Recruiting after JUCO

Having nothing to do with you sons personally, I've always wondered when any schools, much less D1's are going to come calling on JUCO kids.

It is already the middle of July, so one wonders how many slots are left on rosters, how much money will be available if any, and if schools will allow late admissions.

Your son will graduate in 2014 right?

Each JC coach has a pipeline to Division 1 and 2 schools. Your son should be communicating with his coaches and be advised to have 48 transferable courses.

 

Bob

Yes. Son graduates 2014 so he still has another year. Just seems weird that his head coach says a lot of interest but we haven't heard anything..no email...no letters..no calls. Just wonder if their is an unwritten rule in juco for the players to communicate to schools through head coach. Coach told him the would go over the schools when he gets back this fall.

Having just gone through this with a position player at the JUCO level, don't just wait on the coach or you could still be waiting in the spring. Start initiating contact with coaches, attend showcases, follow up on previous high school contact with coaches/schools NOW. Particularly if your son is good student, academic financial aid may play a large part in helping your son get the best offer possible...many academic scholarships have early deadlines.

Volt:

Is your son playing in a Collegiate League this summer?

Will he have 48 transferable academic classes?

Here at SRJC, the College coaches observe the Fall practices at the JC.

 

When a 4 year college selects a pitcher to join their team, they need a "impact" player ready to deliver immediately.

 

Bob

 

 

 

My son is good to go academically. High ACT and 3.4 gpa out of high school. Is cleared for D1 by eligibility center. He will graduate Juco with 48  transferable credits and some.

Went juco for immediate playing time at a top juco program, ability to be drafted, and to stay in a smaller setting while making the transition from high school. It is working out great for him.

Thanks for the feedback so far. Will definitely start contacting on our own from our past interest.  Hopefully his coach will tell us soon regarding current colleges interested.

Also son is not playing ball this summer which may be a mistake. Howevervhe threw a lot of innings in Spring and juco starts right into 20 game fall schedule this September. A lot of showcase juco tourneys right of so we wanted him to have a strong arm and be at best. He has been lifting, running and throwing these past couple of months.

Not knowing your son or seeing him play its kind of hard to give really good advice,    My son found that the d1 level players in his league didn't have a problem moving onto D1 as many scouts and opposing coaches would let their D-1 friends know about players from fall/spring play.

 

Not playing during the summer starts to limit your son's opportunities. i.e. The closer on my son's acc team was found in a colligiate summer league.

 

In SoCal alot of D1 coaches attend fall practice's and games to do their JC recruiting and make offers.  In my son's league the midweek spring games didn't conflict with D1 schedules so a lot of D1 coaches also attended those games and/or practices, including coaches from out of the area who would arrive a day before their team to look over JC canidates. 

 

Many D1/D2 schools know they will be looking for a JC player in the fall/spring and hold back money in order to attrack a quality player.  As a general rule the D2's showed up for games but didn't make any offers until the spring for a variety of reasons.  My son, a 4-2-4 only attended his jc for one semester, there was some early contact in Feb, but then not much happened until the end of March in terms of offers and visits. 

I am not sure you need to start contacting schools at this point, it might be more effective to have a discussion with the JC coach to see where he thinks your son playing (d1, d2etc ) next year.  After all its in your son's JC coach's self-interest to have as many player's as possbile drafted and/or move onto 4 year schools.  You may find he has a lot of valuable knowldge to tap.