talented athletes are still receiving offers long before then. It should be an enforced rule across the board for all sports.
Softball coaches are still looking at younger players and inviting them to camps but early offers/verbal commitments are much less common. And nothing is announced until after 9/1. It's a huge improvement from a few years ago.
Baseball isn't there yet. Still lots of early commits. Too early.
But softball and lacrosse were the worst, and that's mostly been cleaned up.