Typical Official Visit Weekend

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This is one of those things I know I should know but don't, but what are the typical "official" activites during an official visit weekend?
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i hope they decided not to watch tv during game time ,meet the players and see all the sports facilaties, see how beautiful tba and neyland are sitting right off the river
 
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When I was getting recruited through high school it was a fairly typical experience.

Due to my high school basketball, the typical visit was midday on Saturday through Sunday.

I visited a couple D1-aa at the time schools as well as South Carolina. Basically the way it worked most of the time was get their mid day. Meet the coaches and take a tour of the facilities and the school. There is limited in depth talk on the first day. Its a layed back meet the coaches and other recruits type deal.

Then one of the current players will come and you will meet him as your host and whatnot. Usually there is a couple hours to kill before dinner. Most of the time I have found that you chill with the other recruits and their hosts during this time while you wait for dinner.

Then you go to a good dinner where once again your interacting with the other recruits and the coachs, but still maybe only get a few minutes of one on one time.

After that it was kinda up to you and your host to figure out what was next. The majority of my recruiting visits lead to me getting pretty drunk and going to parties around campus. Now it was apparrent that everyone was being nice to you, and they pretty much introduce you to every female they can while at the party. At the bigger schools there are certainly more girls that wanna jump all over the next big thing.

After this depending on how things went at the party you usually head back to crash at the dorm room or if you had some game (and you usually have much better luck if your already 18, I found that the 17 year olds got limited or no play) then you might stay with a coed.

There were times we were given the option to go to a strip club, but we declined as most guys wanna see campus life, campus parties, and whatnot.

The next morning we had breakfast and this is when a lot of the extensive talking with the coaches would have. I think on 4 of my 5 visits I met with the head coach to talk scholorship (at D1aa schools not every kid is getting a full ride pretty much, and at the time at South Carolina they were in the waiting game for much higher rated prospects so it came to an invitational walk-on and possible scholarship depending on who committed). After I would talk with the head coach I would usually talk extensively with the position coach and get a feel for how I would fit with the team and stuff like that. I have found this to be the meeting that tied me to my eventual school. Meeting the person you hope to be coaching you for the next 4-5 years is a big deal. Talking to them about the offense and where they see you fitting in is huge as well.

Those are my experiences. I ended up at a D1-AA school, but the recruiting process was awesome and I certainly learned a lot.
 
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buffaloblue said:
When I was getting recruited through high school it was a fairly typical experience.

Due to my high school basketball, the typical visit was midday on Saturday through Sunday.

I visited a couple D1-aa at the time schools as well as South Carolina. Basically the way it worked most of the time was get their mid day. Meet the coaches and take a tour of the facilities and the school. There is limited in depth talk on the first day. Its a layed back meet the coaches and other recruits type deal.

Then one of the current players will come and you will meet him as your host and whatnot. Usually there is a couple hours to kill before dinner. Most of the time I have found that you chill with the other recruits and their hosts during this time while you wait for dinner.

Then you go to a good dinner where once again your interacting with the other recruits and the coachs, but still maybe only get a few minutes of one on one time.

After that it was kinda up to you and your host to figure out what was next. The majority of my recruiting visits lead to me getting pretty drunk and going to parties around campus. Now it was apparrent that everyone was being nice to you, and they pretty much introduce you to every female they can while at the party. At the bigger schools there are certainly more girls that wanna jump all over the next big thing.

After this depending on how things went at the party you usually head back to crash at the dorm room or if you had some game (and you usually have much better luck if your already 18, I found that the 17 year olds got limited or no play) then you might stay with a coed.

There were times we were given the option to go to a strip club, but we declined as most guys wanna see campus life, campus parties, and whatnot.

The next morning we had breakfast and this is when a lot of the extensive talking with the coaches would have. I think on 4 of my 5 visits I met with the head coach to talk scholorship (at D1aa schools not every kid is getting a full ride pretty much, and at the time at South Carolina they were in the waiting game for much higher rated prospects so it came to an invitational walk-on and possible scholarship depending on who committed). After I would talk with the head coach I would usually talk extensively with the position coach and get a feel for how I would fit with the team and stuff like that. I have found this to be the meeting that tied me to my eventual school. Meeting the person you hope to be coaching you for the next 4-5 years is a big deal. Talking to them about the offense and where they see you fitting in is huge as well.

Those are my experiences. I ended up at a D1-AA school, but the recruiting process was awesome and I certainly learned a lot.
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I appreciate it. That was pretty much what I thought went on, but I never really knew.

