<p>I’ll say this, we’ve done both official and unofficial visits in two sports</p>
<p>one was a non-revenue sport the other was revenue generating sport</p>
<p>the non revenue coach, meet with us, arranged for her to run around with potential teammates and left the overnight up to her. Her food and other accomodations came out of my pocket–unofficially of course we did go to a football game free…</p>
<p>the revenue sport
the sports office contacted my daughter and coordinated a date, an airline ticket was sent with a very specific sport/academic school. Everything was coordinated through their office my daugther ate well off campus, attended a basketball game and sat court side. She had a seperate meeting with the coach and his staff and she spoke with the compliance as well as the admission officer handling her file—again all coordinated by the AD ,and within the 48 hours rule. She was also given the option to stay longer and attend practice, but she would have had to pay for her food.</p>
<p>the difference was on the unofficial visits at least one parent was there, the officials where all handled by the school.</p>