My son has been attending college day camps all this month from coaches who personally reached out asking him to attend. All seemed genuinely interested, they have had phone conversations, they text, we sign up, and attend. He received a personal tour on golf cart once and the other two times he ended up getting a personal tour from players after the coaches watched and seemed to like what they saw. They pulled him aside, kept him afterwards to speak with him personally (didnt do this with the other campers) and seemed genuinely interested in him as a player.
All 3 camps and visits ended with this: "I will call you on X day." Now, I understand the difference between "we will be in touch" or even the "thanks for coming out" response but these meetings are ending with him speaking to the head coach and RC with them stating they will be calling by a specific day. ALL 3 TIMES so far. One said I will call you by the end of the week. One stated I will call you TOMORROW. And another said they will call on an exact day (3 days from the camp).
Here is what is so brutal. NONE OF THEM CALLED.
Why would the RC or coach even say that then? Why say they will call at all? If it's a "dont call us, we'll call you" situation then that's fine, dont say anything at all. However to state a specific day they will call by and then not receive a call seems very unprofessional to me. Is this normal? How should he be responding.
For clarification, he performed well at 2/3 camps. One of them was not his best. They were good enough performances to warrant a direct conversation with the head coach AND a personal tour (not the regular group tour the rest of the kids went on) only to be ghosted?
We have 2 more to attend before the HS season starts, both by schools who reached out personally to ask him to come. I think this is how the colleges get around the quiet period until March 1st. I just hope going forward things change or at least someone gives him the respect of actually doing what they say they were going to do, even if they are not in fact interested.
Any insight?