Who's already committed

My son is the only one committed on his HS team. Committed to an NCAA D2 team.

Our team has four players committed so far. A D1, D2, D3 and JUCO.

My son's team has three players. My son and one of his team mates have signed their D1 NLI and he has another team mate who has verballed to a D1 JUCO. My sense is that the JUCO player will sign with a four year D1 school by the end of the spring. My sense is that by the end of the spring two other players will recieve an offer, probably from a JUCO.

Last year my 2011 son was not committed to anyone, nor were there offers he was interested in. However his teammates already had signed or had verbal commitments to 5 kids, including several sophomores. My sons offers came very late, and although at the time we were stressed out, I am glad we waited instead of taking the first few that seemed like all he was going to receive.

Of course we would have loved to be in a position like some, where we could pick and choose among many offers and get it done in his junior year. But for those of us who have sons that are not highly recruited, it can pay to wait.

So yes, your son should realize how fortunate he is because the majority of his teammates will not be playing beyond their last HS season. It was a sad reality I witnessed on many a kids face when they played us during the final game of the season.

From this website:

Less than three in 50, or about 5.6 percent, of high school senior boys interscholastic baseball players will go on to play men's baseball at a NCAA member institution.

One 2013 on my son's team to NCAA D1 and nobody else. Expect 3-5 more 2013 to receive commits and perhaps 2 2012s.

My son was a 2011. Last year at this time I think we had two committed with 6 of the other 7 considering offers. The 7th had already committed to an ACC football team (and started several games as a Freshman this year!)

In the end, of the 8 non-football guys, 1 decided to attempt to walk on, 2 decided not to play college ball and the other 5 are still where they committed (D1, D2 (2 of them), D3 and NAIA)...

Sons team has 3 2012's that are D1 commits and 1 D3 commit. The D1 comits were made in May, Aug, and Oct I think. THere are a few others that may play post high school ball - some are deciding between Baseball and other sports.

I'm pretty sure that my son is the only 2012 commit on his D1 HS team; he'll be at a D3. One more player will likely walk-on when he decides where to go (likely a D3 also, about a mile down the road from my son's ). This other kid could be a legit D1 prospect, but wants to major in Physical Therapy and only fit baseball in around that - hence his desired D3 path.

son's team was D1 state Champions last season and I believe they had 2 kids go on to play college baseball on scholarship, one D1 (#1 pitcher) and one DII. There may be one or two who are playing DIII this year too. This years team has one signed to a D1 (#1 pitcher)so far that I know of. None of this years Juniors have committed that I have heard about yet.

I think the results will vary tremendously from school to school, and the strongest correlation will be that teams from schools with high student populations will do better than teams from smaller schools.

At the school my son attended, there are 4 Division I commits in the senior class, 1 early commit junior and a second who could be if he were ready (i.e., not for lack of suitors), and 1 sophomore that I know for sure will get there. But that's a school with something like 2,200 students, in an affluent area where kids have been getting lessons and playing 60-70 games/year for several years each. Even with that, they are above the norm, though there are at least two other schools in the Richmond region who have similar pipelines going.

You aren't going to see that at a school in a poorer area (urban or rural) with only 500 students to pull from.

In Texas, aren't there some schools that are just massive? At places like that, anyone making the team has a shot at college ball, anyone who starts is a definite prospect.

My son is at a school with roughly 3000 students. There are probably 15 seniors who will make the varsity baseball team. He is a D-1 and two others have been "in discussion" with D-2 & D-3's but haven't (to my knowledge) signed. I would think we could have as many as three agree to D-2, D-3 or CC by the time it is all over.

Interestingly enough, there are a total of four kids at the school who have signed ANY kind of NLI during the early signing period. One baseball, one softball and two golfers. There is another FB player who will probably sign in February. There are several long distance runners on both the girls and boys CC/Track teams who 'should' be getting some D-1 attention as well.

It's a pyramid for sure...

You know, when I first started reading on this thread about how many kids go on to play college baseball from some of your high school teams I thought "Wow! That's a bunch! We don't have anywhere near that many!" Then I realized...we only have about 400 kids in the whole high school and approximately 40 boys in the senior class each year (that's a guess). Then I started to count up how many have gone on to play ball most recently...1 in 2006, 1 in 2007, 2 in 2008, 3 in 2009 (2 have since quit) and 1 in 2012. I think it was 2 to JUCO (then on to D2) 2 to a D3 and 2 to a D1. Not too bad. There were definitely others, during this time period that could have played, but chose not to. I know there were some others from years ago that went on to play college ball, but that was before my time in this area. So, I guess for a small, rural school...in Ohio...we're doing OK!

