ShareIt doesn’t matter what sport it is but a change in coaching will have an overall impact on the recruiting process at that given school. And unless they have already named a coach-in-waiting (which Florida State and Texas have done), then that impact will be something that is negative to the current crop of recruits [...]
ShareLegacy (Colorado) defensive end Nick Kasa recently ended the recruiting process a few weeks ago when he committed to Florida. After making the decision, the Gators took home the BCS National Title. But even with that honor, this senior was having second thoughts about the importance of staying home. So instead of traveling the country [...]
ShareThere is an excellent story going around over the last few weeks regarding a recruit by the name of Jonathan Davis. What has happened in his recruitment is the perfect example of how quickly things can change in the football recruiting process. Davis had thought he ended the recruiting process early when he committed to [...]
ShareThe Wall Street Journal had an excellent article in December talking about the Do-It-Yourself Scholarship Athlete (Click here for the full article). I felt that this was a fantastic piece that spoke a great deal about what I support and write about on this site everyday. Make sure to check out the article but here [...]
ShareI have stressed the importance of taking The Five Steps to a Scholarship every month that I have been running this site. I assume most readers of the site have checked them out before but they are the keys to getting yourself evaluated by college coaches. But with the small amount of college scholarships at [...]
ShareOne of the most frequent questions that I receive via email is how users can help support the Recruiting-101 website. First off, if you are reading this, that is a great start. The more users that the website receives, the bigger the site grows and the easier it is to spend more time producing better [...]
ShareA parent was kind enough to shed some light on the current football recruiting situation of his son recently. Just to give a little background, the athlete has spent his life playing tight end and that is what he will be playing at the college level. But during his senior season, the high school changed [...]
ShareWhen talking about the recruiting process, there are a number of different terms and phrases that I use. While it is something that I assume most people know, I do realize that for people new to the athletic recruiting process, some of these terms may go over your head. So with that in mind, I [...]
ShareI recently had a chance to speak with a recruit who was telling me that he had missed some time after the football season due to a knee injury. When asking him further about what happened, he told me that he had torn the MCL but didn’t want that to be known. The reason why [...]
ShareA few weeks back, I was writing on a different website about how a talented football recruit was receiving Division I attention from a number of schools throughout the country. This was a player who has testing numbers off of the chart and has had a decent amount of success on the football field as [...]