ShareI have spent a great deal of time covering recruiting over the past decade for a wide variety of publications and websites. There is no doubt that one of the most interesting things that I receive from a day to day basis is emails from parents. Some are fantastic about the recruiting process and realize [...]
ShareI recently had a chance to speak with a Division I basketball coach about the on going recruiting process. With a player that he hopes to land with a scholarship in the Class of 2009, the coach would do a lot to land this player. He even told me one of the wildest and most [...]
Share In the last ten years, I have seen a lot of strange stories in the past. There have been a variety of crazy parents, kids who lie, and other situations that are part of the dark side of the recruiting process. But this one that recently came out is among the worst. Here is [...]
Share I have written about this before but it is again important to emphasize for top high school recruits to realize how lucky they are. These athletes are in a position thousands of other players in their sport would trade just about anything for. Those who have worked hard enough or are physically gifted enough [...]
Share Everyone who thinks they know anything about college sports feel that the big schools around the country cheat in football recruiting and basketball recruiting. These so call experts feels that even though the college game is for amateurs, it is extremely dirty and anyone who coaches at that level cheats as well. But when [...]
Share When college fans from different schools are talking about recruiting on Internet message boards, one of the most popular subjects that seems to come up is negative recruiting. Negative recruiting happens when two schools are trying to recruit the same player. One school, instead of trying to sell their school, will talk about the [...]