oof. they made a mistake moving it and making it smaller. unfortunate for those of us who need rooms!!
Whatever you do I hope it doesn’t involve 1896 house. Terrible place! Had a friend stay there last year - no heat - freezing temps.
It’s not right there in W-town, but in closeby North Adams there’s the Tourists which looks very interesting.
Try the Orchards as a second choice if it is available. Agree 1896 house is iffy.
So funny because I was looking at 1896. I’m embarrassed to say I may book the Northside Motel. I figure bedbugs are a cheap way to exfoliate. Maybe my daughter will be so pissed at being chewed all night she’ll play like a monster.
Ive heard the tourists is great.
Is Northside one of the bedbug hotels? I know the hojo’s had some bedbug issues.
In general the NESCACs recruit late. Not sure of all the sports timelines but it is pretty well known they make you wait. We have been through the process. It is not easy and there are a lot of factors in play. At one point in August going into my daughter’s senior year she had 8 schools interested (communicated from the coaches). Within one week she lost interest from 4 of those schools. That was a brutal week. One of the schools still in the mix told her outright, they were waiting to hear if another recruit was on board who had perfect SAT scores and that would balance out what they could bring in for the rest of the recruits (lots of angles to it all). They might also be looking at several kids for a particular position and waiting to see which dominoes fall in place.
If a coach is communicating with your kid, it is always a good sign but may wind up meaning nothing. We had two coaches leave their positions at the end of the summer going into her senior year. We had one brand new coach tell her to get back in touch if she changed her mind about the school (she was willing to make a verbal commitment to our daughter), even though she had said she was looking elsewhere. We know of players who wound up de-committing to verbal offers that opened up things for other players. There are a million variables.
Stay in touch with the coaches. Show your “demonstrated interest.” Try to stay positive but understand it can all change in a heartbeat and nothing is definite until you have that acceptance letter. I believe the NESCACs are pretty good with their verbal commitments but it is still just a verbal. And by the time of mid to late summer your kid needs to start putting coaches on the spot as to whether they see them in their program (again this can depend on the sport).
Good luck everyone!
Sorry. That was a cheap joke and unkind. I’m sure the Northside has no bugs, and it’s almost exactly 300 bucks cheaper than Tourists. They should rename it Millionaires.
Beware the Northside is not that great (worse than 1896). But no bedbugs. We stayed there when my son was a recruit and had an OV. Thank goodness he did not notice.
I just thought I would check back in to my thread. I kind of wish I could post as my son goes through the process but one, I don’t want him identified and two, if I write as it happens I probably will get things wrong (that is, what I think is the case in February may not actually be the case in April).
We were just at a junior day at a d3 school, and the coach said " if your recruiting process has been chugging along st 20 mph, get ready, because this spring it’s going to go to 80 mph".
My son is a high d3/low d1 soccer player graduating hs in 2021.if I can answer any questions about the process so far, would be happy to!
@cinnamon1212 , I totally get that, though I’m less concerned that my daughter will be identifiable here. And honestly, if she can play well enough to help them win I doubt they care about my silly CC posts.
So here I sit in the Sawyer library at Williams doing my own belated grad school work and trying not to think about how she’s doing on the field and how much I love this place. Gotta keep the poker face so my own emotions don’t become part of her calculus and add to her already substantial anxiety about the entire process. (Also trying not to think about our 6-hour drive home tonight. Ugh.) If she gets nowhere I’ll console myself with the fact that the mascot here is absurd. It’s basically a cow showing its butt.
I can report that the Northgate was perfectly fine. Clean, comfy bed, hot shower, and $67. I’m low-maintenance and probably (okay definitely) a complete cheapskate so it suits me. If she gets in I’ll spring for the Inn. Also the Thai place on Spring Street was excellent. I think I’ll try the Indian joint for lunch.
@cinnamon1212 and @OCDaddy : thank you for sharing and best of luck to your kids. Those long drives are something that (appropriately) take a back seat (ha, pun intended) in the college search process, but smack ya when you think about attending games where ever they end up. We got lucky and the boy is less than two hours away, but Williams (also my initial choice) would have been a haul (not 6 hours though). All the games are streamed online, and free (#cheapskate) but you can get motion-sick if the camera operator has shaky hands. In the eternal D1 v D3 debate, the viewing factor goes to D1 as there’s just a ton of collegiate sports available in stunning HD now. Hopefully that pic quality works down to D3 student productions soon!
