- Dec 7, 2011
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RB, I think you are having trouble getting your head around the recruiting process. It is the parents responsibility to get the DD seen by a bunch of coaches. Then, it is the parents responsibility to make contact with the coaches and follow up. If coaches don't see your DD or don't know your DD, then it is *THE PARENTS'* fault.
Because the parent did not make contact with the right college coaches. The parent may not have contacted anyone. Or, she may have decided that the DD was so talented that only U of AZ or U of AL or UCLA was the only place for her.
It is important for the parent to honestly appraise the talent level of DD and then to understand what DD wants to do, and then help the DD find a place to play.
Sorry - I may have left out an important detail. I have placed the responsibility on my DD to contact any & all coaches of schools she is interested in, or, is going to see at an event. So the "contact" is happening,... I have to trust DD in that.
Sluggers - you think it's better for the parent to strike up the contact to the college coaches? (maybe my assignment of this to DD was not advisable...??)
(in general too I am not talking about the BIG D-1's as I am sure the girls for those rosters are hand-picked from the warm states in the freshman-sophomore time frames)