Now that you've signed NLOI ....

The school will contact him about all of that, typically more in the summer than in the spring. Coaches frequently arrange baseball players to be roommates, and they handle that within the college. You'll get letters regarding orientation, meal plans, etc. Some schools do summer orientation, others have the freshmen arrive 2-3 days ahead of everyone else. Go to the school's 2004 master calendar, usually on their web site, and you'll likely find when orientation was done last year and it's a good bet it'll be about the same time.

During the summer, you'll get a lot of mail from the school about all kinds of things-insurance, refrigerators, microwaves, compatibility of computer access to the campus system, preferred word processing software, etc..

Baseball questions:

(1)What equipment,clothing, shoes, etc. do you provide and what do I need to bring?

(2) How is baseball clothing laundry handled?
(usually by the school or by a designated player)
(3) Will you be sending a desired summer workout regimen? (usually yes)

(4) Do you make arrangements/contacts for summer ball after frosh year or do I need to be involved in that? (usually handled by the coach but not always-some are more proactive at this than others)


Hope this helps. Get ready for your upcoming separation anxiety. As has often been mentioned on this site, leaving them at school is one of the hardest things you'll ever do.

Thanks, he has to find out about the housing thing because the paperwork and application are due well before the summer, so he has to talk to the coach about that.

He's gone to the website and checked into the things to bring, etc. and got alot from there.

OK, so this is still a little early for these type questions?

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Get ready for your upcoming separation anxiety. As has often been mentioned on this site, leaving them at school is one of the hardest

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Ah yes, my wife is already messing with me over it. Kddingly, she suggested I adopt a little boy and do this all over again. There was a thread a few weeks ago about it and I couldn't even read it. He was gone most of the summer playing out of state so I got a little taste of him being away. I wish he would be closer, but I guess if we had been more proactive in the state of Florida......oh well. He's very happy about where he's going and that makes me happy too, OK enough of that.

Thanks again.

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Some schools do summer orientation, others have the freshmen arrive 2-3 days ahead of everyone else.

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Some schools require you attend in person during the summer to register for class. Be prepared for that field trip in June/July. As an athlete he should get first choice of classes, and get to jump the line.

Oh, tell him that when the glove order comes in not to be the last one down to the clubhouse to pick his up. He may find that the big black mombo fancy glove they ordered for him, identical to the one a few others ordered, gone because one or two got back ordered.

In otherwords be at the front of the line, or the "front of the bus" as some coaches say.

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Originally posted by CanesFan5:
Ah yes, my wife is already messing with me over it. Kddingly, she suggested I adopt a little boy and do this all over again.

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When my youngest leaves for college next fall, I am going start coaching again. I am going to take on a U9 team.

When I had my 13&14 yr old teams Iwas appalled at the lack of basics some of the kids trying out showed. So I am going to the 9's and try to teach them before it is too late.

I could not handle younger then that

Everyone is correct, information will start trickling in, coaches have very little to do with housing, classes, etc.
If there are specific questions, you might find it more helpful to get answers from the baseball office, which is usually run by a mom who understands where you are coming from .
Just remember one thing not mentioned, nothing is final until they get final approval from clearinghouse. We found that most assignemnts were not approved until after the school received the final info from the clearinghouse.
Summer is when we learned that you could rent or buy anything from a fride to a loft, special bedding, everything imaginable.
Don't worry, it will come! Start filling up the piggy bank NOW!

Canes

Relax my friend--- the coach wiill see to it that all the items are taken care of--in most case the roomies are introduced via phone--that #'s are one of the first orders of business, at least in our case

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Originally posted by BigWI:


When my youngest leaves for college next fall, I am going start coaching again. I am going to take on a U9 team.

When I had my 13&14 yr old teams Iwas appalled at the lack of basics some of the kids trying out showed. So I am going to the 9's and try to teach them before it is too late.

I could not handle younger then that

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Maybe you could take a U10 team. Hoping to get my youngest in that direction next year after one more year of rec ball in my community.
From your posts, knowledge and passion for the game, I think you would be a g8 coach!

4falcons

BIGWI is a great choice-- his son played with us this fall and he and I had many opportunities to talk baseball and the man knows his game--I would entrust a young baseball player to him with no reservations