After your son verbally committed, how frequently did he talk/text with the HC thereafter?
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Son verballed in Sept and signed NLI in November. Until graduation asst coach or head coach called once a week.
Your sons coaches should be calling or texting once a week now that season is over until he signs NLI and frequently thereafter to keep up with his progress.
@TPM posted:Son verballed in Sept and signed NLI in November. Until graduation asst coach or head coach called once a week.
Your sons coaches should be calling or texting once a week now that season is over until he signs NLI and frequently thereafter to keep up with his progress.
My son verbally committed 8 months ago. (Five months to go for NLI.) And, yeah, he probably connects with the coach at least once a week. This has been going on since before he committed. They text or talk a lot. He also hears from the recruiting coach but not as much as the HC.
Sounds like this is the typical process.
The HC takes over when the coaches are out working. 
Yesterday I walk into Son's 2nd round playoff game. His college HC is sitting there, 3k miles from his own campus.
We were....unprepared for this.
Someone is always watching.
An Ivy coach came to our final game, it was not a local one either. My kid told me one of his teammates is a prospect. I am glad the coach showed up to that game as the one before made freshman ball look clean.
My 2022 committed in the fall of last year. He connects over text with the pitching coach (now the head coach after head coach resigned) about once or twice a month. Communication has picked up to once a week or so now that the college baseball season is over. I expect that to continue until NLI in November.
My 2021’s head coach has called him once a month since he committed in September, to check in and get updates on my son’s workouts etc as well as (more recently) to give him updates on the fall practice schedule, move in dates etc
edit to add: it’s a D3, so: no NLI.
Very infrequent. In the offseason it was mostly questions on our end about throwing programs and training. Over the summer it was them asking for schedules. Not much on the how are you doing end. Senior year contact picked up leading up to NLI and eligibility stuff. This is also a coach staff that 9/10 would describe as very poor communicators and I would say is pretty universally unliked by the entire roster.
Every 8 weeks maybe. Didn't think that was enough and quite frankly troublesome. P5 school.
@PABaseball posted:Very infrequent. In the offseason it was mostly questions on our end about throwing programs and training. Over the summer it was them asking for schedules. Not much on the how are you doing end. Senior year contact picked up leading up to NLI and eligibility stuff. This is also a coach staff that 9/10 would describe as very poor communicators and I would say is pretty universally unliked by the entire roster.
Every 8 weeks maybe. Didn't think that was enough and quite frankly troublesome. P5 school.
Troublesome seems like fair concern.
@old_school posted:Troublesome seems like fair concern.
Yes, it was. Granted we were running into them at tournaments and what not over the summer, but I thought the offseason silence was weird. I was relieved to find out it was also like that for almost everyone.
After my 2022 verbally committed, his future school was playing my 2020's school in May amd the RC asked him to come up to the game thinking it was the only way they'd speak in person before the dead period ended. It was a scheduled DH.
Right before game 1 starts RC txts him saying they actually can't speak with him (or me) at all because of the dead period. Was very odd, and somewhat unnerving having the coaches leave at the end, walk past and not even acknowledging him.
Fortunately since then he's met the pitching coach in person and there's been a good amount of contact once their season ended.