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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Freshmen committing to college seems ridiculous, indeed.  Just heard that there is a Landon freshmen who has comitted to UVA as of this week.  Strange but true apparently.
Is this the new norm?[/quote]

Just because a freshman commits to a college, doesn't mean that that college has recruited him/her or ever will.  As a high school freshman, I committed to going to Princeton, but by senior year, I wasn't good enough to get in. Freshmen/Sophomores/Juniors can announce they are committing to a school, even though that school's coach has not contacted them.  College coaches cannot initiate personal contact or make a scholarship offer to any athlete until June 1 before the athlete's senior year.  The fact that a high school underclassman commits only tells the college that he/she is very interested in attending that school and alerts the school to that fact.  The college admissions department can then send out admissions brochures and other information about the school that they send to all interested potential applicants and begin the STUDENT recruitment process. At that point, the athlete is being recruited as a student, not as an athlete. The coaches at the college can monitor the player's progress through high school and decide whether to offer the player a scholarship or not.

A student-athlete can commit to a college, but the college and its coaches do not automatically commit to the student.[/quote]

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