Recruiting services are a waste of money. The industry has changed and the recruiting momentum has shifted. The only reason you're spending your money with recruiting services in the first place is desperation. The recruiting process is not working out and it's failing you. The desperate and the unaware sign up with recruiting services thinking this is their only chance, or maybe their last chance.

You're being thrown a lifeline to nowhere.

A lot of recruiting services are run by guys who never played high school ball, college ball or any kind of ball. College coaches nowadays don't want to hear from recruiting services and could care less. Moms and Dads out there you're throwing your money away by investing in these recruiting services when you could do your own recruiting yourself. 

The recruiting process overall is very difficult and extremely challenging. I'm telling you if you invest your money in a recruiting service you might as well set it on the kitchen table and set it on fire.

The real power these days is in the Showcase where college coaches are in attendance. With their watchful eye they are evaluating student athletes in large numbers. You have a better chance of getting exposure at a showcase. 

If you decide to go with a recruiting service, fair warning they can't get the job done any longer. It's too challenging, it's too difficult and many of these companies do not have the tools and the resources to get it done. 

Sorry folks but recruiting can be a lose-lose situation. Student athletes are doing everything in their power to get their name out there with little to no results. Many of these student athletes will end up at Non-Division One college programs. Many of the student athletes will end up not going to college at all because they are blinded by the division one hoopla. Some kids get into college some kids won't, some kids will end up having to give up their dreams because it didn't work out!

For decades the parent's have often tried to give their two cents when it comes to the recruitment of their kid. It has backfired and blown up in their faces. When it comes to the recruiting process parents are stupid they're idiots and they don't know what they're doing. They don't know what they're talking about and they really should just stay in their place.

Check out Abby Roberts. Outstanding basketball player. She has amazing skills. Hard worker extremely dedicated to the game of basketball. I believe she has a bright future. Keep an eye on her. I'm telling you she's very talented and she will only get better as she approaches her senior year.

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Jimmer Fredette. Was a great college basketball player at BYU. He put up amazing numbers at the college level and he seemed to be unstoppable. Once he reached the NBA he was exposed as being very slow very awkward undersize and just could not make it in the NBA never sustaining any kind of career whatsoever.

The late great coach Mike Leach and his opinion on recruiting services. He's basically talking about the ranking of players and the evaluation of players. Rankings are worthless, they don't have much value and in my opinion the rankings of student athletes are just based on entertainment purposes.