I got an unexpected call this morning. It was a call that I had been trying to avoid.
Last week, we received the scholarship offer from Baker University.
The school costs $28,000 per year. After academic and athletic scholarships and a university grant, we would have to come up with $13,000 of that. We don’t have $13,000 per year. This is the very thing that I mentioned to him when he first approached me.
My first thought was to call the coach right away to express my surprise. However, I decided to wait.
Follow my logic and see if it makes sense to you…
If I call him and tell him that the university’s offer was quite a bit below what we had been led to expect, he would ask me what we were hoping for. If I tell him that we were expecting to have to provide between $5-6,000 and he improves his offer to give us that amount, I would be more or less obligated to accept his offer.
So, I didn’t call. In fact, I hoped that he would get so busy that he would forget about us for awhile. That would give us time to see if the other Division 1 schools were really interested.
You can imagine my surprise and discomfort when my phone started ringing and I saw who was calling me! It felt like we were playing Hide and Seek and he just discovered my hiding place!
He wants to get together for dinner and make his final offer. I managed to delay it until next Tuesday night. That doesn’t give me much time.
