fast white guy wrote:
A very good 10th grader on my son's team just found out he had a scholarship offer from a MAC team and the coach didn't tell him about it. The college told the head coach 6 months ago and the coach told the mom "it slipped my mind"!! WTF! Our football team doesn't get a lot of D1 offers, so I feel it's impossible for him to forget about it. That tells me he purposely held back this offer. I heard about other coaches doing this in the past but I just don't understand a coaches motivation for doing this. It makes him look good if his players get D1 offers. I don't get it.
What does a coach have to do with an offer? What does "held back" an offer mean?
The facts are there is no such thing as a binding oral offer or commitment. All that ultimately matters will be what National Letters of Intent your son has in front of him on signing day his senior year.
In the end, the coaches will contact your son directly so who cars what is happening now? If your son sucks the next two years, his offers will be pulled. If he does better, he can upgrade.
Offers in 10th grade are nothing but marketing puffery.
Football recruiting is clearly different than track which is almost exclusively based off of times but in the end it ends up being the same - an offer between a college and your son and one that ultimately will be between the two of them and have little to anything to do with his HS coach (yes the coach can vouch for his character, etc).