September 1

I'm sorry that I didn't see and comment on this thread earlier.  GOV's posting of the September recruiting calendar looks VERY familiar. :-)  

The D-1 school that sent the recruiting info to FriarFred was sending outdated info, as D-1 coaches in baseball and almost every other sport can now start calling HS prospects or returning calls to prospects starting on Sept. 1 of their junior year.

For D-2, they can start calling and e-mailing prospects on June 15 following the sophomore year of HS, and in baseball and most other D-2 sports, the only time they are restricted from off-campus recruiting activities is on a couple of days at the start of the NLI signing periods.

Son also received a few D1 recruiting emails around mid-night of 9/1. None of the emails mention camps; they mostly tout their school's academics and the baseball program's strength (e.g how many players drafted, how many league championship they got in the past 10 years, etc. ) Also the schools are all the high academic schools son wanted to attend.

Question: what do you do with the emails? Should he reply to each of them, at least to say "thank you"? If you don't reply (for a while), do they assume you are not interested and remove you from the mailing list?

For my son it was pretty obvious which were bulk. Even the non camp invites.  He did not respond to those.  Even from the school he is currently attending. 

Bogeyorpar posted:

Son also received a few D1 recruiting emails around mid-night of 9/1. None of the emails mention camps; they mostly tout their school's academics and the baseball program's strength (e.g how many players drafted, how many league championship they got in the past 10 years, etc. ) Also the schools are all the high academic schools son wanted to attend.

Question: what do you do with the emails? Should he reply to each of them, at least to say "thank you"? If you don't reply (for a while), do they assume you are not interested and remove you from the mailing list?

If your son is not a junior, D1 programs cannot call or send a questionaire yet, so I am not sure how to answer, maybe Rick can.

My son is also struggling a bit with how to respond. Two schools followed up the evening of Sept 1 with phone calls so that makes those two schools easy. There were a couple that had forms to fill out so they were pretty easy also. The rest were mostly just touting their academics and baseball. He is not sure how to respond. 

What was a bit surprising was that we saw nothing from a few schools who had indicated some level of interest in the summer. Not sure what, if anything, to read into that.

Rick at Informed Athlete posted:

I'm sorry that I didn't see and comment on this thread earlier.  GOV's posting of the September recruiting calendar looks VERY familiar. :-)  

The D-1 school that sent the recruiting info to FriarFred was sending outdated info, as D-1 coaches in baseball and almost every other sport can now start calling HS prospects or returning calls to prospects starting on Sept. 1 of their junior year.

For D-2, they can start calling and e-mailing prospects on June 15 following the sophomore year of HS, and in baseball and most other D-2 sports, the only time they are restricted from off-campus recruiting activities is on a couple of days at the start of the NLI signing periods.

Should have footnoted you Rick - apologies...  was trying to simplify.