Anonymous wrote:If D1 doesn’t provide full scholarship and is dependent on performance, what is the point of pursuing D1? I don’t get it.

Anonymous wrote:If D1 doesn’t provide full scholarship and is dependent on performance, what is the point of pursuing D1? I don’t get it.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here’s some advice for the uninitiated, as a parent of a former D1 4-year athlete.

Coaches don’t care about your child. They don’t care if your child gets injured. They don’t care about academics. They own your child and demonstrate that 12 months a year.

Most of the freshman athletes you join the team with will be gone by graduation. The transfer portal makes it easy for decent athletes to leave. Coaches will also tell less talented athletes to leave. Some will just quit. Others will get career ending injuries.

Just because your child got a scholarship doesn’t make them safe. Coaches will torment them. They might make them quit. They’d certainly bench them. The coaches take their responsibility to replace players with better players very seriously.

Your child will get injured, a lot. It will be a constant theme. Pre-season and the actual season takes its toll. Every year they remain on the team, the more damage they’ll do to their bodies. Concussions, knee, ankle, shoulder and elbow injuries happen. There is always a push to get players back to practice faster than necessary. Athletic training rooms are like M.A.S.H. units. Make sure the AT facilities and personnel are excellent or your children will suffer.

Athletic teams haze. You’ll don’t hear about it, but they do.

You’ll see your children less than the parents of NARPs. Athletics gets in the way of holidays, milestones and vacations. When you visit your children on campus you’ll be lucky to get a few hours with them for dinner depending on the sport, team culture and academic rigor.

D1 athletics are a mental and physical grind. Generally the benefits outweigh the costs, but that’s far from guaranteed.

Don’t exaggerate any athletic success in a college sport. Universities all post readily available statistics. People can see if your child isn’t contributing.

Athletics are a full time job. Make sure both you, and your child are ready for it.

To add: D1 scholarships are really one year at a time. If you don't produce or the coach doesn't want you anymore (or a new coach comes in and wants someone new), that's it for you. Sorry.

My daughter's signed letter offers 80% for each of the 4 years. It's literally spelled out by year.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seems like our process is different than others.

1. Are you doing ED?
2. Are you doing d1 or d3? Any d2?
3. Separate from any financial aid, is dc being offered merit aid (yes I’m aware there are technically no athlete scholarships for d3 but schools find $ anyway)? If so, how much?
4. Is dc convinced they will play their sport all 4 years? What do they think about the transfer portal?

Yes
D3
Yes, about 20% of TCOA
Yes.

Anonymous wrote:Seems like our process is different than others.

1. Are you doing ED?
2. Are you doing d1 or d3? Any d2?
3. Separate from any financial aid, is dc being offered merit aid (yes I’m aware there are technically no athlete scholarships for d3 but schools find $ anyway)? If so, how much?
4. Is dc convinced they will play their sport all 4 years? What do they think about the transfer portal?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here’s some advice for the uninitiated, as a parent of a former D1 4-year athlete.

Coaches don’t care about your child. They don’t care if your child gets injured. They don’t care about academics. They own your child and demonstrate that 12 months a year.

Most of the freshman athletes you join the team with will be gone by graduation. The transfer portal makes it easy for decent athletes to leave. Coaches will also tell less talented athletes to leave. Some will just quit. Others will get career ending injuries.

Just because your child got a scholarship doesn’t make them safe. Coaches will torment them. They might make them quit. They’d certainly bench them. The coaches take their responsibility to replace players with better players very seriously.

Your child will get injured, a lot. It will be a constant theme. Pre-season and the actual season takes its toll. Every year they remain on the team, the more damage they’ll do to their bodies. Concussions, knee, ankle, shoulder and elbow injuries happen. There is always a push to get players back to practice faster than necessary. Athletic training rooms are like M.A.S.H. units. Make sure the AT facilities and personnel are excellent or your children will suffer.

