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Because basketball is one of the most unique sports governed by the NCAA, they have setup different rules as to how they handle AAU. This is a time where the top basketball players around travel the country to compete against the best competition. Every major player that has made it to the NBA in [...]
Recently, a reader was wondering why college coaches take the numbers taken so seriously at a combine. Considering that these events are done without pads on, the question is why does it matter all that much? Shouldn’t a coach be able to look at film and make judgments based on their skills that they [...]
As I have written many times in the past regarding camp invites and how the majority of them are to boast numbers and the salaries of coaches (Read the article here), I continue to hear more and more athletes tell me that they are going to these camps because they were sent an invite. [...]
I have been meaning to post this ramblings for a while but I have a few things I have been meaning to say to readers for quite sometime. Anyways, here are some of the things that have been on my mind over the last month or so.
Apology
I have been meaning to apologize for quite [...]
As an athlete at the high school level, it is always great to receive mail from college coaches. Even if it is a form letter or just a camp invite, it really just make you feel special to open the letter from a big school. And while I am not here to rain on [...]
One thing that has started to get more popular over the past few years is an underclassmen football combine. As opposed to the Nike Camps and other combines mostly for juniors and a few specific sophomores. Underclassmen camps on the other hand are for athletes that are either freshman or sophomores.
They have started to [...]
One of the features that I hope to do monthly is to focus on what I feel recruits in football, basketball, and possibly other sports should be doing right now to help themselves in the recruiting. As I have said many times, this is a difficult journey and most families are intimidated by it. [...]
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 [...]
In the past, we have had parents who were nice enough to answer our questions regarding the recruiting process. With Signing Day so close now, we felt that we would bring more of these question and answers for those who are either going through the football recruiting process or about to go through it.
The [...]