You Should Never Turn Your Back on Division II College Programs.

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It’s important for student athletes to understand that you may never know where college scholarship opportunities may come from.  Everyone who plays high school sports is not going to get a major college scholarship.  It’s important to understand that you need to keep all of your options open and never turn your back on any opportunity.

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The Best Introduction To The Recruiting Process Is To Begin Today

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Do not procrastinate at any time throughout the college recruiting process.  It is very important to come up with a strategy of contacting college coaches and for student athletes to be seen by those college coaches.

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Recruiting Can Be An Overwhelming Process For Parents

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Recruiting Can Be An Overwhelming Process For Parents

With all of its many details, the college recruiting process at times seems overwhelming to parents of high school student athletes.

Parents are the power behind the recruiting process because they are the ones who can help influence student athletes’ decisions.

Because there are so many different things that must take place with recruiting it can become overwhelming and frustrating.  What generally happens sometimes is that parents would most times do nothing and leave it up to someone else to handle the details of the college recruiting process.

A parent who has a son or daughter that’s extremely talented athletically but maybe somewhat in between being a major college athlete or a small college athlete should take the necessary steps to help gain more exposure for their son or daughter which could possibly get them into a major college program.

But, because recruiting and all the details involved is stressful along with being overwhelming, extremely time consuming and expensive, many well-meaning parents might say, “The heck with it all!” and leave it up to someone else.

The solution to combat the process of recruiting is to come up with a list of goals and strategies that are written down and can be your guideline or road map to college recruiting success. You must also:

1.  Contact by mail 3 to 5 college coaches per week.  The best approach is the handwritten letter because of its personal touch.

2.  Build a strong relationship with those coaches. This will allow you to email college coaches on a regular basis which will be easier and faster when you’re trying to reach a large number of college programs.

3.  Set aside a certain number of hours per week to devote towards recruiting.  For example, you may want to spend a Sunday afternoon working on the recruiting process.  This could be writing handwritten letters or creating and sending emails to college coaches.  If you have a set schedule per week, this could help reduce stress associated with the recruiting process.

The recruiting process does have a certain level of anxiety because you are unsure of the outcome.  As parents, if you can develop a simple list of strategies to focus on it will help reduce the overwhelming aspects of the many little details that must take place in recruiting.

5 Effective Strategies To Reach College Coaches Now And Forever!!

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The college recruiting process is a marathon.

Most of the high school student athletes out there are looking to play at the next level and most days you are looking for ideas to help with the college recruiting process. I have cam up with a list of things that can help you in the process of getting your name out there.

1. Come up with a list of 100 college programs that are in your home state or in the neighboring states.

The more college programs you have the better it will be for you in the long run.

2. Write to each coach that is on your list. I feel the best and most effective way of going about this is with hand written letters. This give a powerful touch to any college coach that you are trying to reach and makes a great first impression.

3. Get a DVD made. The DVD is critical to the college recruiting process, the reason is that most college coaches are not coming out to high school games anymore and the only way they can evaluate your talent and skill is by seeing you play on DVD.

4. Follow up man! Or woman. Most of you never follow up with a college coach, you must stay in touch with a coach who has written to you or has mail you information. By this time you may be able to email a coach so do it every week. What you should do is let that coach or coaches know what is happening with you from game stats to academic performances.

5. The Summer, you must play your sports during the summer months this is where college athletic recruiting will start and when all college coaches can get out and see you play. Always play where there are college coaches in attendants anything else is a waste of time.

The college recruiting process is a marathon of hard work of dedication to your sport of consistency to develop into an outstanding student athlete. Recruiting is never easy for huge number of student athletes who wish to play there sport at the next level.

It will take many hours of hard work to gain the attention of college coach there are no shortcuts in the process of getting recruited. What may work for some one who is going through the recruiting process may not work the same way for you; you must develop a plan and stick to that plan until you have signed your letter of intent.

You will increase your chances of being heavily recruited if you are an outstanding athlete and an outstanding student this will give you major advantages over all other take shortcuts look for the easy way out when it comes to the process of college recruiting.

High School Football Recruit: Richard Hilliard

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On the college recruiting radar of today is high school football player Richard Hilliard. The college recruiting process is extremely challenging with many twists and turns. Throughout the recruiting process does Richard Hilliard have what it takes to be recruited by multiple college programs?

What is your overall opinion of high school football player Richard Hilliard Is he a very good player, a great player or an average player?

College coaches all over the country are looking for players out of high school who can sometimes step in and played as freshman. College programs are looking for players who they can develop and replace star players within a year or two; is Richard Hilliard that player?

