College letters

Well with my high school coach he always filled out the coaches part of the form honestly, then he showed me and asked me what I thought of it.

My players always fill out their part and I'll fill out mine and mail them. Usually the same day. If they wanted to see them I would have no problem....

gpct8500 - Welcome to the HSBBWEB! Hopefully you'll stick around and hear many varied opinions based on personal experiences. Its up to you to filter them and act as you see best for your son.

In general, I like to share what I've written in any recommendation...I also like to see what someone else has written about me or my son in any recommendation...but it just doesn't always happen that way. You don't really have the right to see it in other words.

In general...HS coaches don't have a whole lot of influence over whether or not their players move on...unless they have something very negative to say or they've built a solid reputation for accurate assessments with the college coaches. Don't know if thats your situation or not.

I would try to talk to the coach and get a feel for his evaluation of your son. If you sense its a problem, go to his summer coach.

Best of luck!

gp - We always gave the questionnaire to the coach with son's portion filled out along with a stamped envelope. My theory is that it's important for a true fit for the coach to feel like he can confidentially fill it out and return. You'll end up finding out much of what he and other coaches think of your son during the recruiting process as college coaches will often share tid-bits here and there.

My son's coach filled his part and mailed it. We never saw what he wrote. If your son has any concerns what he might say or what he thinks he should ask the coach.

If and when a school gets serious about your son there is a good chance the college coach will call the HS coach and discuss things not on the questionaire.

My son's coach didn't have a good "history of getting kids in college" either based on other parents opinions. Once you are on the site you'll see that your son will be the one who needs to take charge of his future.

On a sidenote my son's HS coach was very supportive when colleges called and was honest with his opinions. He just doesn't go out and promote a player.

Just remind your son it is his future and he should be the one working the hardest to get colleges interested in him.

I understand the part about filling out the personal information and then having the coach fill out the baseball part of it. My question is this: does the HS coach need to do the filling out or can it be another coach?

Tampa Lefty: If, say, a travel team coach knows your son as well as his high school coach, I think his opinion would suffice.

gpct8500:
We left the questionnaire in our high school coach's hands with a stamped envelope. However, because his organizational skills weren't the best in the world, we'd copy the almost-completed questionnaire and mail it to the school's baseball office separately with a note attached that the original would follow with the coach's remarks. Then, once a month, I'd follow up with the coach to make sure that there'd been no hang up. To the best of my knowledge, no questionnaire went uncompleted by our high school coach.

Prepster gives good advice. We also sent our half of these questionnaires back separately. It prevented delays in providing information and allowed both the coach & son to complete them as time permitted. If the form asked for the HS coach's comments that's who we gave it to. But we made sure our portion always had the summer coach as an additional contact.