A D1 athlete’s perspective on recruiting

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I meant lead time not decision time. When you look at Stanford they already have commits for 2021 where as schools like URI or Sacred Heart really working on 2019. That tells you that if you are targeting that later level school you have plenty of time to do your research and be still be at the front of the line when their coaches start looking to sign players.

Usually several of those Stanford "commits" do not attend. Committing there and not continuing to look is a really bad move for most kids. However i see your point

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Usually several of those Stanford "commits" do not attend. Committing there and not continuing to look is a really bad move for most kids. However i see your point

What are you talking about? That comment about not continuing to look speaks to just how far out of the loop you actually are. What you are suggesting is incredibly bad form. If your kid commits you are expected to cease looking because you presumably are happy with your decision. If your new coach catches wind that you are still looking trying to find a better deal they will tear up your kid's deal and black ball them with other coaches. Yes a commitment is only a hand shake deal but still looking calls into question just how committed you are to the school your kid committed to.

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It all depends upon how you approach it. I personally think that if you go out on a fishing expedition you usually wind up catching things you end up not being sure you want and the offers come in on their coaches time frame, not yours. We approached it like a fact finding mission and we only dealt with schools that were on her target list. When a school that wasn’t on that list expressed interest we had a quick pro-con discussion whether or not to put them on it. All that meant was we would research them. We also had a rule. If we added a school it went in at #10 and we had to drop one as well. The timing of things really comes down to organization and discipline. We had our list. It was ranked and that gave us our road map. We started with phone calls and drop in type visits to watch games or attend their clinics. The goal was to build information and comfort level. We constantly refined and reordered the list. We didn’t even start doing “unofficial” visits until we were certain we were interested in an offer. We only went on 3 and we arranged them all the same month because we expected offers to come at those visits. When they came they all had a time frame for acceptance but because we had all the offers we were interested in in front of us it just became a matter of making the decision.

Thank you for this info. Like the rule of 10. if one comes on, one comes off
Little Gems like this can get lost in the cess pool of TS

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What are you talking about? That comment about not continuing to look speaks to just how far out of the loop you actually are. What you are suggesting is incredibly bad form. If your kid commits you are expected to cease looking because you presumably are happy with your decision. If your new coach catches wind that you are still looking trying to find a better deal they will tear up your kid's deal and black ball them with other coaches. Yes a commitment is only a hand shake deal but still looking calls into question just how committed you are to the school your kid committed to.

Precisely. If some of those early commits aren't on the final class list it's most likely they didn't get through admissions. Some players will just change their minds, or maybe they get caught doing something stupid and the coach cuts them. But not having the grades is the most frequent reason it doesn't pan out. Coaches expect you to stop looking and players hope coaches do the same. Also, if you're on a commit list other coaches will find your shopping very questionable and it doesn't put you in a good light.