Yup you have a clue...Your kid must be a stud...Donkey...you just referred to Hockey East as Big East...,your clueless...crawl back into the basement

i don't think you understand. it is for the far better to do a one-way commit as early as possible. you don't want to start a competitive bidding situation: you commit so early as not to know who the coach would be, what other players are there, the style of play, whether your child prefers a city campus, whether their grades qualify. why would would want other coaches 'talking to you'.

in fact i do that all the time: when i purchased my house i told the seller even before i knew the price 'i want this house no matter the price or condition', i did it with my last car purchase, the last home improvement project --- told the contractor 'i am going with you' before they even bid.

Except for the fact that you bought your house and car. Little bit different when someone says here is a 900k house and a 60k car you can have for $0 in 3 years....all u need to do is say u want them in 3 years. Without that commitment I can't guarantee you the house and car will be available to you. I need you to let me know within the month.

There's no money behind 90% of the commits today.

I love how you have zero clue about the process.

0% clue or 100%..My oldest is on that list.

Not sure I understand your post, but it's changed in the last couple of years. Five years ago, you knew if it was a 2 for 4 or 4 for 4, or whatever. Still not binding, but you had that discussion.

Not the case any more in MOST "commits." How can it be if Hockey East schools have 30+ commits out there?

If you oldest got a REAL commit, then congrats.

They roster 27 every year. If they are committing kids for the next 5-6 years then they need to have 30+ commits out there to get to that 27 every year.

The offer definitely comes with a financial package involved. Anyone that thinks differently hasn't gotten one.

I was going through the recent posts and noticed this thread. I looked at the link for college commits, sorted by date and was somewhat shocked to see "commitments" for 2003 and 2004 kids.

I have a 2006 and haven't even thought about high school but 8th graders are committed? I think I saw a 2004 committed to Minnesota. That's nuts... My kid borderline believes there's a Santa...

Thanks. I'll let our advisor know that he's clueless.

Commitments arent binding but teams absolutely plan their scholarship money around them.

it appears my point was missed... PLAYER commitments have been well discussed on this board (do a search). you only need to read (eagle-tribune) about EH from AP to Brown to get a good take. my point is they are not only meaningless but downright stupid. they serve no purpose other than for the parent to crow about it. they are not binding on the school, in fact no doubt the school has not extended any offer of any type (ncaa violation). a coach expressing interest is not an offer. and considering the recent situation with college basketball --- . try this: a college scout watches then approaches your current coach --- 'what about x', 'sorry he is going to y' scout moves on. i assume we all watched the movie 'blind side' is which a constant parade of HEAD coaches sat down with the player and parents. which would you prefer? then add that nearly every player has to spend a year or two in juniors... and i ask why commit until the letter from the college is in hand. one should be expanding/opening doors not eliminating them.

I am sorry but you are really uneducated on the subject. This is how it works for players (talking the high end) that get commitments early. Players all have advisors if they are deemed elite talents, advisors talks with player and gets list of interested schools or schools that are interested in them. Advisor then contacts coaches and notifies players of level of interest. Player then visits schools and meets with coaches etc. Offers are verbally discussed and terms (full scholarship, 2 for 4, 3 for 4) are absolutely given in visits...thus the "offer". Terms on when they would expect the player to arrive are also discussed. Players then "commit" to that program based on offer and general time frame of enrollment they discussed. College coaches all have depth charts and plan 4+ years out based on their rosters and scholarship dollars available. A commit although verbal and not binding gives groundwork that the player will be going there and the school can plan their roster accordingly. System isn't perfect for sure....sometimes waiting for an offer works sometime it doesn't...passing on an offer sometimes works and sometimes it backfires if a team no longer has scholarship money. Players commit to reserve a spot and to reserve scholarship slots...it isn't 100% but its a lot better than not having a spot or $$ allocated.

And, what you just described is about 10% of the verbal commits today. With the other 90% it's just so the kid can tweet about it and parents can brag to the other parents. That's why I said that if a kid has a "real" commitment, congrats.

So, which more accurately describes the verbal commitment process today?

I'm going with the 90%.

So 90% of verbal commits are just for press and have zero validity? Thats your claim?

If you'll follow along (tough, I know) I said earlier that 90% don't have money attached to them. If they don't, then I suppose yes, you could say that it has very little validity. I'm sure some - many? most? will attend the school they committed to. I don't know how many will get $$$.

Last stat I saw was that the decommit rate is already over 10% - one in eight or nine, from memory. And the number of commits has absolutely exploded. How many are "valid?" We'll see what it looks like on NLI Day for the 2000s next year. My guess is the rate will soar every year for the next several.

So 10% decommit (and I bet 90% of that 10% commit to another program)...90% is probably about the commit success rate of a player committing and attending that school.

Might want to check your math - NCAA allows 18 scholarships per team. Most teams carry about 24 players. That means 75% of the players are getting some form of scholarship at least. Realistically, some of the bottom players are splitting $$$ so essentially every player is getting something.

Still struggling with the reading, I see.

I said the decommit rate is already over 10%. The 2000s - which is when the current nonsense really started to happen - are only now reaching their actual decision point. They still have 2 - 3 years of Juniors ahead of them, during which they may - or may not - keep their commitment. If you talk to D-3 coaches, they are losing commits left and right to D-1 schools, before the kid ever sets foot on campus.

And every kid that is decommitted from Northeastern or decommits because he finds out he isn't getting $$$ - or even a roster spot - is going to land somewhere else. Which means someone at THAT school is going to get decommitted. When the music stops, a lot of kids are left without a chair, or $$$.

The entire "game" has changed in the last five years. We won't really know the impact for another five. LAX has changed their rules, IMO hockey will do the same, sooner versus later. It can't keep going like this.

How does a Hockey East school have 30+ commits ? The same way the other top dog Div I schools do it - they have scholarship players playing on their CLUB teams. That is their "pool" to pull from for injuries, academic problems, etc.

That may be, but it wasn't like that until recently. I have a friend whose son was at a Hockey East school, is now in the NHL, and when he committed they had maybe 20. Even then Dad was nervous about the numbers. So 30+ is a huge increase.

Hockey East teams have 18 full scholarships per season, to be split between 23-24 players, players either get full rides, some are split like 2for4 or 3for4, etc., and some of walk-on's who get nothing and are happy to be there (they also don't play). Head coach's are like general managers, they have to mange their monies (scholarships), and also manage who is coming in and when. Some kids will be pushed back, some kids even get de-committed by the school if they don't develop like the team expected. Nothing is guaranteed until you sign your NLI, and even after that, your scholarship award goes one year at a time. How do I know this? My kid committed at 15, played Prep, USHL, and now Hockey East. Any parent that is in the middle of this right now, come into this with your eyes wide open, choose a school that you think he will like and where you think he will play.

Darn! So I never played more than high school hockey, never coached a college team, never played in the NHL and have never held an NHL front office job and I don't have any relatives who did any of these things either! So for my kid I guess BC is out.

There's academic money in the equation too. If a player has good grades and high SAT score, that makes life easy for the coach because the player will get academic money and will need less athletic money. Thus more athletic money (from 18 hockey scholarships) will be available for the coach to use to acquire other players.

But the University isn't giving out academic money to 16 year olds. That comes later.

Thank you for sharing,
looks like the great Fed only has the two kids listed in the original post so far,

couple of others were part time Westchester players

Zero... None, Nada. College commit? 02? Really...? Means nothing, check the college rosters, almost no one under 21 is playing, and that's as a freshman... So a commit to a 15 year old? Play the lottery, same chance of winning.

Funny how clueless you are...avg at BC/BU is 20yr 4 months. Thats average.

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