The NESCAC streams for our D’s sport, softball, were not bad. They were pretty much all HD. I am sure it has to do with the cameras usually being pretty static (behind home plate and/or somewhere in the outfield). I can see sports involving more movement on a larger field being more difficult to cover.
What always amused me was the commentary, sometimes naively incorrect and oftentimes using “big/fancy” vocabulary, e.g., instead of saying “player A interfered with the runner”, it might be “player A impeded the progress of the runner and therefore the runner was awarded an extra base.” Kind of like the time Leonard tried to fit in with Penny’s friends when they were watching football.
@AmBuddha, thanks! I have attempted to watch NESCAC hockey and the puck is almost invisible. Most of the time I only know they’ve scored because the players are going crazy. Bigger softball probably helps. Or maybe you don’t watch on your phone like I do. 
Maybe a wrap up post at the end to list out what you learned and best tips? It’s a lot of work but would be really helpful ?
Huge good luck to both your kids. I think the work involved in finding the right academic fit + the right athletic fit + the coach who wants you (regardless of other coaches who “should” want you) is underestimates and seems stressful!
I was about to post - - “take a look at the ‘stickied’ how to thread @Ohiodad51 put together as forum (champion? moderator?) with collective wisdom on recruiting from various experienced folks here over the years.” There are some tremendous resources on football, soccer, lax and other recruiting processes, across the levels of play.
Only, now I can’t find it?
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My daughter’s school streamed home games for free, but I sometimes had to pay to watch her play away games. It was usually about $6.
Home games were free, but the announcer was horrible. He knew little about lacrosse, and even less about women’s lacrosse. We learned more about how good the pizzas were at a sponsor’s restaurant than how long a yellow card penalty was (TWO MINUTES!). If he didn’t know a call, he’d just tell us what the call would have been if this were a basketball game. “oh, that would have been an offensive charge in basketball” -um, okay, but this is lacrosse.
@Midwestmomofboys - here you go - I had it bookmarked:
along with this great (although a bit old) soccer specific one:
(It used to be pinned, not sure what happened to any of the Athletic Recruits board pins)
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Hey all. Just wanted to post a brief update, which is to say it has become a scene from A Quiet Place. No word from the coach despite my daughter reaching out and asking how she did. You could certainly argue that the coach is busy preparing for their opening game, but I’m pretty sure she would’ve written something if there was interest. She could tap out a two sentence ‘we’re interested; more later’ message in about twenty seconds, and likely has to those of real interest. My daughter even wrote something about possibly walking-on and if so would there be any support for her application. Crickets. I hate it when @twoinanddone is right!
So we’ll put that one away unless and until she hears something and move on to the next. Disappointing but the recruiting thing is a sometimes harsh reality and she’ll learn from it. The coach was very nice and my daughter understands that it isn’t personal. She is pretty good about not getting invested in these schools for exactly this reason. Her dad not so much. Now all he has to do is find some reason to hate Williams. Suggestions are welcome. I’ve never liked purple that much so there’s that. 
Continue updating coaches, even the ones who don’t respond.
We have no idea why that coach couldn’t even ‘tap out’ a quick message…so assume things could still work out there, until you have better evidence they won’t, e.g., until they tell you or you make another decision.
Coaches sometimes go AWOL, especially during season. I encourage your D to also copy the asst coaches on her communications. Keep the communications short and sweet.
Good luck.
@OCDaddy I agree with @Mwfan1921 . S19 had some coaches who I swear checked email every ten minutes and must be the type of people who respond immediately so nothing is hanging over their heads. He wrote to other coaches who would respond weeks later like he just read his email. I would continue to update if anything new comes up (not sure how that works with a team sport since it’s not golf or swimming or running where one can update new PRs) and maybe don’t flat out ask for info back at this point. Just have her say she’s still very interested in playing on the team and thank you for his consideration.