It is harder to get college looks when breaking out as a senior
The easiest way to get recruited and stay recruited during your high school career is get to the varsity level early and make a name for yourself. By doing this, it makes it easier for you to get your name out to college coaches. The problem with that situation is that for all athletes, that [...]
Athletic scholarships breed more athletic scholarships
The biggest hurdle that you must overcome in the recruiting process is getting your first scholarship offer. It could be from a Division I or II school but getting that first offer is not an easy thing to do. As I mentioned when I talked about broadcasting your recruiting attention (Click here for the article), [...]
How to anger the NCAA on Football Signing Day
With some of the strange situations that I have seen in recent months regarding the recruiting process (Including fake offers and press conference that should not have happened), it should come as no surprise that there was another strange story that came up following Signing Day. Here is a little background on the situation. It [...]
Athletic scholarship offers can change at a drop of a hat
In the recruiting process, things can change within hours. I have talked about that many times before how college coaches need to fill up their recruiting classes. They want to land the best possible athletes and that may or may not include you. It really just depends on your timing and making a decision before [...]
Handling heavy athletic recruiting attention
If you are a sought after athlete in any sport, it may be tough to juggle the attention that you are receiving. It is not an easy process to be able to handle that, school, athletics, and just being a kid in high school. But in order to not burn yourself out trying to please [...]
I’m a sophomore/freshman with football recruiting interest. What do I do?
If it is that early in the recruiting process, schools can only have limited contact with you. By NCAA rules, they can only send you a questionnaire and camp invites. Obviously with the numbers game at the summer camps, they would love to bring you on campus. That doesn’t matter if you will be the [...]
Keeping track of your athletic recruiting attention
One important aspect that may be a huge benefit to your recruiting process is staying organized. While it may seem easy, keeping track of all the attention that you receive is something that will help you make that final decision. It gives you a chance to look back at all of the schools you are [...]
Importance of college football and college basketball camps
In the past, I have talked about why college camps are a money maker for the coaches at the school. There have been very few exceptions (I will talk about one later that I am aware of) to this. As an athlete during the recruiting process, you may be sent an invite to a college [...]
The athletic recruiting process can get ugly
One of the main reasons that many feel the recruiting process is out of control is the fans that cover them. These normally are people who are raised following a certain team. When watching games, these fans will get mad at players they praised the previous game and be disappointed in the play of a [...]
The days leading up to Signing Day are stressful
Because recruiting is a game and college coaches have to have backup options, if you are an undecided prospects, things will really heat up right before Signing Day. There could be so much going on that you could get multiple calls from a variety of different schools. These schools may have never ever sent you [...]