Noah Darnell, a senior pitcher at Santa Margarita High, got to experience something that is becoming too common in the world of the college transfer portal and changing NIL rules.<\/p>\n
He was committed to Tulane for about five months. Then a week before his senior year was to begin, he received a phone call.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey didn\u2019t have a spot for me,\u201d he said of Tulane. \u201cWe\u2019re going in another direction.\u201d<\/p>\n
A week later, Darnell went to an Ivy League showcase and informed coaches he was back on the market. Harvard coaches saw him, knew he had a 4.4 grade-point average and told him they wanted him.<\/p>\n
\u201cHarvard was No. 1 from the get-go,\u201d Darnell said. \u201cI\u2019m so happy.\u201d<\/p>\n
These last-minute phone calls by schools telling commits there\u2019s no longer a spot have become more frequent, especially because college baseball has changing roster rules. Luckily for Darnell, everything worked out.<\/p>\n
\u201cI felt a little bit angry,\u201d he said of his initial reaction. \u201cI was frustrated. I wanted to work twice as hard to get another offer.\u201d<\/p>\n
As for lessons learned in this sometimes uncertain environment, Darnell said, \u201cThe main lesson I learned was God has a plan and you have to trust it.\u201d<\/p>\n
This is a daily look at the positive happenings in high school sports. To submit any news, please email eric.sondheimer@latimes.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Noah Darnell, a senior pitcher at Santa Margarita High, got to experience something that is becoming too common…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[4690,29221,15217,48,52,51,43471,47,50,49,63,66542,66543,15214,6310,66545,18974,66544,17565,38233,430],"class_list":["post-129268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-coach","tag-harvard","tag-high-school-sport","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-lesson","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-noah-darnell","tag-phone-call","tag-positive-happening","tag-prep-talk","tag-santa-margarita-high","tag-scholarship","tag-senior-pitcher","tag-spot","tag-tulane","tag-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}