Athletic teams haze. You’ll don’t hear about it, but they do.

You’ll see your children less than the parents of NARPs. Athletics gets in the way of holidays, milestones and vacations. When you visit your children on campus you’ll be lucky to get a few hours with them for dinner depending on the sport, team culture and academic rigor.

D1 athletics are a mental and physical grind. Generally the benefits outweigh the costs, but that’s far from guaranteed.

Don’t exaggerate any athletic success in a college sport. Universities all post readily available statistics. People can see if your child isn’t contributing.

Athletics are a full time job. Make sure both you, and your child are ready for it.

To add: D1 scholarships are really one year at a time. If you don't produce or the coach doesn't want you anymore (or a new coach comes in and wants someone new), that's it for you. Sorry.

Anonymous wrote:Seems like our process is different than others.

1. Are you doing ED?
2. Are you doing d1 or d3? Any d2?
3. Separate from any financial aid, is dc being offered merit aid (yes I’m aware there are technically no athlete scholarships for d3 but schools find $ anyway)? If so, how much?
4. Is dc convinced they will play their sport all 4 years? What do they think about the transfer portal?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here’s some advice for the uninitiated, as a parent of a former D1 4-year athlete.

Coaches don’t care about your child. They don’t care if your child gets injured. They don’t care about academics. They own your child and demonstrate that 12 months a year.

Most of the freshman athletes you join the team with will be gone by graduation. The transfer portal makes it easy for decent athletes to leave. Coaches will also tell less talented athletes to leave. Some will just quit. Others will get career ending injuries.

Just because your child got a scholarship doesn’t make them safe. Coaches will torment them. They might make them quit. They’d certainly bench them. The coaches take their responsibility to replace players with better players very seriously.

Your child will get injured, a lot. It will be a constant theme. Pre-season and the actual season takes its toll. Every year they remain on the team, the more damage they’ll do to their bodies. Concussions, knee, ankle, shoulder and elbow injuries happen. There is always a push to get players back to practice faster than necessary. Athletic training rooms are like M.A.S.H. units. Make sure the AT facilities and personnel are excellent or your children will suffer.

Athletic teams haze. You’ll don’t hear about it, but they do.

You’ll see your children less than the parents of NARPs. Athletics gets in the way of holidays, milestones and vacations. When you visit your children on campus you’ll be lucky to get a few hours with them for dinner depending on the sport, team culture and academic rigor.

D1 athletics are a mental and physical grind. Generally the benefits outweigh the costs, but that’s far from guaranteed.

Don’t exaggerate any athletic success in a college sport. Universities all post readily available statistics. People can see if your child isn’t contributing.

Athletics are a full time job. Make sure both you, and your child are ready for it.

Chiming in as a parent of a D1 athlete - Mid-Major though and not P4, so not a lot of scholarship $$. Great experience. Instant friends on campus. Coach cares about team GPA and crafting athletes into good people. Only miss 2 days of classes per semester. Coach texts DC during summer breaks to say hi and see how they are doing. Kids get injured, yes, but they still come to cheer on the team and remain active in team activities. Invaluable experience.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC getting 50% athletic scholarship guaranteed for 4 years - yes it is guaranteed, unless kid quits or breaks rules and thrown off team. We are surprised DC received that much for a secondary sport at a mid major. Strong academic school - very very happy

Understand that while legally this may be true...if a coach sours on your kid, they will make your kid's life a living hell to try get that scholarship money returned to them so they can use on it a better player. Literally, the coach will treat your kid so poorly that no normal person would ever remain on the team...the coach will do everything they can to ruin the sport and college for your kid.

Make sure you are going into this eyes wide open.

Anonymous wrote:DC getting 50% athletic scholarship guaranteed for 4 years - yes it is guaranteed, unless kid quits or breaks rules and thrown off team. We are surprised DC received that much for a secondary sport at a mid major. Strong academic school - very very happy