When do Ivy and D3 coaches usually make offers and ask for commitments?

Im_Not_Sure
Thu, 24 Jun 2021 20:26:51 +0000

Mwfan1921:

Exactly. The athlete is verbally committed and the coach is not looking for anyone else to fill that specific slot.

Is this literally true? I play a specific position, let’s say I am a football kicker. I am not but it’s like that in that you really need a good one and maybe a back up but that’s all.

So, I assume the coach is currently talking to another kicker or two. If he says to me “Admissions signed off on preread. I will commit to supporting you if you commit to me” and I say “yes, count me in”, then he calls the other kickers and says sorry?

And what if I break my kicking leg, or don’t get enough financial aid, or Stanford calls and offers me a full ride, or I am a flaky teenager and decide to go to community college so I can be with my new beau? He’s stuck with the kids who didn’t get any offers? Or does he reach out to some kid that has a NESCAC offer and convince him to walk away, and then that coach poaches from someone else and it all reshuffles.

Similarly if coach tells me I have a slot and then some smart but flaky kid who can kick 5 more yards decides to turn down Northwestern because his boyfriend is at the school I thought I had a slot at, coach will say “Sorry, I gave my word to I’m Not Sure ”?

I appreciate all your patience with my million questions. Can you tell that school got out yesterday? I have spent the past few months doing nothing but study, soccer, art, but today I have time to obsess. My mom says I should use it to clean my room.