Coaching Changes = Starting from Square One, again. Frustrating

Major footnote to be added to this story in my OP is old PC/RC, now at new school, did tell son he would send son one of the other ACs cell #s at the school son will be visiting this week.  24-hours later he did.  So it sounds like he left on good terms and son can transition from one AC to the other.

But this type thing happens all the time, and not everyone is lucky enough to get a transitional "recruiting hand-off" shall we say?  Will let you know if son completes the "hand-off" by connecting with new AC and getting the visit he was hoping for with AC that left and with whom he had made such inroads with.

I've read there were 19 HC job changes in 2015 in D1, and it's up to 25 HCs this summer.  Not my #s, just quoting a source.  Mine can't be only kid dealing with this.

Several other schools he has not had this type of "hand-off" from departing AC to incoming AC, as far as recruiting goes and therefore it's back to Square 1.  Frustrating.

When your son hits the working world the person above him he likes may leave. The incoming person may not have the same positive impression. There's no time like the present to learn to deal with reality and the real world.

Good point.  I guess a lot like the sales rep who has schmoozed the gate keeper secretary for years so as to gain access to clients, only to find one day there's a new gate keeper? 

Lucky this time, son did connect with remaining AC via cell phone call.  He is currently in Atlanta (surprise, surprise) but another AC or DofB will be there to meet with son and take on tour of facility and program later this week.

 The school the PC/RC went to was not on son's list, but in all honesty, it may now be solely because this guy did the right thing by handing my son's prospectus off to staff he left behind.  I appreciate that.  Departing RC/PC is a class act on this one, did the right thing for my son. 

I guess some schools players go there to play baseball at for the SCHOOL.  Others you go to because you want to play for a certain COACH no matter what school he is at.  Son may add this never before considered school to his list solely because of this guy's actions throughout this recruiting process.  Class act.

If a college is a top program the coach may have reached his goal. Otherwise, coaches always have the potential to be moving up someplace else. This may be difficult but it's more important to look at the history of the program rather than the coach. It can all change in one short press conference.

We've run into this as well with a few schools. Luckily for us, in one instance, an rc he did like who happened to be at a school he was not interested in actually took the HC job at a school he is interested in - just the opposite of your guy.

Your kid at WWBA? What team?