Here is newest wrinkle in the bumpy road of college baseball recruiting:
After very little contact from D1 school since my son's verbal commitment in July, he received an e-mail last week requesting correct info for the NLI that would be fed exed to our home by 11/11. Yay, so all is good we thought. Last night, son receives phone call saying that program had a fall walk-on that showed lots of promise, would potentially put my son down to third string next year ...blah blah blah. Sounded like an attempt to have my son de-commit to program "for his best interest".
In coach's defense, he did say that program would honor the scholarship, but he also suggested a JuCo as maybe a better place for son to start off. Then he talked about signing with both the DI school, and also the JuCo. If school lost a player for whatever reason, then they would want my son at D1 instead of JuCo. We need to clarify this, but my son thinks it would be his decision which way to go.
Of course son (and parents) are quite disappointed. Son informed several other programs that he had made a verbal commitment, and missed opportunities for camps at schools that he had been considering. He took himself off of the market because he has been taught that a verbal commitment is binding.
Has anyone heard of this dual signing with D1 and JuCo? Is a JuCo player obligated to play 2 years at JuCo before transferrring to 4 year program?
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