Mad Hornet
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Something I mentioned here before but never got any traction but can this forum have a section for "College Program Reviews"? I know people say to do their research before you commit but the truth about a program is very difficult to find out until a player is actually THERE.
Camps, visits, official visits, often time everyone is putting on a show about how positive the environment is, "everybody just loves it here!" Fake, phoney, BS. I can look up a kitchen appliance and read hundreds of reviews for something that costs under a hundred bucks. But college program? Unless they make national news, no one really knows, until they get there.
I say this as a coach who has helped a lot of players get into all levels of programs and sadly more of them are unhappy than happy with where they ended up, at least from a softball perspective. They put in all this work and go all over hell's half acre trying to get recruited only to get on campus and find out coach is a complete psycho, liar, manipulator, or worse. Not always, but enough times it merits a review program. And maybe if college programs know these reviews are out there, they will try to get better. Thoughts?
Camps, visits, official visits, often time everyone is putting on a show about how positive the environment is, "everybody just loves it here!" Fake, phoney, BS. I can look up a kitchen appliance and read hundreds of reviews for something that costs under a hundred bucks. But college program? Unless they make national news, no one really knows, until they get there.
I say this as a coach who has helped a lot of players get into all levels of programs and sadly more of them are unhappy than happy with where they ended up, at least from a softball perspective. They put in all this work and go all over hell's half acre trying to get recruited only to get on campus and find out coach is a complete psycho, liar, manipulator, or worse. Not always, but enough times it merits a review program. And maybe if college programs know these reviews are out there, they will try to get better. Thoughts?