To Parents/Players

That is not always the case.

There are times what you hear is what the coaches says, but what is not said is that it is based on the performance of the player or other players working for the same position.

Some of them talked as fast as car salesmen to us when it came time to talk about the offer, I wished I had a tape recorder to cipher through it all later.

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Originally posted by Everybody throws 90+ now...:
Some of them talked as fast as car salesmen to us when it came time to talk about the offer, I wished I had a tape recorder to cipher through it all later.

I hear ya ET90... that's why we asked them to put it in writing.

I can relate TRHit:

Official visit fall of senior year, coach made a very good scholarship offer. And states "Junior would be our starting RF if he were here this year."

What we heard: "He should be a starter then his freshman year."

What he meant: "Junior would be our starting RF if he were here this year, because our current choices at RF are not as good as we would like."

What happened: Coach recruited an outstanding RF from JC that won the starting job during Junior's freshman year.

That RF got drafted, now Junior has excellent chance of winning the RF starting job his sophomore year.

Moral: Coaches have creative ways of making it sound exciting when they want you, but have an open mind when you get there. This coach never told an untruth.