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<p>Newsflash…I’ve seen countless number of people verbally commit to a D1 to change their mind/coach change mind/Admissions deny applicant/NLI issues, etc… In the sports competitive, win at all costs world of D1 I believe the verbal means even less. Money talks, and bullsh1t walks.</p>
<p>Athletic scholarships are 1 year for 99.9% of D1 athletes. There are no guarantees for sports money in year 2. I know many folks who were recruited to top baseball programs only to have their scholarship % reduced right before signing NLI because they had a challenging summer, year or just because the Coach wanted to give another kid more $$. It is vastly harder to recover from a D1 school doing something like that in the recruiting process because of monetary implications than for a D3 athlete. Recruiting horror stories in D1, I got several dozen of them to share. Horror stories in D3 very few.</p>