If someone could answer this for me I would greatly appreciate it. I was under the impression that coaches could not contact kids until their Jr years in High School. If that is the case, how do kids receive scholarship offers their Freshmen and Sophomores years?

 

How does that work or am I misunderstanding the NCAA rules?

Kids can take an unofficial visit and receive an offer.

so what prompts the unofficial visit? I'm just curious how that interaction starts, are coaches allowed to talk with kids if they make an unofficial? I know coaches can respond to kids if they open the conversation so does that mean that a parent or coach initiated the contact?

Usually a coach sees a kid at an AAU event, contacts the AAU coach and makes the offer. Since the players cannot be contacted directly, AAU coaches set up the visits.

Depends on the level of college. D1, D2, and D3 all have different rules.