I will get you an athletic scholarship right now!
If you do much searching on the web, I can promise you that two things you will frequently come across is weight loss programs and make money now schemes. The reason that these continue to work year after year is because people are always searching for an easy way make some cash or drop pounds. [...]
Scholarships breed scholarship offers and why college coaches are afraid to be the first school to pull the trigger
I probably sound like a broken record for those that read this site frequently but scholarship offers breed other scholarship offers. I have seen this a countless amount of times over the years and just saw it recently. That is why I am writing today’s article but also I want to talk once again about [...]
Proving recruiting experts from Rivals, 247Sports, Scout, and ESPN wrong when it comes to their player rankings
The Morning Call recently had an article a while back about how the best recruits in the country do not always end up being the most productive at the college level. Having college coaches all over the country offering you, fans hoping that you will come to their school, and getting high reviews from recruiting [...]
Should basketball recruits sign in the fall or during the spring?
With the fall Signing Day rapidly approaching (It is now under two months and counting), a number of basketball players are stuck in a tough decision. Should they make their decision this fall with a school that they are not in love with or should they wait for that dream school to come along and [...]
The importance of telling coaches you committed to another school during the recruiting process
Throughout the athletic recruiting process, the last thing you want to do is burn bridges with the coaches that are recruiting you. The reason why this is important to avoid is that you just never know what can happen in your life later on that you may run into them. It could be if you [...]
How do you know that the college coach you signed with will stay at the school?
The NCAA National Letter of Intent that you sign to accept a scholarship offer makes sure to include a part that talks about you are signing with the school and not the coach. I think the main reason that this is included is because when coaches leave, the school can hold the athlete hostage and [...]
New E-Book Available: How Seniors Can Finish the Football Recruiting Process Strong
As the top source of free recruiting help and advice for football, basketball, and baseball on the Internet, Recruiting-101 has been here to help readers since June of 2007 during their own personal journey for their future college. And the main reason that this site was started was because we felt that we could help [...]
5 years versus 40 years and the role that academics must play in a college decision
When you are 17 and 18 years old, the time you are thinking about is the present. You are trying to do whatever you can at this young age to make yourself happy. If you love to eat, you are going to eat. If you love to play basketball, you are going to play a [...]
College coaches will avoid parents who are overbearing in the athletic recruiting process at nearly all costs
As I have mentioned many times and in a number of different articles, college coaches try to find out the most that they can about each recruit that they are after. If a scholarship offer will come to the table, the majority of coaches do an in-depth background check that allows them to learn as [...]
What can I do to actually get college coaches to watch my recruiting highlight video?
I wrote yesterday about how you should not waste your time “cold sending” recruiting highlight tapes to college coaches. That is something I doubt I will ever change my stance on. But it also had a number of users asking about what they need to do to get their highlight videos in front of college [...]