Yeah, I heard soccer was pretty bad.
The whole recruiting process is a shitshow in general. These poor kids are on such an emotional rollercoaster. June 15th and kids are on pins and needles hoping to get calls. Then you get calls and these schools don't have the balls to tell you they took another kid higher on the list than you. My daughter was being recruited by Wake Forest. They were looking for an outside hitter. They had been watching her for two years. They showed up at triple crown, and their coach was even videoing her in the huddle. So they were pretty serious. They ended up taking 25 recruit Bailey Warren(DT for the Patriots and aggy Ty Warren's daughter), a kid who plays for a rival of my daughter's high school. They didn't have the decency to even let my kid know they went in a different direction. Bailey is a phenomenal athlete, far better than my kid, but to ghost us? So then Bailey flips to Baylor . I laughed. They got what they deserved. That's what these schools do to kids. No texts back No emails back. No calls back once they decide.
Several schools were after my kid and we coached her to let them know she was looking elsewhere if she didn't like them. We also told her she isn't Cardale Jones, we definitely came to play school. So go to the best school you can, fuck a volleyball ranking. She is a good little player, a little undersized, but a good leaper, and an extremely powerful hitter. She is strong. At 14 she put up 150 on the weight bench and 220 on the squat rack. Had to tell the strength coach to cut that shit out! There are a ton of great schools in the NE that aren't going to wow you in volleyball but are academically strong. She chose that route. So now she is a big fish in a little pond, and that's okay. It's already served her well, because not only are they not going to be trying to recruit over you as soon as you hit campus, but they didn't even drop you after you tore your ACL just prior to national signing day.