<p>Every year at least one student athlete on CC doesn’t have the outcome they expected during recruiting. It’s possible that coaches are misleading, but more often I think students and their parents don’t completely understand what is being said by the coach. It’s easy to inflate a comment from “we’d like you to play for us” to “we guarantee you a spot on the team, and admission to our school.” Coaches would love to have lots of kids play for them, and must encourage lots of recruits in order to end up with some who can be admitted, and who will ultimately choose to play for them.</p>
<p>All the advice above is right on about waiting for the likely letter before shutting down communication with other coaches. I just wanted to point out there generally isn’t deception involved, just miscommunication.</p>