<p>When Kid (fortunately) has several attractive options, should Kid cross off the school whose coach (nor admissions office) has not been heard from since the beginning of the month? Could this mean the coach is no longer interested; would the coach let Kid know if that is the case after official overnight, much communication, and Early Decision was requested, but Kid made known the app would be submitted Regular Decision?</p>
<p>Another question, if Signing Day isn't until February then how/why are so many athletes already signed?</p>
<p>(Sorry for the dumb questions, didn't go to college and wasn't a part of stepchildrens' college application process and no athletes there.)</p>
<p>Some athletes sign the National Letter of Intent during early signing, which is in November. As far as coach communication, coaches are busy people. I would not necessarily count a school out because you haven’t heard from the coach in a couple of weeks. If your athlete is still interested in the school, have him or her communicate this to the coach. Communication goes both ways, the coach may be waiting for your athlete to contact him. Also, at many schools, coaches have less influence with Regular Decision students, one of the reasons they push for Early Decision. So yes, this could possibly be part of the problem.</p>
<p>We stopped hearing from a coach, who previously had appeared quite interested, after Christmas or so. Deferred EA to RD to rejection. Coach did not respond to couple of emails from January on. Turns out he’d probably found someone he liked better and likely had withdrawn support for DS but did not communicate that. Never got a response to email son sent after rejection thanking him for his previous support.</p>
<p>Doesn’t sound like you have anything to lose though as your child has other options. Wait and see.</p>
<p>I agree with fishymom - Although this may not apply to every sport, if your son chose to apply RD as opposed to ED, there tend to be far fewer spots in the RD pool for the coach to use. Many coaches do prefer to have their recruits apply ED/EA so as to firm up next year’s roster sooner rather than later. The RD recruiting period tends to be much more competitive than the ED/EA recruiting period as there are far fewer spaces available, and therefore more competition - as in, the recruits who weren’t picked up by a school in the EA/ED round, along with the recruits who were top recruits during the ED/EA round, but, for whatever reason, find themselves back in the pool for RD. Hope this helps. Sounds like your son will be fine as he already has other good RD options :)</p>
<p>Thank you Fishymom, Ihs, Mayhew and those who PMed us with very good advice and observations. After checking thread, kiddo checked in with a coach who is putting paperwork together!</p>
<p>Hi Riv, sorry wasn’t clearer–I should have specified that the coach who is starting paperwork is one of the other coaches. (Missing-in-Action coach has still not been heard from.) Thanks to the helpful responses on this thread, Kid realized the importance of keeping in touch post-OV with all the coaches and did just that, which got some nice responses and opened up communication with a terrific school. Some good insight above as to why the disappearing coach may not be heard from again. Better to be aware of this than to just keep waiting and waiting. Again, thank you to all of you, we learn so much here and appreciate the support!</p>
<p>My son was asked to apply ED and did not. We had not heard from the coach either. Son finally screwed up the courage to call and coach was thrilled to hear from him. He said he still had spots open and son should apply RD (he said he was concerned he had decided to apply elsewhere EDI and assumed they had lost himi) and he would advocate strongly for him. Don’t know how it will all turn out as this LAC does not use slots. Son is on coach’s A list (we aksed). Very important to maintain contact.</p>