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Avoid Two Critical Mistakes Athletes Make In the Recruiting Process

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Critical Mistake #1 – Getting Started Too Late

Many parents and athletes wait until senior year to start a proactive approach to the recruiting process.  Recruiting starts your freshman year.  Here is what you need to know if you’re in high school and want to play at the college level.

 Freshman/Sophomore

  • Pay attention to core course and eligibility requirements (learn more at the NCAA's Website). 
  • Get an honest evaluation of your ability. 
  • Identify deficiencies & work on them. 
  • Attend camps/combines.  These will get you on college coaches’ lists. 

Junior

  • Register with NCAA Eligibility Center. 
  • Take ACT/SAT. 
  • Prepare athletic resume, transcript, and game film. 
  • Obtain evaluation for level of play. 
  • Send your info/start communicating with college coaches.

Senior

  • Don’t wait for offers to come to you, stay proactive.
  • Update your info & game film & send to colleges you match both athletically and academically. 
  • Email and call college coaches.  Let them know you’re interested.

 Critical Mistake #2 – Lack of Planning

Most parents and athletes fail to plan effectively.  Did you know that the DI transfer rate is 15%?  This means 15% of all athletes who sign with a Division I program transfer at some point.  This can be avoided if you take some time and plan effectively.  Here are some questions to ask yourself.

  • What level of play have you been projected to play?  Get on objective evaluation. 
  • How far away from home are you willing to go?
  • What do you want out of college, academically? 




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Avoid Two Critical Mistakes Athletes Make In the Recruiting Process

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Critical Mistake #1 – Getting Started Too Late

Many parents and athletes wait until senior year to start a proactive approach to the recruiting process.  Recruiting starts your freshman year.  Here is what you need to know if you’re in high school and want to play at the college level.

 Freshman/Sophomore

  • Pay attention to core course and eligibility requirements (learn more at the NCAA's Website). 
  • Get an honest evaluation of your ability. 
  • Identify deficiencies & work on them. 
  • Attend camps/combines.  These will get you on college coaches’ lists. 

Junior

  • Register with NCAA Eligibility Center. 
  • Take ACT/SAT. 
  • Prepare athletic resume, transcript, and game film. 
  • Obtain evaluation for level of play. 
  • Send your info/start communicating with college coaches.

Senior

  • Don’t wait for offers to come to you, stay proactive.
  • Update your info & game film & send to colleges you match both athletically and academically. 
  • Email and call college coaches.  Let them know you’re interested.

 Critical Mistake #2 – Lack of Planning

Most parents and athletes fail to plan effectively.  Did you know that the DI transfer rate is 15%?  This means 15% of all athletes who sign with a Division I program transfer at some point.  This can be avoided if you take some time and plan effectively.  Here are some questions to ask yourself.

  • What level of play have you been projected to play?  Get on objective evaluation. 
  • How far away from home are you willing to go?
  • What do you want out of college, academically? 




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One Man’s Batshit-Crazy Plan To Avoid The NFL For A Year

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Meet Devin Rossiter: Northeastern grad, baseball fan, former broadcaster for a minor league hockey team, and currently on his way to becoming a certified teacher in Southern California. Normal dude, right?

Yes. But he’s a normal dude with an absolutely batshit crazy plan: for the next year, he plans to avoid football. As in, he plans to completely scrub all traces of it from his day-to-day life.

No games. No Trent Dilfer analysis on SportsCenter. He won’t even allow himself to see scores on ESPN.com. He’s going to track his progress on his blog, A Year Without Football, but when one considers football’s strangelhold on media from September to February, his plan sounds like it has a 0% chance of succeeding.

Rossiter, however, is taking some extreme measures.

“The biggest step I took was blocking all the ESPN channels altogether,” he told me via Gchat. “I went into parental controls, locked them out and had my wife change the code. I haven’t watched SportsCenter or any ESPN programming for over a month now. Same goes for the website.”

The idea first came to him when his school axed its football program, and everybody freaked out. This, despite lackluster attendance and the fat that Northeastern rarely cracked .500 at the 1-AA level. Rossiter looked around, and realized that football coverage dominated every medium he used – TV, internet, radio. Not being a huge football fan himself, he started to get sick of it.

“Once the latest round of Brett Favre ’stay or go?’ started up again,” he said. “I thought it was time to step away.”

Despite his strong convictions, it’s been a struggle so far, even before the season’s started. Rossiter told me about the time his father-in-law purchased a set of Packers pajamas for his child, due in April (he didn’t tell me if he burned said PJs). His wife also works as a news producer for both the CBS and Fox local affiliates, which both carry the NFL, which further complicates things.

Then there’s Ochocinco.

“[He] came out of nowhere to be the unofficial villain of the project. On the first day of the blog, my provider placed an ad for his reality show on the bottom of my post.”

Then, a week later, he and his wife drove down to Venice Beach for the day and immediately encountered a billboard promoting Ochocinco & T.O.’s new reality shows. The lesson he learned in Venice Beach might be a running theme for him until February 7th.

“You can’t just change the channel there.”

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Hawks avoid a near-death experience

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