Is he ramped up? Throwing max or close to it? Be at your best at any camp, or showcase. There are no excuses. Coaches will evaluate what the see that day. We learned this the hard way.
Not too late, just risky. HA is delay to the D1s as most 2021 slots in major D1s are full since Fall.
We know Brown, Columbia, Harvard are still open and recruiting, but I would suggest not waiting. Standford is done. Notre Dame already has 12 (but was playing catch up after a complete wipe of the coaching staff last summer). Duke has 12. Vandy has 20.
We did the hybrid approach and that worked to decrease the noise but like others have said - interested coaches called or texted. We did get invited to UVA via email but at the end it was all Text.
Hopefully you have a good relationship with your travel team and they have good relationships with school and will work on your son's behalf, if not, you need to get on one that does. That connection is a gamechanger!
Eokerholm posted:Not too late, just risky. HA is delay to the D1s as most 2021 slots in major D1s are full since Fall.
We know Brown, Columbia, Harvard are still open and recruiting, but I would suggest not waiting. Standford is done. Notre Dame already has 12 (but was playing catch up after a complete wipe of the coaching staff last summer). Duke has 12. Vandy has 20.
We did the hybrid approach and that worked to decrease the noise but like others have said - interested coaches called or texted. We did get invited to UVA via email but at the end it was all Text.Hopefully you have a good relationship with your travel team and they have good relationships with school and will work on your son's behalf, if not, you need to get on one that does. That connection is a gamechanger!
Pretty much all Ivy's other than Penn, who likes to get the jump on the division, are still very open to 2021 prospects.
Eokerholm posted:Not too late, just risky. HA is delay to the D1s as most 2021 slots in major D1s are full since Fall.
We know Brown, Columbia, Harvard are still open and recruiting, but I would suggest not waiting. Standford is done. Notre Dame already has 12 (but was playing catch up after a complete wipe of the coaching staff last summer). Duke has 12. Vandy has 20.
We did the hybrid approach and that worked to decrease the noise but like others have said - interested coaches called or texted. We did get invited to UVA via email but at the end it was all Text.Hopefully you have a good relationship with your travel team and they have good relationships with school and will work on your son's behalf, if not, you need to get on one that does. That connection is a gamechanger!
Where can I find a travel team that is till looking for players??
you got the quote mixed up there.....
Going to take some leg work but reach out to the top organizations here. (go after some in your region or area)
https://www.perfectgame.org/Ra...m/Default.aspx?R=272
You'll need a good profile with lots of stats/videos/velo/awards, etc. In order to get them interested in taking a stranger.
That's what we did for my son. Our local travel team didn't travel East in the Fall and we heard back from Elite and East Cobb and chose East Cobb. We did WWBA in Ft Meyers and WWBA Championship in Jupiter with the East Cobb Astros. Best decision we made for catapulting his exposure on a quality, legit, known team with great relationships with schools on the East Coast.
So, if you look at https://www.perfectgame.org/Co...legeCommitments.aspx , you'll see the following data as of today:
Class of 2020 College Commitments - 4,740 now posted
Class of 2021 College Commitments - 1,269 now posted
Class of 2022 College Commitments - 415 now posted
This suggests (i.e., at least to me) that, for the 2021 class, roughly 3500 additional commitments will be posted/occur on PG by this time next year. Given that that college teams are likely ramping up for their spring baseball seasons, and are probably not singularly focused on recruiting at the moment, I would also offer that a lot of work will be done by colleges this summer in filling out the 2021 class (i.e., bringing the current 1269 commits up to 4720 commits). I think that the numbers offer an objective answer.
So, I would suggest, on this basis, that the summer is not too late and will offer many opportunities to those who have what colleges are seeking.
I would still take the good advice of the other posters and reach out to coaches in advance of whatever showcase or camp you're attending. That seems logical and is not very different than giving an employer a resume before a job interview. I would also use this pocket of time to get bigger and stronger, study hard at school, and work on the SAT/ACT.
Good luck to you and your son!!!
I hope that his dream of playing college baseball comes to fruition!
jbench posted:So, if you look at https://www.perfectgame.org/Co...legeCommitments.aspx , you'll see the following data as of today:
Class of 2020 College Commitments - 4,740 now posted
Class of 2021 College Commitments - 1,269 now posted
Class of 2022 College Commitments - 415 now posted
Class of 2019 has 6653 commitments, that is really a more useful total, since those guys are actually in college now. Meaning that between January of senior year of HS and the start of college, there will be another 1900 commitments.
Yes for all 301 D1 schools that is correct. Lots of offers and spots remaining. If the goal is to play at ANY D1 college level, yes lots of spots left. The numbers are with you.
If the goal is to reach top 50 (D1 or PG or whatever you want to use to rank), they're practically full for 2021.
If you expand it out to Top 100, then yes some have a few spots remaining based on average class size.
Not saying it's impossible, but that it would be prudent to get ahead of it. They typically have to see you play in order to invite to camp (unless bulk email auto response to a questionnaire (Duke and others)).
Go to PG events this summer. Attend some camps. Tryout for Area Code for further exposure, but you had to throw above 90 as a 2021 this summer to be kept. They didn't keep a single pitcher less than 90. Command didn't matter, that was obvious.
Summer of 2020 is fine for a 2021 for every level except maybe the top fifty D1 programs.
For the top fifty an undeclared prospect better be overwhelming. Then programs are willing to screw a declared and make him #36 on a 35 man roster.
RJM posted:Summer of 2020 is fine for a 2021 for every level except maybe the top fifty D1 programs.
For the top fifty an undeclared prospect better be overwhelming. Then programs are willing to screw a declared and make him #36 on a 35 man roster.
Watching a P5 that had 12 freshmen commits in fall of senior year, added 5 more after November, and have now cut 5 just before the season starts - 3 of the original ones and 2 of the late adds. They never stop recruiting.
anotherparent posted:RJM posted:Summer of 2020 is fine for a 2021 for every level except maybe the top fifty D1 programs.
For the top fifty an undeclared prospect better be overwhelming. Then programs are willing to screw a declared and make him #36 on a 35 man roster.
Watching a P5 that had 12 freshmen commits in fall of senior year, added 5 more after November, and have now cut 5 just before the season starts - 3 of the original ones and 2 of the late adds. They never stop recruiting.
Yep and we were at UNC in late July and Coach Forbes told us they never stop recruiting. They had a 2019 recruit coming for the 2019 class and school was starting in 2 weeks. There is no timeline on recruiting. Play the odds and wait and see what you get. The fight for the final few spots is a tough one.
anotherparent posted:RJM posted:Summer of 2020 is fine for a 2021 for every level except maybe the top fifty D1 programs.
For the top fifty an undeclared prospect better be overwhelming. Then programs are willing to screw a declared and make him #36 on a 35 man roster.
Watching a P5 that had 12 freshmen commits in fall of senior year, added 5 more after November, and have now cut 5 just before the season starts - 3 of the original ones and 2 of the late adds. They never stop recruiting.
The player recruited late better be sure he’s the stud bumping another player versus position insurance and risking getting cut before the season starts.
RJM posted:The player recruited late better be sure he’s the stud bumping another player versus position insurance and risking getting cut before the season starts.
I think they had some of each of those. Plus a bunch of transfers/jucos and others. Kind of like a 2-year-old grabbing more candy and dropping and stepping on what he was already holding.
Another P5 I was watching had 14 freshmen in the fall, only 5 freshmen on the final roster today.