That definitely was not the case for PO jr. The grades question came up very early on in every recuriting cenarieo. Hard to believe the coaches would no nothing aboug grades until fall review. PO jr coaches have a binder on every player that I s reviewed weekly. Regardless, good grades will take him way farther in life then baseball, even if he I s a stud.
Buckeye 2015
"I know my son likely got less baseball money due to the fact that he was going to get a very nice academic award".
In our case, coach had zero to do with academic money. Offer was presented way prior to even filling out application. Not sure that a coach would have any access or knowledge of how much academic on need based money prospective student would receive.
The coach of a Big XII Team wanted my son to retake the ACT to see if he could get higher than the 24 he received, so that he could put his offer together. He wanted to know how much Academic Money they could offer, and then he would offer the athletic money.