Recruiting after JUCO

Scholarships are year-to-year with no guarantee of future amounts.  I find it interesting they would tell you there is definitely no money the following year.  Further investigation is needed.

As do we. Son was instructed by us to clarify that with the Coach as it involves paying out of state tuition. Coach came back with a higher % offer for his Jr year but our understanding is still no money for Sr year (no matter how he performs) I might add that we are respecting our son's wishes that he and his coach are handling all communication with prospective colleges. However, I came across an article that talks about Jr's who return as Sr's being asked to return as walk on's because their scholarship was given away to a new freshman recruit and started wondering how common this practice is for college Sr's? There's not a lot of information out there that address "recruiting after JUCO" and as a parent I have concerns about what could go wrong as a Jr at an out of state Div 1 school. If he hates it or gets cut he'd have to sit out a year if he transferred, right? And then there is the question of his credits transferring. If anyone has any insight,experience or opinion with this please share.

I can't speak to how common it is for this particular occurrence to happen. However, I wanted to note that the NCAA (in an unbelievably rare logical moment for them) recently began allowing institutions to offer multi-year scholarships. Obviously it is up to the coaching staff, but it is permitted.

First of all good for the coach for being honest, a rarer trait than you may imagine.  Finagling money around is a reality in college baseball.  Coaches find walk on's that earn scholarships and some plan on Jr.'s being drafted and gone so they allocate their money to the incoming class but if they decide to bypass the draft and return, a fact not known till July it puts the coach in a bind.  Bottom line, unless you get a multi year guarantee your money could change each year.

I agree with can-o-corn, at least the coach was honest and up front in this situation.  It is fairly common for a baseball junior, whether after transferring in from JUCO, or one who has been at the school since freshman year, to not have their scholarship for the senior year.  In fact, I just did a consultation last night with a family whose son - a JUCO transfer - was let go from a Div. I scholarship of more than 50% with no warning.  He is now looking at a probable move to Div. II so he doesn't have to sit out next year.

I totally agree about the coach being honest, we just never knew that it was a "common practice" and quite frankly has us stressed now on another offer for Jr and Sr year when we all know schollys are renewed on a year to year basis, no guarantees. We'd be paying out of state tuition and without scholly money would be impossible to pay Sr. year. Not to mention possible problems with transfering credits.Any words of advice or thoughts on the matter would be greatly appreciated. 

My guess is that the coach knows he already has all his money committed to other players for your son's senior year.  Personally, I would try to find another school that will commit money to your son for both his Jr. and Sr. year.  Maybe not a two year NLI necessarily, but at least the coaches word.  I'm sure there are instances of coaches taking away scholarship money senior year, but there are probably many more instances where coaches keep their word even though scholarships are year to year.