Parents of high school athletes expect high school coaches to do everything when it comes to the college recruiting process and many parents expect miracles to happen.
I believe it’s the parents’ responsibility to help with the college recruiting process. Parents need to get off their lazy butts and do something to help the recruiting process and stop blaming high school coaches for their stupidity.
Most high school coaches are also high school teachers and being a coach and a teacher is a huge responsibility.
Where is the time during a coach’s day to mail out letters to college coaches, to write letters, or to even mail out the DVD’s to college coaches? What coach anywhere in this country has the time and money to do all of that for each of their players? The answer is there is no time.
To me the parents are putting unbelievable expectations on these coaches and the parents should be working with the high school coach providing resources to that coach.
I believe the coach’s job is to help develop that student athlete into becoming a very good athlete for college programs.
When the college recruiting process does not work on behalf of the high school student athlete the first person who always gets the blame is a high school coach.
I think it’s unfair for high school coaches to take full responsibility for anything that goes wrong with the college recruiting process. It’s the parent’s responsibility; they are the ones who can afford to purchase envelopes and stamps to write letters to college recruiting coaches and mail out recruiting DVD’s to a large number of college programs. The high school coach does not have the time, the money or the resources to become a full time college recruiter, it’s just not possible.
I had been totally wrong about high school coaches because it is not their fault if one of their student athletes does not get recruited or placed in college. It’s the parent’s fault and the reason I say that is because for a very long time, all the conversations I’ve had with parents, they had nothing but BAD things to say about high school coaches. It is totally on the parents and the student athletes to make the college recruiting process work for them.