NCAA Permission to Contact - when to ask?

troubleddad
Mon, 05 Apr 2010 23:10:09 +0000

I am a longtime member of the boards but in a position where I want to be somewhat anonymous, so I have a new ID for this post. I posted it on the Parents forum but forgot this board was here, so I am putting it over here too.

My student is a freshman at a school and in a spring sport where they were recruited and signed a NLI. Their obligation will be up in a month.

The current school’s coach made a zillion promises. Ones they either had no intention of keeping or ones that were just made up. The coach is completely unqualified for this sport and the sport, while supposedly “rebuilding”, is a joke. It would not surprise me if it were dropped after this year. But schools do not annouce that in advance, and that’s where the question comes from.

There is no doubt my student is transferring for the fall. That was decided weeks ago. The problem is since the season is still in, when is the appropriate time for us to ask for a permission to contact letter from the current school? I know we are missing valuable time waiting, but by the same token I am afraid the current school will just more or less show my kid the end of the bench if we ask for PTC. My student is, in the only measurable way, the best performer on the team, so I don’t think they would really lose any time though. The question is do you think the potential ill will is worth the time right now to be talking with transfer coaches? The second half is how often are the PTC letters denied? I don’t want to get into a bad spot, but the waiting while time is just wasting is getting difficult.