If a coach asks for a DVD, how interested are they?

oh sorry I forgot to ask my other question. A coach asked for my transcript and my high school schedule as well. What type of interest level is that?

I'd say the interest is very serious. They have heard good things about you, now they want to see it on DVD and if they like that and you're academically qualified, they want to scout you in person.

My advice would be to make every effort to handle the coaches request without delay, it will show your responsiveness, and interest.

Congratulations, it's great to be wanted, good luck.

BB4Lyfe10,
It’s good that you’re being proactive and it appears as if things are progressing as they should. You’re in a period of time ---- Well, like the music has just started ---------- you have asked the girl to dance ---- she has accepted ------- and now you want to know how much she loves you.

Your transcripts: He’s wants to make sure you are academically on track to attend college. Remember, college baseball players have to be college students first.

Your HS schedule: If a coach is interested (or becomes interested) it's a good possibility he would like to see you play. This provides him with the times and locations to where he can do that.

If I were a college coach I would make sure I have all my ducks in a row BEFORE I started recruiting a player and that includes his schedule and transcripts.

You are controlling what you can and the coaches are responding as they are supposed to. The recruiting phase is a process that is very difficult to evaluate until it’s in the final stages. Stay proactive ---- send the DVDs and continue to look for more interested coaches. Trust the process! It can be a frustrating time but in the end it will be rewarding. Best of luck and stay focused.
Fungo

Great topic/question and good answers cplz and fungo. This is what I really appreciate this website and the posters for. My son is also H.S. Junior who also sent out initial letter (email) to several D-1 and D-2 programs. He's also gotten some positive initial responses...although those were generally from programs that had seen him on fall circuit.
2 follow up questions - I initially wasn't planning on producing/funding a video for my son...but beginning to hear that it may be very helpful if not necessary...is it necessary to pay one of these for profit companies a few hundred $ to produce a video, or can video be shot by amateur? Do coaches prefer video be from game situations or is a practice situation ok?
Finally regarding request for High School schedules - I've heard college coaches appreciate if you highlite certain games on your schedule in which another 1-2 potential D-1 recruits might be on opposing team or at least playing nearby same day.

Son had a chance with his team to sit down and have a Q&A session wih a DI coach and the question about videos and DVD'S came up. The coach told the players that they preffer home shot tapes or dvds. He advised the parents not to spend the money for the produced tapes or dvds.

Cowboy-
I wouldn't worry to much about letting the coaches know about what others are doing. That is their job to know.. Submit your own schedule, they will be able to figure it out.

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I wouldn't worry to much about letting the coaches know about what others are doing

I agree with iheartbb. You can read between the lines on this and the questions like: "Who are the best players you have played with" and "Who are the best players you have played against?". They are just trying to develop their database of the best baseball players and they want everyone (including you) to help them out.
Fungo

With regard to videoing...
My son was a pitcher, and all the coaches really wanted to see was "His arm works". They were strictly looking to see how he looked and from there make a determination if they wanted to come scout him in person.

As to game vs. practice session, for pitchers, they appreciated the game, both behind home and to his arm side. For position players, I think that's less of a factor, and showing some BP rips and fielding chances should be enough for them to make the same determination, "Does his stuff work", to see if he's a candidate for scouting.

I would say that he is interested but how interested will be determined by the DVD and your grades.
I am a strong believer that you put as much on a DVD as possible but make it user friendly.
When we sent DVD we had to assume that no coordinator or coach would attend his games. I think everyone should think that way. If the DVD is great you will get offers without the coach seeing you in person.
When you open a DVD you get a window with sveral icons and we labelled them. We showed the oponent, how long it was and the level of competition. We were fortunate that some opponents had minor league players and some had guys who played for the college you sent it to. We also had a bios with all details about my son and his gardes and SAT scores. We also had a list of clips and itemized detail of the clips in short but more details than the label on the clip.
All clips were edited but absolutely no production or music. The game sound was the only sound you would hear. Thje editing was to remove wasted time so the coach would just see what he needed to see.
I would rather give way too much but allow the chice of what the coach would have to see. If he was interested they would as one coach did, watch all of it. If they weren't interested they would shut it down. Maybe watch a few parts of a few clips. They at least had the choice.
We got great response and most made offers without even seeing my son while others mainly JCs invited us for a workout. One D1 JC made an offer based on just the DVD and a recommendation by a coach.
A great DVD can open a lot of doors. We also followed up with an email that had a few action photos inserted into the email so the 1st thing the coach saw was the pictures.

We did a web page that included video clips. It is all on-line so you can direct college coaches to your web page easily. It was very inexpensive. We did shoot our own video.

The site and video has resulted in very good offers.

Web sites are a good way as well. I considered that but decided a DVD was for me a better way. It was very inexpensive but it was an object that I could hand out at events if needed and I didn't want my son's personal info on the web.