Great story.
 
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i met j.r "ego" ferguson last night on his official visit to fsu last night and he was out with a couple of players.. i asked him why he cut ut so early on and he said it was all messed up there and he wanted nothing to do with it...
 
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Come on Buffalo Blue. We aren't some dumb chick youre trying to scam on at the bars with your "impressive" recruiting stories. I was always taught, if part of its a lie, then its all a lie!!!

So tell us again about the D1 AA schools that were recruiting you and you went on recruiting trips to a D1 AA school!!!!

NCAA basketball does not have a D1 AA. That only exists in the Football Programs of some smaller schools, not in hoops!

Maybe you meant to say D3 like Maryville College. Re think your story before you tell it again please!

GBO
 
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rok_etop said:
Come on Buffalo Blue. We aren't some dumb chick youre trying to scam on at the bars with your "impressive" recruiting stories. I was always taught, if part of its a lie, then its all a lie!!!

So tell us again about the D1 AA schools that were recruiting you and you went on recruiting trips to a D1 AA school!!!!

NCAA basketball does not have a D1 AA. That only exists in the Football Programs of some smaller schools, not in hoops!

Maybe you meant to say D3 like Maryville College. Re think your story before you tell it again please!

GBO
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I know people who have been recruited by D1 schools and everything he said, was basically what they told me about their visits. Believe his story if you want to or not, but his description of a visit is very accurate.
 
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rok_etop said:
Come on Buffalo Blue. We aren't some dumb chick youre trying to scam on at the bars with your "impressive" recruiting stories. I was always taught, if part of its a lie, then its all a lie!!!

So tell us again about the D1 AA schools that were recruiting you and you went on recruiting trips to a D1 AA school!!!!

NCAA basketball does not have a D1 AA. That only exists in the Football Programs of some smaller schools, not in hoops!

Maybe you meant to say D3 like Maryville College. Re think your story before you tell it again please!

GBO
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Wow, you completely owned yourself.
 
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Also the guy said he didn't get to the schools until Saturday because he played HS basketball, not that he was getting recruited for basketball.
 
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rok_etop said:
Come on Buffalo Blue. We aren't some dumb chick youre trying to scam on at the bars with your "impressive" recruiting stories. I was always taught, if part of its a lie, then its all a lie!!!

So tell us again about the D1 AA schools that were recruiting you and you went on recruiting trips to a D1 AA school!!!!

NCAA basketball does not have a D1 AA. That only exists in the Football Programs of some smaller schools, not in hoops!

Maybe you meant to say D3 like Maryville College. Re think your story before you tell it again please!

GBO
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very nice first post,,welcome to volnation.
 
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rok_etop said:
Come on Buffalo Blue. We aren't some dumb chick youre trying to scam on at the bars with your "impressive" recruiting stories. I was always taught, if part of its a lie, then its all a lie!!!

So tell us again about the D1 AA schools that were recruiting you and you went on recruiting trips to a D1 AA school!!!!

NCAA basketball does not have a D1 AA. That only exists in the Football Programs of some smaller schools, not in hoops!

Maybe you meant to say D3 like Maryville College. Re think your story before you tell it again please!

GBO
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LOL reading comprehension wasn't your strong area? He said his BBall season in HS interfered with his FBall recruiting visits. Bball season and FB recruiting happens in the same months. Duh
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I possibly did misunderstand by assuming it was a basketball recruiting trip. Quite possibly could have been football, in which case D1 AA is an option.

I did play college hoops and graduated 21 years ago. Recruiting has change tremendously since then, but the trip he explains is close. You also hit the education wings, the admissions office to determine eligiblity, you meet the coaching staff and your position coach and usually their families to create that family feel. You will eat some of the famous campus housing gourmet etc. They sell the fun aspect on day one and hard sell it the next day. The drinking thing does occur, but most staffs will not allow it with their host. Remember the guys from last year that got busted on his trip to Knoxville along with his host (name slips my memory).

I apologize if it was for football.........if it was hoops, your fibbing!
 
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rok_etop said:
Recruiting is nothing like it was 21 years ago. The drinking thing does occur, but most staffs will not allow it(21 yrs ago maybe not) with their host. Remember the guys from last year that got busted on his trip to Knoxville along with his host (name slips my memory).
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FYP, + IIRC the recruit was Gerald Jones.and I can't remember which bball guys he was with. Major wingate maybe?!? Anyone else remember this!
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