c5tx posted:DesertDuck...that stinks. I don't understand what is going on with these coaches. We showed the email my son received to both the coordinator of his select team (who is very experienced with recruiting and contacting college coaches) as well as my son's pitching coach who has had several of his pitchers commit to D1 schools over the years. The select coordinator said "Congratulations" and the pitching coach stated the email is as strong as it gets. It was practically an invite to the program. They see these emails all the time. I do think it is crappy to get a kid's hopes up with that kind of email and then go quiet. Wish he had never sent it if he wasn't serious. I really think he owes it to my kid to reply and say I went with another prospect or I made a mistake, etc.
TPM...it was more than an interest letter. It was a "we hope you will come play at our school" letter.
Does it stink? Maybe. But I look at it like this.....If this is how they behave during the 'courting' process of the relationship, imagine how the boy gets treated once the papers are signed and he 'moves in'? I'm just glad they are showing us their true colors now vs. finding out later when it's a whole lot harder to file and complete the divorce!
Much prefer they cross themselves off the list on their own, than me having to do a bunch of research, guess and be wrong.
Non verbal communication is a powerful thing. The one who reads it correctly...WINS!
* Do you play poker? Every single action or inaction is a 'tell'. Read the tells correctly and your odds of winning skyrocket. But always position yourself so that you don't lose your whole stack if you miss the read!
It's all just a f'kn game (like life). Do everything you can to stack the odds in your favor!