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Ten years ago, college coaches were just getting computers installed in their offices. Emails were a novelty. Digitized videos were a faraway thought. Personal Web sites were emerging technology. Smart phones and tablets? Non-existent. But that was then, as they say.
Today coaches can link to prospects and their information more readily than ever. Athletes’ profiles seem to be everywhere online. As a result, coaches are being overrun by incoming data and it’s not all good, reliable stuff. Not by a long shot.
Sifting through it all has become a genuine pain for coaches and as a result many prospects are still being overlooked as coaches have become numb to the digital onslaught. What yesterday were thought to be recruiting advantages both on the coaches’ and prospects’ ends are now burdensome, confusing and terribly unmanageable.
So, what’s a high school prospect to do? Here are some solid suggestions:
- Avoid free recruiting sites: These are one way streets leading to nowhere. Coaches do not go to these sites because it is too difficult to find legit, qualified athletes.
- Avoid open-enrollment companies: If you are paying to have your profile and video on a scouting service site without having been scouted in person or had you video evaluated by a trained college scout, you are throwing good money after bad. Case in point: college football coaches at the National Football Coaches Association Convention in Nashville this past February, college coaches told us that they had stopped by our competitor’s booth to request being taken off their email list because a large majority of the athletes the coaches were getting info on were not qualified or screened for ability and it was a waste of their time to get the info, much less taking up valuable time perusing the info. (We call these companies Cubicle Counselors.)
- Select a scouting service that actually scouts you: If you want your profile info to be opened by a college coach, select a service that really scouts and that college coaches appreciate and respect.
If you are an aspiring college prospect with the skills, grades, desire and character to be a college athlete, you deserve to be promoted to coaches in the most effective way possible. Choose wisely. Do your homework. Find an organization that can put you in front of college coaches without being surrounded by tons of mediocre talent. That is the way to set yourself apart.
National Scouting Report is dedicated to finding scholarship opportunities for athletes who possess the talent, desire, and motivation to compete at the collegiate level. We’ve helped connect thousands of athletes with their perfect college.