Midlo Dad, for comparision our HS enrollement varies from 2200 to 2500 kids. We compete in class 5A(highest classification in Tx).

Golden Rule, can you tell me what school in North Texas?

3000 people in one high school in huge. With a school that size you should be a state powerhouse in every sport unless of course you compete with even larger schools.

Our town has three high schools with roughly 4000 between them.

Largest High Schools in Texas have 4000 or more students 9-12. My son's school has about 2400, and they have one D1 commit and one D2 commit.

Son's 2013 HS team has zero commits so far, they are heavy with Juniors. Only 2 returning Seniors at a school of roughly 1800 students in N Florida.

My son's team has 3 2012 players that have signed. They will be attending/playing at Dartmouth,Cornell and Stony Brook.There could be a couple more 2012's that play at the next level as well.There is one 2014 that has an early commit with Pepperdine.My son is only a sophomore(2014),but his time will come if he continues to work hard

For comparison, their high school is Catholic, all boys,750 enrollment,and uber competitive in sports and scholastics.Some of the boys that will be cut in February could start for most of the public high schools here in San Diego County.

The school in these parts that gets all the press is Hamilton High in Chandler, AZ. They have well over 4000 students and openly "encourage" (I won't use the word recruit) student athletes to attend their school. Open enrollment doesn't hurt their efforts.

There are horror stories about kids sitting in the hallways as school starts while they try to figure out where to put them all, but they have great athletic facilities and win in football every year. They typically compete in all other sports.

The junior and senior classes and where they commit depends a lot on the talent pool. Our arch rival in baseball put at least three kids in D-1 this past year. I'm talking Arizona State (2) and USC (1), solid programs. They were loaded last year and probably placed a few others. This year, we're looking forward to playing them. I doubt any of them will go more than D-2 or D-3.

Many schools in our area have over 3000 students. Most of the 5A-I (now known as 1A) schools are that size. Mesa, AZ has been the exception, with 2,300-2,500 but without a freshman class as they've had a three year Jr. High program.

My son's senior class still has 750 students preparing to graduate in May. Personally, I'm glad that many made it to graduation but its a big class.

Should we have more D-1 players? I don't know the answer to that other than to say around here, we have a state with a population of 6.6 million and exactly two D-1 schools (Arizona and Arizona State). We're really strong at the community college level, but the D-1 opportunities are few, unless you go out of state.

Hunter Mac,

Your school sounds exactly like ours except we have one returning senior. Almost the exact same size (1800), 3 returning from varsity: 1 senior and 2 juniors. Final cuts will be made Friday, but we will probably have 2 players from entire squad that will eventually play college ball. (senior/ Juco, Junior/ D1)

My son attends a school of 400 students. We've only been in town for 3 years, but what I've seen is one kid each year moves on to play in college. This past year was an exception, but there was a kid who was good enough to play in college, but had other issues. For the 2012 class, there's a kid who could play DIII but he was injured over the summer/fall, plus he doesn't have the best grades. Maybe he will have a great spring and land something. But at this point, no one is committed. Guess it is our year to be in the 95%.

For my son's class (2013) I would say that there are two players who have the potential to play in college, but no commitments.

My son's 2012 class is extremely fortunate. There were 9 seniors and now 8 since one quit. Thus far 5 have committed (2 D1, 1 D2, 2 D1 JUCO). The remaining consist of a kid that may go the football route, another to a D1 JUCO. The last being my son, who had labrum surgery last September and is now looking at a small D2, a couple D3, or whoever comes calling this spring. So 7 of 8 is way out of the norm, but we are all very proud of these boys!

About 750 at our high school. My son signed D1 and another signed D2. Haven't heard of any others drawing any interest at this time. Hopefully that changes.

Sons high school has 2200 students, 80% of the sr's that have played since '99 have been offered some type of deal to play in college. Some are D1 D2 JUCO NAIA some are 70% scholarship, some are 100% JUCO deals, some are playing but not under scholarship...

It's quite impressive.....

I think right now we have 6 kids from our town playing minor league ball.

