D3 Soccer Walk on

ihs76
Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:08:18 +0000

With my son’s D3 school, the coach asked him to commit in exchange for his support. This is an EA school and he applied EA per coaches request (we would have anyway). Don’t know if coach would have supported him if we did not commit. Didn’t want to find out. (Un)fortunately, FA won’t be a big issue. Ours is a small sport though. Don’t know how it would be in a bigger sport like soccer with many more members on the team, but suspect the coach won’t be quite as enthusiastic with support if there’s a reasonable chance that your son may go elsewhere.

If all he’s looking for is to be possibly be on the team, and not for admissions support, then he could probably just explain the situation and ask the coach if there would be room on the team for him if he ends up attending that school.