DII Recruiting Calendar?

I looked at the DII recruiting guide.
On page 308:
30.11.4-DEAD PERIOD FOR OTHER SPORTS
There are NO specified contact and evaluation periods OTHER than Football and basketball EXCEPT for the following dead periods.

30.11.4.1 National Letter of Intent Signing Date. In DII, the period 48 hours before 7AM on the date for signing the NLI in the applicable sport.

(My comment: The recruiting calendar for DII baseball is much simpler and less restrictive than DI)

Hope this helps!

http://www1.ncaa.org/membership/membership_svcs/recruit...calendars/index.html

Thanks, jbbaseball and ghouse for your replies. I guess DII doesn't have all the quiet and dead periods like DI. I was wondering why I couldn't find that info for DII. Here's where our 2006 son is at right now.

We had the dinner with the coach on 1/15 as explained in an earlier post. He had called us and our son a number of times previous to that. At the dinner, he made the sales pitch for his program and said he'd call our son to set up the obligatory on-campus workout as the next step. We hope a BB scholarship offer will follow that. The coach had told us in calls before the dinner that our son will receive some kind of BB offer, but the AD is still trying to calculate how many athletic scholarships they have...the university is in the process of transitioning from NAII to NCAA DII. 2007 will be their first year as a real DII program. What complicates the issue is my son has already been offered an academic scholarship at this institution totalling nearly 1/2 tuition and that offer has to be accepted by March 1 or it is withdrawn.

This university is a private institution and is easily more then twice as expensive as the state institutions who have also been contacting our son. A BB offer on top of the academic offer already in place would be necessary to equalize the academic scholarships he has been offered elsewhere.

I'm quite sure he will also get BB offers at some of the other colleges that already have offered academic scholarships, but those offers will come closer to the spring signing period...well after the 3/1 deadline to accept the academic scolarship at the college in question, and I should add, where our son really wants to go.

I'm afraid that coach already knows our son is leaning towards his college, and may think the academic offer is enough to get him there. Our son has been approached where he works after school by a couple of that college's players and a player's parents asking him about his intentions. Our son, probably impressed by the attention, told them he's leaning that way.

Well after all this explanation (or rambling), I'm asking for advice on this subject. Should we call the coach and tell him we need to know his BB offer intentions soon, before the March 1 academic scholarship deadline?...or do we just wait for him to call about setting up the on-campus workout and hope for the best?

Again, thanks in advance for your help.

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Originally posted by waynek:
I've checked the NCAA site, done searches on this site and I still can't find the official DII baseball recruiting calendar. DI info seems much easior to find. I'm interested in when the contact periods, quiet periods, dead periods and evalulation periods are scheduled for 1/1/06 up until the April signing period. Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me out.

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waynek-
I only have a HS soph, so I am far from an expert.

You mention in a post about equalizing scholarship $$$. How critical is that?

The reason I ask is you said the private institution is where your son would like to go. Is this due to just baseball, or is it a good fit overall? If it is a good fit overall, AND your family can handle the financial aspects of not getting baseball$$ (besides the academic $$), it sounds like that is the route to go.

Of course, if finances are critical OR the main reason your son wants to go to the private school is due to baseball, all bets are off IMHO.

Not sure my rambling has helped at all!!!

Well, I did call the local university coach who said he didn't realize the academic scholarship offer would expire 3/1. He called our son last evening and set up a time on 2/18 for the on campus workout. Again, we'll see what happens after that. Also last evening, two other college coaches we haven't heard from before called our son asking him where he is at in his decision process...things seem to be heating up!

waynek-
Thanks for keeping us updated. Glad to hear the ball is rolling!
Sounds like you are trying to look at all angles.

Good luck to your son! Let us know what the final result is.

The plot thickens...coach called Sunday night after our son's Saturday on- campus workout. He verbally offered what amounts to about 20% tuition at his private university. He said a LOI form would follow before the April signing deadline. This, on top of the academic scholarship already offered, would pay about 2/3 of tuition. The coach also said he has to look at the total scholarship money the university is offering (from both academic and athletic sources) as he plans his recruiting budget. He said that total, right now, is higher for our son then any other 2006 he is recruiting.

We decided to send in the paperwork necessary to accept the academic offer. Once that is secured, we can always back out if a better offer comes before the LOI signing deadline.

We're interested in comments on this strategy. As many of you have mentioned, the ups and downs involved in this process are quite stressful!