Some go to college the first year and then quit as well .....I think the recruiting is nice, but when the honeymoon is over they decide for whatever reason to stop playing.

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Originally posted by bacdorslider:
Sons high school has 2200 students, 80% of the sr's that have played since '99 have been offered some type of deal to play in college. Some are D1 D2 JUCO NAIA some are 70% scholarship, some are 100% JUCO deals, some are playing but not under scholarship...

Off the top of my head last year we had 2 D1's 2 D2's and some JUCO's

It's quite impressive.....

I think right now we have 6 kids from our town playing minor league ball.

Some go to college the first year and then quit as well .....I think the recruiting is nice, but when the honeymoon is over they decide for whatever reason to stop playing.

My school (2,000 students) has 6 seniors. One person has committed, me, to a D1 JUCO. One other will end up with a JUCO deal somewhere, then we got a junior who'll end up D3 probably. That's it.

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Originally posted by Jatmes:
Trying to provide our 2012 grad with some insight. He's received a good DII JUCO offer. Of the 10 seniors on his HS team, only 4, including my son, have received any tangible offers. 2 DIs(already committed), 1 DIII, 1 DII JUCO. I would expect maybe 2 more to receive offers. We'd like to see comparisions from others here in respect to your HS teams. Just trying to prove to him how fortunate he is to be in this current situation.

To receive an offer to play something he is passionate about is wonderful regardless D1, D2 or any other division. For a comparison though it seems as if you would need to compare it with schools similiar in size and area location. Larger schools from bigger area's do have alot more talent than smallers schools or more remote areas.

School of 2000+ I think we only had 4 seniors and 2 went D1. This year have about 6-7 and have one D1 and one D3 so far. My son is going D3 close to home and Dad is happy!!

Didn't know which thread to put this in and didn't want to start a new one.

My son committed to Georgia Perimeter College this past Friday. It was a perfect fit academically and athletically. They offer the two majors he interested and he loves the coaches. Only bad thing is he wanted to try and play football too but it didnt work out that way.

I do want to thank ClevelandDad, floridafan, bballman and all of the advice given on this site. JH, I cant express how much this young man assisted us along our journey, words can't express my gratitude.

I will say to folks going through recruiting and I know it is said a lot on here be patient and do not get discouraged there is a school out there for your kid. And to the freshman parents, my son didn't make Freshman team, 2nd string sophomore year JV but Junior year 2nd team All-Region. And he has gone from 5'6 150 Freshman yr to now being 6' 235. Good luck to all!!

wbethea13 - I am thrilled for your son and your family. I am humbled that you took the time to mention me here but I was honored that you reached out to me for advice.

These types of posts are what we are all about here at the hsbbweb. No one person has all the answers but if you learn to network on this site, it is possible to find the one person who may have the answer you need and ultimately help you find the right fit for your son.

Very satisfying to read the excitement in this post!

Wow, those are big schools!! Ours is 2200+ and considered "LL" in our state. (CT)

I can't imagine what it takes to run a high school with 3 -4000 teenagers in it on a daily basis.

As far as baseball, I have no idea who of the 2012s is committed to playing in college yet, I think typically they have 1 or 2 D1s (but not every year), a few D2s or D3s on a regular basis. That feels about right.

NYC suburb; 900 enrolled in HS, one D1-bound senior (my son) and another going to a big D3. Not a big baseball school--typical of a northeast school, football, s****r and lacrosse are very popular. Swimming and hockey, too.

How many feel that your sons/daughters got scholarships because you were familiar with the recruiting process? That of course might mean that you followed some advice here on the HSBBW (even though the basic principles can apply to any sport).

When my son was in HS, there were 3 players on his team that signed D1 (the most ever in one year). One player signed D2 later, his folks didn't do anything in recruiting throughout HS, he played local legion, he finally got seen by a coach when the HS coach realized he fell through the cracks and made a few phone calls.

Seattle suburb, 1400 kids in the HS with 13 seniors going through tryouts right now, good baseball school. 3 D1 commits, 1 JC, 2 choosing not to pursue it further, don't know about the rest but probably at least 3 more will play in college.

Last year 8 of the 9 seniors went on to college baseball.

My kids school has 2,500 students wiith another 7,500 students within a 5 mile radius. 10 seniors on the team 2 D-1 2 JC. A lot of talent in so cal this year.