Email with cell number...

Sounds a lot like the early Stanford contact/recruit letter.  Even if not, you did the right thing to fill out the information.  Call them if you want.  At least in the Dean Stotz days, he would have been more than happy to talk to you and give you advice.

To verify strong interest I would recommend you calling the coaches cell phone at about 0400 hrs. ;0)

My son got several of those "July 1st" type letters after his sophomore year with some similar verbage. One was titled "We Want You!" the letter started out "for some time now you have been on our prospect list....."  and it included the cell phone number but that was the extent of it.  My son sent summer schedules, updates on test scores,  etc and occasionally would get a mass prospect email (with an unsubscribe) but nothing ever more personal than that. Several schools had the same routine.  My son is currently an uncommitted 2016.  You are on the radar, but so are a lot of others so for the schools you think are a good fit, my best advice is do what you have to do to get in front of them. 

We relied too much on getting exposure from tournaments and I thought his baseball resume (all-state, all-area, etc) would get him more notice but he must not have performed adequately at the right times.  If he had a do-over, he would go to more on-site camps to be seen. 

I know a lot of camps are pure money makers, I don't mean to randomly show up and they don't even know your name but if you are building a relationship with a coach, their prospect camp is just a little more elevated/targeted exposure.  But then again, who am I to give advice.  I have no idea what I'm doing!

Just going to throw out my son's experience and others mileage may vary.

 

Now looking back at it as a committed player I don't think he received one single generic form type email that expressed any sincere interest from a school.  Those are basically all spam IMO.

 

In his case he talked seriously to two schools.  One communicated entirely by phone and text and one started on email but it was a personal email from the RC that was two lines long and then they moved to text and phone.

 

Probably no different than any other sales really.  If you contextualize it that way I think it is pretty easy to separate the two.  Meaning look at your own personal inbox.  You can separate the generic dealership email from the guy you have worked with on multiple cars pretty easily.

Hang in there JLC.  I have lots of good friends whose son's are in the same boat as you all.

 

I will agree with your camps comment.  If you have a pre existing relationship can be a great way to move the process along.  They get to see if player is coachable and how they interact with other players including lots of times the current ones in their program.

 

JLC, what is your son doing the rest of this summer and fall?  I'm curious as my 2016 is in the same boat and I had started another thread with questions on what to do now. 

He has a couple of things going against him (in my opinion).  He is one of the youngest in his 2016 class (some 2017's are older than he is) AND he is a football player.  Our original thought, since he is still uncommitted was to skip football and focus on baseball this fall.  That WAS the plan...but now that football has started he is finding it too hard to stay away and is probably going to join the team this week. I should probably try to talk him out of it...but I just can't take his last year of football (probably ever) away from him.  That is going to be another big hurdle but he knows the risks to his baseball recruiting and is accepting it.  I really don't know what is going to happen now.  He thinks he will be able to get to some of the big tourneys this fall but  since he will be training in football that could come back to hurt him in the process more than help.  (I'm sorry LHP2017, I didn't mean to hijack your question)

 

At the risk of a pilling on the hijack -- we worried/worry about missing Fall baseball opportunities (over and above injury concerns) due to football, particularly last year (beginning of Junior year).  But, in terms of the football training "help" (in part, added muscle) over "hurt" (missed tournaments/camps) he's had 4 different coaches initiate conversations with him at his last two baseball camps with "you play football" or "what position do you play in football?"  Of course, whether those conversations lead to anything or not . . .

it was from stanford, I just didnt know how they got my email or knew who I was period which is why I kind of brushed it off so I never called them

When my son got these types of emails regarding camps, we encouraged him to be sure to open the email (some programs track who opens them) and reply back "thank you, but I will be unable to attend the camp due to prior baseball commitments" (which there usually was).  It only takes one sentence.

 

Also, if you get an email or letter with a questionnaire attachment, be sure to fill it out and send it back (unless it is a school that he would definitely not attend for any reason).

 

It is polite, respectful, and does not burn any bridges.