Should I start to get concerned if my son has not had any offers to do an overnight at this time (Jan 15). In December he got a visit at school from his top choice, an FCS school in the Pioneer League, and the coach said we will get a hold of you in January and schedule a visit. They exchanged Xmas greetings around the holidays, and my son texted him this weekend but he didn’t get a reply. Should he be concerned the coach didn’t text him back?
When do schools schedule their overnights? In February?
Also, the pioneee league says they don’t give out football athletic scholarships. Can the coach ask the Financial Aid office to throw in extra “merit” aid because our EFC is so high?
Any insight would be appreciated. TY
He should talk to his high school coaches about recruiting in general. I thought most overnights for football were in the fall, so that the recruit can see the team.
There are no athletic scholarships in the Pioneer leagues. No, the coach cannot arrange an extra merit scholarship but can make sure you know about all the available scholarships at that school.
My sons fb coach is very involved, but I don’t want to keep bothering him with so many questions. He (our HS coach) has told us the college coach is very interested in my son and will be scheduling an overnight; this was from our Hs coach talking to the college coach just this weekend.
I just want to find out what type of
Football recruiting experiences other parents have had. My son had game day visits to several schools in the fall but it was my understanding that overnights happened in early December or January/February after the bowl games are over?? So should he been contacted by now? Or is it because the school is not in session yet?
Another question - should we change to ED so we can find out if he’s admitted earlier or keep it at RD and he won’t find out until March? Could this be another reason why the coach hasn’t contacted him? Does the coach need to know he can get into the school before he has him for an overnight? We’ve heard that after the overnight, the parents are brought in to talk to the coach to
Receive an offer??
Sorry for such a long post…
In December, my son was told by the schools he’d been talking with that he’d hear from them in the coming weeks. By the end of December, he was invited for overnights at the schools he was talking with and given the dates. He has three this month. Two are at the end of January and one of them is an FCS school in the Pioneer League. Though he was given the date a couple weeks ago for the FCS school, info has not been all that forthcoming as to the actual schedule (I.e., we know the day he is to arrive, but they haven’t told him exactly what time to arrive) but he’s been in regular contact with the recruiter. Yesterday, I got a call from a coach from one of the other schools (D3) - he gave me a verbal run down of the schedule and then finally sent the actual schedule via email today. The visits to both of these schools are just over a week away, so it does seem a little late. But to answer your question, yes, he probably should have heard by now if he was getting any overnight invites. That said, my son did just hear from another FCS school this week, asking him a bunch of non-football questions about himself but as of yet, no invite. At a visit we went to today, we were told if the players wanted to come back for an overnight, they’d be scheduled when the team was back from winter break. So I’m guessing some schools are doing overnights in February as well.
I would have your son text him again and be direct with the coach.
May I ask what your son’s position is and what state (or part of the country) are you from??
Cross-posting and just saw your second post. Yes, you are correct that the overnights are in January/February. My son’s are next weekend at two schools. They could not be any earlier because the kids are not back from winter break yet.
Unless your son plans to attend the school even if he is not recruited for football, then he should not apply ED because that is binding whether he has a football offer or not.
I’d rather not say his position at this point but we are East Coast.
Just want to also reiterate that it’s okay for your son to be direct with the coach, ask him where he stands and what the next step is.
Also, I don’t know if your son is anything like mine, but mine is terrible about relaying ALL of the info/contact to us that he’s getting from coaches. For example, one coach asked him to submit his FAFSA last week. My son waited three days to tell us. He told the coach he was in the middle of his finals (he was) but would send it the next day and then didn’t bother to tell us. So then my husband was scrambling to complete it, as it was already several days after S told the coach he’d get it to him (my husband was already planning to do it for other reasons but hadn’t gotten to it yet). Then today, a coach mentioned he left my son a voicemail -my son said he tried to call him back but the number was wrong - the coach point blank said “did you actually listen to my message or just call me back the number on caller ID?” Turned out my son did not bother to listen to the message and the coach knew b/c he said kids NEVER listen to voicemail (coach left the correct number in his voicemail so he knew my son never actually listened to it and just called the number that popped up on caller ID). Fortunately the coach thought it was funny and said this is so typical of kids in their generation.
Bottom line, have your son text the coach again. And good luck to him!!! It’s hard to still be in this waiting game when so many kids already know where they are going to college. Late recruiting sure adds a lot of extra stress! Our son’s coach told us mid-season that we probably wouldn’t be making any decisions until end of Feb/early March (we are full pay so need to see what the financial packages are).
4kids4us thank you. Yours is the most advice I’ve gotten from someone. My son is not a big communicator so we will talk to him again and have him call the coach
The Pioneer Conference recruits very late, on more of a D3 timeline, because a number of their recruits are in the mix at other D1 and sometimes the stronger/better funded D2 conferences. So in my experience they don’t really know who are legitimate targets for them until after the February signing date. Two kids from my son’s high school team were recruited pretty heavily in that conference. One just completed a very successful career there and will graduate this spring. The other chose to walk on at a BCS school and eventually transferred to a very strong D3 program, where he has also had a nice career with one year of eligibility left. If I recollect correctly both didn’t really start seriously talking with the Pioneer schools until mid to late February. I am pretty sure the kid who ended up in the conference didn’t make his decision until sometime in March, maybe April.
And I doubt that a coach can get the FA office to “throw in” some extra merit aid. The Pioneer conference has had some trouble with schools being a bit aggressive in trying to get around the no scholarship rule, most recently with Jacksonville if memory serves, but in general the schools hew pretty close to the no athletic aid line.
I would echo what @4kids4us said. There is absolutely nothing wrong with asking direct questions of the recruiting coach. Remember, the coaches do this over and over again, it is really in everyone’s interest to make sure that a clear message is being sent and received.
As an aside to @4kids4us and your message about voicemail. My son had the riot act read to him by his high school coach when he was being recruited because the coach heard from a couple of recruiting coaches that they were trying to call him, but my son had never bothered to set up his voicemail on his phone. I think he did that about ten seconds after talking with is high school coach, lol.
Hey!, I am 22 years old. 6’0, 341lbs. I graduated in 2016,I attend a community college. I would like to transfer and have a chance to play next season at a university. I know the odds are not the greatest because I only played a few years but, after losing 219lbs last year odds do not mean a thing to me because, the odds of someone losing as much weight as I had reached in that time frame are pretty low so I figured, I would reach out and see if it is even possible to be able to play football at college level for a university with the limited playing time I have?
In high school I ran 40 yards in 5.65 seconds
Benched 385 x 3
I can squat between 650-700.
My goal by the end of this year is to be squatting around 800 and to lose about 90 more lbs…thought’s?
Did you start college in 2016? If so your eligibility may be running out. You have 5 years from when you first start college to play 4 years of that sport.
Your best bet might be a junior college as a walk on. They like to have players with good grades because that’s an issue for some JUCO players
I think your only shot would be to pick the four year college you want to attend and then find out when they are holding open try outs for walk ons (usually in the spring before spring ball starts). But I think you are climbing a pretty steep hill, even at the D3 level.