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When receiving your first recruiting letters at the high school level, it is important to realize the differences between form letters, camp invites, hand written letters, phone calls, and scholarship offers. These coaches have to find a very broad list of athletes to recruit so when you receive something from a Division I school, don’t [...]
After having gone through the recruiting process myself at the lower level, the older I get the more I realize how much recruiting is a game. By that I mean coaches at the scholarship level have to do what they can to lead on as many prospects as they can to land the best talent [...]
With the start of high school and college football games just around the corner, there are a lot of interesting links regarding recruiting right now. While I have went through a number of these links, here are some of interest for recruiting fans:
Texas prep star Mitchell had verbally committed to OU [...]
With how much trouble college athletes have been getting themselves in with these social networks, it is important that high chool athletes realize how these can hurt you as well. It has gotten to the point where some schools make prep athletes sign contracts stating that if pictures are posted on any social network that [...]
Like with all other sports, college coaches cannot see every player in the country live while on the AAU scene or at other NCAA certified events. So it is also important for basketball players with college aspirations to put together a video tape that they can send out to prospect college programs. But unlike football, [...]
In the game of recruiting, it is essential that an athlete put together a recruiting profile sheet. This profile should be limited to no more than four pages and would be ideal at two pages. This sheet can be sent out to college coaches through email or even the regular mail. The advantage of the [...]