what to expect

Take your visits and enjoy them. Learn as you go, and assist your son in finding the best fit for him (academically and baseball).

You have leverage! Anything lower than 50% scholarship would not be good. IMO if he is this good he should be able to lock down a 100% deal.

Good luck and let us know how things proceed. We are here to assist.

Welcome to the board.
Lefty

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You have leverage! Anything lower than 50% scholarship would not be good. IMO if he is this good he should be able to lock down a 100% deal.

You only have leverage if you have more then one offer......I am not sure 100% happens very often, additionally some coaches, maybe the one your son really wants to play for, don't like being "leveraged" and might move on if they made your son a good offer and he turned it down.

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You have leverage! Anything lower than 50% scholarship would not be good. IMO if he is this good he should be able to lock down a 100% deal.

I know a whole lot of people that have received scholarship offers to play college baseball, and a whole lot of them are/were pretty good. I've never heard of anyone receiving a full athletic scholarship for baseball. Fully-funded D1 schools are provided 11.7 scholarships per program with a roster size of 35. Giving out more than 8.5% of your allotted money over four years to less than 3% of your overall roster seems a bit irresponsible economically.

Appreciate the feedback. We are learning everyday. our son is excited and starting to see his hard work beginning to pay off. He is even more motivated to excel and he is a great student. He is so young and we want to get the advice of those who have experienced this already. I guess our big question is that if he gets a reasonable offer as a soph does he wait and see what happens the following summer as a rising jr. These top 25 D1 schools who have seen him love the kid. They have talked to his HS coach and they say "they love him and want him". What is that worth? Is the risk worth the reward?

It seems to me that you answered your question about the need for an early commitment by your son in your first post. The school that has sent the tickets and wants your son to make an unofficial visit is one of his "Top 5." That implies that there are 4 others that are on substantially the same footing with him; ones from whom he needs to hear before committing to any one of them.

If it's truly the case that all are viewed in essentially the same way...and if he's the player he seems to be...then why not thank the school for its offer, let them know that they're high among those colleges he's considering, and give the others some time to let their process play out? Otherwise, you're rewarding the school that made the first offer, basically, because they were less deliberate in their decision process than the other 4 on the list; and, I'm not sure that that's sufficient reason to choose one among 5 equals.

It sounds like he's good enough, both as a student and a player, that he's going to attract multiple offers from quality programs. If you think that's accurate, I'd advise a high school sophomore to give himself some more time to broaden his range of choices and make as well-informed a decision as he possibly can.

Congratulations...and best of luck...to him!

Hunter,

Welcome. You have been given some sage advice in this thread already. Swampboy nailed it.

This is a marathon not a sprint. You or your son should not feeling any pressure whatsoever at this point in time. You should feel that baseball recruiting is something new to you and seek to learn everything there is to know about baseball recruiting at the various college levels. While you are researching the topic, meeting coaches, visiting schools, you will be begin to understand what your son wants out of his college experience. Both of you will get a much better feel for the opportunities that are out there.

Good luck!

Congratulations Hunter10! Some great advice here not only to your post but gold mine in past posts as well. Like you we will be tuned in for the next three years.

Your post raised a question I've had. My 2015 RHP has been offered to visit and a football game. If I understand correctly, until they're seniors no school can pay for anything and only then on an Official Visit. Is there some flexibility on football/basketball game tickets that might not cost them anything?

We have read all your posts and there is lots of great advice. we surely will enjoy the ride and allow our son to visit all the schools he has interest in. It is a blessing to be on the radar at this young age and he his handling it well. we will continue to read the blogs on this forum and ask any other questions that may come up through this process. Thanks to all. we will keep everyone posted on his progress.

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My son is a 2015 RHP who is being aggressively recruited by several major D1 programs. He has topped out at 90 and sits relatively 84-88. He attended a prospect camp and the coach is now sending tickets to attend a football game later this month. If this university was to make an offer what can we expect in an offer, being that he is only a soph and he has 3 more yrs of playing high school ball. This program is in his top 5 choices. he is nationally ranked by PG in the top 100. This is all new to us. We have been reading this site for about a month. This has come quicker than expected and are only a few weeks out from an unofficial visit. Any advice would be appreciated.

In my son's Sophomore year there was some interest shown similar to what you expressed here. He is now at a D-1 school that was it top choice all along and in his Jr. year. So, based on our experience, the Sophomore year was rather slow and we heard about a couple of players his age at the time making verbal commitments as there's nothing that's really binding at this point until it time to sign a NLI. The summer following his Sophomore season, things really began to speed up a lot and we were getting a lot of interest from a lot of schools. And it wasn't until then did realize my son had a shot at top D-1 schools. Our sights were not set quite that high beforehand and would have been happy with ANY D-1 school. It was then that he adjusted school priority list and looked for the best as my son saw it. So, I'd suggest you and your son give it a little time until sometime at near the end of this coming season and take a fresh look at what's going on around you. And as your son begins his Jr. year, if he has a lot of interest like it sounds he likely will, then coaches will push for him to make a decision and he can take some time to figure out for sure which school, BB program and coach that he really likes and try and get the best offer as possible. The more interest in your son that is shown, the better the offer is likely to be.

It's good to go on some visits to see campuses, the baseball facilities and talk a little with the coaches. We did this going to as many as 8 different schools and it helped a lot to give him a better idea of what he didn't want and what he did want, as he only had hearsay beforehand.

If coaches are interested now, they'll still be interested at the end of this coming season. So, enjoy this time as it's a pretty special time in your son's life. It may get a little hectic and maybe even a little confusing when a lot of interest is shown, but once the decision is made (probably in the Jr. year), he can then put that part behind him and enjoy the Senior year.

Thanks for the post Truman, lots of good stuff. With all this attention, he is handling it well. He will be down in Ft. Myers this weekend at PG and knows that the schools he is interested in will be down there. he is ready to compete. We told him to relax and it will all work out in the end. Blessed !

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Thanks for the post Truman, lots of good stuff. With all this attention, he is handling it well. He will be down in Ft. Myers this weekend at PG and knows that the schools he is interested in will be down there. he is ready to compete. We told him to relax and it will all work out in the end. Blessed !

GOOD advice. He should go out relaxed and focused simply on playing one pitch at a time, one play at a time.

Control what you can control and let the rest go.