The Reality of Baseball recruiting

What is the reality of Baseball recruiting...but, it also includes all sports.What a player and his family perceives to be the recruiting reality may be completely different for another. The normal assumption is that the bluechip top 200 prospect has the easiest time in recruiting and that the player with lower level college potential has the toughest road in the recruiting process...This to not necessarily true.While it is true that the top prospects have their choice of several scholarship offers, there are disappointments and problems as well. Even the top prospects do not get solid or any offers from their favorite school, at times. This may be due to that school not needing a player at that position, they may have signed several pitchers the previous year. The opposite happens as well. The top prospects favorite school makes him a very good offer and from the very start, the player verbally commits to that college and program and is very happy. The next player is called the mid-range player. He or she is a legitimate college prospect. Maybe the fit is at the DI level or an NAIA school or a good quality D2 program. Many mid-range players end up with a couple of scholarship offers. Maybe a mid to lower DI or DII, or an NAIA school and in some cases a junior college program or two. Mid-range athletes getting 15 or 20 offers are more often than not untrue. I have tried to figure a way to write this next portion for ease of understanding and I have somewhere along the way read this, do not remember from where but it was written well and I am passing it along as I could not say this any better...For the good high school player that is a marginal college prospect the reality of recruiting may be that he does not hear anything from a college coach until the mid point of his senior high school season. Many times this caliber of player will receive one scholarship offer from a local school or maybe he is invited to walk-on. The late period is the time that many of the NCAA DIII programs, the lower NAIA and some junior colleges really turn up the heat in their recruiting process. Many times the player is a Big fish in a small pond. His parents, peers and others all feel that he is a future professional baseball player and will be playing for the Yankee's within the year. Larger than "reality" opinions about their player's abilities and college baseball potential, that may not match the rest of the sports world's opinion.
What you need to know about College Baseball RecruitingThe NCAA allows each division 1college baseball program 11.78 scholarships and each division 2 program is allowed 9. NAIA colleges can offer a maximum of 12 scholarships. Not all college athletic scholarships are full ride like, for example, basketball. Most are equivalency sports like baseball. This basically means that a coach can divide his 12 scholarships between a larger number of players. This could mean 25 partial instead of 12 full ride scholarships. If you are a top player then a full ride baseball scholarship is always a possibility.So what is the "reality of recruiting?" It depends on the player's abilities, the needs of college programs that have seen him play. What type of summer program he has played in, the geographic location in which he lives and numerous other reasons. The reality of recruiting is that it is different for every player so whatever you hear from your friends may be unique to that particular situation for the college, player and his/her family.