@RJM posted:I was involved every step of the way with my kids. I didn’t get involved in the conversations. But I coached my kids on what to say and what not to say. I never wrote any emails. But I told them what should be in them.
Coaches are professional recruiters. Kids aren’t professional recruits. Kids are out experienced and outgunned. They need help. If nothing else they need the interpretation and common sense an adult brings to the process. I would have never let my kids go it alone against an adult.
I've heard some of his conversations from a distance. (It's a small house.) And he's handling them well. He also runs everything by his trusted stable of former and current coaches as well as with some current D1 players that he knows well from training with them. His network is actually very impressive that way. There's probably 10 coaches of travel teams and programs that he's tight with - and they have all been very generous with their time and counsel.