Anyone have any thoughts on what the availability of official college visits is these days? I heard a speaker at a recent NCAA workshop say that when he was a gymnastics coach at a D1 school he used to give out official visits like they were candy. He coached about 12 years ago, but it seems hard to believe unless his school was minting money! It seems like schools would be more interested in having kids make an official visit because that way its on the parents' dime and the visit can be made in the Junior year instead of waiting until the Senior year for an official visit???? Is it proper for an athlete or her Coach to ask a College Coach for a visit or do College Coaches requests the athlete to visit?