In the state where Richard Hilliard plays football, is he considered one of the top high school football prospects or just an average football player trying to make a name for himself in this highly competitive world of college recruiting?

Many high school football players receive a great deal of help with the recruiting process from their high school coaches.  In this situation, does the high school coach get the job done when it comes to the college recruiting process or does the coach fall short?

Sometimes high school football players are overlooked by college coaches because of lack of exposure, playing on a losing football program or getting absolutely no help from the high school coach. How does Richard Hilliard’s coach stack up to the day to day details of the overall college recruiting process?

The college recruiting process is difficult, very challenging and time-consuming. In your opinion, do you think Richard Hilliard is being recruited by the right college programs or is there more that can be done for Richard Hilliard in the college recruiting process?

Do you think the NCAA has too many restrictions that limit the college recruiting process?  For example, should there be more contact of high school student athletes during their high school athletic career?  The NCAA in my opinion may be too over-protective with all of their ridiculous rules about recruiting and the treatment of student athletes. What do you think?

Will Richard Hilliard be a major college football recruit and what will be his lasting impact at the college level?  Sometimes, there’s so much attention paid to student athletes at the high school level that we often forget what they do once they reach college. How will the story of Richard Hilliard be told?

Here’s Why You’re Not Getting Into College This Year.

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No one is recruiting you for your sport because you are so hung up on D-1 programs that you overlook all other programs. Every high school student athlete can’t play at the major college level. You may have talent and the skill to play at a major college level but you have a 1.5 GPA and didn’t bother to take either the SAT or ACT tests.

Now you got game, you’re one of the best players in your state but you did not take care of your business in the classroom and that can be a problem.

Everyone has lied to your ass, from coaches to recruiters to the bad recruiting service to everyone and now you can’t get on at a junior college because you got the wrong advice.

You’re playing too many high school sports and not focusing on the best sport that is going to give you your best chance to play in college.

You’re not going to get in college because you are not doing enough to get your name out there, every day, to the right college programs. Think about this: most high school student athletes will, at some point, receive letters and phone calls from D-3 schools. Now how did they hear about you?

If you get your name out there often enough to D-1 and D-2 programs then you give yourself a greater chance of getting recruited by those programs. You may not end up at a major college program but you never know until you try.

Most student athletes are lazy and will not do what is needed to let college programs know where to find them.

This to me is one of the major reasons why students will not get into college.

Do all of the little things or you will not get into a college for your sport!

The College Recruiting Process Has Always Been A Jigsaw Puzzle

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The college recruiting process has always been a jigsaw puzzle with many rules and its confusing structure of hiring and firing of coaches.  When a division one head coach leaves his job for a new job or is fired it creates a huge domino affect.

Now the university must go about the process of hiring a new head coach and new assistant coaches and that process could take weeks to fill the position.  The problem is that high school players are being recruited by these coaches and won’t know where they could end up because of the coaching change.

Should they follow the coach who has gone on to a new job or sign with the school that recruited them?  The players who are involved are affected by this coaching change.  What other current players are on the roster? What is going on in their minds? Do they want to stay at the program or look to transfer?

The NCAA’s huge and ridiculous rulebook is not in favor of players transferring and being eligible to play if the coach who recruited them is either fired from that school or moves to a new job.

I believe these players should be given the opportunity to follow that coach if they choose to do so.  It is not fair for a college player who wishes to transfer and must give up their eligibility, but a college coach can jump to new program whenever they feel like it or whenever an opportunity becomes available.

At the end of the college basketball season, it seems like its open season on the merry go round of coaches jumping from job to job.

It’s the same in college football. Sometimes these coaches quit on their team just before a bowl game to take another job leaving behind the players who played their guts out for that coach.

I think the larger picture here he is recruiting.  Only the players are held hostage to a certain degree by college coaches and parents of high school student athletes who do not know or truly understand how recruiting works.  In some situations, the parents don’t know what college or coach their son will play for.

The parents are also held hostage because they believe that a coach who is recruiting their son won’t be at the college they chose.

I understand the university wanting to replace the head coach with a new coach but sometimes in all of this shuffling around of coaches, the players are affected the most because there’s a new coach coming to the program and now those players have to adjust to that coach’s style of play.

The Letter of Intent is a contract between the high school athlete and the university which basically means that the university and the high school athlete are committed to each other for one year.  The problem with that is that if that coach leaves the program or is fired before the start of next season, the players cannot get out of the Letter of Intent.

I don’t know what can be done to slow down the process of college coaches changing jobs so frequently or being fired so easily.  The one thing I do know is that recruiting suffers.