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For those football athletes about to enter their junior year, now is a great time to get started on the recruiting process. I have always stressed that the earlier you start, the better it will be for you in the long run. So if you haven’t already immersed yourself in the [...]
For those who have just finished up their sophomore year of high school and will be juniors next fall, this article is for you. And while there is little you really can receive during the football recruiting process at this point, it is a good time to do some early leg [...]
If you are one of the few football players in the country with scholarship offers in hand (By that I mean a written offer, not a verbal scholarship), you still need to consider yourself a very lucky person. The percentage of scholarship football players is less than 2% when Signing Day comes around. The [...]
If this is the case for you as an athlete, the first thing you need to ask yourself is do you really want to play college football? If you do decide to play in college, you must make the decision that you are doing it for yourself and not your dad, a friend, or [...]
For those football recruits out there reading this article, I can tell you that the majority of prospects are in this boat right now. You probably had an excellent junior season of football during the fall and have been working hard in the weight room. You may have gone out for track to improve [...]
As I have always tried to do in the past, when users have questions or suggestions for an article that is possible to write, I try to answer those requests. Recently I had a suggestion for an article regarding what happens during the recruiting process from September 1st until May 1st.
The reason why those [...]
I wrote sometime ago about the different levels of recruiting interest. In that original piece, I spoke about camp invites, form letters, hand written letters, phone calls, verbal scholarship offers, and written scholarship offers. While I will once again keep all of these areas in the discussion, I have added some new levels of [...]
I received a very troubling email from a parent recently. His son is currently a junior at a school that had the same coach in place for the past decade. But after the year, he decided to retire as varsity coach. With few candidates available in the area, the school eventually went with a young [...]
Like a few of the other series of articles that I have started, I plan to break down what I would recommend to high school athletes in different situations. This will cover football and basketball as well as the year the athlete is and the recruiting interest they have been receiving. This should help [...]