About Alan Parham Courage Comes from that Unique Place Others Don’t Know Exists Time’s running down and out. Your team’s struggling to stay ahead, or to keep up. Your job? To lead. As a college prospect, it’s on you to pull the team through the tough times in a contest. It’s expected of you. But, where will you … Read more
It’s Time for You to Step Up to the Recruiting Big Leagues Halfway measures simply will not get results in recruiting. To borrow a popular phrase, you have to be “all in” if you expect college coaches to find, evaluate and recruit you. Relying on your club team tournaments, high school coach, local newspaper and the occasional email … Read more
The Way Coaches Treat Players Has a Long-term, Meaningful Impact Lessons can be learned by adults, too. And in athletics sometimes coaches forget that they are dealing with youngsters who are committing themselves to the team and the coach. Every coach should at times step back and consider how he or she … Read more
Take Action if You Want to Move to the Next Level Are you sitting there wondering when a college coach will call? Do you believe that if you make All-Conference, All-Region or even All-State that a coach will knock on your door? Are you hoping that if your team has a good year that a … Read more
Beware of Telemarketers Posing as Scouting Services Scouting services which return to clients and ask for upgrades are ripping off the innocent, pure and simple. It’s happening with so-called reputable scouting firms and it’s time this practice is exposed for what it is — a way to dig deeper into your pocket. When considering a scouting … Read more
Bring Your Parents Up to Speed on How to Get Ahead High school prospects, your world as a an athlete is much larger than you might think. Today college coaches are recruiting nationally, and internationally, more than ever. Look at our home page and every day you will see athletes from across the United States … Read more
Deciding to Commit is the Tipping Point To many high school athletes whose desire it is to advance to the college level, work ethic usually relates to how hard they practice and then play their sport, and that estimation is an individual perspective at best. They hear coaches, parents and fans say, “Work hard!” They hear it … Read more
It’s a Dance You May Have to Do Every Year There is no easy way around it – the moment high school athletes decide to get involved with a travel (club) team, they (the athletes) risk entering the Forbidden Zone where two competing coaches constantly paw at the ground for attention, loyalty and supremacy. Like … Read more
Young Athletes Can Take Instruction from Penn State Debacle Hidden in the ruckus of the Penn State scandal is the effect one bad decision has had on a lifetime of good work by Nittany Lion head football coach Joe Paterno and how it sends a clear and vital message. It’s a lesson which should not … Read more
Rochester Professor Finds Cumulative Effect of Football Collisions A study by Jianhui Zhong, a professor of imaging sciences and physics at the University of Rochester, has produced surprising as well as disturbing outcomes. A football player on the Rochester team, Jeff Bazarian, had experienced a mild concussion and Zhong thought that a test his department was using for other purposes called … Read more
