Blocking college coaches

lollerama wrote:

This. How hard is it to send them an email or a text saying, "Thank you very much for your offer. Unfortunately, I am not interested at this time. I will contact you if my situation changes. Regards, 'your name'

Given the high percentage of college runners who transfer plus the fact that you're a young immature high schooler and may change your mind 10 times between now and signing day don't burn any bridges. Politely saying your not interested at the time is 100% correct way to go. The idea that you and I'm sure hundreds of other high schoolers think it appropriate to block the coach because you don't have the courtesy or social understanding to tell them you're not interested says a lot about how our society interacts and communicates today. I don't know what you think is going to happen when you reject these coaches but its not like breaking up with a significant other or something similiar, they understand and most will politely will go there own way. For that one jerk coach out there that try's to give you a hard time, hang up on that guys and if her persists then block them. But I've heard very few stories of college coaches giving high schooler a hard time, and most of those involved athletes who verbally committed then backed out or signed with another school without telling the coach, don't do this.

Pretty remarkable job here. The OP had a solid troll. Better than solid really.

Then got streamrolled by RealWorld and the other handle that guy used to troll the sweet baby Jesus out of everyone. All over texts.

Hello Zippy, I'm a former college coach and now I'm just a hs coach. I've also had the distinct pleasure of helping raise two outstanding millennials. Both of them had similar thoughts to the person posting under the pseudonym (presumably) of ............. while in middle school. When they got to university, they became more acquainted with social graces. One of those graces was to not think more highly of oneself than others. Another of those other graces was politeness, which is always appropriate and effective. Put simply, they (as others have mentioned in this thread) are successfully differentiating themselves from the vast majority of their peers (and mine for that matter...) by taking the extra time to dot the i's and cross the t's tactfully. As one of my drill Sgts. posited, tact is the ability to tell someone to go you-know-where in such a way as to enjoy the trip. Just because people do it and/or have quaint names for the habit (ghosting, how clever) doesn't make it right/correct/proper/effective/mature/called for etc. Yours Truly, A Golden Flash ps Actually, I can write and read...

LETS GO ZIPS wrote:

Either way is fine. You can either ignore the coaches or respond, it makes no difference. At the end of the day you are not going to that coaches schools so there should be no hard feelings. I find it even less professional to hold a grudge against a high school kid because they decided to not respond to you. And if someone doesnt hire you in the future because of this then you dont want to work for them anyway

At the very least you should hear these schools out no matter where and see what you're worth to them. If somebody offers you a half ride, you can leverage that with a school's offer from a place you'd actually want to attend. You are not making the best decisions here. Just like when you interview for multiple jobs - even if you have the job picked out that you want, it's good experience to interview with more than one position just for the experience and knowledge you would gain.