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Recruiting Situation - Please Help!!

H Hopperhop100+ posts
My son (our family) has a recruiting situation that I thought that someone out there could possibly help him with. He has been offered an "official" visit to a school that has already made a very generous(I feel)verbal athletic scholarship offer. This visit will take place the first part of November. He has three other schools that are interested in him, only one (D II) of which he will have visited prior to visit to the first school. The other 2 schools (D III) are excellent academic schools and have very good baseball programs and facilities and are quite a bit closer to where we live.

The issue is this. The coach from school(D1) that he will be visiting the first part of November wnats him to make a decision regarding accepting that schools offer the weekend of his official visit. Like I said that will be before he has visited 2 of the other schools. How can he stall for time or talk to the coach to allow him time to visit the other schools and then make his decision? The coach did explain to my son that he needs his decision this soon so in case my son does not accept the offer he can pursue other players. I also understand that committing to a DI or DII is binding and backing out can cost you a year or two of elgibility.

Any help that someone can give me on this one would be greatly appreciated!!
Don't shift the responsibility of your success in this game to somebody else. Be perservering about it. Pay the price and you'll come out where merit takes you. - Branch Rickey
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TPMTPMHSBaseballweb Member since 2003
Hopperhop, good question and you most likely will get a variety of answers.

Official visits often mean that the coach is very interested in your son. It's his chance to get to know the players, and your sons cahnce to get to know the staff and team and view the facilities, talk with the academic advisors. A chance to get a "feel" for the school with student population. If it's a football weekend (assuming ther eis football), it's an added bonus.
Not all official visits turn out to be successful for both coach and player. I know many of players that declined offers after their visits.
It's tough when pressure like that is put upon a player, and sometimes that pressure works negatively in the recruits mind.

Mine went on two official visits and was expected to verbal at each one, he didn't and opportunities were given for more time to decide. Yo never know what will happen.

Approach the official visit as an invitation to learn as much as you can, if forced to commit and it doesn't feel right, then don't.
Infield08Infield081,000+ posts
Hopperhop, you mention that the other 2 schools are quite a bit closer to where you live. If this is the case, I would make every effort to visit those schools before you make your official visit to the first school. Take your son out of school, if necessary, to do so. (Actually, this would be preferable, so he could see the campus on a day when class is in session.) Then, by the time you make your official visit, he'll be able to compare all the programs and know what his options are. Best wishes!
B Bee>1,000+ posts
hop, a few Qs as I may be missing something

here's my take - -

your visit WILL be the Nov 3-5 weekend -

the NO CONTACT dead period is Nov 6-9 - - so you couldn't even contact the coach to accept or decline his offer anyway

EARLY SIGNING begins Nov 8 & he needs to get the docs to you

that leaves Sunday afternoon & evening for you & son to "consider" the opportunity

it very well may be a great offer & fit, but the coach's method & timing are a bit odd

jmo


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B Bee>1,000+ posts
one more thought - -
some players commit without any official visit at all. If your son likes the school & the deal is "generous" as you say it may simply be the opportunity for son & parents to meet the coaches & tour the school on their dime before the handshake sealing the deal.

re stalling for more time - - the dead period ends Nov 9, signing ends Nov 15 so there is a small window there before opting for a late signing period deal - which, if the visit goes well it would seem pretty likely that their interest would continue into spring - but nothing's a sure thing so maybe you'd want to just ask & note their reaction.


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B baseballmom

Son was in a similar situation, but all were D-1 schools...We juggled schedules a little, cancelled one...
Agree that Coaches "tactic" to have you come the weekend prior to signing day IS a "now or never" kind of strategy...I'd try to arrange a time now, rather than later...2 can play the "game", so to speak.

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