Questionnaire

Fill in what you can, copy it, and send it off.

When you schedule the SAT, ACT, etc, let them know.

When you complete them, send them your score.

The plan of attack should be open lines of communications and contiued communications.

Good Luck, enjoy the ride!

At the college camp LHP2012 attended over Christmas break, the head coach said all he could send sophomores was a questionnaire. So maybe that's why it's all you got.

LHPMom

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Originally posted by LHPMom2012:
At the college camp LHP2012 attended over Christmas break, the head coach said all he could send sophomores was a questionnaire. So maybe that's why it's all you got.

I am proponent of sending the son or daughter to a college winter or summer baseball camp should the camp be conducted on campus and the head coach is heavily involved in the camp instruction.

What college camp was it?

Several notes:
a. Maybe Coach's budget for recruiting material was very limited.

b. Maryland colleges will mail winter and summer camp information. Within the collegiate camp information is a college baseball questionnaire.

c. Profit based winter and summer clinics not associated with a collegiate baseball program, may not distribute college baseball questionaires.

d. A HS prospect can email a college coach. The HS prospect can initiate a telephone call. The coach may reply to the email, however may not return the telephone call. With technology advancements, this may be changed by the NCAA.

e. As an example, Coaches today may not log cell phone calls as required by the NCAA as a contact to a recruit. Coaches are required to log contact for
calls placed over land-lines.

f. Many College Questionnaires from the Baseball Office are on-line. Not so, ten years ago.

g. Many parents (and HS players) believe
if their son (or daughter) receive camp information from a College Baseball Program, they let it be know to anyone in ear shot, their son is being heavily recruited to attend that College.

h. Should your son be invited to attend a College Baseball Junior Day, then congrats, your son is being recruited by the Baseball Office, and at near zero expense to the Baseball Program.

i. Typically, recruiting budgets for collegiate revenue producing sports is about magnitude of twenty times greater than a college baseball program.

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Originally posted by Bear:
g. Many parents (and HS players) believe
if their son (or daughter) receive camp information from a College Baseball Program, they let it be know to anyone in ear shot, their son is being heavily recruited to attend that College.

For all the good information in that post, was part g. really necessary?

CPLZ


To some it is pertinent----people need to understand what it is all about---

Well, I also haven't played a spring varsity game yet, so I assume it would be wrong to put a JV coach on there where it asks for coach info.

Marlins, it would not be wrong to put your JV coach's name on that part of the questionnaire.

The most important thing you must know at this young age is to be truthful, honest, and forthright on all matters pertaining to yourself. One lie or incorrect information leads to another and another. Eventually it will come back to bite you and then you lose all credibility.

If you played on any summer travel teams, be sure to find a spot on the form to put that team and coach information down.

I commend you for taking the bull by the horns and sending out information. You are way ahead of the curve with kids your own age.

Marlins,
Follow YGD's advice, be honest, you can do an update later and most likely will receive another questionaire when you enter into your junior year. Very often son got questionaire form as a sophmore, but had to fill some out all over again.

Camp info and questionaires are allowed, the coach cannot legally identify you (unless you are on their campus face to face with them in person) as a recruit they are interested in until July 1 of your junior year.

In the larger recruiting scheme of things I agree, players get questionaires and camp invites all of the time as freshman and sophmores and all of a sudden parents telling everyone son is being recruited to XYZ school. This does NOT necessarily identify you as a recruit, just perhaps information gathering needed by the coaching staff. You'll know and see the difference when that real recruiting letters arrive. If I remember correctly, some letters did arrive with questionaire, but very generic in nature, some had recruiting timelines and guidelines and some reminded players to continue to work hard on the field as well as in the classroom.

In the meantime, anyone and everyone can can fill out questionaires either through online or one they get through the mail.

Check out the latest story on ESPN's Between The Lines about the football player that fabricated the story about his recruitment and offer from Cal. It was stated that after he sent back all of the questionaires received, having a D average and not even taking any SAT/ACT he never heard from anyone.

Don't fill out those questionaires until you have a good reason to do so that would identify you as a viable recruit.
JMO.

Bear,

LHP2012 attended the USC camp, which was held on campus (with the lovely background noise of the band practicing for the Rose Bowl and the director screaming his head off), and the head coach was heavily involved. He does not want to stay in MD for college.

LHPMom