I am wondering....2016 had an active summer and committed D1 in July. I noticed on his 1st fall PG Tournie he was listed as committed to his school, but our family did not change it. He has only played in games for PG. He has no ranking, or stats except for velo from different tournies. It never occurred to me to do that...who else could or would change that data?
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If it is important to you, pick up the phone or send an email. Here are the PG contacts.
http://www.perfectgame.org/contacts.aspx
Just for sh*ts and giggles, I looked up my oldest son who graduated in 2010. We never put any of that data in there and it didn't reflect his college choice. So, I assume someone from PG or one of their cross-checkers put it into their database. They are the worlds largest baseball scouting service, so their database is their bread and butter.
Good luck.
I'm pretty sure PG does it when they are aware of a commitment. They tweeted a blurb when my son committed and within a few minutes, the commitment was updated on their website (we didn't do the update).
You (the person who creates/updates the player profile) puts up or removes the "colleges interested in" portion. You also have the ability to update or change the commitment portion, but I do believe PG does this to ensure that people can depend on the information being as timely and accurate as possible.
We didn't do my son's....but PG had it. I'm not sure when it went up compared to when he committed, but it was there. PGStaff is on here....heck, he may read the committment stories here and put them up. I know I posted about my son's committment here.
We actually have a person responsible for compiling commitments. They are received many different ways. The toughest ones to get are the underclass early verbal commitments. It is illegal for colleges to publish those lists. Often we get the info from the recruit or his parents and then check with the recruiter. I guess they can respond if asked, anyway they do. Sometimes they simply tell us when they have a commitment.
It benefits the college when we list one of their recruits as committed. Plus, we know that most of those recruiters care about how their recruiting class is ranked. Why wouldn't they? BTW, there are three phases to the recruiting class rankings. There is the early version with all the verbals, there is the LOI signings, and then there is the actual freshman class that shows up on campus. All phases are important, but the last one is most important. Sometimes it is the reason why those considered absolute first round picks get less than expected recruiting interest.
Ok, makes sense. We just never took 2016's commitment as a reason to tell the world publicly. Relatively quiet approach to setting his mind to an objective, then achieve it. He set a goal to play in college. We are all more proud he set a goal, overcame many obstacles, and neigh Sayers and out did himself by getting to commit to play D1.
Find it to be a humbling experience. Many classmates, and baseball peers are not "there" yet. 1 young man was with us today. I just asked how it was going......"stressful" my heart hurt for him. He has always been touted higher than my 2016. Just feeling blessed, grateful and hoping for similar outcomes for the many other young who are working hard
I'm just going to throw this out there but have posted this before. As all of you know, verbals are non binding but can affect recruiting when the impression given is inaccurate. We were on the way down to a tournament in Chattanooga and so, stopped by Austin Peay University on an unofficial visit. The HC told us where she would be and sure enough, when we arrived she was at the field working on it. One of the first questions she had for us was why we were wasting her time since she had been told that my daughter had verballed to another school. It had seemed strange to us how cold some coaches had become entering those last weeks of summer. A coach was telling other schools that my daughter had verballed and so, they were no longer interested in her. Man was I mad. So, I guess the point is that in our case, any announcement of her verbal really affected her recruitment. In the long run, and some of you know this when I posted this story on other sites, we had to jump start recruitment again and let most of the coaches she was in contact with know that she was still uncommitted. BTW, that coach who had mislead the other schools didn't last long at that school.
