Turn around.
My 2018 received contacts from several schools after tweeting him throwing 94 and after a tweet of a clip from a local sports program where they talked about him throwing 92-94. Unfortunately, this was during his senior year after he had already signed his NLI. Many were schools he hadn't been able to get interested during the process but NOW suddenly wanted to know if he had signed an NLI.
@Suds posted:My son received over 40 offers and took at 100% tuition + living expenses scholarship being seen ONLY on flatground. He received offers from powerhouse D1's to NAIA schools. He is not a guy that sits 95+ or a big nasty lefty. That being said, he put together a good series of videos and tweeted them to flatground.
To follow up on this, my son went to the Northwoods this summer for 3 weeks as a late season fill-in. They found him from videos on Twitter. He pitched outstanding. His team had a Trackman system and when he came home he actually got a job with Trackman. He pulled his spin rates and movement from the summer and created a video and posted it on Twitter. It has been up for a week and a half now.
This morning at work, he got a DM on Twitter. His first his thought was "great another indy ball offer". This time it wasn't an indy ball coach. It was the pitching coordinator from his favorite MLB team asking him if he would be interested in signing with them...on Twitter!
He gave them his phone number, his agent's number and he will be signing tonight when he gets home from work!
Two things that are important here.
1. NEVER EVER give up. If you have followed any of my posts, you will see his path is one of the most unusual, but his work ethic and belief in himself never stopped.
2. Twitter works!