College Visit? LOL!

[Mark H]

Goes the other way too. Impress a coach negatively in terms of behavior and a bunch of coaches are likely to hear about it.

 

[Amy in AZ.]

Well, I think she was rude, too. But at least she didn't glad hand you and act like you were the next softball God and the best thing to ever walk on campus. I can't stand a phony.

Maybe your DD was the 10th teen to be brought up to her that day. But, still she could have said "nice to meet you" and then walked away.

 

[Texas]

With due respect, the coaches have to follow the NCAA rules on recruiting. They can't make exceptions. You are new to this, but the rules are the rules.

Because your DD is a sophomore, an NCAA coach can have *NO* contact with your DD. The rule is very, very clear on this. "A contact is any face-to-face encounter in excess of an exchange of greeting." All the coach could do was say, "Hello." That is it. If she says one more word, she is violating the NCAA rules. If she violates the NCAA rules, she has to "self report" the violation or she gets into even more trouble.

You are not going to find softball coaches get even close to testing the boundaries of the NCAA rules.

I previously posted for you a link to the "cheat sheet" from the NCAA, so here it is again. Recruiting Cheat Sheet

That is not true. If this was a home game (on the coach's campus), the coach was free to talk to the sophomore player and parent since it was not during a dead period if the game was after April 10th.

Same concept as unofficial visits.

Although you didn't break any rules, I don't think I would approach a coach about a prospect after a game. But I would make sure the introduction was made with an immediate follow up by your DD about how much she enjoyed the game and meeting them. She still lacked manners though!

 

[sluggers]

You are right, Tex. I was wrong. It would not have been a violation for the coach to have talked to your DD.

Ray

 

[Texas]

No biggie. You headed out to the Denton this week for the Sunbelt 'ship?

 

[sluggers]

Don't overlook D2 and D3 schools. They offer some serious benefits over D1 programs.

I had one DD play D1 and another play D3. If I had it do over again, they both would have played D3. There is no comparison between an athlete's education at a good D3 school and a D1 school--meaning, they actually get an education at a D3 school.

Certainly, SIUE has a good softball program. Truman State may be an up and coming one. North Central College in Naperville, IL has a pretty good softball program.

Ray

 

[Mark H]

Don't overlook D2 and D3 schools. They offer some serious benefits over D1 programs.

Ray

Yeah, especially a D3 in Dallas.

 

[DonnieS]

I hear the D3 in Dallas has an awesome coach, heck of a family.

 

[calgofo]

I heard the coach was good but the dad was being looked for by some kind of posse

 

[Mark H]

It's always the dad that's the problem.