Can someone explain the process/timeline for D1/D2 recruiting?

[Anonymous]

Do what I (and I expect many others did) OP and order a book (s) on AMZ about college recruiting for your child's sport. Worked for my kid Ivy rowing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Football, baseball and basketball recruiting will work much differently than other sports and they have their own NCAA rules on blackout periods and what not.

Ivy League schools can give commitments as early as Fall of junior year, but they holdback most for summer after junior and fall of senior year. For a select group of athletes they really want, they can drop their academic standards enough that the pre read doesn’t matter much (and usually they are in a competitive situation for that athlete).

If your kid plays one of the sports above and is truly D1 material, then only minimum grades and scores matter. I wouldn’t tell my 9th grader to shirk school work…but Duke basketball doesn’t care how well your kid does academically as long as you meet minimum standards (but of course you have to be great).

This is not true for lacrosse, Ivy spots are gone by October of junior year.

Thankfully soccer is later- my kids were on the late side of development. 5’4” Freshmen, 6’1” Seniors. They also missed a lot of seasons with growth-related injuries. We are also seeing VERY old rosters—grad students/5th years and heavy on Seniors. It’s due to the transfer portal rule change and it is negatively affecting Freshmen recruits. A lot of transfers into programs vs young new recruits. Lots of rosters moving around.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Football, baseball and basketball recruiting will work much differently than other sports and they have their own NCAA rules on blackout periods and what not.

Ivy League schools can give commitments as early as Fall of junior year, but they holdback most for summer after junior and fall of senior year. For a select group of athletes they really want, they can drop their academic standards enough that the pre read doesn’t matter much (and usually they are in a competitive situation for that athlete).

If your kid plays one of the sports above and is truly D1 material, then only minimum grades and scores matter. I wouldn’t tell my 9th grader to shirk school work…but Duke basketball doesn’t care how well your kid does academically as long as you meet minimum standards (but of course you have to be great).

This is not true for lacrosse, Ivy spots are gone by October of junior year.

Thankfully soccer is later- my kids were on the late side of development. 5’4” Freshmen, 6’1” Seniors. They also missed a lot of seasons with growth-related injuries. We are also seeing VERY old rosters—grad students/5th years and heavy on Seniors. It’s due to the transfer portal rule change and it is negatively affecting Freshmen recruits. A lot of transfers into programs vs young new recruits. Lots of rosters moving around.

^ my son and a lot of his Mlsnext team didn’t even commit until winter & spring of Senior year.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Attention from whom?

- that will help answer this

National level teams for his age group, other teams and private schools who are recruiting, recently from a college coach at a camp he attended.

This is hard to understand. I’m trying to help bc my son is recruiting now. What are national level teams for his age group? Other teams? Private schools? Unless he is at a professional level (which can happen very young, though very rare), almost zero schools will reach out this early. D1 won’t reach out til 6/15 of his sophomore year. D2 and D3 can reach out earlier but, again, 99.99999% are uninterested no matter how good you are until around the same time bc they are recruiting rising seniors mostly and some rising juniors.

Many sports have junior or youth or U16 teams that represent the country in competition. He's been scouted and invited to camps for those teams, but hasn't actually made the team, which isn't really surprising because he's still a couple years younger that the top of the age bracket.

We got many calls this past fall from coaches at private day and boarding schools for his sport. We visited several, and he will attend one with a scholarship this fall. He qualified for the scholarship based on our family income, but it's clear they put him near the top of their financial aid pile. Similarly, he's been approached by coaches from multiple clubs, and plays at a top club for our area.

This summer he attended a camp at a D1 school. He was one of a few kids pulled aside for a "we'd love you to consider us" conversation. Obviously not an offer, but seemingly a sign that he caught the coaches' eye.

He's not professional level. He plays a sport where size matters, and while he's tall for his age, he's not yet tall enough to be an adult professional. However, every other male in his family has grown substantially after the fall of freshman year, so we expect that will change (the height, not saying he will be professional level).

I don't play any sports, and his dad is out of the picture. So, I just want a sense of how this works. I can find timelines but I'm not entirely sure what is allowed and what isn't at various points in the timelines. For example, I know college coaches can talk to his coach but not to him, but I'm not clear whether his coach can talk to him about those conversations. I know that the exception is that college coaches can talk to him at college camps, but I don't know if they are limited in what they can say.

I also sometimes see references to kids committing early in lacrosse, football and basketball, and I'm not clear how a kid can commit if prereads don't happen till the summer before senior year.

Yes, he knows he needs to keep up the rigor and the grades.