Originally Posted by Anonymous
Can someone explain to me please . If you sign a verbal, the athlete should not be contacted by another school and vise versa? Otherwise what does a verbal mean? Is it just for the kid to say he is going to a school and actually means absolutely nothing???


You don't "sign" a verbal. A verbal is exactly what it is. A "verbal agreement", a.k.a. a "handshake agreement". There is nothing binding or official about it in the eyes of the NCAA or the admissions departments at schools. It is a non-binding verbal agreement between coach and player/family. Nothing becomes formal until the NLI (National Letter of Intent) is signed in November (or April in the case of a spring signing) of senior year.