College commitments and how to report

It's the season when high school seniors are making commitments to their college programs of choice.

 

Even as I write this article, there are a lot of high school seniors excited, and deservedly so, about the decisions they are making about where they will compete and attend school in college. This is one of my favorite times of year as the webmaster of MileSplit New Mexico. But it's also one of the busiest times of year, so I'm putting this in an article form and hoping some folks will help me get as many of these reports as possible posted here. Please read below and follow the steps as best you can.

1. We will post college commitments for all levels of college programs, to include NCAA Divisions I, II, and III, NAIA, and NJCAA. Although there is not a formal National Letter of Intent for anything except NCAA DI and NCAA DII, that does not matter for the purposes of reporting college commitments. Also, we will post commitments to service academies and Ivy League schools, neither of which have National Letters of Intent.

2. I most prefer an e-mail from the actual athlete signing or a parent of that athlete, but I will also take e-mails from coaches. If you notify me, that notification will pass up the chain to MileSplit National and, in some of the most prominent cases, to Flocasts as well. It's best if you start with notifying me rather than with notifying the national office. It will get posted on MileSplit New Mexico either way, but it will get posted sooner (and probably sooner on National, too) if you notify me directly rather than waiting for it to get passed down the chain to me.

3. I will run as many feature articles as I can. There are some athletes for whom MileSplit National expects me to run feature articles for signings. Those will take top priority, but I will push through as many additional ones as I can. Either way, this will involve me getting back to you with a set of questions to which you respond. Unless you send along a different photo of your choosing, I will pull an action photo of you from my files for use on the cover. If I don't have an action photo of you, I will ask you to submit one for me. I prefer action photos to signing day photos, but if you want a signing day photo on your feature, we will put a signing day photo on your feature. There will be no distinction made on the site between athletes for whom national requests a feature article and those for whom national doesn't. Doing that would run counter to my philosophy of doing things.

4. I will scrounge for confirmed word of signings that doesn't come directly to me. That's part of my job. But, it's so much easier on this end if I get word directly. And, the easier it is, the more feature articles (and other articles!) I can put up.

5. If you don't commit to a college program until April or May, I'm still just as interested in posting that information and the audience of MileSplit New Mexico is still just as interested in reading it. Please send word whenever you sign.

6. Although actual signings do not start happening until Feburary 5, you may notify me now, thus starting the process if you are already sure of your decision. Clearly, a few have already been posted and this freight train is starting to pick up steam.

7. All signing features are always free content.

Signings/commitments already reported

Thank you for all your help with this. This is a happy time of year filled with lots of good news. Please help me to share as much of that good news as possible.

You may send notification of any signings to the e-mail address in the lower left corner of this page. Thanks!

And, as a little contest here, let's see who can be the first to correctly identify all 12 college logos on the cover of this article. Post your IDs in the comments to this article. Some are easy, and some are not.